"Research" by US university says lemmygrad is the 4th most popular "tankie" website - eviltoast

The whole article is quite funny, especially the lists of most used tankie words, or the branding of foreignpolicy as a left-wing news source.

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    1 year ago

    For $500k USD, you can get the low quality ArXiv article; for free, you can have this high quality teardown of said article.

    Thank you for the amount of effort this took to put together. I’ve done only a quick skim but I’m going to give it a full read. Some stuff that definitely stood out to me is: the horseshoe theory nonsense; and the “rude words mean evil person” nonsense. Use of charged words or negative sentiment don’t make you bad or wrong; arguably, negative sentiment is the only rational response to a lot of the topics at hand.