Hey folks!
I’m writing this because funding for the Lemmy project has dropped to critical levels, which could seriously impact its future development.
Thanks to the generous support of our lemm.ee community, our server infrastructure costs are covered, and we even have a few months of runway. I’m deeply grateful to everyone who has contributed - lemm.ee wouldn’t exist without your help.
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They’re communists 😱
Tankies, specifically
Authoritarian commies who have very different-from-reality opinions and word definitions
Oh, and transphobia
It’s so funny to me when I express an even remotely moderate opinion and get called a right-winger. Lol, is lemmy really where right-wingers would go for online discourse?
tankie is just the new scary sounding word for communist derived from when the soviet union helped defeat a CIA backed color-revolution in Hungary
“Tankies” don’t really enjoy communists. It’s not honest dialogue to mix them up with each other
lol
how does this fascism keep getting into my anticommunism?
Ad hominem and appeal to authority at the same time. Impressive.
Yes silly me for not putting up a proper counter-argument to “lol”.
Here’s something else for you to argue with:
I’m well aware of the depth of your arguments, but thanks for putting it so succinctly.
Why would the CIA back a revolution demanding minimum wage and the right to unionise?
To destabilise the soviet union of course. They can still take away those rights later, like they did after the collapse of the soviet union.
https://hexbear.net/post/4475702
the original source from the comments:
https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2025/0318/104-10110-10525.pdf
If the state had agreed to the students’ demands for minimum wage and the right to strike, there wouldn’t have been any instability. Suppressing revolutions with tanks doesn’t make society more stable. Sounds like the USSR sucked just as bad as the USA if they fell for that easy bait.
FTFY
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How like a tankie to decide someone else’s argument for them since you’d rather argue against a strawman than actually be concerned about the facts.
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I wasn’t saying the person you mentioned doesn’t exist or got banned. I’m saying you’re putting words into my mouth I never said, pretty blatantly. Though I feel you focusing on this other dude who got banned that isn’t even a part of this conversation and Gaza which I never mentioned is just more deflection on your part.
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Wow you must have a huge lack of reading comprehension or an overactive imagination. I don’t see anything about Palestine in my post.
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