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I understand why tankies are referred to as on the left, but they just simply aren't. They're authoritarian and the things they post are rarely if ever in agreement with anyone else who calls themselves on the left.
10 times out of 10, I only get juvenile responses from tankie .ml users. You will never get any good faith discussions from them. Certain users are also terminally online when you look at their posting history. It is almost as if they are children...
What definition of left-wing do they use to call tankies left-wing? I don't know of any that would align with authoritarianism, which obviously entails inequality and significantly limited civil liberties. Other than that, it's a good, though short piece. It would be great to see more research or reporting on the subject.
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The authors give away their ideology when they conflate anti-Zionism with anti-semitism.
If you think Zionism is a good thing, you’re supporting genocide.
Where do they conflate it? Here's an excerpt from the quote they provide as an example of antisemitism:
Everyone identifing as a jew is a zionist and an enemy of the communist and anti imperialist movement.
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Lemmy is an open-source, self-hosted Decentralized Web platform that provides instances for news aggregation and discussion forums (Lemmy 2023).
Notably, this work find positive sentiments toward Lemmy and criticism of Reddit among the users of this platform.
in a dry tone
Indeed.
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