Too many tankies. All of them saying people shouldn’t vote, while offering no solution and celebrating Russia as a good country.

  • aldhissla@piefed.worldEnglish
    1510·
    16 days ago

    Is there a list of instances that have defederated from the top 3 tankie hubs? It irks me to share any space with people not one iota better than nazis.

    • NewDark@lemmy.today
      133·
      16 days ago

      Ah yes, racial purity politics and worker control of the means of production are equally bad.

    • its_me_xiphos@beehaw.org
      9·
      16 days ago

      Ignorant me:

      What’s a tankie, slang for pro Russian propaganda bot?- How can I filter out these .ml fools?-

      I’m old. My questions make me feel old.

        • FleetwoodLinux@lemmy.zip
          82·
          16 days ago

          For instance, they often posit the Holodomor famine and genocide was justified.

          I think this is an unfair representation of their views. They think that there was a famine that was exasperated by Kulaks that were mad their farms were being collectivized, and that there was no intent on the USSR side to cause a famine, pointing to aid that was sent to the region or a letter from Stalin(?) being taken aback that the local admin hadn’t been communicating this earlier and demanded that large efforts to alleviate the (impending?) famine go into place immediately

        • Tiresia@slrpnk.net
          74·
          16 days ago

          Anarchists are far-left but don’t curve back around to the right. Horseshoe theory only makes sense if you’re locked into state power as the medium for change.

          • KitB@feddit.ukEnglish
            6·
            16 days ago

            I would go so far as to say horseshoe theory only works if you look at very specific groups and assume “left Vs right wing” is an actual linear thing instead of a very stupid oversimplification (that is nevertheless a useful shorthand a lot of the time)

            Most would probably describe me as very left wing but no version of my beliefs could be taken to an extreme and end up as tankie beliefs.

      • Sharkticon@lemmy.zip
        72·
        16 days ago

        Depends on who is calling you a tankie. If its a .world user then its anyone to the left of Ronald Regan politically.

      • A_be_seedy@beehaw.orgOP
        3·
        16 days ago

        Thanks for asking! I didn’t know fully but had ideas from context in other posts, but you’ve spurred really great conversation answering!

    • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
      9·
      16 days ago

      Lemmy.cafe is defederated from all three, I believe.

      Though as you are on a piefed instance, I believe you can fully block an instance and its user’s comments, unlike on Lemmy where a user blocking an instance still let’s comments from that instance through.

      • aldhissla@piefed.worldEnglish
        21·
        16 days ago

        Thanks for the info, I’ll definitely look into it. I’m using Boost and have blocked (and now muted) them, but I still keep seeing their comments.