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They've been here for a while. Try reading new posts and find the negative vote comments. Same for y'all-queda and the qultists and white supremacists, and tankies, and most misinformation campaigns. It is the internet after all.
God I hope this place doesn't turn into something like Voat where it's just another 4chan like environment filled with all the users banned for posting racist shit and CP.
Nah, mods here are pretty liberal with the banhammer.
Banned for calling mods liberals
Yep. They had CP come through a couple of the communities and they locked that shit down pretty quickly.
Some motherfuckers don't know how to act.
Blue conservatives.
They're being a bit futile. If your default sort is active it doesn't hide any downvoted comments.
And if you're on an instance like Kbin or Beehaw, downvotes don't even affect vote count because the downvotes are not federated.
Who do you think the tankies support in this conflict? Or, is this just poisoning the well to help Israel / US?
"Tankie" doesn't coincide with any distinct political bloc, it's essentially a buzzword to discredit leftists that are claimed to support authoritarian regimes. But what one might call a tankie in this instance would support Palestine as 'tankies' are against the US and their proxies.
Someone who supports Palestine and is against the US is not automatically a Tankie. But if this person at the same time makes excuses for the Russian invasion or argues that Taiwan belongs to China, then they are.
Hypocrisy (lying / arguing in bad faith) is exactly what makes the difference between a leftist and a Tankie.
You are correct, and it is used that way, what I'm saying though is there isn't a distinct definition, it's used differently by different groups and so only really serves to muddy discussions and shun ideological outsiders.