Tankies are against the rules here, if you are a moderator, you are supposed to enforce the rules, not remove them.

  • Deceptichum
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    10 months ago

    Do you feel the same way about applying Nazi to alt-right?

    Tankie refers to a specific subset of people, those who are fine with oppression and authoritarianism, maybe not everyone on Hexbear are all tankies but it’s the Nazi bar problem and best practice is to kick them out.

    • @[email protected]
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      310 months ago

      Hexbears say they aren’t sectarians, but then they effectively drive out anyone who doesn’t do their cartoonist self parody.

      • livus
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        1310 months ago

        @an0nym0us

        …some reductive title

        …bootlicker

        I think it’s much easier to see when someone else’s slang/shorthand becomes reductive than when you’re doing it yourself.

      • @minnow
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        1210 months ago

        I think it’s pretty authoritarian to seek to stifle any speech.

        Ohhhhh you’re a free speech absolutist. Gotcha.

        There’s a fuckton of philosophy and case law behind why free speech absolutism is a bad idea. Maybe you can spend some time looking into that, you might gain some insight into why everyone is shooting you down.

        Also, words mean things and while authoritarianism always shuts down free speech eventually, not all restrictions on free speech is authoritarianism. This would be the nuance that you claimed other people refuse to see, that you yourself have eschewed in this case.

        • @Serinus
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          410 months ago

          free speech absolutist

          I think we can debate the merits of this irl. However, on the internet, absolutely not. It’s not one person, one voice here. It’s very soon to be one person, ten thousand voices. There are already troll farms where nothing is genuine. If today’s AI can do one thing, it’s repeat a talking point of your choosing ten times every time you see someone say something to the contrary.

        • nickwitha_k (he/him)
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          710 months ago

          This. Not even all Marxist-Leninists are tankies, despite the intellectually dishonest and historical-revisionist takes that I’ve heard (most often that it was Trotskyists, I suspect due to cognitive dissonance - specifically, unwillingness to acknowledge that followers of one’s ideology has done anything wrong - not horseshoe nonsense but it rhymes with authoritarian right-wingers). The term was coined by the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Great Britain because of their disgust at the USSR sending in tanks to quell unrest.

      • @[email protected]
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        410 months ago

        Well there you go, we can all agree based on your own words. Tankies are clearly a hate group. Their only ideology is hatred for America, or “the west”.