that’s true of liberalism in the US as well, it’s just as far left as our Overton Window goes.
yeah communism is a dirty word here because of the red scare but the youngins are reading Marx and learning it’s pretty based, some people drink the flavor-aide of the authoritarian regimes that claim to be communist (but aren’t) and that’s how tankies came to be.
oh yeah hard agree that communist != tankie, there are a lot of anarcho-communists here. id say even Marxist doesn’t necessarily mark someone as a tankie. Marxist-Lenninist though, Maoist, or anyone that refers to nk as “The DPRK” though, those are all probably tankies.
if you think that sentiment is rare you don’t spend much time on .ml or chapo.chat(hexbear) which is good! keep that up :)
I agree that leftists need to work together, nobody hates a leftist more than another leftist but atrocity denialism is a line in the sand that I will not cross. absolutely unacceptable behavior indicative of a fetishization of fascism above all else, just colored as “Communism, comrade.”
db0 (my instance and @[email protected]’ ) is a leftist anarchist instance and I’d say the animosity towards tankies is even stronger here.
it’s not anything to do with liberals vs leftists it’s that they handwave genocide and other atrocities as “western propaganda” and worship lennin and mao and stalin and north korea and so on and so forth.
holy shit I can’t believe I’m agreeing with a .ml user about something
you could get a Unihertz Jelly Star like me
I’m probably gonna annoy people with this but I will shout it from the rooftops
Unihertz makes one.
my Chinese tiny phone has a name, it’s the Unihertz Jelly Star. they even have a subreddit, not sure what makes you think it’s a “no name” they make a lot of phones for niches in today’s world including one with a physical qwerty keyboard.
now the fact that they’re the only company filling those niches sucks, but it’s better than nobody doing it.
“arcane academic patois” is peak. you win the internet today.
all about*
oh
the one that wasn’t on Wikipedia
I see
and even the Wikipedia page was hard to find amongst all the “British slang for ‘what’” results
web of things? war on terror? wide open throttle? world of tanks? weak operator topology? wheel of time? Wojska Obrony Terytorialnej?
they’re not all strictly that way, db0 is one of the few that is (you have to be a leftist to join, it was a part of the application)
.world is known as primarily liberal but I think that’s just due to the fact that it’s the largest and the majority of users are left in the American sense (center right)
.ml and hexbear are probably explicitly “communist”, haven’t given them enough attention to be certain but all of their users are tankies
lemmy.blahaj.zone is primarily (strictly?) trans, leans left in the actual sense but that’s not the point of the instance
lemm.ee, sh.itjust.works, programming.dev don’t seem to have official political leanings but I might be wrong about that. haven’t looked into it.
id say the biggest concern about the instance you pick is that [email protected] is blocked to all .world users. that’s the main reason I ended up making this account and abandoning the .world account I had been using since apipocalypse