For real. The tankie problem here is crazy. I can say something like China is trying to deny freedom of navigation of international waters on the South China Sea and somehow it becomes "BuT aMeRiCa". I don't get it.

[–] reddwarf@feddit.nl 8 points 2 years ago (12 children)

I’ve been seeing this a lot from instances like hexbear and lemmygrad and my take is either cult members, paid trolls, brainwashed persons prone to pavlovian responses, or all of the above.

I just wish that as a user I could block instances.

[–] zephyreks@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago (6 children)

This isn't unique to the far-left, though. It's a problem throughout the entire political spectrum.

It's rather dangerous to be creating echo chambers in a democracy, though. Democracy lives off of discourse between opposing views.

[–] reddwarf@feddit.nl -2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I would not call them far left tbh. There’s something else about them that irks me. It honestly feels more North Korean to me and that ain’t left by any stretch of the imagination. It seems to be more authoritarian minded.

[–] AmberPrince@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Agreed. Tankies are right-wing authoritarians in that communism is supposed to be stateless. They bitch about US imperialism but are always very quiet about China's actions in Africa. It's frustrating because like I get it. America has some pretty deep problems but to think that somehow it is worse than China is mindlessly reactionary.

[–] Gsus4@feddit.nl -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It would be funny if behind their firewall and the mandarin that I don't understand much of there were a loud 25% of chinese nationalist weirdos who are as shitty as the 25% of american MAGAs. I mean, look at https://nitter.nl/TGTM_Official looks like 4chan.

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