Me: googles tankie

Last week highly-upvoted comment on reddit claimed that environmentalism is nothing more than russian-bot fueled fad.

So, I’ve been exploring these comments for the past 30 mins. They honestly make me wonder; are we seeing an echo chamber effect by instance?

Does Lemmy have any tools to count upvote/downvote by user instances, especially by comment layer. I think I want to dive into this rabbit hole.

I’d say it’s because the bar for “tankie” is “anyone who had a problem with selling weapons for genocide.”

So what. What is your problem. What is the goal of this platform if is just Reddit

😐 Banning harmless things because a dictator doesn’t like them

😃️ Banning harmless things because a dictator doesn’t like them, People’s Republic of China/Union of Soviet Socialist Republics/any other “leftist” dictatorship

Definitely not the only place, but certainly one of the more predictable.

A bullshit false equivalence that only serves to amplify alt-right messaging? Yeah, I’d downvote that garbage, too.

or a do-nothing centrist who’d rather let the fascists win in order to keep the left down, right?

But dont forget to vote blue no matter who, leftists!

That’s lemmygrad (THE tankie instance, with Hexbear), not lemmy.ml (the dev’s instance). Please do not conflate them together. And I say this as a dbzero user.

Cry more, bigot. I see the comments you’ve had removed by mods.

You went into a community which defines itself as Tankies, compared them to Fascists, and now you come here whining about it?

🤦‍♂️ Obviously never been involved in any left wing activism, because oh boy oh boy you’d quickly realise just how authoritarian our liberal democracies are.

I’ll downvote that too.

It seems to #bothsides an issue via a lot of hyperbole, and risks straw-manning one side just for a favourable comparison.

I don’t colour myself a tankie, but I do live in a more socialist country than America - low bar, such as it is. I sense I’m not in a position to properly understand how your argument can make sense, but the kneejerk comparison I feel needs some explanation before just throwing that smelly fish out there.

It’s not cut-and-dried, but presented as such. It’s not helpful and relevant by itself. Thus, downvote.

I swear, for the people who’ve yet to experience getting caught in .ml crossfire these constant stories verge on some Jason Voorhees Boogieman shit for me ahaha

Does everyone who finds themselves on lemmygrad just show up to start debates? I’ve never just accidentally wandered into an .ml instance and then felt compelled to start throwing hands about Tiananmen Square lol

This stuff has got to be some of my all time favorite Lemmy lore and I look forward to the day I find a reason to be banned from there too.