People get mad at “tankies” (communists who aren’t blanketly anti-authoritarian and support AES nations who have Proletarian authoritarianism/DOTP(to a degree at least)) for one of two things, either imagined points they may have based upon either hyperbole, edge cases, or assumptions. Or the other reason is they challenge the world view of “anti-authoritarian” community members who then decry they should be removed… via authoritarianism.

Showing it’s ok when the “leftists/anarchists/liberals” do the authoritarianism for when their feelings are hurt but magically are supposedly anti-authoritarianism elsewhere. It’s all aesthetics and working off of your propagandized experiences and assumptions. You can personally block people/communities you dislike if your worldview is that fragile, or (as you’re advocating for) engage in what you decry and remove every opinion that challenges yours. This isn’t like yelling wolf for seeing nazis, nobody is actively calling for genocide or erasure around here and if they are advocating it then yes that can be problematic. It’s made all the worse by taking lies like (all tankies support putin unconditionally) and running with it till the birds come home to roost.

Interestingly the “Tankies” all haven’t defederated from LGBT or other diverse communities(despite being claimed to be just like the nazis) nor have they actively advocated to silence entire communities based upon differing worldviews. It’s good we’re growing, we can expand the scope of what we see or we can be in denial of anything that changes their worldview like a bunch of children who are being told Santa isn’t real! C’mon people, get real this is FOSS and we can do better than to do a bunch of infighting, this isn’t reddit anymore, we’re supposed to be a community(federation) here.