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It was banned on Reddit because it is racist, hatefull and spread Conspiracies. In my new community I expect the exclution of racist communities. It is easy now with defederation. Nazis can do whatever they want on their instances, but the instances I want to be part of should not amplify their shit and flush it into our timelines. The instance-admin of !thedonald@sh.itjust.works [/c/thedonald@sh.itjust.works] did not reply to my message. Big instances seem not to defederate with them. The new TD may not be a success, the point is not to give Nazis a platform like it is happening now. Fans of TD are racists. Where are the instances that show face against racism? edit: to contact the admins: @donut@sh.itjust.works @TheDude@sh.itjust.works @smorks@sh.itjust.works
    • God@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      123·
      1 year ago

      A tankie is someone who defends Chinese and Soviet communism and denies that any of the claimed atrocities happen. In the name of Marxism-Leninism, or Maoism, or Stalinism, they get very angry, attack you and ban you if you think differently, and will fight to the teeth to claim that the tiananmen square massacre, the uyghur genocide, holodomor, any other genocides by Mao, Stalin or whoever you want who’s communist, are Western imperialistic propaganda. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. There’s a whole thing there just like nazis aren’t just “people who hate jews but claim the Jewish genocide never happened”. Tankies usually also defend Russia in the Russo-Ukrainian War (or “conflict” as they may claim). Then again, Trump supporters usually also defend Russia. Maybe the horseshoe theory is not that crazy.

      • ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        82·
        1 year ago

        Tankies have no meaningful communism to defend. They’re not defending communist states, they’re defending a right wing authoritarian oligarchy, and an authoritarian corporatocracy. They’re not ideologues. They’re contrarian bootlickers.

        • God@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          41·
          1 year ago

          If you read their rhetoric, tankies do tend to defend communism in general. They grab the theories of Marx and Lenin and whatever to do this.

          • ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Oh yes of course in their stated goals sure. But in the day to day commentary it’s all just worshiping of authoritarian states that abandoned their core economic socialist principles decades ago.

          • ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            5·
            1 year ago

            Oh I wasn’t advocating for communism. Or saying these states are failed because it’s not “real communism.” I’m saying the users on here who defend Russia and China aren’t defending communism. They’re defending one brand of authoritarianism because it happens to be anti western.

      • HTTP_404_NotFound@lemmyonline.comOPEnglish
        43·
        1 year ago

        Sounds like your typical extremist.

        Honestly- if you change around terminology slightly…, it also describes the far-right wingers AND the far-left wingers too.

        I generally try to keep ALL of those types of communities removed… its not healthy.

        • God@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          Yup. That’s what the horseshoe theory says lmao. That both extremes meet. That’s why tankies are so similar to nazis I guess. Or maybe they’re both just the same thing and people like saying ones are “extreme left” and the others are “extreme right”.

    • Zorque@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      Basically a “communist” who supports autocracy over socialism. Someone who longs for a boot on their neck, because it comforts them.