I haven’t checked Lemmy for a long time but I wanna get off Reddit again, yet I still need to know how many users are on here. Which lemmy instances are suitable to me, the most popular, and which ones to avoid? For context, im queer, anarchist with DemSoc leaning, and environmentalist. Is there a comprehensive list of all the instances and their main functions? Is the instance I’m on still workable? Any feedback would help, thx. <3

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[–] dickalan@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I appreciate you for taking the time to explain this to me, mostly sounds like a term people used to other other people

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Pretty much it’s a thought-terminating othering. To label someone a tankie is to give license for prejudicially dismissing them.

[–] dickalan@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I agree 100%, also it reminded me of This Clanker

[–] davel@lemmy.ml -1 points 5 months ago

😂

I guess that’s what inspired this The Deprogram episode title: 📺 Anti Klankkker Action

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It’s more of a term to point out that someone is the left equivalent of a Neo Nazi.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

There is no left equivalent, and horseshoe theory is horseshit.

‘Horseshoe theory’ is nonsense – the far right and far left have little in common
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory#Academic_studies_and_criticism
Funny thing about Hannah Arendt’s construction of “totalitarianism”: She came from a bourgeois family and so unsurprisingly was anti-communist. She was also quite racist, and her work was funded & promoted by the CIA.
Imperialist Propaganda and the Ideology of the Western Left Intelligentsia: From Anticommunism and Identity Politics to Democratic Illusions and Fascism

One of the centerpieces of the cultural cold war was the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), which was revealed in 1966 to be a CIA front. Hugh Wilford, who has researched the topic extensively, described the CCF as nothing short of one of the largest patrons of art and culture in the history of the world. Established in 1950, it promoted on the international scene the work of collaborationist academics such as Raymond Aron and Hannah Arendt over and against their Marxian rivals, including the likes of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

For the non-tankies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_fascism

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

Yes, please do read it:

The comparison of Nazism and Stalinism is controversial in academia.

See also: Horseshoe theory

[+] Jax@sh.itjust.works -8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Here's a thread with geneva_convenience suggesting that "blood and soil" really isn't that bad.

Remember, if you argue this hard for .ml — you don't deserve rights.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Don’t deserve rights? Do you even hear yourself?

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works -3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

So you've chosen to attack this and say nothing about blood and soil.

Ok buddy, I'm sure your moral high ground really matters here. Want to pull in some more people to help you flail around miserably?

Edit: would ya look at, the instant upvotes/downvotes from the cultist gallery says everything I need to hear.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Why didn’t I address some random, unrelated post? For one, geneva isn’t a Marxist-Leninist, he’s not a “tankie.” And for two, you’re the one who introduced “blood and soil” into that conversation, not him. He didn’t claim that “blood and soil” is “not that bad”; that’s your interpretation of what he said.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works -3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Great so they should stop doing that and get off Palestinian land.

This is the direct quote, you can spin things to your cultists but not me.

I already know how this is going to play out, go ahead little cultist. Prove me right.

Edit: by the way, you've got a user who has said death to America probably 20 times in this post. Careful now.