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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 years ago (42 children)

? The developers of Lemmy are tankies, it’s important to make sure that tankies know they aren’t welcome here.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (23 children)

Gotta ask for both a source and your definition of a "tankie".

You keep using that word, I don't think it means what you think it means.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 years ago (17 children)

A tankie is someone who supports authoritarian communism (I believe the term originated from using tanks to suppress protests)

Here's a post showing that the main instance of Lemmy (hosted by the main 2 Lemmy devs) removes any negative posts about the Chinese or Russian governments for "orientalism": https://lemmy.pineapplemachine.com/post/5784

In the comments of that post, you can find one of the devs borderline defending what China is doing to the Uyghurs: https://lemmy.pineapplemachine.com/comment/5950

That same dev has a github repo called "essays on communism": https://github.com/dessalines/essays

I'm pretty sure both of the devs' profile pictures are Fidel Castro too

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