Went both looking for fellow tankies and seeing who I should be blocking on Mastodon by looking at the hashtag #tankies.
It gave me brain damage and I also found a few of these “lemmy is made by tankies, ewww can’t use it”-posts that I had never seen before. So sharing these for our mutual enjoyment:
Also just the general vibe of the posts with this tag is just so hostile. We really live rent free in these peoples heads. Interesting how so many of these were ukraine flag or isntreal flag profiles too, also a few anne applebaum replies, because of course.
The vibe is pretty much whatever this drivel is by a true communism understander:
There’s no way they actually read shit and unironically believe this. Either they’re lying about having read any reliable book about history and political analysis of each of those systems (fascism is not even a system really, it’s just a tool of capitalism), or they know very well that what they’re saying is horseshit but the goal is simply to equate fascism with communism and apparently feudalism as well.
Their reading list has libs like Michael Pollan on it, there was also some liberty and justice nonsense in there. So it’s a choice of a worldview for sure.
Interesting how analysis of settlers or colonialism is also completely missing from this reading list