this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2026
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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Here me out. Many of the 'tankies' on lemmy.ml, hexbear, and lemmygrad are not actually tankies. People use that insult far too much.
It's often giving them too much credit.
Here's an excerpt from a relevant article:
Many of the 'leftists' you encounter online fall for the bullshit, as long as it's anti-western. The esthetic is enough for them because they are invariably young, dumb, naive, immature and/or privileged. For them debating politics is a hobby, not a cry for help or a fight for survival. It's fashionable and often a phase. They are nothing more than cosplay communists, who pop a Lenin avatar in their profile, but have no grasp of history or Marxism-Leninism. They're justifiably critical of western capitalism, they watched a streamer, they watched some tiktoks, and have come to the conclusion that any regime that is anti-western is necessarily better. This results in them knowingly and unknowingly parrotting the propaganda of anti-communists, theocrats and outright fascists.
They aren't like the tankies who supported the Soviets for ideological reasons, who were often willing to overlook or in denial about what happened in Hungary or Tiananmen. My grandparents were like that, and I could understand why they had a hard time accepting that the USSR and China were less than perfect, they had pinned all their hopes on them, and were living in a pre-internet age where western media bias went largely uncontested, and western imperial crimes went unpunished.
Cosplay communists may lie (to themselves and others) that they are critical of authoritarian capitalist states that wrap themselves in the hammer and sickle, but still mindlessly regurgitate the narratives of these billionaire oligarch run states like the useful idiots they are. If you're genuinely left-wing, it can be comforting to think of these people as allies or make excuses for them, but it's important to realize that they are not. They aren't actual allies, just contrarian parrots.
To be clear, this comment does not apply to actual communists. Thank you for attending my lecture. There will be no time for questions.
You're wrong on that. Many MLs are plenty reasonable and mature in general. They're just misguided. We're better than these paternalistic insults.
Also, you're constantly skirting uncomfortably close to ableist insults for this instance. You have to stop painting people you disagree as unintelligent. There's plenty of other ways to make your point.
Condescending or patronizing. Paternalistic implies benevolent intent, not contempt.
:)