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What's with worldnews banning me for saying the USSR didn't singlehandedly defeat the Nazis?
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JustPlainDave lemmy.zip JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-09-09
#102 ·

This is not an anti-communism or anti-socialism rant.

Doubt it all you want, it's true.

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trainsrkool lemmy.ml trainsrkool@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2026-06-05
#103 ·

My time on Lemmy drastically improved when I blocked the "Tankie Triad", which is Lemmygrad, Hexbear, and Lemmy(dot)ml. I also unsubscribed from anything .ml and manually searched for the next most-popular non-tankie community for that topic. I don't care if you have different beliefs than me, but tankies are unreasonable, trolling, and biased, in both content and moderation. They're not around...

gots to block those evil communists! can't have anything not approved by the empire getting into my liberal echo chamber!! šŸ„€

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trainsrkool lemmy.ml trainsrkool@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2026-06-05
#104 ·

Ya the guys in Lemmy.ml tend to be pretty weird like that. They aren't a monolith but in general they tend to think that Russia, China, and North Korea have never done anything bad and that all the evil in the world comes from capitalism in europe and America and that the whole world will be fixed when The Revolution comes. It is all sort of like evangelical Christianity with the numbers filed ...

thats because its true, if you left your liberal echo chamber and read real news and read theory properly it would all make sense šŸ˜’

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trainsrkool lemmy.ml trainsrkool@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2026-06-05
#105 ·

Lemmy was started by authoritarian communists (often called tankies) who got banned from Reddit, so they are generally more abundant here. They have their own alternate version of reality where the USSR was the most perfect society to ever exist and the west is the source of all evil in the world. There are a few instances (aka servers) they tend to congregate on, but the main one is Lemmy.ml. ...

no such thing as authoritarian lib

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trainsrkool lemmy.ml trainsrkool@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2026-06-05
#106 ·

Sometimes a user's views don't align with the echo chamber they are posting in. When that happens in a political community, it usually ends in removal to protect said echo chamber. I never see anyone get called a Nazi in cat picture communities.

"echo chamber" haha thats rich comin from the lib servers 🤣

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trainsrkool lemmy.ml trainsrkool@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2026-06-05
#107 ·

You're better off blocking Lemmy.ml

plz do, us communists wouldnt mind a drop off of libs and an increase in iq

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JustPlainDave lemmy.zip JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-09-09
#108 ·

gots to block those evil communists! can't have anything not approved by the empire getting into my liberal echo chamber!! šŸ„€

Nah, communists are cool. Tankies can get fucked.

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Diva (she/her) lemmy.ml Diva@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-10-25
#109 ·

Doubt it all you want, it's true.

literally every major western power had a similar treaty with germany too, singling out the molotov-ribbentrop pact while ignoring western appeasement is selective historical memory. 'human waves' line is a trope from cold war propaganda, dehumanizing soviet soldiers and minimizing the victory. they won on their own merits under catastrophic conditions and were a more capable fighting force than the allies by the end.

that's why your protestation rings a bit hollow.

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JustPlainDave lemmy.zip JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-09-09
#110 · (edited)

thats just amerikkka rewriting history with their mass propaganda machine haha

And here's a Ruzzian rewriting history to whitewash themselves.

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trainsrkool lemmy.ml trainsrkool@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2026-06-05
#111 ·

lemmy.ml is a tankie instance. Anyone and anything from there can be disregarded entirely.

liberal worlder: "Tankies = anything remotely leftist"

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JustPlainDave lemmy.zip JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-09-09
#112 ·

hahaha yeah amerikkka rly tipped the scales coming in at the very end just in time to claim credit and not actually do shit, liberals 🤣

The very end? The US entered the war in 1941. The war ended in 1945.

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trainsrkool lemmy.ml trainsrkool@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2026-06-05
#113 ·

Nah, communists are cool. Tankies can get fucked.

