this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2025
178 points (93.6% liked)

MeanwhileOnGrad

1662 readers
277 users here now

"Oh, this is calamity! Calamity! Oh no, he's on the floor!"

Welcome to MoG!


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.

(caution of biased source)


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.


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Who cares about all the people he'll hurt along the way amiright? ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

As an American socialist who has to deal with the collapse into fascism there is no material reason for me to advocate for accelerationism

Maybe if we already had a basis for socialist revolution to save us it would make sense. But there isn't, collapse just means something worse is coming.

So socialists from other countries are cheerleading the collapse of us imperialism, which is objectively fair. But I also have to wonder how wise that is considering what I said above, the US isn't collapsing into a peaceful socialist state but instead a war hungry fascist state which does not put an end to imperialism but rather makes it more direct and brutal

Either way, tankies seem to only admire theory and countries that say they're socialist but actually aren't. If your idea of socialism does not expand the definition of democracy to the workplace all the way up, with recall of representatives where direct democracy isn't pragmatic, I don't think it's even worth considering as an alternative.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I'll say it again, but "Dessalines" is legit in competition for the most cringe person on the Internet. Not only does he say shit like this all the time, but he's draped himself in the moniker of an actual freedom fighter who overcame actual adversity to liberate actual people. Truly, the struggle from his air conditioned computer chair is comparable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

He’s one of the original Lemmy creators right?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Opressors need to look like they aren't

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago

Says they dislike trump more than Democrats do then proceeds to explain why they don't dislike trump more than Democrats do.

That checks out.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Tankies love fascists

Lmao the rise of tankies in this space is perfectly timed with China's troll farm campagn to become the new boot on the neck of the world while the US deals with their fascist problem that Russia, China's ally, inflicted on the US.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

unironically Germany KPD supporting NSDAP to their rise be like

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Don't worry, plenty of tankies on here say "Thalmann did nothing wrong" unironically.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

And tankies looove the death camps.

They want their own, but their reasons are so much better, believe them. Or else they'll put you in one.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 days ago

"We dislike him, we just Critically Support him!"

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago (34 children)

Who cares about all the people America is currently hurting and has hurt in the past amirite? smug bullshit

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

posts extra large emoji

Checkmate, shitlib

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

You need to read all 1469 pages of THEORY before we can even begin to have a conversation, libbity lib lib!

load more comments (33 replies)
[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Accelerationism has worked every single time.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I love being called an acceptable loss, truly it will all be worth it when the ~~rapture~~ revolution comes.

Everyone knows the people most able to take power in the US if shit goes off kilter are the true leftists and not the batshit right wing crank militias that keep clogging up my ham radio.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago (3 children)

yep, the smartest plan is always:

  1. promote the people you hate.
  2. once they’re dictator and shipping people to life sentences in el salvador… THEN everyone will see how right you were for hating them
[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't think they realize they risk normalizing his politics. Young voters have no reason to believe he's not just an ordinary Republican. If you're 18, he's been the head of the party for the majority of your life.

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They really want to make sure everybody is clear on that fine line between supporting and actively promoting, lmfao.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

At this point they know they've been hopelessly infested with right wing trolls and are just pretending that was always the plan.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

TBH my theory is it's 60% Chinese, North Korean, and Russian funded psyops with a troll factory and bots, and 40% hopeless dupes. It's not large or active enough to dismiss this theory, yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Kids at my (US) school was making "jokes" about "hitler did nothing wrong", then play USSR anthem, and be like "Mao was right".

I guess some of those kids never grew out of it... 🤷‍♂️

load more comments
view more: next ›