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Russian Court Jails Woman for Wearing 'Extremist' Rainbow Earrings (www.themoscowtimes.com)

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[-] nicetriangle@kbin.social 72 points 9 months ago

Where all the tankies at? Lets hear why this is totally cool and ok.

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 43 points 9 months ago

Clearly rainbows are part of the aggressive expansionism of NATO, and Russia is just responding to it

[-] nicetriangle@kbin.social 6 points 9 months ago

Alright... yeah, fair

[-] Tujio@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Do you know what NATO nicknamed the defense plan during the cold war? The Rainbow Plan.

[-] nicetriangle@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago

Lol you're not joking. TIL

[-] Plopp@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Hey listen, ever heard of ROYGBIV? Roy! That's an Anglo name! It's pure NATO infiltration!

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago

lol if you ask for it the brigade of angry people will appear to explain how you’re a racist and a terrible person for not thinking like them

But first they will deflect by asking you to define what a tankie is.

[-] nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee 15 points 9 months ago

I think lemmy.world defederated from hexbear, lemmygrad, and .ml

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

They did. I still see their users here and there though.They did. I still see their users here and there though. Well definitely hexbear and lemmygrad. I dunno if they defederated from ml.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 9 points 9 months ago

I'm just waiting on all the Hexbear users who see no irony praising both LGBTQ+ and russia.

If they ever moved to russia, they would instantly be killed.

[-] Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 8 points 9 months ago

They would be sent to push up sunflowers in Avdiivka it takes a week for basic training and an hour or so to walk within Ukrainian artillery range. Not exactly instant, but close.

[-] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

probably something like "America is mean too"

[-] urist@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

No no no, you don't understand, Russia has (in the past) implemented my favorite economic system (please ignore all the people who died as political criminals), thus nothing they do is wrong. Rainbow earrings are just a small casualty, you gotta look big picture!

[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

As if Russia is anything else than a dictatorship...

http://www.differencebetween.net/miscellaneous/difference-between-communism-and-dictatorship/

[-] nicetriangle@kbin.social 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

As if tankies aren't constantly simping for both Russia and China on here.

A little history refresher on the origin of the term

The term "tankie" was originally used by dissident Marxist–Leninists to describe members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) who followed the party line of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Specifically, it was used to distinguish party members who spoke out in defense of the Soviet use of tanks to crush the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the 1968 Prague Spring uprising, or who more broadly adhered to pro-Soviet positions.

So specifically being a tankie and supporting fascist bullshit go hand in hand and always have.

[-] dan1101@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

The Russian and English aristocracies were related, is that maybe part of the reason there was some support in the UK?

[-] nicetriangle@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

The Russian monarchy ended about 39 years prior to the Hungarian Revolution in '56. The whole Russian Revolution thing and the murdering of the Romanovs and all that.

[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I must admit that I haven't met any who do so can't argue for or against this. I can understand that they might have done 20-30 years ago but I don't see them "simpling for" any of them really. But neither Russia or China are kommunist regimes any longer. Maybe back when the term was coined, as you described in your quote but not any longer. Before it dead the community now it is the leader

[-] nicetriangle@kbin.social 7 points 9 months ago

Well I sure have. Especially before multiple servers defederated with Lemmygrad and Hexbear.

[-] archomrade@midwest.social -3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I like to imagine these accounts learned about tankies only 6 months ago when they joined Lemmy and were encountered by lots of leftists with wildly different international worldviews than them.

As a byproduct, it's just their way of making sense of those differences they don't otherwise understand.

Nobody that they're describing would actually defend shit like this, but thats about as well as they understand those people.

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