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Seeing much more tankie from ml lately (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Except those people prefer the Chinese and USSR style of social autocracies to actual socialist projects. Some of them even trash worker coops, although that was more true to the InfraHaz style lolcows than the tankies of lemmy...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Social Autocracy, oh wow that's a new one on me. They're just brutal dictatorships with a shiny veneer.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I call any dictatorships that barely does anything more than the Baltic states, while calling themselves as "socialists".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I think it gives them too much credit. They might give you housing but they'll kill you in the middle of the night because someone gave your name to stop the torture.