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The DM was a DM asking us to change our no tankies policy and remove the fuck tankies banner as it was apparently upsetting hexbear users. Apparently tankies view the word tankie as a form of slur. The admin wants us to ally as a form of "left solidarity"

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[–] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] ezri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] EremesZorn@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

For real. There's communists, and there's tankies.
If you support China or Russia, you're the problem, and you need to wash the taste of boot leather out of your mouth.

[–] moss@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago

Communists are cool