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A tankie is someone who supports authoritarian communism (I believe the term originated from using tanks to suppress protests)

Here's a post showing that the main instance of Lemmy (hosted by the main 2 Lemmy devs) removes any negative posts about the Chinese or Russian governments for "orientalism": https://lemmy.pineapplemachine.com/post/5784

In the comments of that post, you can find one of the devs borderline defending what China is doing to the Uyghurs: https://lemmy.pineapplemachine.com/comment/5950

That same dev has a github repo called "essays on communism": https://github.com/dessalines/essays

I'm pretty sure both of the devs' profile pictures are Fidel Castro too

Jun 13, 2023 at 4:31amWeb
Show threadStalinsMoustacheJun 13, 2023
how you gonna fight capitalists and not be authoritarian? gonna join hands and sing in harmony? liberal dreams.
Show threadrobinnJun 14, 2023

Authoritarian communism isn't a real thing. No country has ever been communist materially in the first place (and none have ever claimed to be), so what we are dealing with is an "authoritarian" socialist nation. Authority is not a unilateral concept; there is no authority "in itself" but authority for different ends and directed by different groups. In class society, authority is largely expressed by the dictatorship of a certain class, so the term "authoritarianism" is meaningless (rule by authority? which form of it?). It is well known that the CPC and the Chinese government have the vast support of the people [https://ash.harvard.edu/publications/understanding-ccp-resilience-surveying-chinese-public-opinion-through-time] due to land reform and poverty alleviation alongside mass line influence throughout government positions.

"Using tanks to suppress protests" which events are you referring to?

In regards to Uyghurs, read this, and I mean seriously read it and come up with a response or shut up: https://xinjiangahr.carrd.co/