Lemmy

it's a Marxist/anarchist space, and tankie is not a meaningful term, it's an epithet for punching left. if you're expressing contrition maybe stop acting like every other social democrat shitter running around here.

As Weng Weiguang says, The Evaluation of Stalin is Essentially an Ideological Struggle. Marxist-Leninists don't idolize Stalin. At the same time, Stalin synthesized Marxism-Leninism, and oversaw the world's first socialist state during its most turbulent period. The CPC rates him as 70% good, 30% bad, and this rating is roughly orbited by most communist orgs. Those who denounce Stalin entirely, also denounce the USSR, and existing socialism.

Stalin has been dead for over 70 years, and “tankie” is nothing but a terminally-online pejorative for anyone left of Sanders. Maybe spend less time worrying about people’s takes on Stalin. He was neither Jesus nor was he Lucifer, despite what a century of anticommunist propaganda has said about him.

I don't really concern myself with who runs things. I just treat the federation like the real world. If I like places I frequent them, if I don't dislike places they will be in my rotation, if I don't like them then I don't hang at them.

I'd heard about them before, but prefer to reserve judgement until I see things with my own eyes, or at least directly see how they're treating others.

Eventually, at my community, I posted a comic examining some of the various self-strife between Israeli folk, and from out of nowhere 3-4 Hexbear users who'd never taken part before materialised and began ranting about Israel and calling me and the community some pretty awful things. After that, I started paying a little more attention to their user comments across the Fediverse. Just... yikes.