I never see this "Lenin is my daddy cull the herd uWu" nonsense y'all can't stfu about, but I sure can't escape the sea of "I dIsAgReE, sEe YoU oN tEh BaN lIsT!"

Which quite frankly I think SHOULD net a ban, this disingenuous "oh sure you can talk about redistributing wealth but I mention murder being bad AND IM BANNED DURR" bullshit is tiring.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Here's that thing you think doesn't exist. Straight-up 'the Soviet Union did nothing wrong and the holodomor didn't happen.' With people cheering him on. In an anarchist community.

Re-reading it now, he also insists the USSR saved Poland... y'know... after they split it in half. If people want to celebrate the Soviets' role in defeating Hitler, by all means shout it from the rooftops, but nobody got out of World War 2 completely innocent.

I just blocked that guy instead of getting into it - even though I apparently fucking adore getting into it - specifically because of past moderation on this instance. I will bicker and have it out with people for days, when I feel a topic is important, and continue having it out with the mods themselves if they want to intervene, and even I have simply written off most of this instance as an exclusion zone. Too many broadly-agreeable spaces are policed to enforce very specific opinions about really fucked-up topics.

You are mocking people's honest experiences of this instance. Its reputation is not some conspiracy. New users incidentally mention obvious problems with certain geopolitically important countries, get their comments erased or maybe eat a ban, and are told by old users - 'yeah, that'll happen.'

It's a broken stair.

[–] Facebones@reddthat.com 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I don't know if you linked the wrong post or what cause I see one person making lengthy arguments and offering sources while the other makes dinky diversions. Not a great argument on your behalf.

You are mocking peoples honest experiences of this instance

Am I? Because if you're (or whoever is) here arguing about being banned from .ml, you're notably not banned from .ml, and if im reading sombodys "This comment will be removed" comment, it by definition hasnt been removed. 🤷

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works -2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Long means correct, apparently. Nevermind what's being said.

you’re notably not banned from .ml

Strawman. Not all bans are permanent, not all bans are global.

And 'I never see what you're talking about' / 'it can't be what you're talking about if I can see it' is a catch-22.

[–] Facebones@reddthat.com 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Long means correct, apparently. Nevermind what’s being said.

Considering the counter argument was "Fuck you you're wrong," I'm going to go ahead and side with the person who actually makes a coherent point. Any point at all, really. "I CAN'T HEAR YOU LULZ" doesn't count.

Not all bans are permanent, not all bans are global. Sure, but if you were constantly getting temp bans, it'd be preettttyyyy easy to show some receipts, if it were true and not just a rallying cry for some butthurt capitalist stans.

I get it buddy. You don't like leftists, so anything leftist is bad. Righties love screaming at me about the modlog, so allow me to turn it on you - If you stay getting banned, show us. Show us you getting banned and all your comments being removed for disagreeing. Should be easy since supposedly anybody left of Biden isn't allowed to exist on .ml, right?

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

You don’t like leftists

Arguments are easy when you just make shit up.

Good day.

edit: And pre-empting any posturing about 'well I made up a challenge and it went unanswered,' you can check the modlog. Check mine. You don't need me to hold your hand for it. See where one of your mods misspelled "orientalism" because someone dared call China a dictatorship. I don't see any point pressing the issue with you when your hot take on counterfactual nonsense is 'but where's the detailed disproof? the Gish gallop is correct by default!'

[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Any Leftist that's done any real organizing has likely worked with Anarchists. Those guys hate all states, and aren't afraid to tell your classic Marxists about how some of those very left states did them realllllly bad. I don't think any leftist whos operating in good faith has a problem with real critisizm. I think they have problems with state department propaganda lines that they have to hear and refute like every time they try to talk about any kind of Leftism.

Especially since those lines are the some of the most detracting arguements there are (probably on purpose) so most times it does nothing but obfuscate the original point and move the topic of discussion away from that point.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works -4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

'This site's mods and admins censor dry criticism.'

'We the users handle criticism just fine.'

That was not the subject.

[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I'm confused. You asked if you would be fine to criticize the left here without getting banned and I replied to that comment answering, and now you're telling me that wasn't the subject? Why do you assume I was only talking about the users?

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Because the admins and several major mods have a history of censoring disagreement. Especially when it's criticism of "those very left states." Often just for saying those states are left... or aren't.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes, self-criticism is A-Okay and is encouraged.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago

Look upon our Self-crits, ye Mighty, and despair 😆