Global health officials continue to press Moscow for full transparency
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is investigating reports of a second possible pneumonic plague case in Siberia after the death of a laboratory worker who was allegedly exposed to the illness.
Global health officials are pushing Moscow for transparency following the death of 28-year-old laboratory technician Darya Shipilova at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Shelekhov.
Shipilova was admitted to hospital late last month with acute respiratory failure and placed on a ventilator before passing away on 2 October.
Local media reported that she was exposed to a dangerous pathogen after accidentally shattering a sample tube during routine laboratory work.
Tankie…?
Tankie’s are purportedly communist but tools of Russia and China. Both countries that would send them into the gulag or re-education for talking that same shit in their countries.
People who are politically aligned with Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin, etc.
They claim there are no genocides in China, that Ukraine was invaded because Russia had to fight off Nazis, that the best democracy on earth is North Korea (which they sometimes don’t even call North Korea because they believe South Korea belongs to North Korea which would just make it one Korea), and that the USA is (and has always been) an evil empire and that NATO states are all dictatorship puppet states.
They oppose Trans Rights, Homosexuality, bodily autonomy, and most human liberties, and in fact they will outright tell you that Liberals (not any individual party but the actual definition of the word) are their enemies.
They have a strong presence on the fediverse because the Lemmy platform is developed by them and any donations to the work goes towards paying the Tankie lead developers and funding their instances: Lemmy_ml, Hexbear_net, Lemmygrad_ml
You can read the megathread documenting their extremism over here:
https://feddit.online/post/593416
On the comm: [email protected]
Though, it could probably use some updates.
In a few years time, it’ll come to light how all the Tankies are members or affiliates of the GRU (probably ex Glavset - my guess is GRU absorbed Glavset after its supposed dissolution).
I remember when tankie just meant communist.
I think it was coined when the USSR used Tanks to suppress protests in Hungaria in 1956, further solidified when China used Tanks to commit a massacre in 1989 protests most notably Tiananmen Square which was broadcast live to the entire world at the time.
So, no, it never described “real” communists. Just dictatorship advocates.
Weird how '56 Budapest never came up ever.
“Communist” was also a meaningless pejorative until an entire generation aged out, along with their tired Cold War McCarthyist bullshit.
You’re just a propagandist with absolutely no substance.
A pejorative can mean whatever you want it to mean, because it’s a meaningless word.
Judge for yourself. My words are my own, and they are defined in a dictionary.
Someone to the left of Reagan
Wow people here hate the truth
Tankies love authoritarians that pretend to have a left-wing economy. They’re not really left-wing.
Yet it’s literally only used to attack people on the left of Reagan. Person who started this thread will literally call people who want healthcare better than Romneycare in America tankies for wanting improvements more than ACA.
Hell we’re honest at the point Reagan could be running and would get called a tankie that’s how little it means these days
$5 says they call me one soon while ignoring everything else.