While Im not a tankie, they do have some historical appeal. You know like beating the Nazis, some small things here and there.
Source? Never heard of this. They genocided ethnic minorities and instituted privatization, eroding worker rights?
Kinda normal for someone who actively promotes the invasion of an allies’ territorial land with the military (like an imperialist pig) to dislike “tankies”.
I was wondering why a obviously sarcastic comment got so many downvotes. But I kind of realize every now and then that people really can’t distinguish between a sarcastic one and a genuine one without the “/s” tag, even if I think it’s so on the nose that I think it can’t be mistaken.
What does it matter what software they use? I see that they uploaded it on this specific instance and I have to assume that they did this on purpose.
Only if you want your feed to be an echo chamber. In my opinion the best thing about the fediverse is that you can choose the rules and values you want to adhere to through your instance choice, without cutting off interaction with others unless you defederate their instances.
The frequent calls to blanket dismiss anyone on those instances are an unfortunate overreaction in my opinion.
.ml is not a “tankie instance”. The admins are Marxist-Leninists, so they fit some definitions of tankie, but its just a technology instance for leftists.
Hexbear isn’t one either. A lot of their users are, but there are just as many who aren’t, such as anarchists (basically the opposite).
I’ve seen a lot of anarchists on Hexbear, lemmygrad is explicitly ML though
