Also Here on lemmy there seems to be a group (usually easily recognizable by names, profile pics all referring to USSR, DPRK, DDR, etc. etc.) of people that seem to hammer on the "west evil, Russia good" each chance they get. Especially the worldnews on lemmy ml is modded by a group of people that ban for "McCarthyism" but allow death-treats to western politicians stand. These users consistently steer conversations to Russia was forced, NATO Evil and the Ukrainians are Nazi's. This kind of conversation steering probably happens on all social media, and the cesspool that is twitter is unfortunately still used as a news source by actual decision makers.

[–] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Btw the term to describe that type of person is "tankie." They're ostensibly leftists, but in reality support all manner of authoritarian and genocidal leaders and groups.

Their foundational principle is generally "America and its allies bad, American enemies good" and almost all of their political positions are developed from that foundation.

Since tankies often don't like being called tankies, the more historically used term "campist" encompasses that "america vs everyone else" mentality. Campism is dumb and tankies end up fighting against the democratic movements they claim to support.

[–] Tosti@feddit.nl 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah, I got banned from world news for calling out the tankie playbook.

Post removal reason: red scare
Ban reason: McCartyism.

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