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Chinese ragebait tankie bot spotted
Ah yes, the infamously transphobic instance, lemmy.blahaj.zone.
Well, you see, if you criticize a trans person's politics, that's transphobia. Doesn't matter if their politics are orthogonal to their transness, and it doesn't matter if you, yourself, are trans.
Just look at Israel to see how this works.
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In interactions with authoritarians, I'm often reminded of Jean-Paul Sartre's description of anti-semites.
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
Tankies follow the same underlying basis for their justifications of authoritarianism as every other stripe.
I should post this to every tankie that comes with their BS
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Handy that your client shows that it's a 4 days account
Voyager mobile. Yeah it’s a cool feature.
The meme I sent in the original pic
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new accounts
As in they're getting banned a lot or they're trolling/sockpuppeting, or both.
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