Next time, you must answer with "a racist slur against third world leftists", because that's what tankies like.

Similarly, if you're wondering why some people think when you say "spooky" is problematic is because online tankies tried to frame online anarchists who read Stirner as "racists", for the "nice spooks nerd" meme (the online far-right also helped them, because redshirts often act as useful idiots to the brownshirts).

Tankies: it's a disparaging term used by libs to discredit actual communists!

Also tankies: check out this video on tankie.tube

I cannot grasp their relationship to the word, and I think they can't either. They even removed the comment explaining exactly where the term originated and how it's used today. Wild. Does that mean we can scare off tankies with etymology?

-"post the video coward"

-post the video

-got removed and banned anyway

It's notable that Lemmy's code of conduct referenced in the rule given as the removal reason says "Please be kind and courteous. There’s no need to be mean or rude." Dessalines calling someone a coward for directly answering OP's question without even resorting to a personal attack is fully against that (and other parts of the code). Being immune from the rules and taking action against others merely for expressing an undesirable take is a glaring example of power abuse. I've been a mod in big communities, and I would undoubtedly ask that a staff member like this is removed if it happened on my watch.

I don't get why are people OK with Lemmy as a product when the dev/mod is asshole like this. It boggles my mind when there are SW projects dismissed as trash (and people are hated for using those) because the dev is homophobic, xenophobic or far right, but when it's tankie/marxist/stalinist, it's somehow OK to still use the software?

I'm so glad there's alternative, either piefed or mbin.

EDIT: I might be biased a little bit as my country experienced four decades of socialist "experiment", twenty years of those being active Soviet occupation...

tankies really hate talking critically about their worldviews lol

fascies will usually admit they're fascies when they're alone - is this just the same?

The lack of depth from these guys is amazing. The CEO or President never services the latrines. If my income relied on something like Lemmy, the minimum would be aliased accounts for management, but the far better solution is to delegate and not get involved. This is elementary politics.

No money for tankie devs!

I silently switched to sh.itjust.works a while ago. When I signed up I wanted to be on the dev server, but the views of the devs are more or less completely incompatible with my own.

Also I hate censorship... bitch.

Tht whole thread was pretty good

OK, I Am not going to defend Dessalines (for obvious reasons) but equating communism with the liking the tianeam square massacre is in fact complete bullshit. Those are two completely different things. Is it worth deleting? Absolutely not, but being a communist doesn't mean you like what happened there and liking what happened there doesn't necessarily mean you are a communist.

I guess the mighty kracken got as good of an answer as they could have.