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The Democratic People's Republic of Tankiejerk

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Dunking on Tankies from a leftist, anti-capitalist perspective.

Rules:

  1. No bigotry of any kind.
  2. No tankies or right-wingers. Liberals are allowed so long as they are aware of this
  3. No genocide denial

We allow posts about tankie behavior even off fedi, shitposts, and rational, leftist discussion.

Curious about non-tankie leftism? If you've got a little patience for 19th century academic style, let a little Marx and Kropotkin be your primer!

Marx's Communist Manifesto, short and accessible! Highly recommended if you haven't read it

Kropotkin's Conquest Of Bread

Selected works of Marx

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (10 children)

What’s a good privacy respecting instance besides lemmy.ml? I don’t wanna be blocked from seeing content for being on .ml :(

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Is ml on many defed lists? I dont think it is, lemmygrad.ml is heavily defeded. I switched to lemmy ml a while back because of world having issues and find it okay, the porn is off my feed, but basically everything else (including hex and grad, unfortunately) is in, could be that im missing something, but none of the big instances afaik.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You forgot "great man theory" (i.e. any criticism of Putin or Xi) and "horseshoe theory" (i.e. any indication that left wing violence is bad).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ahh yes, let me fix that

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Meh, add to your block list with hexbear, you won't miss em.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

God, I'm just so genuinely happy to see someone use the word, "Tankie," properly. A shocking number of people on .world seem to think anyone left of Joe Biden is a Tankie.

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

The nickname tankies is pretty funny because tanks are becoming obsolete.

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

Is the name meant to be related to war machines or the things you keep fish in? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

the war machines

it was something about who defended the USSR rolling tanks into a country to get it into the USSR or smth

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The LW admins are violating their own ToS by allowing LML posts to get federated to LW.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"USA bad" should be the free space, because anyone with as little as half a rotten brain can identify that it's true - The US is a shithole. That does preclude conservatives, of course.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It's much easier I find in .ml to just ignore the tankies tbh. Though the bingo sheet is admittedly, very funny.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It's always really sad to see otherwise good leftist ideals held back by ML campist brain rot tbh.

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