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The Democratic People's Republic of Tankiejerk

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Dunking on Tankies from a leftist, anti-capitalist perspective.

Rules:

  1. No bigotry of any kind.
  2. No tankies or right-wingers. Liberals are allowed so long as they are aware of this
  3. No genocide denial

We allow posts about tankie behavior even off fedi, shitposts, and rational, leftist discussion.

Curious about non-tankie leftism? If you've got a little patience for 19th century academic style, let a little Marx and Kropotkin be your primer!

Marx's Communist Manifesto, short and accessible! Highly recommended if you haven't read it

Kropotkin's Conquest Of Bread

Selected works of Marx

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A few years ago, the Lemmy Developers decided to keep their political views on lemmygrad while keeping lemmy.ml more neutral. Now they are banning users who are critical of their actions and bigotry.

Anti-Tankie posts may put you at risk of being banned from commenting and posting on the lemmy.ml instance.

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[–] Ignacio@kbin.social 58 points 2 years ago (4 children)

People: "Come to the fediverse, there are no fascists, everything is cool and free of toxicity."

The fediverse: tankies, people who simps for tankies, genocidal apologists, harassment...

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 45 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sums it up seemingly well. The only upsid is that they created a platform they can not control AFAIK. So other instances can do whatever they want.

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Give them time, they will eventually self-defederate.

[–] Bakersfield@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

That sounds like a good idea. Saves people the effort of blocking them.

[–] willis936@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

At this point I am ready to embrace full internet solitude. The grass calls.

[–] finkrat@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

People have to realize where the clowns are and where they're being greenlit and encouraged, and what you can do about it. It's a good platform if you know how to deal with them. The internet will always be the internet but at least you don't have to be on the same island with these folks.

[–] awwwyissss@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't think it's worth it to most people, and I'd be embarrassed for someone to find out I use Lemmy in case they checked it out.

The authoritarian propaganda is killing Lemmy.

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I actually told a friend I use Lemmy because we used to talk about Reddit together, they installed replied with "ew". I immediately dropped the subject, but my first and only thought was if they ever checked it out they probably saw some hexbear stuff right away and figured the whole thing was trash.

[–] awwwyissss@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Hexbear is the worst, but it's far from the only problem. It's bad on here. I've calmly pointed out this is a biased echochamber several times and I just get downvoted.

[–] dramaticcat@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

People: “Come to the fediverse, there are no fascists, everything is cool and free of toxicity.”

There are definitely fascists on the fediverse, they don't use the reddit-like (lemmy/kbin) part of the fediverse since exploding-heads shut down.

[–] Ignacio@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

exploding-heads are fascists, but I wasn't talking about them.