edit: this is now closed future comments won’t be counted

I keep seeing this instance is overrun with tankies so hey, lets do an informal survey like I’ve seen on hexbear

respond with YES or NO in the first line of your comment and i’ll tally everything in a couple of days, lets say I’ll try and collect everything on the sunday the 9th (10+gmt sorry)

not sure thisll work, be nice, have fun

  • hash0772
    73·
    5 months ago

    You say you support authoritarianism, and then you say “have a government that is actually controlled by the people”. Are you stupid?

      • hash0772English
        51·
        5 months ago

        If we ignored everything they said before because they did supposition, they literally said “Stalin rules”. What part of that doesn’t scream authoritarianism?

        • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
          32·
          5 months ago

          Seems more intentionally inflamatory than anything else, considering they literally told you what they wanted before that line.

          What do you believe Tankies actually desire?

          • hash0772English
            71·
            5 months ago

            Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes or their allies. – Wikipedia
            I use the label “tankie” on people who support dictators like Stalin and Xi Jinping and actively push for an authoritarian state. Not sure if them putting “Stalin rules, by the way. ✊” was not serious and/or intentionally inflamatory.

            • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
              32·
              5 months ago

              They don’t count as a tankie then, they quite plainly told you they wanted a democratically controlled state. Or is democracy authoritarian, in your view?

              • hash0772English
                41·
                5 months ago

                Nope. As I said, not sure if them putting “Stalin rules, by the way. ✊” was not serious and/or intentionally inflammatory.
                If they used it seriously, as in supporting Stalin and his acts, don’t they still count as a tankie?

                • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
                  43·
                  5 months ago

                  They never said they supported authoritarianism, they claim to support democracy.

                  As for Stalin support, I believe it’s being intentionally inflamatory and framed against support for a democratic state precisely to challenge the reader’s assumptions about how the USSR actually functioned. I don’t take it as saying “yes, Stalin absolutely should have recriminalized homosexuality” or anything, but we can’t know beyond what they have stated.