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Is lemmy.ml turn into authoritarian?
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People who support fascist governments - specifically, Russia, China, North korea.
They will also rightly say things about how America does bad things too. And that is true. It's ok to admit that.
They, on the other hand, will never admit that Russia or China is ever doing something unethical or wrong.
I've never seen a Tankie claim that Russia, China, North Korea, etc. are good governments that are always ethical. It's almost always a comparison between the US and these other authoritarian countries that they get stuck on.
Imagine calling China and the DPRK fascist. It was the free(tm) west that recently honored a former SS member and then ran defense for the fucking Waffen SS and Wehrmacht. Not them.
Also, that is not what "tankie" means.
They have a critical logic mistake they always make:
US bad = not_US good
They're effectively obsessed with America in a negative way, where they have to hate anything the US likes and like anything the US hates. They find themselves defending oppressive regimes and, instead of having a realization, dig in further. All the news about NK being bad is just propaganda, and China isn't doing anything bad to the Uighurs even though they have official government statements on it.
It's just like nationalist patriotism in a way, just the negative of it. One's obsessed with what the US likes, the other is obsessed with what the US dislikes. The US can do no wrong to one, and everything it does is bad to the other. It's an incredibly childish logic.
Great nuanced definition you provided to ignorant people who are looking to learn. You totally don't have an agenda here.
Thanks for your nuanced take, @KillAllPoorPeople
Your own comment above basically supports the definition of tankie. Specifically, this:
I would take issue with the single word 'fascist' that @figaro@lemdro.id is using, as the government doesn't need to be full-on fascist to it qualify for tankies to defend it. It only needs to be illiberal with a socialist legacy or nominally left-leaning government. So the definition is more broad than what figaro defines. But all the elements of Figaro's defintion are literally there in your own linked Wikipedia article.
I'm sure you're above board. It's literally the definition of Tankie.