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I just realised, I can't post anything on lemmy.ml

So, I checked https://lemmy.ml/modlog, there's a new moderator.

All posts and comments talking about China, Jinping, Russia, and Putin have been deleted and users banned

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[–] AustralianSimon@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I had no idea what a tankie was until I read the comments here.

[–] spikespaz@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I can't Ctrl+F on my phone, can you tell me?

[–] figaro@lemdro.id 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

People who support fascist governments - specifically, Russia, China, North korea.

They will also rightly say things about how America does bad things too. And that is true. It's ok to admit that.

They, on the other hand, will never admit that Russia or China is ever doing something unethical or wrong.

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

They have a critical logic mistake they always make:

US bad = not_US good

They're effectively obsessed with America in a negative way, where they have to hate anything the US likes and like anything the US hates. They find themselves defending oppressive regimes and, instead of having a realization, dig in further. All the news about NK being bad is just propaganda, and China isn't doing anything bad to the Uighurs even though they have official government statements on it.

It's just like nationalist patriotism in a way, just the negative of it. One's obsessed with what the US likes, the other is obsessed with what the US dislikes. The US can do no wrong to one, and everything it does is bad to the other. It's an incredibly childish logic.

[–] KillAllPoorPeople@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Just read the Wikipedia page. Don't listen to people pushing their Joseph McCarthy-"esque" views.

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

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Tankies literally are history revisionists. There is no justification for the Cultural Revolution or Stalinism, even in the face of Western hegemony.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] random65837@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Lemmy's been known for them for years.