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  • Lol no, Tankie are authoritarians who've latched onto regimes who merely claim to be communistic/socialist i.e. China and Russia. That's the part people hate, not communism/socialism in general

  • Yea, on .ml as long as you're in the in crowd you can say all pejoratives you want like "shitlib" and the most you'll (maybe) get is a 24 hour ban, but if you say tankie you'll get slapped with at least a 14 day ban

  • Basically, .ml Tankies (I don't consider all .ml users to be Tankies just because they're a .ml users) are authoritarian bootlickers “communists” pretending not to be who routinely deny the human rights violations of the CCP/Russia and hold them up as the gold standard. They refuse to recognize China, Russia and even NK as being authortarian regimes or if they do, its OK/Neccessary because it takes down the west/capitalism. If you have a historical fact that puts any of those countries in a bad light, they’ll probably deny it happend or is just “western propganda.”

    So they believe and spread things like the Russia narratives on Ukraine (When it happened they were parroting the whole “special military operation” thing, the current thing is that it was “just a diplomatic maneuver to bring Ukraine to the negotiating table”)

    Hex and Grad are very in your face about it, but .ml tends to be more subtle, often opting instead to remove dissenting comments and ban users before letting threads get out of control. So, as a result many instances defed from those 2.

    .ml is run by the head Lemmy devs who are, unfortunately, hardcore Tankies themselves and tend to enforce the Tankie mindset throughout with more subtlety through mod/admin action. Or allowing known propaganda outlets to fester

    You can check out !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works if you want to see some documentation of their actions, words and censoring. What I've linked here is but a mere sampling of what's been collected there

  • Why did you tell me that‽

    Great, now I have even MORE domains, are you happy now?

  • Mosquitos are a nuisance to every mammal, I think if we could talk to animals this is how it would go down

    Human: "So anyways we've been mulling over making the mosquito extinct, but it might have some consequences for yo..."

    Mammals: "WTF BRO YOU COULD HAVE DONE THAT THE ENTIRE TIME! WHY TF ARE YOU STILL HERE GET RID OF THOSE FUCKERS!"

  • They're invasive of the PLANET

  • Half a dozen out of 6k+ lmao

  • The mosquito one is absolutely BS, there's 6k+ species of mosquitoes but only like a couple bite humans

    The bats and shit will be fine, it's time to eradicate mosquitoes!

  • Real trash > Fake exaggerated trash

  • Reality shows are fake garbage, I need real quality garbage

  • That's because milk is a great hydrator and you probably drink enough water on top, try doing straight calcium and not enough water

  • Because it's like watching a reality TV show, but that's actually real and not just scripted trash

    Drama is fun to know about, not to participate in

  • Lol I adjusted the title to make it less click-baity

  • It's been 15 minutes and I still don't see a post! Slacking! Or was a supposed to grease the palms with some latinum? lmao XD

  • I crosspost what I can from .ml comms to the nearest relevant non-.ml comm as part of ongoing efforts to boycott and reduce .ml's influence on the wider Lemmy-verse because of the Tankie ideology the admin team of that instance enforce through censorship of views critical of Authoritarian regimes and allowing known propaganda outlets (such as RT) to fester (see !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works for what evidence and documentation has been gathered thus far)

    That being said, everything else I crosspost is still visible as a crosspost via the crosspost icon that shows on posts.

    Text posts like this are tricky since there's no URL for the crosspost system to track and I don't want to leave the link in place because that would make things too easy and possibly work in counter to my efforts. So to that end, I feel tagging the user is sufficient credit. People still know it's some form of a crosspost, I'm not the OOP, and they know the name of the OOP should they really want to go to the original post

  • Why say lot word when few do trick

  • I think this comm is more suited for news articles talking about it, though I did post that link to !ai_@lemmy.world which I think would be a more suited comm for those who want to go more in-depth on it

  • That bit about how it turns out they aren't actually just predicting the next word is crazy and kinda blows the whole "It's just a fancy text auto-complete" argument out of the water IMO