Even if you disagree with them, Trotskyists are not tankies, simple Marxists aren't tankies, leftists curious and exploring different theories aren't tankies, and ffs anarchists like myself are not tankies.
I feel like "tankie" indicated a very specific worldview at one time, but it's been used lately a lot to mean things like "doesn't agree with nations supporting oppression and inequity up to and including genocide" -- which is drastically at odds with how I've seen the term used in the past, no?
You have the ability to block an instance yourself, and you'll personally not see comments or content made by people from that instance. It's a sad thing to do, I wouldn't do it myself, but you don't have to remove that entire instance for everyone simply because you keep running into shit you don't like yourself.
I could not agree more. People who abuse the good-will and hospitality of another instance should be banned/