Sometimes I will run into threads like this of tankies disparaging the small socialist movements we do have here in the US. They will also pretend that they don't do such a thing.

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I forgot to block Lemmy.ml, responded to a meme, and had several genocide-denying tankies show up like an angry ant colony.

Instance blocking is such a great feature lol

mls 🤝 attacking non ml leftists because they prefer fascism to non ml leftism

true in spain, true in germany, true in the usa, true in all centuries, get mad nerds

Tankies just want their own dear leader to oppress people under.

I just learned how to block communities I have been banned from before blocking them. You know, mod overreach and them being little pissbabies. They beat me to the punch a few times. How do you block whole instances? Thanks in advance.

Normally to block a community I did it from the sidebar. After being banned that button goes away for some godawful reason when it is most needed. You can still add the communities to your block list manually in user settings. Thanks again to the user who told me about that last week.

By what definition is "ml leftism" not an oxymoron?

Seems kinda crappy that Mamdani took this position tho

I don't think they want anything - they just like to shit fling.

They're what happened to the worst, most contrary child you had in your school after they grew up and stopped having a forced audience to antagonize.

I’m using Mlem for iOS, and I’ll search for instances in the search tab, long-press, and block that way.

There’s a way to do it on the web version — I just can’t remember at the moment since I primarily use an app.

I found this, though. Hope it helps!

Tankies often lament that the label is about left bashing, so maybe they should set the example on that. In either case Mamdami is doing more for progressive movements than most. We should pick up the slack where he cannot rather than just bash him for not being able to take on every issue at the same time. Its a team effort.

Naa they think they will be the dear leader and run everything, not realizing they'll be the ones in the gulags.

Fair. He is one of very few progressive voices we have in American politics. He's got my support.

Thanks! It was there the whole time I just didn't scroll all the way down. My much longer list of blocked communities left it hiding all the way at the bottom. The first row is as long as whatever entry is the longest.

Hopefully this lays the groundwork toward having an actual progressive/left party in america long term.

You don't have to be a "tankie" to criticize Mamdani and his half arsed agenda that he constantly abandons. Such as keeping the far right police chief, tempering his criticism of israel, supporting hakim jeffries against a proposed primary, reinstating homeless encampment sweeps and on and on. Hell he doesn't support workers control of the means of production hardly a socialist in any real sense.

Its a fair take, but it really says more about how much work we have to do. Tankies are basically saying that the task is so huge we should not even try in their critiques of Mamdami and voting to grow the number of progressive politicians we could have.

Note that this does not mean we stop other forms of organizing.

Seating arrangement.

Not even joking.

I don't want or care about "progressive politicians and rulers" we should have no politicians or rulers at all.

I don’t want or care about “progressive politicians and rulers” we should have no politicians or rulers at all.

I am empathetic to that as an end goal, but that is even farther off. You should still help us promote leftist policy were possible.

"zio"

Tankies trying not to be antisemitic, impossible.

tankies likes being racist as conservatives are. funny hes more "left" than aoc and bernie. tankies just dont know how to take incremental changes.

same, plus any individual users who are part of it too. blocked .worlds politics as well. i try not to block too much as there is already too little content on lemmy.

What?

Anti-zionism isn't antisemitism.

The Zio- pejorative has direct origins to David Duke, the Grand Wizard of the KKK, which he uses as a dogwhistle to describe Jews and the zog conspiracy.

The latest chapter in the Chicago Dyke March controversy unfolded late last week after the group walked back its use of the term “Zio,” a pejorative brought into prominence by former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke and often deployed by white supremacists.

Antisemites use "zio" as a dog-whistle. They hide their antisemitism in antizionism.

You're blaming the wrong person. The blame isn't on Mamdani for doing what he's doing—or rather not doing everything he should be—the blame is on the system for impending his progress.

Now there's an argument to be made against him participating in that system at all instead of trying to usurp it totally.

Expect he's not doing many things he could easily do, he doesn't need to keep Tisch as police commissioner he could easily get rid of her, he didn't have to come out against a Primary against Hakim Jeffries, He didn't have to concede to bans at protest at "places of worship" and on and on.

MLs and Capitalists are hidden friends, who excuse themselves with each other. They may look like sworn enemies but in fact they depend on the other for self-justification.