• fine_sandy_bottom
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    8 months ago

    Yeah the “tankies” classification has always been a bit of a mystery to me too.

    What I’ve noticed very prominently though, if you comment on a thread from hexbear or lemmy.ml and seek to discuss any form of nuance which is not absolute support for China, you just get downvoted to oblivion.

    I don’t really know who Tankies are or what they’re really about but I do know they just mash the downvote button en-masse if they identify you as not having complete support for their world view.

    My own personal dead horse that I like to beat is that you can block those instances to avoid those threads but users from there still influence votes in threads on other servers.