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I triggered myself so I do not know either, nor is it likely relevant in any way since it was emotional rather than logical :-D.

First, the entire text is cross-posted from https://feddit.nl/post/16246531 - OP had nothing to add on their own, apparently. The OOP was likewise on feddit.nl. The community happens to be on Lemmy.world.

You also brought up your own personal experiences to add to the situation, so I pointed out that you, being on lemmy.world, would have different experiences than e.g. someone on feddit.nl. I note that that instance has not defederated from either lemmygrad.ml or hexbear.net. If you don't know what they are about, I'm saying that yes lemmy.ml are still "tankies", but like 1% of the problems of toxicity compared to those other two instances, so much so that while lemmy.world remains federated with lemmy.ml, it has chosen to defederate from both of those other two.

Also, don't miss the main reason for the drama in the first place: the images show the OOP being banned. i.e. what you do not see is the point here, bc of the heavy handed banning. So you wouldn't "see" it then, as you say just looking at the popular posts, unless you happened to have been viewing the mod log on your own initiative. The fact that any divergence of opinion is being suppressed is very much the point here. It leads to the creation of an echo chamber, which allows solely the opinions of the admins to be allowed to be spoken of.

But you need not simply believe me: check it out for yourself. e.g. go to lemmygrad.ml and see what is there - it took me (not joking) like two seconds to find this comment: "Shoot him in the head" at https://lemmygrad.ml/post/6010525, all the while making fun of Americans for being violent etc. (though when it happens on lemmy.ml - example, this one admittedly took a lot longer to find, maybe 30 seconds, though it was still on the front page - it tends to be far more tame) Note I am not complaining about the violent rhetoric here, but the total lack of self-awareness. USA=bad bc of genocide, while Russia and China are "not" doing genocide. It's a special brand of "my side good, their side bad", that I for one do not find very intellectually engaging. Therefore I do not choose to engage with Truth Social, or the equivalent Lemmy instances.

Blaze for example blocks all the political communities. That's... ... ... not entirely a normal thing that people are most likely to do and moreover to never not do that.

Btw, lemmy.cafe is literally the only instance I've ever even so much as heard of that blocks all of the big 3, including lemmy.ml.

Yeesh, I am so sorry that happened to you - tankies are just the worst, aren't they? You could literally put a URL to those exact conversations and they would still come back with "well no, see, we aren't that way at all bc... shut up!" They enjoy all the drama that they stir up - it's the point (go read the actual sidebar text of Chapotraphouse and the_dunk_tank and their posts e.g. talking about defederating with the rest of Lemmy, except no they actually don't want to do that for the simple reason that it provides moar people "to dunk on" - let me know if you want the receipt for that statement and I'll dig it up).

It is somehow worse than talking to Trump supporters, bc at least those believe in something, as opposed to existing solely for the purpose of "the dunk".

And then it's so sad that the rest of Lemmy tolerates it. Not the communism mind you, I'm talking about the dunking and other harassment.

Well, we learn at least, not to mention Lemmy to people irl. It's so sad that it must be that way... it severely limits our growth, but it is what it is.:-(

Never underestimate the utility of a useful idiot, who will do it for free (tm).

Though I will add that the West also does a fantastic job, at making itself look bad:-). In large part by actually being thus:-).

Though also the West tends to be fairly open about that - e.g. here's a segment from the Wikipedia page for Christopher Columbus:

Some historians have criticized Columbus for initiating the widespread colonization of the Americas and for abusing its native population.[300][114][301][302] On St. Croix, Columbus's friend Michele da Cuneo—according to his own account—kept an indigenous woman he captured, whom Columbus "gave to [him]", then brutally raped her.[303][r][s]

According to some historians, the punishment for an indigenous person, aged 14 and older, failing to pay a hawk's bell, or cascabela,[306] worth of gold dust every six months (based on Bartolomé de las Casas's account) was cutting off the hands of those without tokens, often leaving them to bleed to death.[296][114][307]

So our sins tend to be on full public view - Donald Trump's suing anyone who criticizes him in order to shut them up notwithstanding - while in contrast, try saying something like "the Tiananmen Square massacre happened", and see how fast you get banned from Lemmy.ml. They are not the same! (the badness of The West that acknowledges errors yet does nothing whatsoever to counteract them, vs. tankies who don't even seem to be aware of the simplest of basic facts!)

