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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?
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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 it 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.
Off-topic Discussion — Do not discuss unrelated topics to the point of derailing the thread. Stay focused on the direct content of the post, rather than engaging in arguments that lack mutual agreement.
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Tankies can explain their views, but may be criticised or challenged for them. Any minor infraction of the rules may result in a warning and possibly a temporary ban.
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 last only 24 hours, but each subsequent infraction doubles the duration. Depending on the content, the ban time may be increased. You may request an unban at any time.
Thou shalt not criticise the Russian invasion of Ukraine on .ml
Oh hey, it's Yog. He's one of my favourite tankies. He looooves russia! That includes modern Russia. Hates gay people, trans, and Muslims, despises them, and loves Putin and his hypercapitalist oligarchy.
The strangest thing is that he's not Russian at all lol. He's just obsessed with it, like... unhealthily, dating back almost a decade. Definitely one of the weirder ones.
also in the future, I recommend using lemmy's own image storage or imgchest. Imgur doesn't embed and is generally really scummy.
Yog has a weird sense of humor. I suppose it is funny to tankies but for everyone else it just is weird.
Also the tankie community tends to idolize him for some unknown reason.
It's because he posts about 25-50 posts a day, everyday, nonstop for... oh man... ages.
Maybe tankies are just this generation's weaboos.
My image host of choice was imgbb until I found out that pics from there are automatically blocked on a lot of the fediverse because it was being used for CSAM. I'm not on lemmy though, so would using lemmy's hosting actually work?
Just link to the image directly so it's embedded, rather than linking to a website that embeds the image but also lots of other stuff
Makes sense. I'll update it when I get home