MeanwhileOnGrad
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Meanwhile On Grad
Documenting hate speech, conspiracy theories, apologia/revisionism, and general tankie behaviour across the fediverse. Memes are welcome!
What is a Tankie?
Alternatively, a detailed blog post about Tankies.
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Basic Rules:
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Hate-Speech — You should be familiar with this one already; practically all instances have the same rules on hate speech.
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Wait... maybe I'm out of the loop because I've checked out from this stuff when I left reddit a few years ago, but isn't this pretty core to what tankies are? I thought the whole point was it's a defense and endorsement of USSR-style politically repressive socialism? It's hard to avoid discussing Stalin in that case, no?
This just seems a bit like neo-Nazis not wanting to talk about Hitler because the PR is bad (I don't mean this either that tankies are as bad as neo-Nazis or to be flippant). But he's pretty core to the ideology.
I can definitely appreciate taking the piss out of western propagandistic depictions of the USSR during the Cold War and am very often playing the role myself of pointing out that the USSR accomplished a lot in a very short time, near the end was beginning to reform it's political repression problems, and that living in the USSR in 1986 was really nothing like in 1930's or something. But that's to show that there are 3 dimensions to a 2 dimensional representation... not talking about Stalin and the problems with repressions seems like just doing the same in reverse and presenting the other side of the same 2d coin.