Anyway, be advised that we must stop this conversation here - the last time I even so much as questioned whether Dessalines was receiving money from the Chinese government (as someone said, which I included an exact URL to iirc) or the Russian one, to develop the Lemmy codebase (nothing necessarily nefarious there by itself - grants should be sought out, no?), my comments were removed. In fact, I only have 3 comments removed across the entire Fediverse for the past 10 months that I've had this account, and all 3 were removed for talking negatively about Lemmy.ml. i.e. this conversation is not on lemm.ee that welcomes a diversity of ideas - we are at risk right now of being removed just for what we've said so far. So, I guess, if you want to criticize them further, don't spend too much time typing it all out I suppose:-).

Sadly, I had quite the list going, but upon blocking the instance, decided to clean up all the individual ones from that instance. Oops. Surely a "block" would imply some sort of... I dunno, "blocking" action, one might expect?

Also, at least on 0.19.3, I would not receive notifications from people on those instances. But now on 0.19.5, I do. So... there's that fun little tidbit of knowledge: what little blocking there used to be, has become less so over time.

Oh well, at least this way I get to read the most batshit insane replies to things and laugh at them. Once someone is aware, it's not really shocking, compared to a new user who would have no clue - e.g. they could be conversing with an actual PhD scientist on mander.xyz one moment and then somehow jump all the way to "no awkshually you should drink bleach, and follow up by drinking sunshine, bc (this one time at band camp?) I heard that kills the Rona". Which sounds enormously exaggerated I know, but just remember: there are people out there eating raw meat and drinking unpasteurized milk without a care in the world, even in the face of the avian flu situation that seems to have made its way into just about every animal on earth including extremely remote polar bears and such.

Disinformation, unlike misinformation that is more often simply a mistake, is often designed to be outright deadly, to the unprepared (though less for the sake of the actual deaths, and more for how they would then catapult the issue into the media to receive feed-forward attention).

Pinko commie he self-admits to being indeed! (I recall him saying such in one of them)

I freaking love every video that I've seen of his. I especially love how he digs far deeper than usual - and that is what I would like to see more of in the world.

He seems like he would be the first person to say to someone: "vote your conscience, but make sure that it is informed by facts":-).

I have no idea how he plans to vote. I hope he carefully considers all the options, including the need to showcase a strong support for but yes also the wider implications beyond this next election.

Edit: also, "monogamist ally"!? Does the person who said that have NO IDEA who this is? Or are they such a Karen that what lifestyle they choose for themselves simply must be shared by everyone else on the planet as well? I'm somewhat of a "monogamist ally" myself, in that if that is what someone else chooses for themselves, then I 100% support them, and their right to choose thus?! Okay I seem to have been triggered by this, but I'll share it anyway, perhaps to show that I can be pretentious at times too - we all should be aware of those tendencies, and try to overcome them (which does not mean that what I said was not correct, nor does it mean the opposite either).

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Generating turmoil just prior to the USA election maybe?

Just so you are aware, you are replying to a known troll. You will never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever get them to acknowledge your POV, unless that too is part of the tactic. That's just not how that works.

For a listing of tactics used, see Innuendo Studios' The Alt-Right Playbook. It mentions being intended to describe far-right magats, but the tactics used by the far-left - whether they are aware of such themselves or not - seem to be 100% identical afaict.

They're not truly communists, but wouldn't they still be truly tankies then? Especially in the most literal sense of denying that the Tiananmen Square massacre even took place (or that anyone died from it, or that... whatever other BS interpretation the particular ~~magat~~ tanky you may read it from chooses to subscribe to)?

And shout-out to Piefed and Sublinks as well. All three of those look so promising! They have a bit of catching up to do but... yeah, I agree with you. Plus, being written in a more widely-known language (the likes of Python vs. Rust), I would hope that it would catch up rather quickly?