Man, these tankies are fun. They have been sniffing their own farts so much, it really isn’t subtle with them anymore.
You can even tell who they are if they have a gender pronoun tag next to their username. I get it might be helpful in casual conversation with these folk but the format of conversations here don’t give too many chances for them to be used.
Every instance should defederate from Hexbear. It’s the QAnon of the left.
I literally stopped lurking and made an account just to block them.
EDIT
New Hexbear keep coming up is there any way to block them all or do I have to squash each one as it comes up? A big part of the reason I left reddit was all the ridiculous bad faith political arguing, I really don’t want to leave one site because of mostly right-wing extremists to have to leave another because of mostly left-wing extremists?
Sync for Lemmy lets you block entire instances.
I’m old. What are ‘Tankies’?
it’s actually a very old term that was recently revived. Khruschev intervened against CIA-backed fascist “revolutionaries” in Hungary in 1956. This caused a split in the Communist Party of Great Britain. those who supported the USSR’s antifascist action in hungary were called “tankies”. I’m not joking by the way. Liberals using the term “tankie” today to describe the so called “authoritarian” (antifascist, revolutionary, anti-imperialist) left are totally divorced from the origins of the term. It’s just something they picked up. They have no insight into the historical origin of term in CPGB infighting.
You exemplify tankie behaviour perfectly with your deliberate blatant lies and attempt at gaslighting.
Do you have evidence?
I have evidence to the contrary. The Revolution had 16 reasonable demands including a reelection of the current government heads, the right for workers to strike, and the freedom of speech. The fact the USSR sent tanks to squash demands for freedom of speech definitely foreshadowed the tactics China would use in the Tiananmen Massacre.
This sub will be interesting now that hexbear is federated with sjw.
It’s funny seeing Hexbears not understand how lemmy works. It’s hilarious seeing them angry over dissent.
