edit: this is now closed future comments won’t be counted

I keep seeing this instance is overrun with tankies so hey, lets do an informal survey like I’ve seen on hexbear

respond with YES or NO in the first line of your comment and i’ll tally everything in a couple of days, lets say I’ll try and collect everything on the sunday the 9th (10+gmt sorry)

not sure thisll work, be nice, have fun

      • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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        8 months ago

        Seems more intentionally inflamatory than anything else, considering they literally told you what they wanted before that line.

        What do you believe Tankies actually desire?

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            8 months ago

            They don’t count as a tankie then, they quite plainly told you they wanted a democratically controlled state. Or is democracy authoritarian, in your view?

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                8 months ago

                They never said they supported authoritarianism, they claim to support democracy.

                As for Stalin support, I believe it’s being intentionally inflamatory and framed against support for a democratic state precisely to challenge the reader’s assumptions about how the USSR actually functioned. I don’t take it as saying “yes, Stalin absolutely should have recriminalized homosexuality” or anything, but we can’t know beyond what they have stated.