"This is NOT a tankie coup". Mods of r/tankiejerk announce they will start purging liberals and social democrats. Users are divided between those hailing the new regime and those cursing this sudden but inevitable betrayal.
r/tankiejerk is the premier left-wing space to criticize tankies. Tankies are leftists who support authoritarianism, imperialism and reactionary politics as long as the state doing it have vague ties with historical marxism, or oppose the Western world in general. On reddit, they mostly manifest through infiltrating the mod teams of "normal" leftists subs before announcing that anyone who doesn't love Stalin is actually a liberal, and need to get out. This has led to a lot of resentment, and to the creation of tankiejerk, commenting (without links) on the declarations and actions of various tankies.
Today, the mods have posted this : https://www.reddit.com/r/tankiejerk/comments/1iwb6jc/important_rule_changes_regarding_liberals_and/?sort=new , Annoucing they are taking a more active stance against moderates, notably on the Israel/Palestine conflict, in order to bring the sub back to its glorious roots. Most people acclaim the decision, but many have noted that the new rules basically allow the mods to ban basically anyone on any pretext.
This is, impressively, not the first time this has happened :
https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/wnnhy2/tankiejerk_a_popular_subreddit_dedicated_to/