Infrapink (he/his/him)Jun 17, 2023

#Federati: Do you think it's acceptable to use #Lemmy given that the developer is a hardcore #tankie?

#Fediverse #RedditMigration #KBin

(Boost for reach is appreciated).

Yes
27.8%
Yes if you don't federate with tankies
41.7%
No, but forks are OK
20.8%
No, not even forks
9.7%
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Show threadđź’  Dave No One đź’ Jun 17, 2023
@Infrapink What is a tankie?
Show threadInfrapink (he/his/him)

@dans_root One who supports communist dictatorships just because they aren't capitalist. This often entails denying the oppression and genocide in the #USSR and #PRC. The hardcore tankies also support #NorthKorea and deny anything bad ever happens there. The truly loonie ones think #PolPot was a goodie.

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Jun 17, 2023 at 4:23pmWeb
Show threadInfrapink (he/his/him)Jun 17, 2023

@dans_root

Originally, the term referred to people in capitalist countries who cheered for the #SovietUnion sending tanks into #WarsawPact countries to violently prevent people from asking that their countries stop being puppets of Moscow.

In modern times, this attitude manifests as a fetishisation of Russia as the global good guys because they oppose America on the world stage and used to be communist. Modern tankies support Putin the way American conservatives support Trump.

Show threadđź’  Dave No One đź’ Jun 18, 2023
@Infrapink OMG! These people really exist? My first thought was that they would be called “tankies“ because they might be hardcore-fans of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), denying the Tian-An-Men massacre, where lots of innocent people were killed by tanks (I remember that famous “tank man” photo). But that’s also part of your explanation.
Even more astonishing, as the countries you mention (e.g. Russia, China) are hardcore capitalist countries, only with an authoritarian regime.