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Typically people that get called tankies defend the USSR, or China, or any other authoritarian socialist government by saying that shit was either completely made up by the west, or say that “the U.S. does it too and worse”, or anything else to avoid acknowledging the human rights abuses that have happened under the authoritarian socialist regimes.

You can usually find them here in places like lemmygrad or hexbear. It’s a spectrum, some people side with Russia with the Ukraine invasion others think things like the uyghur genocide in Xinjiang is just capitalist propaganda.

Here’s a good example of Second Thought doing it, constantly comparing things to what the U.S. does, which obviously are bad but just because the U.S. does it doesn’t mean that China can get away with it: https://youtu.be/NhPOrkGbpxk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to communists who express support for one-party communist regimes that are associated with Marxism–Leninism, whether contemporary or historical. It is commonly used by anti-authoritarian leftists, including anarchists, libertarian socialists, left communists, democratic socialists, and reformists to criticise Leninism, although the term has seen increasing use by liberals and right‐wing factions as well.[5][6]

Tankie

Agreed, notable people switching over is something that makes sense to talk about in a community dedicated to talking about the fediverse, some people are just too pedantic about categories.

Better search

gotcha

It hasn’t been updated in 5 months is that normal for that app?

Patience then

Guess they can look forward to flash flooding and landslides again

I mean you’re not wrong

“Improve” he’s put a bandage on things and disregarded meeting the necessary steps needed to prepare for climate change, he should be seeking hospice care, not reelection

Unsurprising from an octogenarian neolib

If the smash roster was made up of geriatrics

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