For those unfortunate enough to have read all of my exchange with the .mler above, notice how I simply stopped engaging and this person is still spinning?

They schizopost and spin in place because I refuse their revisionist history — but I'm unhinged?

If you were one of those people who were unsure of what tankies are, this person is the classic example. The only difference is they aren't providing Chinese and Russian sources to back their words up — because I've already addressed it as a strategy they use in this thread. A strategy that ends up being quickly exposed in any space outside of their safe spaces.

Seriously, look up what happened in the Gulags — actually, look up the Holodomor. They, .mlers, love to point at failures of the U.S. like Jim Crow, but will do everything in their power to explain away the failures of the Soviet Union. Because, in their addled minds, the West is actually the devil and there is no war in Ba Sing Se.

Back to my character: Thank you for enlightening me comrade! I am now very much a communist and no longer burdened by the lies of the West. I have new lies-- uh, I mean truths to follow!

Edit: user in question is https://lemmy.ml/u/AntiOutsideAktion

Edit 2: this has been your lesson in not engaging with extremists.

Eh, could be worse. You could join Lemmy Europe hoping that it won't be 90% news from USA.

Pretty sure I see more posts complaining about "tankies" than I do tankies. More and more as redditors migrate.

Honestly this is the worst part of Lemmy...

Freaks complaining about imaginary tankies, it's insane.

Tankies are going on an insane propaganda blitz these last few years. They are actively undermining good leaders to accelerate towards societal collapse. I was reading a deranged thread on here a few days and these people think exactly the same as MAGA.

Tbf if devs were not "tankies" this would just be another for-profit app selling data to ad companies and offering support in government cencorship, no?

Literally the only post you've ever made. Doesn't seem like you use Lemmy and just wanted another void to post brainless memes into..

I wish I'd see more political Eastern European posts, TBH. Not just Ukraine, but everywhere.

I am but an armchair observer, but my impression is you folks know precisely what happens under Soviet/Russian authority. You lived it. It... seems mixed. I am inclined to listen to whatever the intricacies are more than opinions from some tankie in Idaho.