Your community for poking fun at the bullshit tankies say and spread.
Rules:
No tankie talking points. That includes the classics (denial of genocide of Uyghurs, denial of ML dictator's crimes, campism, calling everyone you disagree with a liberal or CIA etc.) and general shit opinions (general genocide denial, antisemitism, racism, queerphobia, etc.)
MLs are not communists. They never actually worked towards it and there are some who don't even define it as a stateless, classless, egalitarian society. So MLs shouldn't be called communists in the first place. Calling hating MLs anticommunism will probably expose you as either a tankie or a right winger, both of which aren't welcome here.
Right-wingers, fash, nazis, nazbols etc. are not welcome! Right wing talking points (such as anti-woke, anti-queer, speaking favorably of far right figures, being anti-antifa etc.) will get you banned pretty quickly.
Please respect people's pronouns. Deliberately misgendering people repeatedly is going to lead you to have issues with the mods. Defending misgendering will get you banned.
No brigading. People caught brigading in this comm will be banned. Also we oppose brigading in other comms. Keep the discussions and stuff within the comm.
On near-east topics: Nakba is an established fact. The (ongoing) Palestinian genocide is a fact. Israel commits crimes against Palestinians. No anti-Arab (such as Palestinians and Druze) sentiments allowed (it falls under racism anyways). In regards to Israel, do not dehumanize civilians. Saying shit like "there are no civilians in Israel/Palestine" will get you permabanned.
Be kind to one another. Try to deescalate any fights.
Content guidance:
Anti-ML memes, screenshots and humor are allowed.
For general discussion threads please ask.
If there is demand, we can do a open discussion thread once a month. But it will get locked if in escalates into a dumpster fire.
Any voting encouragement on LSC is now consistently removed by an MLer on the mod team.
The days .world is safe from tankie censorship are over. Voting in the midterms is straightup the same as zionism.
And for some inexplicable reason the Fediverse seems to be bleeding MAU…
It always was considering who mods the comm.
Honestly, .world is not the right instance for that content. Tankies like to spread to other instances like a metastasizing cancer if not kept in check.
Yeah. The trouble is that many are coming in via .world, just unsure about the federation model and picking an instance with momentum or critical mass to avoid losing an account and having to re-register with a different instance.
Recently there was a ‘celebration’ on .world for reaching 200k users, and it went over most people’s head that with declining monthly actives, this essentially means average people are joining, and seeing the extremism, getting a few random perma bans without reason and long, fairly sensible comments removed with obscure reasons. And just leaving soon after and joining the dormant club.
You’re right, it is a spread, and within the next few months/years, we will have the 2 biggest instances overrun by a very dangerous form of leftism (which in my humble opinion is akin to far right extremism) and that will be the biggest test for the fediverse yet.
Yup. Was just talking to someone else about how these tankie mods are going to drive users away from this platform. People come here to escape Reddit's censorship. Many of them are arriving and being instantly banned or having their comments deleted by these scumbag losers and giving them the wrong impression of the platform. It's becoming a real issue.
Tankies were here first, the liberal Reddit crowd that all jumped ship a few years back willingly joined a platform created and maintained by communists then constantly complain about there being too many communists. Less charitable tankies might have exorcised liberalism from Lemmy entirely.
Tankies aren't Communists.
Who was here first and what they are called - or more accurately - called themselves is irrelevant. They are calling for violence, they are censoring, and they are actively attempting to subvert young people who don’t yet have a clear understanding of the puppetmasters.
They could have been fairies and been here first. It is about what they are doing and how it will affect all of us into the future.
Edit: your post history doesn’t look very compatible with this community.
That edit, Yikes. Wouldn't wanna be them
Good. There’s no place for propaganda in a free world.
Native Americans were here first too. Times change. More non-tankies here now.
If tankies want to "excorcise" liberals from this platform, they are more than welcome to try. Judging by all the complaints it looks like they're already drowning them out of their subs/instances with their tankie tears.
But if you guys keep booting us you'll just end up like /r/conservative or /r/The_Donald. Pathetic little islands in a sea of liberal leaning, vote loving, democracy defending users.