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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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[โ€“] moonsnotreal@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Just go to hexbear.net for 5 minutes and you will see that it is full of people going "CCP/Russia/North Korea is based"

[โ€“] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 65 points 1 year ago

Nobody there says modern Russia is "based"

WRT the DPRK I highly recommend educating yourself on the Korean war starting with the podcast Blowback.