I haven’t checked Lemmy for a long time but I wanna get off Reddit again, yet I still need to know how many users are on here. Which lemmy instances are suitable to me, the most popular, and which ones to avoid? For context, im queer, anarchist with DemSoc leaning, and environmentalist. Is there a comprehensive list of all the instances and their main functions? Is the instance I’m on still workable? Any feedback would help, thx. <3

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[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au -1 points 2 weeks ago (50 children)

Nah, you're a tankie.

You can easily find Anarchists on PieFed either on Quokk.au or Anarchist.Nexus though for anyone who wants to join us.

[–] dickalan@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (48 children)

Why is that supposed to be an insult, I know nothing of tankie But was called one a couple days ago

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au -1 points 2 weeks ago (47 children)

Tankies are people who supported the use of tanks to attack the civilian protests against the USSR in Hungary and later Czechoslovakia. That became the default term for anyone who supports brutal authoritarian states that suppress the people to assert their control. In modern day context a tankie would be someone who blames Ukraine for being invaded and denies the genocide of the Uyghurs.

Some rightwing/centrists like to use it to insult any leftist. You can just ignore those ones.

[–] dickalan@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I appreciate you for taking the time to explain this to me, mostly sounds like a term people used to other other people

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Pretty much it’s a thought-terminating othering. To label someone a tankie is to give license for prejudicially dismissing them.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It’s more of a term to point out that someone is the left equivalent of a Neo Nazi.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

There is no left equivalent, and horseshoe theory is horseshit.

‘Horseshoe theory’ is nonsense – the far right and far left have little in common
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory#Academic_studies_and_criticism
Funny thing about Hannah Arendt’s construction of “totalitarianism”: She came from a bourgeois family and so unsurprisingly was anti-communist. She was also quite racist, and her work was funded & promoted by the CIA.
Imperialist Propaganda and the Ideology of the Western Left Intelligentsia: From Anticommunism and Identity Politics to Democratic Illusions and Fascism

One of the centerpieces of the cultural cold war was the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), which was revealed in 1966 to be a CIA front. Hugh Wilford, who has researched the topic extensively, described the CCF as nothing short of one of the largest patrons of art and culture in the history of the world. Established in 1950, it promoted on the international scene the work of collaborationist academics such as Raymond Aron and Hannah Arendt over and against their Marxian rivals, including the likes of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au -1 points 2 weeks ago

For the non-tankies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_fascism

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Here's a thread with geneva_convenience suggesting that "blood and soil" really isn't that bad.

Remember, if you argue this hard for .ml — you don't deserve rights.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

Don’t deserve rights? Do you even hear yourself?

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