my experience on this app has been way better since I set up an instance block for the tankie triad.
.ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this
Submitted 2 days ago by taygaloocat@leminal.space to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
stoly@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Agreed. I did the same a few years back and have never regretted it. Every once in a while I will see a comment from someone in .ml and feel a bit surprised.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 1 day ago
it only blocks you from seeing their content, not from them coming into other instances and harassing you.
DependentFeature3028@lemmy.world 1 day ago
So what. What is your problem. What is the goal of this platform if is just Reddit
drmoose@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There’s an entire ocean between whatever is this and reddit though. Being “not reddit” is not the only goal a community should have.
DependentFeature3028@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Finding excuses now. For all this shit here you not only have reddit, but you will be showered in karma there. So what is the point of all this larping beside libs trying to rapidly impose their line of thought upon anyone and censor whoever thinks different
deathmetaldawgy@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
some of you think Trump or Cuomk would be a better leader than someone like Mamdani, who’s probably too radical even for you because you’d rather have a rapist capitalist than someone who’s even slightly more anti-capitalist than Reagan. Seriously. Mamdani isn’t even a leftist really and I bet yall would call him a tankie before he beat the mainstream DNC candidate
rabidhamster@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Let’s be honest, Mamdani would be banned from .ml, too.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Tolc@lemmy.world 1 day ago
lions.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 2 days ago
No, we wouldn’t call him a tankie because he’s not a tankie. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Well, yeah, that’s like going into a German sub and saying how you detest the way of doing things of both Germans and French.
You’re criticizing their way of doing things and just because you’re criticizing somebody else, doesn’t make it any better (in fact, mentioning them like side by side makes it sound you think they’re equivalent, which will piss of a few more people).
Not that think the point you made in that post is incorrect, rather I’m criticizing your “surprise” at the reaction to what you did in the context you did it: I mean if you walked into a Nazi bar and called Hitler a cunt it would be both be true that “You’re correct” and “You set yourself up to be assaulted by Nazis”.
flabberjabber@lemmy.world 1 day ago
So your approach in a nutshell is to tolerate those that are intolerant and would quite happily make tolerance illegal and punishable if given half a chance? Interesting take.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
You seem to be running around with some serioulsy lack of life experience and understanding of people plus are probably subconsciously influenced by exposure to American-style hyperreductive politics (i.e. namelly the Red Scare bollocks) so let me tell you a story:
- I’m a member a small leftwing party in my country. Now, this country used to be under a Fascist dictatorship and had a Revolution which overthrew it about 50 years ago. The result of this is that some older people who fought against Fascism and were deeply involved in Politics during the Revolution are pretty hard-core leftwingers in older more traditional ways.
Now this party I’m in isn’t the Communist Party (yeah, my country has one), differing mainly because it’s against autoritarian approaches to improving people’s lives. That said, a number of members there are from the old generation, who grew up under Fascism with one or other variant of Communism as the lighthouse signalling their way to a better world.
Back when Russia invaded Ukraine, I was having a conversation with some “comrades” from the party (yeah, even though not being the Communist Party, the party I’m in has inherited a lot of elements from the anti-Fascism revolutionary origins of its founding members, and that includes that other party members are “comrades”) and one of the older ones immediatelly sided with Russia.
Now, I happen to understand were he’s coming from (and this is what YOU CLEARLY DO NOT UNDERSTAND AND JUDGING BY YOUR SIMPLETON JUDGEMENTALISM, DO NOT EVEN TRY) - his political birth was under a Fascist dictatorship, were the by far loudest political messaging for change and the main light illuminating the path out was the Soviet Union’s variant of Communism - most people rotting in the Fascist political prisons were Communists - so of course his instinctive reaction was to think “Russia must be doing this for a good reason” and side with them: that’s just tribalist fanboyism talking (and in my experience the one thing Soviet and Mao’s styles of Communism do well is turning people into unthinking tribalist fanboys, something which people like the OP with their blunt adversarial approach actually help).
Guess what: I actually talked with him about it, pointed out this was a very big nation invading the territory of a smaller nation, one which they couldn’t possibly fear because it was so much smaller - a clear aggressor and victim situation - and that I was on the side of the victim and against the aggressor, just like when the US invaded Iraq I was against the US and on the side of Iraq (and that, my older generation comrade shared) due to exactly the same Principle.
THAT got him thinking and him thinking got him to change his mind about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and side with Ukraine instead of Russia.
So, you see, not all tankies are alike and there are a whole lot of reasons why people end up with those beliefs, and doing like the OP did and just poking them like a little child and running back to your friends boasting about having poked them and how angry they got ain’t gonna change the ones who can change.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 days ago
Is there an image in this post?
taygaloocat@leminal.space 2 days ago
Fixed
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 days ago
Yeah, any instance which is still federated with Hexbear is wack af.
orenj@leminal.space 2 days ago
You’d probably also get downvoted IRL for saying this out loud south of the mason-dixon line, too
Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Meh, they don’t like to be called tankies so you are already being deregatory. I am also guilty of saying similar things and I am never surprised when I get down voted. Even if you go with campism and campist, which is more accurate, they don’t like that either. Truth hurts I guess.
They are always coming from, “this is all western imperialists propaganda.” First of all, most people know this and every bit of propaganda has some truth to it. When the CIA or some other propaganda machine picks up on what China or Russia is doing and then projects it is not always a lie. It is often built on a truth.
This is also true for Russian and Chinese propaganda. Being able to sort what is true and what is conjecture is important to understanding propaganda. ML cannot do this with Western Propaganda, they can only suss out their teams propaganda and they usually do a horrible job at it.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Fork and defederate.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
You’re already defederated from Lemmygrad.ml.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 days ago
That’s because they do.
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
That instance has gotten so much worse lately. Anytime you me of my comments gets a hateful reply, it’s almost always from .ml or one of the similar instances.
I want to block the whole thing but too many people sign up for .ml thinking it’s fine and not realizing it’s a propaganda machine.
garbage_world@lemmy.world 1 day ago
China, Iran or DPRK?
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I think you have to look at this the right way.
Downvotes can be a good thing. You know what they upvote, yeah?
If I’m on an index that hates dogs, and I post something complimentary to dogs, I know I’ll get a lot of downvotes. GOOD. I don’t want cat upvotes, cats are mean.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 2 days ago
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On behalf of this cat I found in China, fuck you.
Edie@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
fuck you
moseschrute@lemmy.world 2 days ago
WOW WOW why you gotta bring cat’s into this