Or something that goes a bit deeper onto each instance and explains them better? I have a mutual on mastodon that I recommended Lemmy to, and tried to link join-lemmy.org/instances, but it doesn’t really do much to warn about hexbear/lemmygrad/.ml/etc. Those instances are defederated from a LOT of lemmy and i don’t want my moot to sign up there and not even know that they’re not really experiencing the Lemmy experience that I’m recommending.
I don’t wanna start a war in the comments about instance dramas, I just wanna find a better resource to recommend Lemmy as a ‘reddit alternative’ -w-
Wtf is a tankie?
Someone who supports socialist state. You’ll get a million other responses but the through line is that tankies support existing socialism.
Well its a sh.itjust.works account so basically anyone to the left of Margret Thatcher most likely.
It’s a social construct and used similay by libs how “woke” is used by conservatives as a thought terminating cliche. I’ve seen it used for anyone left of Bernie sanders. Libs and chuds use it to create a straw man. In this case by claiming that “tankies” love dictators that crush people with a tank… lol
People who love authoritarianism and intentionally skip over their atrocities, the term “tankie” refers to how the military (tanks) were used to crush the rebellions of many authoritarian regimes, notably, the Hungarian uprising in 1956 being crushed by the Warsaw Pact and the Tianamen square massacre in 1989 by the PRC.
It’s usually used to refer to supporters of the Soviet Union, Cuba, North Korea, etc. who deny all the bad, inhuman things about those states.
All states are authoritarian, that’s literally what the structure of a state is. Does that mean the only non-tankies are anarchists?
Are you saying that calling yourself an anarchist and cheering for state violence is coherent?
Well that’s a hot take. Brb, moving to North Korea…
It’s the Marxist understanding of the state, so it’s a hot take in the same sense that Marxism is still contrarion.
Thank you!
Anyone to the left of the American Overton window
Roughly speaking, authoritarian/big-state communist. Very common on a certain subset of Lemmy instances.
So, like a far left beyond DSA or something?
Basically, yes.
More people who kiss the toes of dictators. Those who ignore the atrocities of Stalin and similarly despicable figures, “tankie” as in the tanks used to silence civilian protests
Anarchists are far left, but they would be very insulted if you called them tankies (their whole thing is anti-authoritarianism!)
Thank you!
in lemmy its usually an alt-left authotarian point of view, aka “communism” but they really represent the extreme opposite of the spectrum as well.