cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/18562130
Yup, tons of shills and Kremlin information on here. I’ve never told a soul I use it because of that, and no doubt many thousands have visited, seen it, and just left instead of helping it grow.
Not shocking, the combined budget for addressing malicious propaganda and disinformation, from all instances in the entire fediverse, is exactly $0.00
I don’t understand why, before I left reddit a few months ago I had never heard of a tankie and now I hear it all the time.
My guess is that there are two main factors.
Part of it may be that “tankie” comes from UK political discourse (originally used as an insult from members of the UK Communist Party who wanted to distance themselves from their crazier members who defended the Soviet Union using tanks against civilians to squash anti-soviet demonstrations).
Since then the term has evolved to mean any westerner that acts as a mouthpiece or apologist for the likes of Russia/China.
It’s possible that what with Russia’s actions as of late, more of the world is being exposed to the term.
The other factor, and one that impacts here in particular, is that there is a massive tankie presence on Lemmy. In fact the original Lemmy developers were tankies, and lemmy.ml (the “ml” being marxists-lenninist) was their preferred instance. Hexbear is another massive tankie instance.
Sounds like you’ve got a bone to pick to me. Sanctioning Russia is all the rage these days; it’s not like they’re the only ones doing it. I’d even go a step further and say everyone should be sanctioning Russia. The fact that the US also sanctions Russia is a good thing.
including getting Russia to prioritize humanity over self defense
Self defense? They’re invading another country. Again. Terrorizing civilians. That’s the opposite of self defense. There was no threat.
They see nothing wrong with it, because money.
It’s an old, old story.
“”“secretly”“”
Chuck them on the sanctions list
It’s hard to block all shipments, but those that come through get purchased with a heavy markup. I didn’t heard of these companies, but in consumer electronics I can still buy a lot of stuff from companies that aren’t working in Russia, but it would not only cost me an arm and a leg since ruble is a rubble right now, it would also mean additional costs from gray importers like in this article and our store chains compensating their losses by putting them onto consumers. A lot of money go to the middlemen and corruptioners, supporting their practices, so it’s probably not bad I guess.
