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The term Tankie has a clear definition that Cowbee likes to ignore:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those > who support or defend acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the > occurrence of the events thereof.
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'tankie' is the type of term one uses, when their actually-existing socialist opponent defends itself with militant measures to survive against foreign-backed violence and sabotage, but they can't technically call them 'Stalinist'.
anyways, good luck to those boycotting - the troika of hexbear.net, lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml lived, is living and will live, without such wrecker scum.
We will. The problem is that what they want is to wall us off from the rest of the fediverse so that as it inevitably grows (as corporate social media continues to enshittify), no one will see what anti-imperilaists and communists have to say. They want to keep the politics a well-manicured liberal-only garden - with exceptions made for reactionaries and fascists of course. They want to make sure any reddit alternative still maintains the same narratives that reddit maintains, curbing the spread of radical thought. This is the raison d'être of piefed, of lib.world, and of all the calls to boycott the "tankie" instances.
Obviously they'd love to totally kill off the principled Marxist instances entirely, but since that's not possible, they want to cut us off, the purpose is to keep us sequestered and hidden so they can demonize us without anyone seeing how much sense we make and how explanatory Marxism-Leninism is with regards to geopolitics and the absurdity of the state of the world.
It's literally why so much hate is poured on Cowbee in particular because he is so good at just laying out the facts in a straightforward and totally non-combative way that any lurkers who read his comments won't be able to deny he's correct. And that is what they can't have, what is truly intolerable to them: more and more people recognizing we aren't this extremist fringe, but are simply people willing to do the radical thing of applying scientific methodology to social, political, and economic realities rather than accept whichever propaganda is most convenient.
If they want to wall us off then all this pissing and crying about us is a remarkable bit of self sabotage. The people we’re most likely to reach are those disaffected with useless liberalism and curious enough to look for alternatives.
These shitheels raising up Cowbee as a prominent alternative voice can only be good for us. Cry bullying works on Reddit because the mods and admins there are so thoroughly captured by corpo operatives and feds, and can effectively remove dissident speech from the platform.
The fediverse just doesn’t work like that. They can somewhat impede access by removing us from the timeline, but the content still exists and is available to anyone curious, even without an account.
In summary, cry more fascist pricks, your tears only make us stronger
Literally how I found about r/chapotraphouse.
Yeah I eventually checked out the CTH sub because redditors kept accusing me of being from there.
We can just make accounts on their silly web zones. This isnt reddit, old fashioned raids are on the menu.
I feel that hexbear has really backed down on raids as a diplomatic gesture.
That can change and has been probably the right call for now, if the walls are built, I don't think it's against the rules to go through the gate in disguise.