Libertarian alternatives like council communism, De Leonism, syndicalism, Libertarian Marxism and left communism are safer bets
this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2026
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Tankies are going on an insane propaganda blitz these last few years. They are actively undermining good leaders to accelerate towards societal collapse. I was reading a deranged thread on here a few days and these people think exactly the same as MAGA.
Honestly, the taint is so much that it makes one wonder if another federated alternative that was just largely a name change would be more popular. Even with piefed, go into the Lemmy ecosystem and you can't escape the biases of the baseline.
Pretty sure I see more posts complaining about "tankies" than I do tankies. More and more as redditors migrate.
Don't worry, they always find these threads eventually and brigade them with downvotes.
Silly me. I thought you were a moron or a tankie. Turns out, you're just a troll.
I remember hearing this even back in 2023, when it was impossible to avoid tankies playing fucking Holodomor denial and Uyghur Genocide denial. That was back when Hexbear was still more 'active' outside of their circlejerk. So you'll have to forgive me for seeing tankie shite almost every day, and that without even stepping foot into ANY .ml comm, and thinking that maybe complaining about people bootlicking for genocide and capitalist oligarchy because it has a thin coat of red paint is warranted.
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I wish I'd see more political Eastern European posts, TBH. Not just Ukraine, but everywhere.
I am but an armchair observer, but my impression is you folks know precisely what happens under Soviet/Russian authority. You lived it. It... seems mixed. I am inclined to listen to whatever the intricacies are more than opinions from some tankie in Idaho.
mixed my ass
That was a euphamism, heh.
Eh, could be worse. You could join Lemmy Europe hoping that it won't be 90% news from USA.
Get outta my swamp!
tankies suck, but this is a non issue
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