• Pigeon@beehaw.org
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    11 months ago

    They mean the tankies, of whom there is a large population on Lemmy. They indeed do not make sense.

    They’re less of them on beehaw than elsewhere. Moreso to be found in lemmygrad and lemmy.ml.

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      11 months ago

      Still, I wouldn’t understand why a tankie would be supporting today’s Russia. There is really no pretense of ideology left. The country is basically run by the mafia whose only ideology is “TAKE”. They don’t even pretend to be something else anymore.

      Arguably the soviet union was like this too. I’m socialist economically (and progressive socially) but I wouldn’t consider the soviet union socialist. It was really just a veiled dictatorship.

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        Because Russia is anti-West, and that’s literally all that matters to them. Doesn’t matter what Russia, China, North Korea, etc do. The West is evil so they get a pass. Horribly stupid logic.

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        11 months ago

        Tankies tend to be hyper-nationalist. The USSR was hyper-nationalist.

        Tankies tend to project their own Soviet ultra-nationalism onto Russia and larp like it’s the same thing.