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Why do these people gotta go embarrass us ðŸ˜
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
If you wanna go pick a fight. Keep the instance name out of your damn mouth. Fight your own battles.
I've heard a few negative things about our instance, but they didn't vibe with what I read the instance was about, so it didn't bother me much. (They said we were known to be misogynistic. True, people like that may exist everywhere, but I didn't see it in the mission statement.)
I still don't fully understand what "tankie" means. I've heard it means authoritarian (as in, you're like the tanks rolling over people's rights) but I've also heard it can be sarcastic. So I ignore that in any context since it seems there isn't a clear consensus on the term yet.
I looked at this one and I looked at Shit Just Works and this one appealed to me a little more.
I feel like there are bad people everywhere. I think we're expecting too much when we say "Lemmy is better than Reddit." Lemmy is just built different. We're getting a lot of Reddit expats (I'm one of them) and switching communities does not change a person. I still field rude comments every day. (Yes, I'm aware if you see assholes everywhere you go, maybe you are the asshole.) I ignore them. If they're egregious, I also downvote them. I have no desire to engage with rude people anonymously on the Internet. I try to be civil but hey, nobody's perfect. I just try to be better... and nothing good comes with engaging with hostility.
I don't think it matters that much what instance you're on. I think a lot of people will join .world/.ml because they're common and that's fine, so they probably get a lot of jerks, but they probably also get a lot of intelligent and thoughtful people as well.
I dunno, I'm still learning.
It's a silly term we use for Marxist-Leninists and their fellow travellers because we never bothered to really come up with a less silly term for that part of the left that holds that brutally repressing the working class into automaton-like obedience will (somehow) result in communism descending from the heavens like the Second Coming... it's an oversight on our part, I'm afraid.
Unfortunately, liberals have finally learnt of the term... so now they call everybody that isn't a liberal or a fascist "tankie," too.
Ironically enough, the term tankie was first coined by Marxist-Leninists themselves.
And it was never a useful term. Which should have been obvious, because it was invented by British communists who are more in the habit of arguing and splitting into 14 different progressively more transphobic groups than anything else (somewhat joking here, but the British left does have a history of splitting and of infiltration).