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Cake day: December 23rd, 2023

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  • If you hadn’t replied to PugJesus, this would have remained a comment among many others, and reduced the visibility of antitankie comments. Now, you’ve made this a whole thread.

    Just let it slide. Don’t jump to their defense. Let the actual tankies marginalize themselves into oblivion and you’ll help solve 2 Lemmy problems at once: tankism, and abusive antitankism (since there won’t be a need for genuine antitankism anymore).

    What could have been a quick “aye, fuck tankies” is creating entire threads, and makes us talk about it.


  • Looking for the truth on the USSR and Russia’s socialist period is absolutely fine. What I don’t want to see here or anywhere is people making excuses for genocide under the pretext that the atrocities have been committed by reds or ex-reds. That shit is unacceptable.

    The word tankie can absolutely be misattributed, yes. But it’s not a significant problem. The criticism mostly comes from good-faith, actual leftists, who have nothing to gain from smearing campaigns and know what they’re talking about.

    The existence of people on Lemmy (aka tankies) cheering when innocents die because they happen to be born in the wrong country is revulsing, and a bigger issue.