Saw some posts about .ml today and thought I'd jump on the bandwagon lol
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I came here for funny memes and shitposts. Now I've got to answer for choosing the wrong instance because apparently it is run by tank enthusiasts who we all hate for reasons I don't understand.
It's not hard to understand.
Dessalines and Nutomic, the two lead lemmy devs, think that Tianenmen Square didn't happen. They think the genocide currently going on in China of that particular group of muslims (Uighyur or something like that, I can't spell it right) is actually a social program for their own good. They think that Ukraine is legitimately filled with Nazis in their government and military and that Russia is rescuing the poor populace from their oppressors.
Effectively, China and Russia can do no wrong. Dessalines in particular regularly bans people from lemmy.ml who say otherwise.
The term "tankie" is in reference to the tanks China drove over people during the Tianenmen square massacre.
Edit for the sake of jackasses: Better explanation of the term "tankie" from another commenter here. And it's spelled Uyghur.
Happy now?
It's very telling the commitment people have to this conversation before they form strong opinions.
I'm so sorry that the lack of two ddg searches ruins my argument for you.
It's even more telling that your only counter to my comment was to attack minor problems.
Edit: I've edited my comment. Do you have anything of actual value to say now?
My point wasn't really to 'counter' anything, especially when you don't seem to have enough curiosity in the matter to double check even spelling.
So to be clear, your answer is "No, I don't have anything beyond a weak as hell ad hominem based off of entirely imagined character traits and motivations."
What are you actually trying to say when you claim I have a lack of curiosity in the matter? Don't be chickenshit. If there's something you believe is false about what I said, be out with it.
Otherwise you're welcome to fuck off.
Someone's pissy. Two main points of disagreement, let's start at objectively wrong. From wikipedia:
So Tankie has never been about Tianenmen square, but it is the sort of lazy take one might land on when they don't have much curiosity about history and do their best to connect the dots high school gave them.
To the more misleading wrong:
Russia is not a communist country, and hasn't been in 30+ years, this is important to remember because too often people act as though Tankie's reverence for the USSR applies at all to Russia, it does not. Broadly the tankie take on Russia/Ukraine is that fundimentally NATO is a militaristic arm of western Neo-colonialism, and that after encroachment Russia started the war. Then during the Biden administration in particular, the US used this as a proxy war against Russia, and like with many of it's proxy wars, the US funded and armed politically radical groups. It is very much a view of there are no good guys in this war. I don't even really fully agree with this reading but again, my point was more that you don't really look into what your arguing and the laziness shows most notably in your guess about the history of the term tankie, and an apathy to even run spell check.