I was just banned from there for making 4 comments about how a couple commenters could be CCP agents.
lemmy.ml is the tankie instance.
It’s one sided by design, because tankies only know of one way to deal with anyone who disagrees with them.
Banned. Rule 1.
Oh hi, Dessalines
lemmy.ml is the tankie instance.
One of the tankie instances*
Tankies are the leftist equivalent of MAGA.
Tankie? Is this a new racial slur I’m not aware of?
Authoritarian “leftists” who really like soviet Russia, North Korea, China, or even modern Russia. Often will unconditionally support any country that fights against the US, on the theory that the US is so evil that anyone who’s against them must be good. They’ll get incredibly offended if you say that those countries are in any way not 100% perfect.
It’s campist bullshit.
It was their self-descriptor until they learned other leftists didn’t like them much (because they’re authoritarian and supportive of fascist dictators such as Putin), and naming them using their self designated term meant they were excluded from other leftists. So they started taking offense.
Can’t believe lemmyers would be so bigoted
Even Ameribots know “commie” is very “Red Scare” and outdated so they’re using that word now. It just means “commie” for this new generation.
Nah they harass commies, so basically tankie means anti-commie
Mmm, maybe originally or theoretically, but not in practice. At least not online, or not in Lemmy. Usually what I’ve seen is the word used by someone who can’t accept the realities of Western supremacy and American imperialism and feels your “criticism” and moral judgement of it is too harsh.
Dunno. I see the type who tries to push another type of supremacy and imperialism as some kind of an alternative, don’t care what shorthand term they have
.ml is the russian agitprop instance. Getting banned there is a Lemmy right of passage. Congrats!
Edit: 2 years? Took you long enough. ;)
You give me too much credit. Ive made like 10 comments on there and finally got an account banned
Not everybody on .ml is a tankie. I joined waaay before the reddit API thing and back then .ml was like one of three available instances.
My guess is to stop everyone else from blocking the instance. They have to claim a few non psycho users.
right now
Lol
Go to settings and you can block the entire instance
When their admin gets bored, they ban anyone they disagree with. You don’t even have to interact with them, they just browse and remove anything not toeing the instance line:
Some authoritarian dictatorships are actually totally rad guys!
Lmfao
You could be a diaspora criticizing the CCP and they’ll call you a “Sinophobe” 🤣
Fuck is a sinophobe?
Fear of China:
Ah, thanks. Today I learned.
Context clues
.ml stands for marxist-leninist. Yes it’s one sided - by design.
Karl Marx would call them fucking idiots.
And they would ban him for that
And told him to read more theory!
Right now?
Yes, the place is a joke, everyone gets banned from there one way or another. Even fellow communists. Rule one “Be nice” actually means “be nice to tyrant dictators”.
I blocked that community after having my comment removed. I was saying calling for a genocide of all Americans was a bad thing… now I just use the .world one and lemmy shitpost. Primarily shipost
…ping?.. Is that you? Let me back on temu. Writing reviews as a trans velociraptor is the only thing I know
I don’t know what you really expected posting comments like that.
Naw it’s not one sided, you just didn’t hear about the guy who got banned for accusing 4 people of being CIA agents.
Nah thats just the internet
Ml is pro russia and china. Almost the rest of the instsnces are zionist tolerant. Really shameful
The West is Zionist tolerant in general and we’re in Western online communities so it’s expected. Nonetheless, the fact that even a small group of Westerners would denounce Western supremacy and surrounding narratives as often as I see it here is both surprising and really sweet, it keeps me hopeful.
That’s a bit too much. 4 comments? Maybe you’re just not in your comfort zone. If you want full on Western propaganda and narratives, I swear Reddit is gonna feel very comfy.
