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If you don't count all those people dropping dead, there are almost no cases at all.
Funny story, there is this Tankie going around pretending to be a concerned US Citizen @localareaman@lemmy.world who was just asking me a little bit ago if there was anybody affected outside of the lab, in some depraved defence of Vladimir Putin.
Fuckin Tankies, man.
You made me read the entire article only to find it's hearsay supposeness maybe could-be probably I dunno anyways.....
Tankie…?
People who are politically aligned with Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin, etc.
They claim there are no genocides in China, that Ukraine was invaded because Russia had to fight off Nazis, that the best democracy on earth is North Korea (which they sometimes don't even call North Korea because they believe South Korea belongs to North Korea which would just make it one Korea), and that the USA is (and has always been) an evil empire and that NATO states are all dictatorship puppet states.
They oppose Trans Rights, Homosexuality, bodily autonomy, and most human liberties, and in fact they will outright tell you that Liberals (not any individual party but the actual definition of the word) are their enemies.
They have a strong presence on the fediverse because the Lemmy platform is developed by them and any donations to the work goes towards paying the Tankie lead developers and funding their instances: Lemmy_ml, Hexbear_net, Lemmygrad_ml
You can read the megathread documenting their extremism over here:
https://feddit.online/post/593416
On the comm: !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works
Though, it could probably use some updates.
In a few years time, it’ll come to light how all the Tankies are members or affiliates of the GRU (probably ex Glavset - my guess is GRU absorbed Glavset after its supposed dissolution).
I remember when tankie just meant communist.
I think it was coined when the USSR used Tanks to suppress protests in Hungaria in 1956, further solidified when China used Tanks to commit a massacre in 1989 protests most notably Tiananmen Square which was broadcast live to the entire world at the time.
So, no, it never described "real" communists. Just dictatorship advocates.
A pejorative can mean whatever you want it to mean, because it's a meaningless word.
Judge for yourself. My words are my own, and they are defined in a dictionary.
Someone to the left of Reagan
Wow people here hate the truth
Fuck Communists. Because they're hot 😍.
https://www.dw.com/en/russia-lab-worker-death-fact-check/a-79560752
tankies do not deserve the label communist