"Tankies" are the actual left liberal 🫠

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trainsrkool lemmy.ml trainsrkool@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2026-06-05
#114 ·

itt a bunch of anticommie liberals dont kno what I expected coming from !slop@hexbear.net but at the same time it was exactly what I expected haha šŸ„€

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JustPlainDave lemmy.zip JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-09-09
#115 ·

literally every major western power had a similar treaty with germany too, singling out the molotov-ribbentrop pact while ignoring western appeasement is selective historical memory. 'human waves' line is a trope from cold war propaganda, dehumanizing soviet soldiers and minimizing the victory. they won on their own merits under catastrophic conditions and were a more capable fighting force tha...

literally every major western power had a similar treaty with germany too, singling out the molotov-ribbentrop pact

But it's only cool when the Soviets did, right? Btw, the US never did.

while ignoring western appeasement is selective historical memory

Who's ignoring appeasement? Neville Chamberlain and Vichy France are not remembered fondly by anyone, for example.

'human waves' line is a trope from cold war propaganda, dehumanizing soviet soldiers and minimizing the victory.

The dehumanizing of Soviet soldiers was done by the USSR government by treating them as expendable.

they won on their own merits under catastrophic conditions and were a more capable fighting force than the allies by the end.

šŸ™„ I have no doubt that the average Soviet soldier was a good fighter, it was their overlords that sucked and couldn't run a war without sacrificing millions.

that's why your protestation rings a bit hollow.

Only to deranged tankies who think that because the USSR was communist it could do no wrong.

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JustPlainDave lemmy.zip JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-09-09
#116 ·

itt a bunch of anticommie liberals dont kno what I expected coming from !slop@hexbear.net but at the same time it was exactly what I expected haha šŸ„€

You talk like a child.

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JustPlainDave lemmy.zip JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-09-09
#117 ·

"Tankies" are the actual left liberal 🫠

No, tankies are idiots who think that a communist nation can do no wrong. Just like Ancaps think that capitalist nations can do no wrong.

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87Six lemmy.zip 87Six@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-09-19
#118 ·

CoMmUnISm BadDDDddd capitalist daddy said so!

My bad I should've known even mentioning communism would make you cum all over yourself

I even said It's not bad but I think you came before getting to the last part

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trainsrkool lemmy.ml trainsrkool@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2026-06-05
#119 ·

No, tankies are idiots who think that a communist nation can do no wrong. Just like Ancaps think that capitalist nations can do no wrong.

"tankie" is a meaningless anticommie slur it has no real definition

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JustPlainDave lemmy.zip JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-09-09
#120 ·

"tankie" is a meaningless anticommie slur it has no real definition

Da, Comrade.

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someguy3 lemmy.world someguy3@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-04
#121 ·

thats because its not its an imperialist tool with nothing defensive about it, lib worlders man šŸ˜’

Exhibit A.

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Diva (she/her) lemmy.ml Diva@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-10-25
#122 · (edited)

literally every major western power had a similar treaty with germany too, singling out the molotov-ribbentrop pact But it's only cool when the Soviets did, right? Btw, the US never did. while ignoring western appeasement is selective historical memory Who's ignoring appeasement? Neville Chamberlain and Vichy France are not remembered fondly by anyone, for example. 'human waves' line is a trope...

your point about the US is actually wrong, the US had significant commercial and diplomatic engagement with nazi germany all through the 1930s; many US companies had business relationships which were not stopped by the state department at any point. Many US industrialists were aligned with Nazi germany and had considerable sway over government, to the point of planning coup when they felt they weren't getting their way.

US strategic bombing deliberately avoided hitting ford and GM owned plants in germany.

standard oil continued business relationships with IG farben through neutral countries until 1943

chase bank maintained accounts for nazi germany

Only to deranged tankies who think that because the USSR was communist it could do no wrong.

i'm an anarchist; believe it or not i have plenty of complaints about the USSR. those are beside the point right now though.

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JustPlainDave lemmy.zip JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-09-09
#123 ·

CoMmUnISm BadDDDddd capitalist daddy said so!

Not that communism is bad

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givesomefucks lemmy.world givesomefucks@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-30
#124 ·

Personally feel that was pretty rational considering the sheer amount of transphobic vitriol those threads always drew. I was tired of seeing them every time I scrolled, and some of the alt spamming transphobia stuff was completely out of hand. If you read the thread you linked announcing it, they also only banned a very specific genre of YPTB thread related to Blahaj, and other posts about Bla...

