Its a CCP propaganda machine.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if this instance was already in your block list when you sign up for any other instance? Then you’d have to actively unblock it in order to see posts from it.
I’m a tolerant person, except when it comes to tolerating intolerance. Ironically, I think by tolerating intolerance we’ve gotten ourselves into a bit of a pickle here on lemmy and more broadly.
Who exactly do you think communists are intolerant of, who themselves aren’t intolerant and therefore shouldn’t be tolerated? Billionaires and their bootlickers? Racists?
Depends which. The despot or the worker.
Also
The paradox of tolerance is a well known problem with solution being to punch fascists.
And with authoritarian communists/socialists?
Who do you think does the punching while liberals whine about the free speech of nazis?
Hint: Even anarchists who engage in antifascism are definitionally being authoritarian.
It depends if their dear leader orders them to get involved or not doesn’t it.
You’ve literally never had a real conversation with a communist have you?
I like to troll them. Its a guilty pleasure 😔
I’ll downvote that too.
It seems to #bothsides an issue via a lot of hyperbole, and risks straw-manning one side just for a favourable comparison.
I don’t colour myself a tankie, but I do live in a more socialist country than America - low bar, such as it is. I sense I’m not in a position to properly understand how your argument can make sense, but the kneejerk comparison I feel needs some explanation before just throwing that smelly fish out there.
It’s not cut-and-dried, but presented as such. It’s not helpful and relevant by itself. Thus, downvote.
They have very predictable trigger points. Also I am starting to believe that there is a bot that automatically downvotes anything that contains the word tankie.
I swear, for the people who’ve yet to experience getting caught in .ml crossfire these constant stories verge on some Jason Voorhees Boogieman shit for me ahaha
Does everyone who finds themselves on lemmygrad just show up to start debates? I’ve never just accidentally wandered into an .ml instance and then felt compelled to start throwing hands about Tiananmen Square lol
This stuff has got to be some of my all time favorite Lemmy lore and I look forward to the day I find a reason to be banned from there too.
Congrats, you get fascist rigtoids then 🤷♂️
Serves you right for having a reasonable opinion.
But they make good memes. Just avoid the comments
Hard disagree, all their memes are:
- Ragebait,
- Appeal to common sense,
- Laugh at outgroup
They’re humor is identical to right wingers.
They make some good lefty memes, but I won’t deny they make those too. Although the specific community matters there.
If you browse all then only the decent stuff gets filtered through.
That might be true, but any good meme post on .ml will be posted everywhere else, and the trash memes from .ml will stay quarantined, it’s like a free market economy of memes. Also memes aren’t in short supply, idc if some raging tankie is the funniest guy imaginable, I’ll have 70 trillion memes to scroll with or without them, so purging them from polite society has zero downsides.
Lemmy.world is already defederated from Lemmygrad.ml, which is where this came from.
So, I’ve been exploring these comments for the past 30 mins. They honestly make me wonder; are we seeing an echo chamber effect by instance?
Does Lemmy have any tools to count upvote/downvote by user instances, especially by comment layer. I think I want to dive into this rabbit hole.
Normally when people refer to “.ml” they mean the dev instance, lemmy.ml, not lemmigrad.ml.
I’m not commenting on the substance of your post, just pointing out the mismatch.
They are both pretty extreme.
leftist extremism is good
lemmy.ml is just lemmygrad.ml wearing a mask - badly.
Grad is definitely worse than ml, but enough people on ml are tankies (including the devs) that it’s easy to group both together.
yeah right
both cults, one worse than the other?
🤦♂️ Obviously never been involved in any left wing activism, because oh boy oh boy you’d quickly realise just how authoritarian our liberal democracies are.
idk bro im in america and i gotta say id take a tankie authoritarian just to have a little revenge on the right wing authoritarians, then hopefully society will have had enough strongmen for the rest of my life.
this has got to be one of the dumbest posts I’ve seen here, who the fuck gives a shit
Genocide is bad, wether it’s the Holocaust or the Very Real White Genocide in South Africa. If you have a problem with this statement, it’s because you think genocide is good.
Shit, there is a white genocide in South Africa ? like right now ?
It’s so real, definitely happening. Trump even said so.
(If English isn’t your first language, they’re mocking OP’s implication that because people downvote <moronic comparison>, that means they love <bad thing>)
If anything Trump saying so is making me trust the statement less, but I’ll look it up. Thanks for the clarification
Ooohhhh no wait, you were being sarcastic. I’m lost now
Lets follow the pattern of OP that Shinkan is mocking: “I don’t like eating puppies, whether it’s done by nazis OR users named Hadriscus”
You would downvote this, because you understand he is implying you, Hadriscus, like eating puppies, and also comparing you with nazis.
He is then coming here to say “Hey, look, Hadriscus downvoted me! That means he is pro-eating puppies.”
That is frankly too convoluted for me to understand, but at least I now know both of you were sarcastic in your writing. Thanks for clarifying
They’re making a joke by using a logical fallacy known as a false premise.
Damn that was hard to wrap my head around. I think I understand now. Cheers
The white genocide claim is something that Elon Musk and Donald Trump have been promoting. He even asked the president of South Africa about it when he came to the White House, and he told Trump it wasn’t a thing, but of course Trump didn’t believe him. In fact, he’s offering amnesty to white African immigrants as refugees (something which is denied if you have different color of skin).
And the Uyghurs in China.
Authoritarianism is bad, whether it’s the Nazis or the CCP.
“Thing is bad whether it’s verifiably real or verifiably bullshit”
Totes.
I was banned from socialism on Lemmy.ml the other day.
For providing a detailed post with scientific references demonstrating how the Tibetan language is disappearing (and how the infographic posted was likely propaganda/misinformation).
I had many users respond calling me slurs and none really responding to the body of my post in any way. Then, instead of moderating the bullying, the mod called me a shithead, provided his own references and banned me to prevent me from responding.
The kicker? The references he linked to supported exactly what I was saying! He hadn’t read them.
Also funnily, the mod log states that I infringed “Rule 1”. I checked. Socialism’s rules are still TBD (after 7 years).
That’s because they do.
