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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Lemmy hasn't been and practically can't be co-opted by fascist theocrats. Reddit definitely has been.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

...and yet everywhere I turn, I see supporters of single-party authoritarian state capitalist regimes like the USSR and China...

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just block hexbear and Lemmygrad. Those are tankies

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Afaik you still can’t block whole servers on a personal level

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

You can as of the latest lemmy update

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Connect app can do that as well

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anything with a .ml domain as well.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

some of us are only one one because we didn't know what the ml meant :(

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So many tankies though, Hexbear has literally made this their mission.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have literally no idea what "hexbear" and "tankies" are. I'd never even heard these words before being on Lemmy but they're all over the place on here.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Hexbear is a community of tankies (though they claim to be from different parts of the “left” spectrum, they’re almost entirely tankies).

Tankies are authoritarian fascists disguising themselves as leftists socialists. They full throat support, for example, Chinese genocide and Russian kidnapping of Ukrainian children and if you challenge these views you’re only ever met with “but what about America” whataboutisn bullshit.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I am sorry, but your comment does not make any sense. You call tankies fascist, which is derived from the italian Fasci: the members of the Italian national socialist party (Partito Nazionale Fascist). The german word for national socialism is Nationalsozialismus and members for short: NAZI

The modern day Chinese government is many things, but they are for sure not fascist. Even if socialism and national socialism have many things in common, they are the exact opposite of the extremism spectrum.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Stay mad, tankie.