Back when I used reddit it seemed like everyone threw around Fascist in a similar way. Lemmy seems to prefer Tankie. For a lot of people the thinking doesn't go any farther than "I disagree with you, therefore you are ________ist" or whatever.

It is what it is.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It varies from instance to instance. The main users of the word "tankie" are blahaj.zone, lemmy.world, and sh.itjust.works from what I've seen, most other instances generally aren't as bad about it IMO.

[–] NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I think I posted something critical of conscripting people to make them fight over who they pay taxes to at the end and got called a tankie and Russian bot.

It is entirely consistent with anarchism to be critical of states using coercive violence to force people to fight for their preservation.

Some of the libs on this protocol are intensely derranged, I think for many it's their first time seeing that people out there disagree with some of their sacred assumptions and it breaks their brains.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 points 13 hours ago

For sure, libs get scratched easily these days.

[–] heggs_bayer@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

The devs are tankies and there are some notorious tankie instances, like Hexbear and Lemmygrad, so they're a lot more visible here than on reddit.

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Probably because there are a lot of tankies here. 🙃

[–] What_Religion_R_They@hexbear.net 22 points 1 day ago

but I- oh wait I do have an opinion on Soviet use of tanks to crush the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the 1968 Prague Spring uprising. My bad, continue.

[–] somename@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago

I do love tanks.

[–] Idreamofcheesy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Yep, and unfortunately a lot of fascists on Reddit.

I do like how whenever a conservative Lemmy pops up, it has more trolls than users and the mods abandon it within a few weeks.