The DM was a DM asking us to change our no tankies policy and remove the fuck tankies banner as it was apparently upsetting hexbear users. Apparently tankies view the word tankie as a form of slur. The admin wants us to ally as a form of “left solidarity”

  • Moss@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 years ago

    Now personally I think we have the word takie pretty well defined in our rules and have no intention of changing it. Fuck tankies, they don’t belong here.
    I didn’t write fuck commies, or fuck [ originally I said libtards here because I couldn’t think of another shorthand insult for generally liberal people. People have since asked me to remove the word, as even though I am using it as an example and not as a slur, it still has the suffix of an ableist slur. I understand, and as you can see have edited the comment accordingly], (I am a vocal socialist and very far left) or anything like that, the banner is specifically about pro-auth dictator-worshipping tankies.

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    2 years ago

    I think all instances should block the tankies treat them the same as you would alt right because really there no different they both support facist ideologies

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      2 years ago

      you’re right, the people who built auschwitz and the people who liberated it are exactly the same.

      a fine example of horseshoe theory

      horsepoo-theory

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        2 years ago

        Stalin killed jews as well stop acting like Stalin is some champion of the people he’s just as much a monster as Hitler