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Wikipedia is a fairly neutral source.
I mean, it's basically your bible, your one and only source for everything. Of course you think it's neutral. It's not, by the way, but you think it is.
Middle school teachers will tell you that tertiary sources are a good way to start your research when you apparently have no idea what you’re talking about.
That makes sense then, as it's obvious that neoliberals who only cite Wikipedia have no idea what they're talking about.
Urban Dictionary: tankie
A hardline Stalinist. A tankie is a member of a communist group or a "fellow traveller" (sympathiser) who believes fully in the political system of the Soviet Union and defends/defended the actions of the Soviet Union and other accredited states (China, Serbia, etc.) to the hilt, even in cases where other communists criticise their policies or actions. For instance, such a person favours overseas interventions by Soviet-style states, defends these regimes when they engage in human rights violations, and wishes to establish a similar system in other countries such as Britain and America. The term is used to distinguish the rare individuals with these kinds of beliefs from communists more broadly (including Communist Party members), whose adherence to Soviet doctrine and attachment to existing "socialist" states is somewhat weaker. It is always more-or-less abusive in the sense that those termed tankies do not use the term themselves, but it doesn't have any particular bite (unlike, say, Trot). The term derives from the fact that the divisions within the communist movement first arose when the Soviet Union sent tanks into communist Hungary in 1956, to crush an attempt to establish an alternative version of communism which was not embraced by the Russians. Most communists outside the eastern bloc opposed this action and criticised the Soviet Union. The "tankies" were those who said "send the tanks in". The epithet has stuck because tankies also supported "sending the tanks in" in cases such as Czechoslovakia 1968, Afghanistan 1979, Bosnia and Kosovo/a (in the case of the Serbian state), and so on (whereas the rest of the communist movement has gravitated towards anti-militarism).
Urban Dictionary (www.urbandictionary.com)
Oh wow, really digging deep for sources now.
Though even these sources basically confirm that it's a vaguely defended snarl word that can be leveled at anyone to the left of Bernie Sanders.
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There's only two sides: fascism vs humanity.
No need for phony racist divisions.
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Perhaps that's because your instance is defederated from them? They were all over the place before most other major instances defederated from them. They are still all over the place if you're on an instance that federates with them.
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Imagine believing that CCP is a good representative of destroying capitalism. Typical lib. smh.
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No state is good. It's actually not good to make up lines on a map and violently control people according to it. USA might be the worst.
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There’s a shit ton of far-right and Sinophobic people on .world. They can’t abide anything that isn’t in line with whatever the CIA is saying.
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Hai! I'm new here, are all of these comments that I can't see from .world users? I assume .ml is defederated from .world?
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It's not propaganda if it comes from the USA!
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Hai! I'm new here, are all of these comments that I can't see from .world users? I assume .ml is defederated from .world?
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For example, this comment, i can only see one of the replies from the lemy.lol user.
Looking in to it deeper it seems like my assumption of lemmy.world being defederated is incorrect.
The 1st and 2nd screenshots are from lemmy.ml, and the 3rd is from lemm.ee.
From the Voyager app, showing replies but I can't expand the replies.
From lemmy.ml directly in a browser.
From lemm.ee directly in a browser.
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Yea, i created an account over on hexbear and then this one on lemmy.ml as my alt as a more federated instance
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Thanks, this was a great answer. I really enjoyed reading it. I was dead serious about wondering about how you all got to where you are. It wasn't just a glib statement. I'll look into those books, thanks.
