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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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[–] vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

It is pretty chauvinist to say you know better than basically all non-white socialists on how to do socialism without any successful socialist projects under your movement's belt, if you are part of a movement.

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