MeanwhileOnGrad
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Meanwhile On Grad
Documenting hate speech, conspiracy theories, apologia/revisionism, and general tankie behaviour across the fediverse. Memes are welcome!
What is a Tankie?
Alternatively, a detailed blog post about Tankies.
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Basic Rules:
Sh.itjust.works Instance rules apply! If you are from other instances, please be mindful of the rules. — Basically, don't be a dick.
Hate-Speech — You should be familiar with this one already; practically all instances have the same rules on hate speech.
Apologia — (Using the Modern terminology for Apologia) No Defending, Denying, Justifying, Bolstering, or Differentiating authoritarian acts or endeavours, whether be a Pro-CCP viewpoint, Stalinism, Islamic Terrorism or any variation of Tankie Ideology.
Revisionism — No downplaying or denying atrocities past and present. Calling Tankies shills, foreign/federal agents, or bots also falls under this rule. Extremists exist. They are real. Do not call them shills or fake users as it handwaves their extremism.
Tankies can explain their views but may be criticised or attacked for them. Any slight infraction on the rules above will immediately earn a warning and possibly a ban.
Off-topic Discussion — Do not discuss unrelated topics to the point of derailing the thread. Stay focused on the direct content of the post as opposed to arguing.
You'll be warned if you're violating the instance and community rules. Continuing poor behaviour after being warned will result in a ban or removal of your comments. Bans typically only last 24 hours, but each subsequent infraction will double the amount. Depending on the content, the ban time may be increased. You may request an unban at any time.
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You even said "supposedly" which makes it even worse because you're not even directly accusing them of anything, you're referring to the west's view on them.
You even implied that we're not actually morally superior, it's just propaganda.
What a dumb thing to remove. ml gonna ml I guess
They need a certain construction of the world to exist.
The idea that most of us westoid normies are actually not in love with our regimes... Tankie needs us to be bootlcikers for their shill to op to have any meaning.
The world where shit posters don't LARP US and EU as saints makes the tankie irrelevant from rhetorical perspective.
We know US and west is ruled by pedos who hate poor people. It sucks. Tankies can't accept that their beloved regime also sucks.
They have bought into the Soviet/Stalinist concept of "socialist realism" where art, literature, and basically all media, have to present life in the Soviet states using only the positives, and either glossing over, or outright denying, the bad parts of reality. While this was initially something imposed upon art, like everything in an authoritarian regime, it spread to everything. Eventually it was just how people knew to act, at least publicly, and it wasn't really seen as specifically "social realism" any longer, just life under Stalin.
If you want a good example of "socialist realism" literature I suggest checking out Cement. It is arguably the first real piece of "socialist realism", and the seminal work that everything else was built upon.