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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Back when I used reddit it seemed like everyone threw around Fascist in a similar way. Lemmy seems to prefer Tankie. For a lot of people the thinking doesn't go any farther than "I disagree with you, therefore you are ________ist" or whatever.

It is what it is.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago

The devs are tankies and there are some notorious tankie instances, like Hexbear and Lemmygrad, so they're a lot more visible here than on reddit.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 hours ago

It varies from instance to instance. The main users of the word "tankie" are blahaj.zone, lemmy.world, and sh.itjust.works from what I've seen, most other instances generally aren't as bad about it IMO.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Probably because there are a lot of tankies here. 🙃

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 hours ago

but I- oh wait I do have an opinion on Soviet use of tanks to crush the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the 1968 Prague Spring uprising. My bad, continue.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 hours ago

I do love tanks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

Yep, and unfortunately a lot of fascists on Reddit.

I do like how whenever a conservative Lemmy pops up, it has more trolls than users and the mods abandon it within a few weeks.