The term Tankie has a clear definition that Cowbee likes to ignore:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support or defend acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof.
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I find it very hard to believe, given CowBee’s constant proselytizing, that they do not understand the distinction being made here.
I guarantee you they 100% understand. They simply don’t care and are just being dishonest. They believe the ends justify the means.
That sweet Kremlin dough…
I mean he’s not what they call a useful idiot.
Wait…pretty sure contemporary Russia is CINO and even then just barely as they’ve gone capitalist in the ‘90s. I could understand the pedantics if it was expressly the USSR (Don’t agree with it, as an anarchist obvs, but still) or “critical support” for China, but here-and-now Russia?
Always has been 🌍👨🚀🔫🧑🚀
Communism is classless and stateless. Somehow I find it hard to believe when the political class from a given state says they’re communist.
Sadly, but ml instance has also communities that are focused on non-political themes like tech stuff, so for now it has sense to block each community on ml except the normal ones.
Blocking all ML is the best solution. They offer nothing
Okay, taking into account that many people here are longer than me and are actually seem to be solid right, why instances then don’t simply defederate themselves from ml? Like they have done it with hexbear instance?
The Lemmy developers created .ml making it the “flagship” instance and giving it a high user count unrelated to it’s politics. I’ve also seen some people express fear of some sort of retribution if they defederate from ml, but I personally think that’s a bit overblown
Oh the retribution is real. ML are disgraceful humans. But they’ve got accounts on every instance, so the only thing an ml defed would accomplish is fragmentation.
Some do. More should.
Or, for every community that lacks a mirror on a sane instance, create one.
Well, until these mirrors are created my statement is valid, I guess.
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