Tankies: A Data-driven Understanding of Left-Wing Extremists on Social Media - GNET
Tankies: A Data-driven Understanding of Left-Wing Extremists on Social Media - GNET
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When far-right groups like QAnon and r/The_Donald were deplatformed, they migrated to alternative platforms like voat.co, Parler, and Gettr. Facing restrictions on Reddit, tankie subreddits, r/GenZedong and r/GenZhou, transitioned to Lemmygrad.ml, a Marxist/Leninist online platform. Tankies’ move not only made them dominant voices on Lemmygrad.ml but also seemed to amplify the overall toxic tone on the platform.
crackers legitimately do not realize the 'tankies'(these settler failsons' words, not mine) BUILT that one. What do I expect from settler failson 'academics' who can't do a lick of research, can't do a lick of legible statistics formatting, and can only verbalize what Uncle Sam put inside them tho. Death to the settler empire, hope I live to help tear it down.
No mention of Hexbear? We get no respect.
Not only did they fail to realize that lemmygrad was built from the ground up as a commie instance, we escaped their notice…? I don't understand how they missed us, lemmygrad and hexbear are like this: 🤞 and we're always commenting on each other's posts
Less than zero research went into this heap of word salad. It's an essay of anticommunist vibes.
Our enemies are stupid but well-resourced
We're clearly not fedposting enough. Remember - violent rhetoric only gets counted if the post has at least fifty words so you have to pad it out by ending your post with kill maim death gulag wall a few times.
Our fedposts are written in obscure emoji the scraper can't parse
only thing i can think is they looked at lemmygrad right after genzedong got banned and they've been working on this paper for that and they didnt actually keep tabs on lemmygrad?
Why would they mention the libs on hexbear
There are literally dozens of us!
We skewed the violent rhetoric on the left!
i'm wondering what exactly they think the distinction is between "marxist/leninists" and "tankies"
Tankie is when you say Zelenskyy bad
Tankie is when you disagree with the US State Department
Tankie is when you weigh evidence before deciding how you feel about world events.
Tankie is also when you discuss geopolitics on geopolitics discussion forums.
Tankie is when you don't want to give tanks to Ukraine
They’re Anglo labor aristocrat STEM nerds with no class consciousness, so nothing but
"Far-left" like most of us aren't absolutely boring mls or traditional "i actually read theory and don't base my politics purely on vibes" anarchists.
Leningrad was before their time. Kids these days.