• Metallinatus
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    1 year ago

    Well, there was drama here yesterday about Lemmy’s creator and maintainer being a tankie or whatever and one person trying to say “Lemmy bad” because of that.

    This post doesn’t seem to be here by coincidence.

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      1 year ago

      This post doesn’t seem to be here by coincidence.

      As the person who posted the original post: i don’t like/trust tankies and them being tankies is one of the reason i deleted my lemmy.ml account.

      My impression is that Linus also doesn’t speak in his post about tankies, but instead i think the word “communist” is equal to some general leftist.

      But i kind of agree, that this post can be seen as “in support of tankies”. hmm.

      my impression is, furthermoore: because the more tankie politics is on lemmygrad.ml, an instance which is easily blocked, it is not that bad / could be worse. I kind of hope instances like beehaw.org have the most users someday, because they are really awesome i think

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        1 year ago

        First, not every communist is a tankie, second, yes, Linus is not talking about being a literal communist, but about the “everyone to the left of Trump is a communist” meaning of the word.

        Third, what I was saying is that this post about the political views of the creator of a huge FOSS project is very well timed after yesterday’s discussion about Lemmy’s creator.

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            1 year ago

            I am not sure if it happened in this instance or in Beehaw, but I couldn’t find it in the browser’s history anymore, sorry.