I keep hearing the term in political discourse, and rather than googling it, I’m asking the people who know better than Google.

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      I had no idea this would ignite a shitstorm. I have so many responses now and less idea of what a tankie is now than when I asked.

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        Ask with an account federated with Hexbear and Lemmygrad, and you’ll get more communist perspectives.

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          I actively ban hexbear’s entire instance. I relish the fact that I simply can’t see all the hexbear responses to this thread. I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone on hexbear (pre banning) that was even remotely open to considering other viewpoints. It just became so toxic, so quick, whenever their users get involved.

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            There are no hexbear responses because .world is defederated from Hexbear. Hex has little tolerance for liberalism in my experience, because that’s the default on the english-speaking internet.

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              I’m confused. Maybe I don’t understand federation as well as I thought.

              ~~This post originates on .ml, right?

              So what does .world’s federation status with hexbear have to do with my ability to see hexbear posts on .ml?~~

              Edit: Ah, no, the post does in fact originate on .world so .world’s federation status with hexbear is determinant for the lack of hexbear posts, not my individual blocking of the instance.

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                Yep, the comm is .ml but the poster is .world, ao it’s like it’s invisible to anyone that can’t see both .ml and .world.

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            I relish the fact that I simply can’t see all the hexbear responses

            I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone on hexbear (pre banning) that was even remotely open to considering other viewpoints.

            Uhuh

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            So, basically, this person is happy to blind themselves to other viewpoints to avoid viewpoints they disagree with/people they claim are blind to other viewpoints.

            … what an enlightened individual!

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              Ah right - oh well, however it’s achieved I don’t have see every post in my feed turn into a discussion with two sharply defined poles: Nazis and communism.

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        I am in the same boat. Been on here for about 2 years and I hear the words…but i dunno what it means? Thought it was just me.

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          I’m so happy I’m not as stupid as I thought because I have no idea either and now I still don’t know

          • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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            It’s a loaded term by design. It started as a pejorative and morphed into a strawman pejorative, you can see many people throughout this thread describing people that don’t exist.

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        You know that magnifying glass looking icon? You can search terms across instances.

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        Lol, my comment got removed, I guess you now know which vommunity you signed up on and how they function.

        Cheers