Feel like you are representing this really unfairly.

If you look at the timestamps that's an at least 2 year old post that recently seemed to get relaxed...

I've had both those instances blocked for at least two years, and was running off memory.

But I did take the time to search blajah just now, that mod post is the only post. It's possible there's some that just have a community name and are from that instance, but I doubt it.

I also just don't really care that much about drama with two instances I've had blocked for years.

Both places are full of power tripping mods/admins, whem I run into those places, I block them and move on

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Earthwormjim91 lemmy.world Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-11
#125 ·

liberal worlder: "Tankies = anything remotely leftist"

The two lead devs literally have Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, two of the most horrific scum in history, as their idols and spend their time dick riding Mao. They’re openly Tankies.

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trainsrkool lemmy.ml trainsrkool@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2026-06-05
#126 · (edited)

The two lead devs literally have Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, two of the most horrific scum in history, as their idols and spend their time dick riding Mao. They’re openly Tankies.

The two lead devs literally have Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, two of the most horrific scum according to Amrikkkan written history

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Earthwormjim91 lemmy.world Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-11
#127 ·

The two lead devs literally have Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, two of the most horrific scum according to Amrikkkan written history

Fidel Castro tortured and executed thousands of political dissidents.

Guevara implemented concentration camps for gays and literally took the motto of Auschwitz ā€œwork sets you freeā€ turning it into ā€œwork will turn you into menā€. Except he just had them tortured and executed. Along with hundreds of other political dissidents, himself personally taking part in the torture and murder of 216 people, making him one of the most prolific serial killers in history.

Now, fuck off tankie. The only good commie is a dead commie.

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trainsrkool lemmy.ml trainsrkool@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2026-06-05
#128 ·

Fidel Castro tortured and executed thousands of political dissidents. Guevara implemented concentration camps for gays and literally took the motto of Auschwitz ā€œwork sets you freeā€ turning it into ā€œwork will turn you into menā€. Except he just had them tortured and executed. Along with hundreds of other political dissidents, himself personally taking part in the torture and murder of 216 people...

haha yea! Amerikkka had no reason to lie about anything to do with cuba not lik they led the red scare and mercilessly shutdown any country that wanted communism, im sure they would tots not propagandize Castro.

go ahead and give me a non cia source then, zionazi lib

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JustPlainDave lemmy.zip JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-09-09
#129 · (edited)

your point about the US is actually wrong, the US had significant commercial and diplomatic engagement with nazi germany all through the 1930s; many US companies had business relationships which were not stopped by the state department at any point. Many US industrialists were aligned with Nazi germany and had considerable sway over government, to the point of planning coup when they felt they ...

US companies ≠ USA

Also, the companies that initially supported Germany did so mostly in private and cut ties when war was declared and their factories were seized by the Nazis.

US strategic bombing deliberately avoided hitting ford and GM owned plants in germany.

That's an urban legend with minimal Truth behind it. While the GM plant was completely leveled, the Ford plant only received structural damage, though it's supporting infrastructure was destroyed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rüsselsheim_massacre#%3A~%3Atext%3DOn_the_night_of_August_25%2C_the%2Cput_out_the_fires_in_their_homes.%3Fwprov=sfla1

During World War II, Rüsselsheim, an industrial town that housed many key targets, including the Opel plant, was bombed several times by the Royal Air Force (RAF). The RAF followed a policy of "area bombing" of cities at night while the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) relied on "precision bombing" by day.[1]

i'm an anarchist; believe it or not i have plenty of complaints about the USSR. those are beside the point right now though.

Conveniently beside the point.

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HuntressHimbo lemmy.zip HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-06-04
#130 ·

Feel like you are representing this really unfairly. If you look at the timestamps that's an at least 2 year old post that recently seemed to get relaxed... I've had both those instances blocked for at least two years, and was running off memory. But I did take the time to search blajah just now, that mod post is the only post. It's possible there's some that just have a community name and are ...

