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Is lemmy.ml turn into authoritarian?
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I just realised, I can't post anything on lemmy.ml
So, I checked https://lemmy.ml/modlog, there's a new moderator.
All posts and comments talking about China, Jinping, Russia, and Putin have been deleted and users banned
I had no idea what a tankie was until I read the comments here.
I can't Ctrl+F on my phone, can you tell me?
People who support fascist governments - specifically, Russia, China, North korea.
They will also rightly say things about how America does bad things too. And that is true. It's ok to admit that.
They, on the other hand, will never admit that Russia or China is ever doing something unethical or wrong.
I've never seen a Tankie claim that Russia, China, North Korea, etc. are good governments that are always ethical. It's almost always a comparison between the US and these other authoritarian countries that they get stuck on.
They have a critical logic mistake they always make:
US bad = not_US good
They're effectively obsessed with America in a negative way, where they have to hate anything the US likes and like anything the US hates. They find themselves defending oppressive regimes and, instead of having a realization, dig in further. All the news about NK being bad is just propaganda, and China isn't doing anything bad to the Uighurs even though they have official government statements on it.
It's just like nationalist patriotism in a way, just the negative of it. One's obsessed with what the US likes, the other is obsessed with what the US dislikes. The US can do no wrong to one, and everything it does is bad to the other. It's an incredibly childish logic.
Great nuanced definition you provided to ignorant people who are looking to learn. You totally don't have an agenda here.
Thanks for your nuanced take, @KillAllPoorPeople
Your own comment above basically supports the definition of tankie. Specifically, this:
I would take issue with the single word 'fascist' that @figaro@lemdro.id is using, as the government doesn't need to be full-on fascist to it qualify for tankies to defend it. It only needs to be illiberal with a socialist legacy or nominally left-leaning government. So the definition is more broad than what figaro defines. But all the elements of Figaro's defintion are literally there in your own linked Wikipedia article.
I'm sure you're above board. It's literally the definition of Tankie.
Just read the Wikipedia page. Don't listen to people pushing their Joseph McCarthy-"esque" views.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
McCarthyism is in again, didn't you hear? Within 2 years, bet my left eye we have a House Unamerican Activities Committee, regardless of what color tie's sitting in the White House
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Tankies literally are history revisionists. There is no justification for the Cultural Revolution or Stalinism, even in the face of Western hegemony.