This goes out to my homies on the .ml instances!

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.

It's reassuring that most people have forgotten about hexbear.

Governments can and should be criticized without bigotry towards the governed populace. We should always take the side of the civilians, as we are civilians too.

It is in fact these governments producing massive amounts of propaganda to demonize “the other side.” What might they have to gain from global culture wars such as this?

I got several comments deleted on .ml for insulting bitch ass pooh bear Xi, even called racist as if dictator is a race.

I got banned from a ml community for saying NATO is a defensive alliance lol.

Yes, I've read Marx and Engels. Yes, I've read Conquest Of Bread. Yes, I've read Lenin. Yes, I've read up on the history of socialist movements.

But yeah, I'm just an ignorant anti-tankie swine. If I read one more Holy Text, THEN I would be enlightened.

I adore Marx, and the only reason I don't regard myself as a Marxist is because I'm not married to many of his interpretations which have been somewhat superseded by later sociological theory on the importance of non-material conditions and postmodernist critiques of structured narratives within the soft sciences. But hey, I'm just some right-wing chud, clearly. I hold every opinion ascribed to me in this comment thread despite often and on this very website espousing the literal opposite position.

This is why tankies and their apologists are so fucking insufferable.

The fun part about being federated with Hexbear is seeing extremely team-based world views that are different from the ones I normally see. I'm used to seeing people who are blindly pro-America. It's weird seeing people who can't imagine China ever doing anything wrong.

Ah so that's why when I compared the smearing of student protests in the US on the grounds of "anti-semitism" as similar to China calling student protests "counter-revolutionary" I got slapped down by someone for "always criticizing China" and my comment was removed.

I'd never even mentioned Chine until that point so I found it completely bizarre.

I see so much whining about tankies, and so few tankies.

Once world has defederated from .ml, which is the next instance to be designated the tankie instance?

State run capitalism is not the way

I'm on ml, it's actually quite nice shitposting and linux memes. I think this is mostly true for the insufferable assholes at hexbear. Just block them.

ayo bruv, don't be slandering all of us

And many just invert the reactions. Not better, in my opinion.

Is the hypocrisy being portrayed here that they should agree criticism of Israel is anti-semitic? Or they should disagree criticism of China is anti-Chinese?

yeah, seems legit

Two leaning things attract people: The leaning tower and people leaning left😃

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Just what Lemmy needs, more toxic instance bickering

being against a genocide, and repeating blatant lies about a country are two different things though

I don't know, seems a lot of the tankies are saying the top one too from what I've seen

Communist China*

You can criticize Real China all you want

Libs and whining about imaginary tankies on .ml name a better combo

Well, in their defense, when white liberals start criticizing China the white supremacist dogwhistles are never far behind.

I mean... just look at the shitlibs congregating on this post of yours.

Damn you roasted that strawman.

Are the tankies in the room with us now?