I've seen countless posts about the tankie problem here in the lemmyverse (lemmy.world)

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I'm not sure I've seen any evidence of it existing though, is it just a Boogeyman, or so something that happened a while back? An in joke of some sort?

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[-] Squids@sopuli.xyz 15 points 10 months ago

Oh yeah they do that - I once brought up the cultural aspect of genocide in a discussion about Russification and was instantly told that I only cared about that definition of genocide so that I could accuse China of genociding Uygurs and any attempt to point out that no that has been the definition of genocide for a long time (see - the UN's various declarations) was met with them demanding me I show them the proof that China was really doing that.

...in an argument about the Baltics in the cold war.

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