• hark@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I think a better question is “where are these tankies?” because I keep seeing people talk about them on these kinds of posts and have yet to actually see a tankie. Who here is defending the killing of POWs? You’d think they exist based on some of the posts here calling out this strawman.

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      1 year ago

      They’re on Lemmygrad which lemmyworld defederated from.

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        1 year ago

        They can still post on communities here and I’ve definitely seen users from lemmygrad post in communities here, but I’ve never seen actual tankie rhetoric. What I do see are many here claiming that the tankies are rampant but nothing to actually back that up. Is pointing to lemmygrad like how some people point to Chicago or Detroit and make broad generalizations?

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          I had to switch instances to one that defederated from Hexbear because there would be hundreds of comments from them with a few tankies posting dozens of comments. It’s real. You’re just not seeing it due to the defederation.

          If you’re defederated you won’t see their comments.

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      1 year ago

      Creators of Lemmy are tankies. Lemmy.world defederated from their lemmygrad instance but lemmy.ml is still there unfortunately.