Fun fact: “FLOSS software” means Free, Libre, and Open Software Software software. FLOSS software is sometimes abbreviated to FLOSSS software, which means Free, Libre, and Open Software Software Software software. Now, I am lying. But still, isn’t that a fun fact?

Stalin and Mao were good actually, the CCP has never done a bad thing ever, and Russia should roll over Europe with their invincible tanks, because the west is bad, therefore anyone who disagrees with the west is flawless.

That may be an uncharitable exaggeration, but surprisingly not by very much.

Originally, a “tankie” was a Stalin apologist, but in more modern times, it’s come to mean just authoritarian communist. I don’t think it’s a self-applied term. More a derisive term used by anti-authoritarian leftists.

The anti-authoritarian communists tend to call themsleves anarchists, anarcho-communists, anarcho-syndicalists, left libertarians, etc. And they’d strongly tend not to have anything good to say about Stalin, Mao, or the CCP.

(There are right-wingers who call themselves “anarchists” or “anarcho-capitalists” or “voluntarists” or “minarchists” or “Libertarians” (note the capital “L”) or whatever, but they have pretty much nothing to do with the hard-left-wing anarchist movement that they appropriated the terms “anarchist” and “libertarian” from.)

The term seems to have originated within British communist groups in the post-war era, when “the tanks” were sent in to crush dissent in Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Thus, the “communists” supporting the CCCP party line were called “tankies” by the communists who opposed it. From there, it came to evolve into calling out “authoritarian communists”, although that term alone is super vague and not always useful. As with any insult, review the context of where it is used and by whom against whom.

But yeah, the kind of self-proclaimed “communists” who haven’t read Marx beyond maybe the manifesto, wish they could just follow (or lead) a religious cult instead, but also want to look materialist and think communism is all about “anything that opposes the West is good”, that’s what usually falls under the “tankie” umbrella.

As for the lemmy devs/lemmy.ml admins, I can’t say what exactly their views are, there might be some pretty bad stuff with their stances on Chinese policies, didn’t look into it - but the server is from my experience a good general instance, userbase probably relatively left-leaning, but definitely not manipulated or with an agenda forced on them. And beyond that, they very clearly and authentically stated, that their commitment to making lemmy open source is set in stone, so if anyone disagrees, they can always create their own bubbles if they can’t live with them.

you get to pick. round up people and reeducate them after they’ve bombed shit for years, or, kill hundreds of thousands after they blow up two towers.

You seem to be confusing communism and dictatorships.

Communism is not eugenics. I also would love to see who specifically you are saying was executed. Just calling someone a journalist doesn’t automatically mean they are good people who do good things. Be specific if you’re going to make an argument.

Like Julian Assange? Yeah, that’s deplorable.

This was shared shortly before the first Reddit wave: https://lemmy.world/comment/43639

One of the things I appreciate about them is their openness with people who disagree. In that very thread one of the comments by a dev and admin on lemmy.ml: “If you would have left those posts stay on your instance, that’s fine! We’re not demanding that you moderate according to our standards.”

Anti-authoritarian communism is a thing. I think mostly the issue folks here in this thread are taking with you is equating communism with authoritarianism. And I don’t think anyone in this thread is pro-China or defending censoring content critical of China. Quite the opposite in fact.

then dont use lemmy.ml - it really is that simple. you have hundreds of lemmy instances to choose from - find one that that suits your needs (or, hell… run your own) and you are golden.

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What banner? Are you under the impression that communism is some kind of monolith? If you’re referring to the soviet union say that, or China, or whoever else you’re specifically accusing of mass murder. The term communism refers to hundreds of different political ideologies and many different countries. Many of whom have next to nothing to do with each other.

Over 26 million people from ex Soviet states were killed in world war 2 fighting facism. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties_of_the_Soviet_Union

More have died, and still do, every day, under Capitalism.

I mean, if you were to add up all the deaths that have happened under capitalism - the wars started by capitalist nations, colonialism, people who have died because they couldn’t afford healthcare, people killed in disasters caused by unregulated corporations and so on - would the numbers look any better?

Also the devs expressed support for people creating more mainstream liberal instances. That’s the reason why there are recommended instances at Join-Lemmy.

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funny how all you have talked about is how it has killed millions and how its the same as Nazism, could you provide a source? the killing billions part is a common anti-communist West propoganda that has been debunked