The original post was some tankie propaganda, whining about how capitalist authoritarianism oppressed their stupid shit, meanwhile, the modlogs are full of the dipshit mod for that community banning and removing everyone that so much as whispered in the oppose direction of their little echo chamber.

So, I did what anyone with a few extra minutes and a healthy understanding of the concept of hypocrisy would do- I created an opportunity to allow the mod to step up and prove me right.

The Apparent OP in Question

I'm too lazy to actually form any opinion here I'm just gonna provide context and munch on whatever 🍿 ensues.

Yep, my prior identity before my instance shut down was banned from there for similar reasons. Bitter little troll runs it. Makes you wonder how they intend to convert people to their way of thinking if they don't have the patience to engage in thoughtful discussion about differing points of view. If you can't make your point, then maybe you don't have a point to make?

Never mind the assumptions made about the people they're banning in order to "justify" the ban.

Been there, done that

they no likey any dissent or even discussion whatsoever

follow the propaganda line

Same mod. Tankies on Lemmy feel like they are just pushing Trump all the time by criticizing the Democrats and anyone who votes for them. And it is telling that they go after the DemSocs even more even though DemSocs are a step in the right direction.

Makes you wonder how they intend to convert people to their way of thinking if they don't have the patience to engage in thoughtful discussion about differing points of view.

"It's not my job to educate you!" /j

I get that there are trolls and people engaging in bad faith, but it feels like nearly nobody has any patience for differing points of view anymore. Disagreement or just unfamiliarity is now some sort of unforgivable moral failing, no one is allowed to have previously held a different opinion that changed, and people who agree with you but not to the same level of extremity are the worst of all because they are traitors. Insane fucking purity tests. Keep us all fighting each other instead of ever being able to coordinate enough to effect any change.

So damn frustrating.

Yeah, they promptly started trying to decry the NY mayor as some kind of 'liberal blue-maga genocidal zionist' within a week because he said it's not ok to go firebomb a local synagogue or something. I'm pretty sure there's no possible outcome that would satisfy some of them.

They some years back at least wanted to ban everyone from all sorts of words after the R one was disallowed. Idiot, stupid, all sorts of stuff. I am against banning words, and don't think banning everyone from using one because some are misusing it is effective. But I gave way on the R word, that's not my focus.

But I don't entirely have a good view of their mods either although I never got a violation on their sub as I recall..

Why would you bother posting there unless you want to stir up shit? The act of doing so deserves getting shutdown, IMO. I'm not one of their users, but I agree that you're provoking them and should be blocked.

After reading that, I’d have said the exact same thing. That mod clearly has no idea how hypocritical they are.

Did you not read my comment?

They don't want discussion, they want to spread propaganda. Propaganda works better if there is noone pointing out that it's misinformation or some kind of false narrative, so they ban everyone who dares to explain that. It's the same modus operandi as has been used in reddit subs like theDonald/conservatives/latestagecapitalism since at least 2016.

They also know that they're not going to convince most people, but they don't need to, they only need to convince a small number of people that both sides are the same and that voting is pointless for a hypothetical 49.9-50.1 election to turn into 50.1-49.9.

Fuck that, tankies are a disease.

Why would you bother posting here unless you want to stir up shit? The act of doing so deserves getting shutdown, IMO. I'm on the internet, but I agree that you're provoking them and should be blocked.

Wtf :(. This all seems like "so and so is a nazi because they're not nazi enough for me"

Mamdani hasn't done anything wrong so far.

I have actually seen people policing the words idiot and stupid here as recently as 3 months ago. I genuinely don't think anyone has seen those words as ableist, ever.

(Sure it hurts if someone calls you stupid in person in front of others, because it implies they're confident enough to pick out a pattern of behaviour, but it doesn't mean "you have a disability." Being called R word on the other hand will always hurt unless its an established thing among friends.)

If they want to police language forsooth then methinks we might well wind back the sandtimer to get medieval speak!

And I think they only give violations for debating/arguing with them. Which is just the tankie cherry on top