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I've been called a tankie in the same posts where I criticize the USSR and Russia, or when I say China isn't inherently good or evil.

Tankies are to liberals what woke is to Republicans. Taking a term invented by a community, reclaiming it, giving it a new definition only used by them.

Yeah I'm a bit lost on why someone's instance automatically = their entire identity. Wouldn't that means 1) technically we are all tankies on a tankie platform and 2) I need to start learning Finnish?

There’s a shit ton of far-right and Sinophobic people on .world. They can’t abide anything that isn’t in line with whatever the CIA is saying.

But we all know about it

Everyone knows those rules don't apply when youre dunking on the instances with opinions outside of the US state department's approved overton window.

We are actually defederated from 2 of them on World, but Lemmy.ml is also the community run by Lemmy code contributors so a lot of people are hesitant to let it go.

It's got my vote, though, fuck em.