Just so you know, that community (really instance) is so biased they literally won't allow any criticism of your home instance...

So you led with a complete fabrication (2 years ago the admin of db0 is saying the ban should only cover that topic and that it should be temporary)

I also just don't really care that much about drama with two instances I've had blocked for years.

Which is why you felt the need to comment and lie about them. Sure thing. Any other things you don't care about you want to weigh in on unprompted?

Also I just looked and a post about 196 on Blahaj and transphobia is the 3rd post from the top excluding the pinned thread. šŸ˜‚

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whiskers165 lemmy.ml whiskers165@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2025-04-25
#131 ·

You talk like a child.

Picking on the way people talk is equally childish.

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LibertyLizard slrpnk.net LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2023-06-14
#132 · (edited)

no such thing as authoritarian lib

Yeah, it's really inconvenient for y'all when people have a word to accurately summarize the fatal flaw in your ideology isn't it?

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JustPlainDave lemmy.zip JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-09-09
#133 ·

Picking on the way people talk is equally childish.

"No u" - whiskers165@lemmy.ml

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JustPlainDave lemmy.zip JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-09-09
#134 ·

thats because its true, if you left your liberal echo chamber and read real news and read theory properly it would all make sense šŸ˜’

Real News? Can you provide an example?

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whiskers165 lemmy.ml whiskers165@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2025-04-25
#135 ·

The Soviets raped and killed everything in sight when they entered Romania. They can go to hell with their "help". They fought the nazis, and they took advantage of the rest of us. Nevermind how they installed a communist regime that ruined romania for like a decade or whatever. Not that communism is bad but that one sure was.

I don't think you speak for all Romanians

Majority of Romanians view Ceaușescu and communist era positively, study shows

Romania’s president has expressed concern after a new survey highlighted a growing sense of nostalgia for the communist era, with former totalitarian leader Nicolae Ceaușescu viewed positively by most Romanians.

The study, released this week, revealed that nearly 56% of Romanians believe the communist regime—widely regarded as one of the harshest of its era—brought more benefits than drawbacks to Romania.

A large majority of respondents—over 66%—told researchers they now regard former dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu, who ruled the country with an iron fist from 1965 to 1989, as a good leader.

The Institute for Public Opinion Polling (INSCOP) study, conducted with the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile (IICCMER), suggests that nostalgia for the past is tied to widespread disenchantment around the country’s current prospects.

Just over 27% of respondents said they believed things in Romania are heading in a good direction, with more than 63% feeling that the country is on the wrong track.

Groups most likely to share positive sentiments about the communist era included the over-60s, people on lower incomes, and those living in the countryside or small towns. The same groups expressed the greatest disillusionment with present-day Romania.

In total, over 48% of Romanians said they believed life was better under communism.

https://tvpworld.com/87994994/majority-of-romanians-nostalgic-for-communism-study-shows

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givesomefucks lemmy.world givesomefucks@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-30
#136 ·

Just so you know, that community (really instance) is so biased they literally won't allow any criticism of your home instance... So you led with a complete fabrication (2 years ago the admin of db0 is saying the ban should only cover that topic and that it should be temporary) I also just don't really care that much about drama with two instances I've had blocked for years. Which is why you fe...

I'm not sure why you'd think I'd have seen that when I just said it was blocked for years...

But I looked:

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/76216189?scrollToComments=true

The blajah admin saw comments they didn't like on a different instance, and instead of blocking the right person, blocked someone else....

I'm not sure why you'd support admins banning people for comments on completely different instances, but I honestly don't give a fuck, am not gonna try to change your mind, and am never going to see any other comments you ever post.

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HuntressHimbo lemmy.zip HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-06-04
#137 ·

I'm not sure why you'd think I'd have seen that when I just said it was blocked for years... But I looked: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/76216189?scrollToComments=true The blajah admin saw comments they didn't like on a different instance, and instead of blocking the right person, blocked someone else.... I'm not sure why you'd support admins banning people for comments on completely different ...

