Tankies

it might be your instance not being fed'd with them
Depending on the instance you are on and the blocks you have set up, your feed can be very full of the stuff
- This is something that I consistently see that people still haven't gotten used to with Lemmy and other federated sites. People often complain about what they see on their feed or sometimes attack an OP for reposting. I assume people just aren't thinking about it since we're all still used to Reddit and using a centralized platform where everyone can see the same stuff. But with Lemmy, it seems that people forget that their feed will be completely different, based on which instance they are in.
Is startreck.website federated with hexbear? When sh.itjust.workes got federated by hexbear a few days ago, about a third of all was tankie memes and discussion from hexbear. They mostly stayed to their communities, but sometimes I would come across comments on memes from .ml.
- No a third of posts were people complaining they saw someone that might have been a tankie and demanding to live in a neo lib echochamber, I barely saw any actual tankie talking points
and I had to block all those hexbear communities, cuz suddenly they flooded my feed
I have seen my fair share of tankies here, so there definitely is a presence of them here. But I also do think a lot of the complaints come from people who assume any leftist user or post is also a "tankie."
Like I do see a lot of leftist memes posted to memes@lemmy.ml, which might be where a lot of the complaints are coming from. Likewise there has been a lot of drama with hexbear federating with a lot of communities that were previously shielded from them.
- I'm talking about hexbear as tankie specifically. I haven't really seen any reasonable leftists on that instance. They use lib as an insult to give an idea.
There was a wave of tankie on Reddit and here during the reddexit. It was like, “where the fuck did stalin/mao/pol pot loving, atrocity denying weirdos come from en masse?” But you’re right the shock was bigger than the phenomenon.
- The commies were here first—we created Lemmy, lol
- Wtf, lmao. The only people calling pol pot communist are liberals.
Are you complaining about not seeing racism and genocide denial?

Keep your political bullshit on hexbear and lemmygrad!

fr. the only political post I ever made was mocking tankie propaganda being posted to a non political meme community
- That's for that post btw. Was called for.

My old neighbor's cat sounded like that a couple of times a year, good ol Meow Zedong.
- It's funny because Māo is actually Chinese for "cat"

i’m so sick of these goddamn tankies

they’re literally just fascists painted red

they went so far into the spectrum that they overflowed into the opposite side
Word, anyone that thinks China should be the hegemon is deluded.
Painted RED? That's RACIST ™!
I think you are confusing facism and authoritarianism.
Y’all calling hexbear tankies is proof that word don’t mean anything anymore 🤷🏿‍♂️
- They are unironically Marxist-Leninists and actively chase away democratic socialists, and say things like "nuking American is based."
  I'm not sure what else you want.
- None of these commie-subtypes mean anything lmao
  They are all fascists who pretend social democracy doesnt exist
- right? It's literally a pan leftist instance, there's anarchist comms and everything. The thing that people are afraid of when they call people tankies isn't any particular ideology, it's just a fear of confident and firm left wing ideology of any sort. In order to not be a tankie, you have to be compromising and undedicated in your left wing beliefs, that's it, that's the criteria.

Oh ffs, what now?

Drama between Hexbear and ShitJustWorks. Have some popcorn.
- So who is the person on the bicycle in this scenario?
- We have so many communities about drama and not a single one seems active. I wonder if these users, who poured hours and hours of their lifetime into creating a bazillion dead communities the last few months, feel stupid for doing that.

We need more people on lemmy from all different backgrounds to balance these debates out. Defederation may still occur, but the majority will not be a bunch of radical lefties.

As tankies would say "diversity is our strength!", so lemmy needs more diversity of opinion.

Tankies (commies) are like this everywhere it seems :D here orban from hungary:

ORBÁN: 2021 We dont'T NEED EU LOANS, THE ECONOMY IS RUMBLING!

2022 THE COUNTRY IS NEAR BANKRUPTCY, INFLATION IS IN THE SKY, FOOD PRICES, GASOLINE

ORBÁN-2022 EU GIVE ME A SMALL LOAN, STOP BEING JERK PLS

2023 GIVE ME EVEN MORE LOAN

you go first, shitwad
- You can do better than that

If you can't coexist with people that have an opinion different from yours, you can't coexist with anyone. And if you post controversial takes or memes, you better expect and accept the controversy. Oftentimes both sides can learn from it.

There are certain "differing opinions" that nobody should have to coexist with
- Exactly. There’s opinions…..and being an intolerant biggot (“not everyone should have civil rights”) or in the context of Russia, being a genocide apologist (…”from my point of view Ukraine is the fascist Nazi country!”)
I can coexist, I just would rather not feel the need to spend 6 hours explaining why Russia invading Ukraine is bad actually. (True story)
Spot the idealist.
That is such facile garbage. There are opinions that can be tolerated and there are those that should not.
If you can’t coexist with people that have an opinion different from yours
you are a fascist plain and simple