I’ve definitely had to block far more tankies here than right wingers. They are such an odd bunch. Never heard of them before I came here. They seem like a weird thought-experiment run amok.
same here, i think because right wingers are mostly defederated, or went back to REDDIT. THE TRIAD tankies know they are blocked, so they try to create new accounts on different instances to start thier spamming or trolling.
Eh, at least I never seen a comment telling me to “go back to [my] country” on Lemmy, so a slight improvement. The far right is way more nasty than the average tankie. Some tankies are just hillarious, especially like “Cowbee” parrotting ridiculous pro-CCP views, its like comic relief.
the far right uses alot of racist, bigoted way of arguing thats why. transphobia seems to thier choice of attack, or calling people libs are worst than the gop,etc.
Its basically the opposite of Cuban Americans, who lived in a self-proclaimed “communist” regime and therefore hates anything remotely associated with “the left”, and thinks conservatism is somehow “pro-freedom”.
Tankies on the internet are mostly westerners who, because they disagree with the way their country does things, decides to hate everything about their country and “the west” in favor of the “other side”
As a Chinese-American, I see through the bullshit of both China and the US, the different flavors of nationalism, I have my own experience in the first decade of my life there, as well as my relatives’ direct testimonies, including two of them who are my parents who, even tho has biases in worldview, generally has truthful information, and also my aunts who are still in China and has regular contact with my parents, and the various friends of my parent who frequently travel to and from China, that, along with my experience growing up in the US, I have a more knowledged worldview than either a Mainland Chinese who spent their entire life in China, or a Westerner who’ve never lived life in China from the PoV of a local.
I know that both countries have their issues, but I do know that, it’s a consensus amongst the Chinese Diaspora (those that I know, anyways) that western countries are typically better than whatever “communist” (which isn’t even communist, they are State Capitalist) thing they got going on in China. The west isn’t perfect, xenophobia and racism does exist, as always when you mix people from different backgrounds, but if you get over that hurdle, find somewhere relatively liberal/progressive, things are usually better. And also I know enough about what the acual economic system in the “communist” country is actually like, and not become an idiot that supports far-right “anti-communists” xenophobes, like… wtf people, stop siding against your own right to live in the country.
Most people don’t get the opportunity to live in both worlds, and lack of information is how people form those extremist views, either completely believes that their country is always right all the time, or completely believes their country is always wrong all the time and that therefore the other side is right. Reality is much more nuanced.
Authoritarian campist bootlickers pretending to be leftists. They have far more in common with the right wing than leftists and can often be found trying to defend Russia, China and North Korea. Lemmy’s developers are tankies.
they share the same talking points thats why. its almost always “lib this or that” or even calling it woke, although they dont use that word, they say something similar.
Yea, like ‘communists’ who have gone so far ‘left’ that they will stand by authoritarian regimes like China and the USSR despite evidence showing them to be abusive to citizens in similar ways to capitalism.
Anyways, farewell, for I must away again before they hunt me for sport like they did during the Russian revolution. (I am an anarchist, btw. Welcome to Lemmy)
yea, that’s what I was implying, hence the quotations around “communists” and “left” (technically I used apostrophies, but I use *nix, so same difference)
I’ve definitely had to block far more tankies here than right wingers. They are such an odd bunch. Never heard of them before I came here. They seem like a weird thought-experiment run amok.
same here, i think because right wingers are mostly defederated, or went back to REDDIT. THE TRIAD tankies know they are blocked, so they try to create new accounts on different instances to start thier spamming or trolling.
Eh, at least I never seen a comment telling me to “go back to [my] country” on Lemmy, so a slight improvement. The far right is way more nasty than the average tankie. Some tankies are just hillarious, especially like “Cowbee” parrotting ridiculous pro-CCP views, its like comic relief.
the far right uses alot of racist, bigoted way of arguing thats why. transphobia seems to thier choice of attack, or calling people libs are worst than the gop,etc.
I don’t understand tankies…
Like dude, it’s so clear russia and cccp are not left leaning! They are foremost self-serving!
This is like calling the Nazis left leaning because they had a few social policies.
Also, I mean I also like soviet aesthetics, it doesn’t mean that I am going to ass lick their authoritarian asses.
People lack nuance.
Its basically the opposite of Cuban Americans, who lived in a self-proclaimed “communist” regime and therefore hates anything remotely associated with “the left”, and thinks conservatism is somehow “pro-freedom”.
Tankies on the internet are mostly westerners who, because they disagree with the way their country does things, decides to hate everything about their country and “the west” in favor of the “other side”
It’s Campism
As a Chinese-American, I see through the bullshit of both China and the US, the different flavors of nationalism, I have my own experience in the first decade of my life there, as well as my relatives’ direct testimonies, including two of them who are my parents who, even tho has biases in worldview, generally has truthful information, and also my aunts who are still in China and has regular contact with my parents, and the various friends of my parent who frequently travel to and from China, that, along with my experience growing up in the US, I have a more knowledged worldview than either a Mainland Chinese who spent their entire life in China, or a Westerner who’ve never lived life in China from the PoV of a local.
I know that both countries have their issues, but I do know that, it’s a consensus amongst the Chinese Diaspora (those that I know, anyways) that western countries are typically better than whatever “communist” (which isn’t even communist, they are State Capitalist) thing they got going on in China. The west isn’t perfect, xenophobia and racism does exist, as always when you mix people from different backgrounds, but if you get over that hurdle, find somewhere relatively liberal/progressive, things are usually better. And also I know enough about what the acual economic system in the “communist” country is actually like, and not become an idiot that supports far-right “anti-communists” xenophobes, like… wtf people, stop siding against your own right to live in the country.
Most people don’t get the opportunity to live in both worlds, and lack of information is how people form those extremist views, either completely believes that their country is always right all the time, or completely believes their country is always wrong all the time and that therefore the other side is right. Reality is much more nuanced.
i feel like tankies never read a history or looked up on communism, USSR, cuba. just the fact they “are communist” was enough.
Tankies?
Authoritarian campist bootlickers pretending to be leftists. They have far more in common with the right wing than leftists and can often be found trying to defend Russia, China and North Korea. Lemmy’s developers are tankies.
they share the same talking points thats why. its almost always “lib this or that” or even calling it woke, although they dont use that word, they say something similar.
Yea, like ‘communists’ who have gone so far ‘left’ that they will stand by authoritarian regimes like China and the USSR despite evidence showing them to be abusive to citizens in similar ways to capitalism.
Anyways, farewell, for I must away again before they hunt me for sport like they did during the Russian revolution. (I am an anarchist, btw. Welcome to Lemmy)
USSR and ccp are more to the right than the left, but tankies dont know that.
yea, that’s what I was implying, hence the quotations around “communists” and “left” (technically I used apostrophies, but I use *nix, so same difference)
Ah, I see. Sounds like a shit group.
It’s the new word for “pinko.”
And it says exactly the same thing about the person using it.