• CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml
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    8 months ago

    [Tankies'] positioning, further to the left than subreddits like r/communism, r/socialism, and r/Anarchism

    Bruh r/communism is unapologetically gonzaloist, they're even further 'left' than we are lol

    However, when it comes to everyday societal challenges that are usually points of interest for the left wing—like policing, climate change, healthcare, housing, and workers’ rights—tankies seem less engaged.

    Because we've settled these questions already. Police is a tool of the state, climate change is never going to be fixed under capitalism, healthcare should cover everything and be free for everyone, same for housing, workers' rights should be the basis of the socialist state. Also we don't want to dox ourselves by talking about local issues.

    They often opt to use the nomenclature ‘Communist Party of China (CPC)’—Beijing’s preferred language—over the more colloquial ‘CCP’.

    I didn't want to get into the language of the article, rather focusing on its shoddy research and understanding of communism, but... colloquial according to whom? The official term is "Beijing's preferred language" and the term you and your pals who don't speak a word of Chinese is better somehow?

    Tankies have a tendency towards Stalinism. In our topic analysis, we find that tankies give more prevalence to topics related to Stalin compared to other far-left communities we analyse

    Stalin died over half a century ago and he's still making liberals quake in their boots at the mere mention of his name 🫡

    For instance, the way tankies discuss Khrushchev’s attempts to reduce Stalin’s influence, or “de-Stalinisation,” suggests a certain fondness for Stalin’s era.

    You could literally have figured this out by just talking to a 'tankie'. You did not need gas-guzzling APIs and scripts to learn that.

    An example comment from tankies on Zelensky: “Putin and our comrades in Ukraine are going to kill all the US financed nazi scum and hopefully hang Zelensky while they’re at it. Let’s go Brandon!”

    Top tier shitpost and this dweeb doesn't even get it lmao, it is completely lost on him.

    Our toxicity analysis also indicates that tankies are more likely than other far-left groups to post antisemitic content targeting Jews.

    Absolutely no reference or figure forwarded to illustrate that very bold statement.

    Tech companies must recognise and respond to the adeptness of groups like tankies in evading moderation efforts. Developing advanced content moderation tools that can detect and mitigate the spread of extremist rhetoric, irrespective of its political orientation, should be a priority. Collaborative endeavours between researchers and tech platforms can lead to the development of more robust and unbiased moderation systems. In this digital age, where platforms remarkably influence political discourse, it is imperative to understand and address all forms of online extremism to ensure a safer digital environment for all.

    This is the most chatGPT conclusion of them all. You also haven't proven or even set out to demonstrate that 'tankies' are "adept at evading moderation" whatsoever, and are essentially saying you don't believe in free speech, which is decidedly not very liberal.

    That's right bucko, you're a tankie too.

    • very_poggers_gay [they/them]
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      8 months ago

      An example comment from tankies on Zelensky: “Putin and our comrades in Ukraine are going to kill all the US financed nazi scum and hopefully hang Zelensky while they’re at it. Let’s go Brandon!”

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    • albigu@lemmygrad.ml
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      8 months ago

      [Tankies'] positioning, further to the left than subreddits like r/communism, r/socialism, and r/Anarchism

      Bruh r/communism is unapologetically gonzaloist, they're even further 'left' than we are lol

      The figure doesn't even imply that, that sort of graph has no concept of "intensity" for positioning. The colours being different just means that (assuming it was well done) the red communities are more similar among themselves than the orange communities.

      So their "further left" is just either a massive ass-pull or they actually think that their clustering model has an implicit politicalcompass system in the position of plotted clusters.

      • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml
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        8 months ago

        That's the problem with these machine-learning-based studies, r/communism gets a lot of liberals wandering in because of course it's gonna be their first step when looking up communism on reddit. Since they don't discriminate the dataset in any way, they have all this junk data. Hence r/communism might not appear to be as left as some other subreddits.