this post was submitted on 27 Aug 2026
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Your community for poking fun at the bullshit tankies say and spread.

Rules:

  1. No tankie talking points. That includes the classics (denial of genocide of Uyghurs, denial of ML dictator's crimes, campism, calling everyone you disagree with a liberal or CIA etc.) and general shit opinions (general genocide denial, antisemitism, racism, queerphobia, etc.)

  2. MLs are not communists. They never actually worked towards it and there are some who don't even define it as a stateless, classless, egalitarian society. So MLs shouldn't be called communists in the first place. Calling hating MLs anticommunism will probably expose you as either a tankie or a right winger, both of which aren't welcome here.

  3. Right-wingers, fash, nazis, nazbols etc. are not welcome! Right wing talking points (such as anti-woke, anti-queer, speaking favorably of far right figures, being anti-antifa etc.) will get you banned pretty quickly.

  4. Please respect people's pronouns. Deliberately misgendering people repeatedly is going to lead you to have issues with the mods. Defending misgendering will get you banned.

  5. No brigading. People caught brigading in this comm will be banned. Also we oppose brigading in other comms. Keep the discussions and stuff within the comm.

  6. On near-east topics: Nakba is an established fact. The (ongoing) Palestinian genocide is a fact. Israel commits crimes against Palestinians. No anti-Arab (such as Palestinians and Druze) sentiments allowed (it falls under racism anyways). In regards to Israel, do not dehumanize civilians. Saying shit like "there are no civilians in Israel/Palestine" will get you permabanned.

  7. Be kind to one another. Try to deescalate any fights.

Content guidance:

Anti-ML memes, screenshots and humor are allowed.

For general discussion threads please ask.

If there is demand, we can do a open discussion thread once a month. But it will get locked if in escalates into a dumpster fire.

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If you don't like the content, block the comm. Demonstrably downvoting every post will get you banned. And if you have a genuine complaint about content other than it being against MLs, then write a comment. I am not playin'.

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[–] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Banning people for downvoting seems a bit overkill, no? At least let them out themselves as tankies for everyone's amusement.

[–] Rose@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hexbear in particular is known for brigading via their Slop threads. They can overpower all positive votes even in a trending post by being organized and using multiple accounts per person, unlike the drive-by viewers there. It's vote manipulation.

[–] SomeOneWithA_PC@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

by being organized

„Proletarier aller Länder vereinigt euch!“, or something like that? xD

[–] TanteRegenbogen@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago

Nah. The people in question are the ones that downvote but never comment. Fuck them. If they can't remove tankieslop from their feed and constantly downvote stuff here or deliberately do it, it is their own fault. It is not like I am doing this to occasional downvotes. But I caught one user downvote all posts and many comments and they never wrote a single comment in the comm.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Tankies are just a flavor of troll 🤷

[–] LinkeSocke@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Considering your usename, let's be a little more specific:

  • Not every lefty is a tankie
  • Not even every ML is a tankie

Somebody who believes Russia is and the SU was good and spreads their narratives like they were handed down from the heavens, is a tankie.

And while I guess some of them are not trolls, just stupid and misguided - every single one of them I encountered online was trolling. Meaning, deliberately attracting negative attention, aggressively ridiculing attempts at proper discourse, etc. And that's in addition to their stupid and misguided beliefs.

[–] LinkeSocke@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago

I... I just tried to go along with the joke. You said, just a flavor. ... So do they taste good. Man. That didn't work at all I guess 😅

I know what Tankies are.