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    Lemmy was originally built by and for tankies, so this is completely unsurprising. The .ml TLD on the original instance isn’t a coincidence.

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        They made it for themselves but let us set up instances outside of their control due to their morals that software should be open for all. Again proving the best open source software comes from scratching a personal itch.

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            Of course it’s OUR SOFTWARE

            (cue soviet anthem)

            Which one? I choose The Internationale.

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              Off-topic, but the Starlight Glimmer art is on the point so well.

              Starlight is one of the best representations of the Tankie IMO.

              And the writers had the guts to pull it off in a show meant for a 5yo.

              That’s impressive honestly.

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                Kinda. S5 GlimGlam? Yes. S6? Nah.

                The problem was childhood-trauma-induced fake-smiles-forcing cutiemark-taking with propaganda. Remove it and what remains isn’t bad. Doesn’t seem to be much different from ideology of other places.

                As an example from first season there is Winter Wrap-up, which is basically annual subbotnik.

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                  That’s true, now that I think about it. But I still think the writers nailed the mindset in S5.

                  The final battle between Starlight and Twilight was epic for the lack of a better word.

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        It was never closed to non-tankies, but it wasn’t very welcoming. I had an account on .ml early on and most of the time I got hammered with downvotes, despite having opinions that I’d describe as being on the left edge of liberalism.

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          and most of the time I got hammered with downvotes

          Downvotes are federated.

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            Yeah but this was 3 years ago, Lemmy was basically only the .ml instance at that time.

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            Some members of LDPR(e.g. Furgal) seem to be more left than Bernie. And LDPR is former LDPSU - first right-wing party of USSR. Or some members of Union of Right Forces.

            Not corporate neofeudalist is better than corporate neofeudalist, which is improvement for US. But I can’t say he is on edge even of liberalism.

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        I can see the decentralized platform as a communist parallel. I don’t, however, understand the fanaticism for the murdery shit show dictatorship that was Russia/China though.

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          And that’s okay. Most of them stay to their own instance and don’t come over and bother us normal people. Just ignore the crazies and move on

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          Communism and conservatism are not mutually exclusive. Conservative communism involves dictators and oppression. That’s how that weird nonsense happened.

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          It’s a pretty standard take on the commie side that stuff like colonialism and American slavery are pretty much the capitalist equivalent of the communist mass deaths, so I think their position is that everyone’s a hypocrite who has to support a government committing some kind of mass murder (in the modern day, America’s mass murder in this lens is its alliance with Israel). Since Americans won’t admit their government’s atrocities (even though a lot of them do call out the US, but that’s not how they see it), why should they admit the atrocities of the USSR?

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            I mean… I see people around here presumably amarrican have zero issues discussing US atrocities. So at all Americans at least.

            Never seem a tankie admit Stalin did a genocide once

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        It’s almost like the dishonest nature is built into their every move.

        CTH has been eradicated from every platform it’s arisen on, then they built Lemmy.