Just a quick thanks to all the Instance admins out there as we await yet another Reddit wave 💪

Basically, Tankies are authoritarian bootlickers pretending not to be who routinely deny the human rights violations of the CCP/Russia and hold them up as the gold standard. They refuse to recognize China, Russia and even NK as being authortarian regimes or if they do, its OK/Neccessary because it takes down the west/capitalism. If you have a historical fact that puts any of those countries in a bad light, they'll probably deny it happend/just western propganda.

Hex and Grad are very in your face about it, but .ml tends to be more subtle. So, many instances defed from those 2.

.ml is run by the head Lemmy devs who are, unfortunately, Tankies themselves and tend to enforce the Tankie mindset throughout with more subtlety through mod/admin action. Because of that, and a lot of the lemmy support forums being on .ml, they tend to get handled with “kid gloves” more or less by most instances.

You can check out !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works or !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com and https://lemmy.world/post/26416571 https://lemmy.world/post/26047186 if you want to see more.

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