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Are you a 'tankie' (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I keep seeing this instance is overrun with tankies so hey, lets do an informal survey like I've seen on hexbear

respond with YES or NO in the first line of your comment and i'll tally everything in a couple of days, lets say I'll try and collect everything on the sunday the 9th (10+gmt sorry)

not sure thisll work, be nice, have fun

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

No. I had no idea about this instance's reputation when I joined Lemmy but it's nothing like the other instance you mentioned.

It gets very tiring trying to have a conversation with contrarians who think everything Western is bad and anything Chinese/USSR is good. Or worse, that their highly suspicious news sources (some random blog usually) are telling you the real truth, while using any mainstream news media source makes you a deluded Lib

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes, I imagine it would be tiring if anyone actually argued that. Since it's a ridiculous strawman though, I think you're in the clear

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

everything Western is bad

This one simple trick does get you 99% of correct though

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It gets very tiring trying to have a conversation with contrarians who think everything Western is bad and anything Chinese/USSR is good.

Why do outsiders keep making shit up about lemmygrad and hexbear?

Or worse, that their highly suspicious news sources (some random blog usually) are telling you the real truth, while using any mainstream news media source makes you a deluded Lib

I use this instance regularly and more often than not, the articles posted on the news coms are from mainstream sites. And even the "random blogs" (not really, it's a few relatively well known blogs) use mainstream news to get basic facts. As proof, [email protected] is a link to the world news com. Out of the 20 articles on the front page (as of writing this comment), 9 are from the typical mainstream sites (like reuters) and 5 are from sites that may be mainstream, but I don't know them. Only 6 are from sources like FT or things like a youtube video (which again, may be from some mainstream author).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]