• PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Most people posting as tankies today aren’t tankies.

    As someone who has done extensive reading in modern Marxism, Rawlsian doctrine, anarchism both historical and modern, and so on and so on (and yes that was a Žižek reference), many of those posting as far leftists are coming from wholly self-constructed positions. They’re either deliberately playing the role of an agent provocateur or they’re people who have unwittingly become broadcast nodes with the same effect.

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      Tankies on Lemmy are 100% right wing trolls pretending to be leftists. They aren’t even trying to hide it at this point.

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        One of them on chapotraphouse said “I’m gonna vote for Trump just so see the US finally burn to the ground” and I replied “horseshoe theory: confirmed” and the mods removed my comment lmao

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          I’ve had one case on lemmy.ml where they deleted many of my comments but kept the brigading comments responding.

          There are definitely lines that some mods will defer to one side.

          • PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world
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            I opened accounts on multiple instances due to the instability (and information propagation dynamics) of individual ones. I figured “why not?” I had several Reddit accounts, after all, and it just seemed to make sense.

            I thought lemmy.ml was for machine learning. The UI I was using didn’t include self-descriptions.

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          Someone accused me of denying the Holocaust because I said Poland didn’t invade the Soviet union

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            I got a ban on Lemmy for “genocide denial” for saying the Russian invasion of Ukraine had traits of genocide.

            These people are shockingly propagandized.

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              Crazy how tankies support Russia (despite them not even being communist, domestic abuse, treatment of gay people, and ties with conservatives). And are just okay with Russia killing entire villages of Ukraines because their supposed Nazi government (didn’t let a Russian puppet in government).

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      9 months ago

      Cosplay communists. They don’t actually believe in communism, they just like the esthetic and being contrarian.

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      They’re either deliberately playing the role of an agent provocateur or they’re people who have unwittingly become broadcast nodes with the same effect.

      That’s… a tankie, at least functionally. If they’re spouting the propaganda, I don’t care where it came from or whether it’s officially certified as doctrine.

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      and so on and so on (and yes that was a Žižek reference)

      “And sho on” [sniff] “and sho forth.”

      Unironically Zizek is very fascinating though.