• clumsy_cat@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    This post doesn’t seem to be here by coincidence.

    As the person who posted the original post: i don’t like/trust tankies and them being tankies is one of the reason i deleted my lemmy.ml account.

    My impression is that Linus also doesn’t speak in his post about tankies, but instead i think the word “communist” is equal to some general leftist.

    But i kind of agree, that this post can be seen as “in support of tankies”. hmm.

    my impression is, furthermoore: because the more tankie politics is on lemmygrad.ml, an instance which is easily blocked, it is not that bad / could be worse. I kind of hope instances like beehaw.org have the most users someday, because they are really awesome i think

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      1 year ago

      First, not every communist is a tankie, second, yes, Linus is not talking about being a literal communist, but about the “everyone to the left of Trump is a communist” meaning of the word.

      Third, what I was saying is that this post about the political views of the creator of a huge FOSS project is very well timed after yesterday’s discussion about Lemmy’s creator.

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      1 year ago

      I just want lemmygrad defederated. I geniuinely thought the whole instance is satire but holy hell