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Guess I'm another proud ban of the world news .ml instance. Honestly, the pettiness of the mods over there is insane. They're a cult. I can't help but think they're at least partly hijacked by some state sponsored astroturfing campaign.
Couple weeks back I got a 30 day. Made no comment in their instance. Was a random preemptive ban. The mod account listed the reason as a rule 4 violation. That's their rule for spam and ads.
Yup it has been fairly recent that they've just started handing out bans for activity on other instances. You can tell they are very upset that they aren't the biggest instance anymore and hate that they can't control the whole fediverse as such.
Yep and for commenting here I picked up a few more preemptive bans in other sections of ml.
It's pitiful behavior really. If their ideology was so solid they shouldn't need to stop someone like me also on the left disagreeing with their authoritarian solutions. Everyone should be against authoritarianism period.
Ooo so we can make jokes about "you have been banned from ml".
The modlog there is wonderful. Bans all over the place without context to the reasons, what the banned might have done, or who was the mod
It's because if you get into it with a tankies on another instance, or talk shit about them (like in this thread) they will get butthurt and go find anything you've posted on .ml recent and ban you for it.
People need to realize that .ml isn't some innocent actor just trying to keep themselves free of trolls. They 100% intend to leverage their status within the fediverse to keep their thumb on the scale.
Anything against groupthink is removed. Downvotes are not enough. It straight to the gulag.
well, that's at least in line with how things are run by the CCP
They banned me from memes because I won an argument with the mod about how Credit Scores work in the USA.
How dare you, you monster!
I got an account banned for suggesting that their meme responses are childish and cringy.
How dare you suggest Xi Xinping isn't the greatest benefactor of humanity of all times, you filthy capitalist pig? And I'm only slightly exaggerating here.
They don’t like it when I drag my balls across Xi Jinping’s face and he starts motorboating for sure.
Is it ml or grad that hosts a Mao reading group on their discord?
Not sure, but
.mlmakes you quote from an approved list of communist dogma as part of the application process 😆I am not making that up: https://lemmy.ml/signup
That's something relatively new. And funny.
That's actually hilarious though
Patrick, that work is from Engels and marxists.org is a Trotskyist site. Hardly tankie shit
Right, these people are absolutely convinced they know everything but they fail at even basic leftist history.
Holy shit that place is both the joke, and the punchline.
Engels is actually quite good, but their dogma seems to fan more about the later anti-communist reactionary vanguard and bourgeois dictatorship bullshit
They have a discord?
This explains the coordination attacking people who make anti Hamas statements.
Ml is very anti-West in my experience. I heard about that kind of thing existing but wow. I think they conglomerated on Lemmy long before Lemmy was popular.
Lemmy was made by and is developed by Marxist-Leninists as a response to Reddit. You aren't going to find any pro-west Marxist-Leninists. The admins of Lemmy.ml are also Marxist-Leninists, so in general Lemmy.ml is going to be far less pro-west than Lemmy.World, which is a Liberal Instance.
Lemmy.ml has fantastic FOSS and Privacy communities, so not all members are Marxists, but generally liberals coming from Reddit go to Lemmy.world, while Marxists go to other communities, in my experience.
I got banned from one of the .ml communities in my first week here for simply saying I didn't believe in any particular form of government.
Like, that's all I said. I told them socialism, capitalism, communism - I think we need a mix, not a selection. And they were like BANNED. I didn't swear, nor was a disrespectful - I simply dissented, and their CCP brains exploded from my audacity.
This was way back when most of us came over on the FuckSpezflower.
I blocked them because their users, thinking I was Jewish, were constantly harassing me.
Oh so that's why Lemmy is morbidly centrist/neoliberal.
Centrist? People may not be full blown Marxist around here, but they're pretty close. Just ask about landlords or universal healthcare or unions.
lmao no people regularly call me a shill for the CCP/Russia/etc at a frequency I've not encountered in other online spaces. they call me "grad", hexbear etc, like those are slurs? The transphobia is rampantly unchecked, any trans related article has a ton of gender-critical (transphobic) take. My experience is that there may be some Token Issues, but generally people are very centrist and hostile to leftists.
Dude, your instance is all about trans people? I am kinda new here (6 months?), and I almost never see any hate speech towards trans people, at most some comment with 50 downvotes that is going to me deleted by a mod in a couple odd hours…
And maybe you are confusing leftists with tankies. Tankies think that russia and china are ok, because they are anti-us imperialism, and defend the soviet union because it was socialist and what not. Most leftist here aren’t tankies, and they recognize that china, russia and the ussr where/are brutal regimes that killed thousands. We still want socialism, but we don’t support genocide because you pretend to be socialist/anti capitalist/imeperialist…
I'm talking about gender critical, it's not overt transphobia so you have to pay attention and look out for more than just slurs.
I'm not confusing tankies and lefties, for one tankies are a subcategory of leftists. But people on here see any leftist comment and will comment about people being shills.
The transphobia is rampantly unchecked, any trans related article has a ton of gender-critical (transphobic) take.
I'm talking about gender critical, it's not overt transphobia so you have to pay attention and look out for more than just slurs.
My my, look how fast those goalposts move...
I'm not confusing tankies and lefties, for one tankies are a subcategory of leftists.
Tankies are a subcategory of authoritarians.
The trans to tankie pipeline is imo even more fascinating than the hippie to fascist one. I like to hang out in blahaj just to gawk at it.
Like, if you go to Russia or China they will kill you. The "liberals" you hate so much are what's protecting your existence. You're like a Black person praising the KKK for fighting against government tyranny.
I've known a surprising amount of online trans liberals who moved to the alt-right as well. Probably something about societal pressures releasing (or forcing) the unmooring of norms (in this case, of ideology) and thus shifting trans folk towards non-standard ideologies. Or, if one prefers, releasing them from the influence of our society instilling the ideology of liberal democracy, since that is the mainstream of all political mainstreams in the West.
That's the same thing I said before? About gender critical? I wasn't moving the goalposts I was literally reminding you what I told you.
I'm not going to bother with your misunderstanding of political theory.
There's a big gap between "transphobia is rampantly unchecked" and "it's not overt transphobia", whether you want to acknowledge that or not.
The "political theory" spouted by tankies is a cover. They reveal their true nature in the people that they glorify, such Mao, Stalin, Xi Jinping and even the Kim dynasty.
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