They immediately reversed the ban and handled it graciously, but I pointed this out because your assertion was you can't criticize Blahaj at all on that comm or that instance. Something that happened less than ten days ago, and where everyone walked away happy. Please by all means block me for pointing out the egg on your face

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AmidFuror fedia.io AmidFuror@fedia.io
Joined: 2024-03-11
#138 ·

Was not called a world war for nothing. There were tons of countries on the ā€œAlliesā€ side and tons on the ā€œAxisā€ side. A simple search for WWII Allies member or WWII Axis members will show who fought on each side. There are to many to list here. Britain, Soviet Union, USA, Canada and China to name a few for the allies. Nazi Germany, Italy, Japan, Republic of Finland, Hungary for the Axis side. ...

You forgot to include USSR on the Axis side too.

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BeBopALouie lemmy.ca Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-03-10
#139 ·

You forgot to include USSR on the Axis side too.

Yes they were but switched later on. If people want more in depth they can have a gander. There is so much stuff in it all.

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bedwyr piefed.ca bedwyr@piefed.ca
Joined: 2026-03-23
#140 ·

World news is modded by zionists, or is this a different world news? Lemmy has like a lot with similar names. It's a thing on here too, although less so. Especially on world news with zionists.

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ExLisper lemmy.curiana.net ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
Joined: 2025-03-22
#141 ·

First, some people on lemmy are simply stupid. Doesn't make sense to engage with everyone.

Second, a lot of people on lemmy like to ignore what you really say and find some hidden messages everywhere. "You didn't say you hate X so you must love Y, you nazi/homophobe/racist/communist/whatever". Not much you can do about it. It's best to just block them.

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bedwyr piefed.ca bedwyr@piefed.ca
Joined: 2026-03-23
#142 ·

Was this on .ml? The’re just a bunch of wannabe communist posers and the biggest collection of mentally handicapped authoritarians social media has ever seen. You were given a gift. Now see it through and block that shirhole of an instance.

To be fair the users of .ml aren't all bad, but their mods are, as are their enforcers. Hexbear is even worse. It's top down, it's not organic entirely, it's the long palsied arm of russian intelligence, pushing an ideologogy that if they pushed it in Russia or China would get sent to a gulag or reeducations camp.

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JustPlainDave lemmy.zip JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-09-09
#143 ·

World news is modded by zionists, or is this a different world news? Lemmy has like a lot with similar names. It's a thing on here too, although less so. Especially on world news with zionists.

It's the .ml one

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bedwyr piefed.ca bedwyr@piefed.ca
Joined: 2026-03-23
#144 ·

It's the .ml one

They are aggressive in making sure their sheep do not get counter manipulated.

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Chaunticleer lemmy.dbzer0.com Chaunticleer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2026-04-29
#145 · (edited)

And here's a Ruzzian rewriting history to whitewash themselves.

Soon more will follow. They mostly move in groups in matters of circlejerking that country and projecting phatasmal Nazis to defeat

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JustPlainDave lemmy.zip JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-09-09
#146 ·

Soon more will follow. They mostly move in groups in matters of circlejerking that country and projecting phatasmal Nazis to defeat

Always two there are.

  • Yoda
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Chaunticleer lemmy.dbzer0.com Chaunticleer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2026-04-29
#147 · (edited)

"tankie" is a meaningless anticommie slur it has no real definition

What did daddy Hasan call your ilk? Woke 11 or something? Folks who can't hang. Ones that progressives have to work around because you're allergic to touching grass.

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Chaunticleer lemmy.dbzer0.com Chaunticleer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2026-04-29
#148 ·

In reply to an earlier post

Those two are specifically emmirants from .ml. Ones with a colorful history in the modlog, though you'd have to use their .ml handle

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TankieTanuki lemmy.world TankieTanuki@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-03-08
#149 ·

In reply to an earlier post

waow-based

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TankieTanuki lemmy.world TankieTanuki@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-03-08
#150 ·

You forgot to include USSR on the Axis side too.

Consistently applying that logic would put nearly all the Allies on the Axis side

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Godric lemmy.world Godric@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-09
#151 ·

.ml comm? It's pretty funny how they can't even run an online community without censorship.

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