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Dunking on Tankies from a leftist perspective.

A tankie is someone who defends/supports authoritarian or even totalitarian regimes who call themselves "socialist". The term originated from people supporting the 1956 invasion of Hungary by the Soviet Union. Nowadays they are just terminally online, denying genocides, and falling for totalitarian propaganda and calling such regimes "true democracies". remember to censor usernames when necessary.

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Would you find it a problem if the developers of lemmy were other extremists? Such as Nazis?

Not that I'm saying they're Nazis, goodness no, just that extremism and hatred should be disavowed whenever it appears.