World News @lemmy.ml The Spectre @lemmy.ml 2 days ago

BRICS expands with 9 new partner countries. Now it's half of world population, 41% of global economy

tankie.tube BRICS expands with 9 new partner countries. Now it's half of world population, 41% of global economy

The Global South-led organization BRICS continues to expand, adding 9 partner countries in January 2025, after admitting 4 new members in 2024. The group now makes up roughly half of the global pop...

news @hexbear.net The Soviet Reporter @lemmygrad.ml 2 days ago

tankie.tube /w/ckecghaA1Sr9387uMPXw4z

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I was interested in this video until I saw the domain takie.tube and looked up what a tankies is:

Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof.

Now I don't think it makes sense to watch it
- Hey all, our favorite court jester is back to entertain us!
- While Im not a tankie, they do have some historical appeal. You know like beating the Nazis, some small things here and there.
  
  & solving homelessness
  
  Yeah and after they did they turned around and did what the Nazis did, but to their own people. No thanks, but no.
- This you?
  
  Kinda normal for someone who actively promotes the invasion of an allies' territorial land with the military (like an imperialist pig) to dislike "tankies".
  
  I was wondering why a obviously sarcastic comment got so many downvotes. But I kind of realize every now and then that people really can't distinguish between a sarcastic one and a genuine one without the "/s" tag, even if I think it's so on the nose that I think it can't be mistaken.
- I didn't even watch this video.
  
  Thanks for commenting. I miss when the big wave of redditors hadn't showed up yet...
- It’s also on Youtube.
- Now look up what peertube is.
  
  What does it matter what software they use? I see that they uploaded it on this specific instance and I have to assume that they did this on purpose.
- furthering the explanation: tankie as a term came about from people who agreed with the USSRs use of tanks to quash revolt in hungary
- Hex and .ml are two of the biggest tankie instances on the Fediverse. Worth avoiding them.
  
  .ml is not a "tankie instance". The admins are Marxist-Leninists, so they fit some definitions of tankie, but its just a technology instance for leftists.
  
  Hexbear isn't one either. A lot of their users are, but there are just as many who aren't, such as anarchists (basically the opposite).
  
  Only if you want your feed to be an echo chamber. In my opinion the best thing about the fediverse is that you can choose the rules and values you want to adhere to through your instance choice, without cutting off interaction with others unless you defederate their instances.
  
  The frequent calls to blanket dismiss anyone on those instances are an unfortunate overreaction in my opinion.
  
  I've seen a lot of anarchists on Hexbear, lemmygrad is explicitly ML though

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