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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

I just realised, I can't post anything on lemmy.ml

So, I checked https://lemmy.ml/modlog, there's a new moderator.

All posts and comments talking about China, Jinping, Russia, and Putin have been deleted and users banned

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[-] bouh@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

In my country we have antifa for antifascists. Are you here some kind of anti-tankies? Because I see far, far more posts about antitankies fighting supposed tankies than I see people fighting fascists.

[-] KaleDaddy@reddthat.com 23 points 2 years ago

Tankies wpuld literally support the reincarnation of hitler if he said "america bad" they worship genocidal dictators on the sole grounds they oppose America. They hold literally no leftists values. They just like authority

[-] bouh@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Thing is, I've never seen a tankie. I've already talked to many fascists here on lemmy though.

[-] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 14 points 2 years ago

In the US, antifa vs. fascists is the actual conflict bubbling up in real life. Only online do people care about tankies. They're a test for moderation and decentralization so people can keep them from being disruptive, not a real concern for freedom of expression. Critical support for Russia's invasion (or disruption of support for Ukraine) is way more likely to come from the alt-right fascists than pseudo-left online tankies.

[-] mayo@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

That's because we're on .world and the main tankie instances are blocked. OP is talking about leaks into other instances. It's a bad faith argument. Fuck tankies.

[-] unnecessarygoat@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

it's probably because most instances have defederated with 'tankie' instances like lemmygrad or hexbear, so all you really see is ragebait screenshots of tankies saying stupid things. although most of these posts seem to be coming from one user

[-] bouh@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

The only posts I see about tankies are from anti-tankies.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 years ago

Yes, like they say, because the tankie posts are blocked.

Is it really that difficult to understand?

[-] bouh@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

The why is there so much anti-tankie propaganda? Like so much more than antifascist propaganda?

[-] nora@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 years ago

Tankies and fascists are just as bad. What are you trying to suggest?

[-] bouh@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I'm not suggesting anything. I'm pointing out a bias: eventhough fascism is rampant in the west, to the point there was a coop attempt in the US a few years ago. Yet people on lemmy are very hard fighting tankies where ever they can find them, even baiting with anti-tankie memes on a very regular basis.

Tankies are not treated like fascists. There is a war waged against them on lemmy eventhough tankies don't exist in the west.

Tankies don't exist in the west because, as it was said, tankies and fascists are the same kind of extremists, but in the west we have fascists already. You don't have both tankies and fascists in the same place.

So here we are, with western people on the hunt against tankies. To me they are fascists waging a cultural war on social media.

[-] Ataraxia@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Because people aren't familiar with them and need to be made aware of what they really are. Too many people don't see the damage these trolls cause because they get blocked and only see the complaints and I'm realizing that defederation has worked in their favor. If anyone actually read the shit they post they would realize they are conservatives trying to make the left look like psychopaths. They appropriate LGBT and other social justice causes in order to attempt to infiltrate the left and rot it from within. Also, they use liberal as a slur.

[-] hark@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Because like all true "moderates/liberals" they love attacking the left.

[-] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

That's mostly because pseudo intellectual "leftist" tankies are almost exclusively found online. There's no real presence irl

[-] Ataraxia@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

These aren't leftists. They're trolls.

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