• stoly@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      lol if you ask for it the brigade of angry people will appear to explain how you’re a racist and a terrible person for not thinking like them

      But first they will deflect by asking you to define what a tankie is.

      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        They did. I still see their users here and there though.They did. I still see their users here and there though. Well definitely hexbear and lemmygrad. I dunno if they defederated from ml.

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      9 months ago

      I’m just waiting on all the Hexbear users who see no irony praising both LGBTQ+ and russia.

      If they ever moved to russia, they would instantly be killed.

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        9 months ago

        They would be sent to push up sunflowers in Avdiivka it takes a week for basic training and an hour or so to walk within Ukrainian artillery range. Not exactly instant, but close.

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      9 months ago

      No no no, you don’t understand, Russia has (in the past) implemented my favorite economic system (please ignore all the people who died as political criminals), thus nothing they do is wrong. Rainbow earrings are just a small casualty, you gotta look big picture!

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        9 months ago

        As if tankies aren’t constantly simping for both Russia and China on here.

        A little history refresher on the origin of the term

        The term “tankie” was originally used by dissident Marxist–Leninists to describe members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) who followed the party line of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Specifically, it was used to distinguish party members who spoke out in defense of the Soviet use of tanks to crush the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the 1968 Prague Spring uprising, or who more broadly adhered to pro-Soviet positions.

        So specifically being a tankie and supporting fascist bullshit go hand in hand and always have.

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          I must admit that I haven’t met any who do so can’t argue for or against this. I can understand that they might have done 20-30 years ago but I don’t see them “simpling for” any of them really. But neither Russia or China are kommunist regimes any longer. Maybe back when the term was coined, as you described in your quote but not any longer. Before it dead the community now it is the leader

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            I like to imagine these accounts learned about tankies only 6 months ago when they joined Lemmy and were encountered by lots of leftists with wildly different international worldviews than them.

            As a byproduct, it’s just their way of making sense of those differences they don’t otherwise understand.

            Nobody that they’re describing would actually defend shit like this, but thats about as well as they understand those people.

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          9 months ago

          The Russian and English aristocracies were related, is that maybe part of the reason there was some support in the UK?

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            9 months ago

            The Russian monarchy ended about 39 years prior to the Hungarian Revolution in '56. The whole Russian Revolution thing and the murdering of the Romanovs and all that.

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        9 months ago

        Do you know what NATO nicknamed the defense plan during the cold war? The Rainbow Plan.