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Documenting hate speech, conspiracy theories, apologia/revisionism, and general tankie behaviour across the fediverse. Memes are welcome!
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Worth knowing that the defederation was because Tankies called for more Charlie Hebdo attacks on France, and later double-downed
I don't understand why extremists always try this tactic. No one believes it. Not even them. Someone should really research this. I think it's because they want to appear normie since they have to now appear better.
I also personally disavow any violence towards anyone. No one wins with violence.
Do they realise china arrest people for holding a white paper and russia throw people off the window for disagreeing with putin?
The biggest gripe I have with them is that they don't seem to understand that their favourite authoritarian regime would kill them for using those pronouns. Like actually execute them.
Both Russia and China are known to hate and kill LGBTQ+ people.
They know. They just ignore it
I don't think they believe in those right anyway, "leftist" is what they call themselves but they are nowhere "left" in the spectrum. At best they align to the left in ideology but practically they're mostly right-leaning. Lefties won't just criticise the bad thing and then stop short on authoritarian country. It's easier to hijack the conversation by claiming something they're not.
Yeah, of course. They love it
No they stick there heads in the sand and pretend it doesn't exist.
Its not fact based. It is literally them ignoring reality. That's why they get mad when you troll them with silly things like facts.
They can't imagine anything for themselves but the privilege of being the survivor watching their enemies plummet from windows, never imagining that they are being used and will be the second one thrown out.