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I keep reading about this, can you show me some examples of pro-CCP sentiment? Tbf I block political communities anyway but I'm curious what tankie behaviour people keep referring too.
just have a look at genzedong@lemmygrad.ml but put your tinfoil hat on before to prevent potential brain damage
Cowbee as well
Literally the #1 touter of the CCP and China.
Is wholly incapable of assessing China in an unbiased manner, will only see positives or reframe away the negatives.
Keyboard warrior w a billion sources on anything for his sophistry.
I went to their instance but only found a single post?
Edit: Oh it's a community, but it's contained right? I'm getting pretty tired of people talking about Lemmy in general when a simple defederation solves the issue.
lemmygrad.ml is not federated with many, many other instances exactly because of their authoritarian BS, including dbzer0.com. you might need to log out and visit lemmygrad.ml directly.
If you want the general idea you can also just take a look at yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com and search for lemmy.ml.
~~I went to lemmygrad to view the user, I know about the defederation~~ I didn't realise you were talking about communities
doesn't make sense to single out any user over there, they are all bootlickers for the kinds of Putin and Xi. Funnily enough, this would make them prime MAGA material too lol
I get it, it's just not a good enough reference for a Lemmy-wide issue. Reddit had MAGA and die hard conservative communities, but they stay isolated; just as I'm seeing here on Lemmy. On Reddit they had brigading issues periodically, just as on Lemmy, you can just defederate on instance or user basis and problem solved.
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.
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.
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.
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.