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Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here?

Tbh there is little evidence. There is a lot of shitposting people socialists are pissed off being called “tankie” or communist as a slur. I mean this shit is old. McCarthy would love this “oh you’re a tankie!” shit.

The worst I’ve seen is a communist community discussing that Stalin needs to be rehabilitated for his role in building up the USSR despite his “mistakes” (The big oopsie of 3.3 million dead in the great purge). I mean that is just stupid.

The larger issue is the laser focus the liberal community has on tankies, it’s not the fascists that are currently rising or already ruling, noooo it’s the “authoritarian tankies” that are at the lowest of their power ever. Whoever has been putting money into this tankie meme is brilliant. Just amplify that shit and stoke that hatred. Fascism bad, but oh please don’t be too radical lol.

So basically lemmy failed as a platform precisely because the neoliberal have managed to already cut out the socialist heart of lemmy.

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Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Where are you getting 3.3 million killed in the purges? The number of sentencings to death was 799,455, and we know many were canceled as the purges went beyond what was expected.

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kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I’m sorry but not one part of your comment shows any problem with lemmy. We’re using federated social media specifically so any instance/community can exist is a vacuum, and that includes those you do not agree with.

There are plenty of comms not having anything to do with politics that thrive, politically loaded content does slip into my feed and discussion is rarely uncivilised - on par with early reddit days.

lemmy failed as a platform

This is exactly my problem, you think lemmy is one platform. It is not. It’s interconnected but seperate bubbles of activity that are brought together by federation, which has always been optional.

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