And as a bonus, it isn't run by tankies!
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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What's a tanky??
People who unironically support authoritarian communism - North Korea, China, the USSR, etc.
What I really cannot get my head around is that they seem to put 2023 China and Russia on that list. Russia is a straight up Christo-fascist state, it's as far as is possible to go from a communist state. But I guess they're in it for the authoritarianism rather than for the political ideology.
Because Tankies are no better than conservative reactionaries - they don't have any real ideology besides being against whatever the West supports.
We don't support Russia and China for moral reasons, we don't even believe that Russia is communist. What you're talking about is critical support, and it's not us saying "yeah man let's go die for a Russian oligarch." What we support is resistance against US & NATO imperialism, which is where Russia and China position themselves. It is not a moral judgement. They (Russia & China) are essentially the last main powers capable of fending off US & NATO expansionism, if they fail to create a truly multi-polar political climate then we will see the most bleak future of capitalism.
We recognize that the war between Russia and Ukraine does not serve the interests of the working class. We recognize it as a proxy war between NATO and Russia.
If you're going to critique our viewpoints please do it in good faith.
Ew ok that's good to know.
Yeesh
So I'm confused. Some Lemmy.ml users are upset because of what? That the Lemmy software is written by people in China? Or that the Lemmy.ml mods are pro-China? Or what? Is this a topic for the explainlikeimfive sublem (community)?
Lemmy.ml is the main lemmy instance, run by the lemmy developers. Lemmy developers happen to also be tankies, who deny genocides/atrocities committed by communist states and support authoritarian communism.
Thanks
Could I have a source? The article merely said the devs declined deleting it as it didn't break any rules. The same shit exists on reddit too (r/sino), but they haven't banned it. Do you offer them the same accusation?
i haven't looked into it. the avatars for the devs on github are pictures of castro. for all i know its a bad joke thou
Should I still use lemmy.ml? I've just subscribe lemmy.world :/
Nah. Thereβs no need. I deleted my account there.