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Tankies: A Data-driven Understanding of Left-Wing Extremists on Reddit
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this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2024
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I found two things interesting about this:
The article goes at length to downplay the militarism. Tankies are militant and are quite focused on military action. I feel like the 'state actions' it calls out misses that it is primarily military involved shit. So yeah, no more than I expect those users cranking it to drone kill footage to weigh in critically on abortion care.
Which was the other odd takeway from the article: categorizing feminism as a distinct political ideology. I know it wasn't the focus of the article but to me, but I found that to be a strange distinction. Classifying it in the same way as tankies is a subtle framing for the conclusions they then draw. I know it is based on available subreddits, but I recognize that framing anywhere as its inclusion is not required or even referenced in their article.
So missing the military fandom (military isnt even used once) and then also inserting and making feminism its own ideology has left me wondering.