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[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 1 points 49 minutes ago

Got blocked from 196 for having an opinion that, although popular, did not align with the mods there so you know what? Fuck 196 and their baby mods. They've shown themselves to be little bitch snowflakes so let them be?

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 hours ago

congrats to the new dbzero tankies btw

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 13 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Literaly 19684 😔

[–] ohshit604@lemmy.halstead.host 10 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

196 has a very clear stance on tankies and other authoritarians.

but we’re not willing to allow somebody we so fundamentally disagree with to moderate our community.

I don’t know about you, but /c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone might have an authoritarian problem.

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I'm actually hearing there are widespread humanitarian concerns about reports of ideological purges in the blahaj regime.

[–] ohshit604@lemmy.halstead.host 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Been on Lemmy for almost 2 years, that instance and the people who joined it always felt “off” to me, I’m glad I recently set up a Lemmy instance of my own because that de-federate button will likely come in handy shortly.

[–] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

The moment they openly defended keeping chasers around and sexually tokenizing trans women, I was out. Those lead to a compatibilist approach to integration via internalizing self-deprecation and worse.

[–] iByteABit@lemmy.ml 14 points 5 hours ago

"The evil tankies have taken over Lemmy and our instances are next"

The evil tankies: "Who even are you"

[–] kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml 21 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

i seriously dont understand this hardcore anti "tankie"-ism on some parts of lemmy

i understand banning fascists when theyre spreading hateful, discriminatory or/and genocidal rhetoric but what "tankies" believe in is just another political ideology

almost as if they're right about something and liberal moderators are scared of people finding out about the truth 🤔

[–] PotatoPie@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I think it has nothing to do with the reasons they give, they just want to push western narratives of "righteousness"

I've been to political rooms in blahaj before and the discussed politics always boil down to anti-conservatism and anti-russian/chinese imperialism,

US imperialism? You'll be called a tankie and told to stop acting like one to fit in

Israel genocide? You're regressing the progressiveness of empowering jews, stop being overly antisemitic and using tankie sources

Some political news africa? Turn it about weather or not they support LGBTQ rights yet

Riots in south america? Their governments are oppressing them, also stop using tankie sources

There's no way they can be this biased by coincidence, i'm not a tankie and i didn't believe it at first but it's true, Tankie do carry the burden of always being right!

[–] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago

I mean they just ban everyone who can critically read the media and understand basic geopolitics. Of course the remainder will be imperial core national chauvinists, that's the default in their countries.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)
[–] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 19 points 5 hours ago

It's spurned by liberal admins and mods usually. They can't actually argue against us so they put their cognitive dissonance into an unhealthy place of self-soothing.

This actually isn't unique to Lemmy at all it is the default reaction of committed liberals and liberals with thin skin. But when someone feels ownership of a place and like they're losing legitimacy and control they can lash out.

It's also important to understand that most people online discussing politics in these forums know basically nothing. They don't read. They can't critically engage with media. They don't question their own biases when presented with people from other cultures. They certainly don't actually do anything irl that would teach them visceral lessons. Trying to build an organization (not a career in a non-profit), a party, or even just feeding people. They might as well be 10 year olds for all the information contained in their political opinions. But they feel extremely entitled to their positions and wrap it up in their identities. If they are contradicted they feel personally attacked. If they think something despite having never investigated it, they announce it proudly with confidence and bully those who disagree. In short, humility runs counter to their socialization.

Finally, they're used to punching right, or at least most of them are, and their rhetoric breaks down when they are instead forced to punch left. So they just start namecalling instead, banning, or just trolling, as it allows their egos to escape without much damage.

Luckily, we are looking at an echo chamber of people who automatically self-isolate and can't organize anything. In the real world conversations are faster and more productive and building things and teaching is much easier, even with an audience that isn't entirely friendly. Irl people usually can't get away with acting like such babies.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 16 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

We know that some people eventually work past their “fuck tankies” stage because we did. Most of us used to believe the same things and for the same reasons, because we grew up under largely the same conditions.

[–] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 11 points 6 hours ago

Actually I was never this insufferable.

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Why do they all wanna be aviator glasses horseshoe baldness pocket polo glass of whiskey Cold War dads so badly?

[–] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 hours ago

Funny how they all talk like 4chan chuds

[–] agentant@lemmy.ml 11 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Context: https://lem.lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/45960248

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[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 13 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

they gotta do SOMETHING now that their asset -- tesseract -- has been exposed. lol

[–] alapakala@quokk.au 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago

some turbolib made a Lemmy client that had a hardcoded blacklist of users and instances they considered to be communists

https://lemmy.ml/post/50384766/26835474

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)
[–] alapakala@quokk.au -4 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

The only question I have is why hasn't kittenzrulz123 posted counter logs proving that they were not a genocide apologist.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 1 points 27 minutes ago* (last edited 26 minutes ago)

Why haven’t you proven that you don’t deny the genocide of white South Africans?

Is it because it didn’t actually happen? Well there’s your answer.

Previously.

[–] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago

The people making these accusations simply believe, without investigation, that China is committing genocide against Uyghurs. Any pushback on this is labeled genocide denial, in bad faith, because none of them have done even a mildly critical review if what has happened in Xinjiang nor the truly absurd US state department/intelligence connections of the small and dishonest group of think tank grifters pushing that particular narrative.

There are no logs to post that would satisfy them. They seek to slander and avoid thought, not discuss the topic of genocide with any level of seriousness. This is about their egos, not any actual concern about Uyghurs. I've never even met one of these people who can name an element of Uyghur culture. They're just a rhetorical weapon to these national chauvinists.