cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24992262
A positive score comment chastising an evil dictatorship for supporting a fascist gets removed.
this post was submitted on 01 Feb 2025
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YDI. That statement is overbroad, and the mods were right to hand out a ban for baiting people into an argument, especially since Tankies ≠ Anarchists in the first place.
Also, your conclusion is a non sequitur.
Nobody argued with me, my comment was +12 -4 with no replies.
And the community wouldnt remove a comment insulting Tankies unless the community was Tankies. Read their sidebar, it's an "anticapitalist" community.
Ratio is meaningless. Communities are not democracies, and mods have every right to ensure people don't get into bad-faith arguments. Additionally, some instances have downvotes turned off and some users don't bother with them even if they're on. Votes are necessarily a biased sample, so pointing to your ratio is about as useful as saying, "But look how many chocolate coins I got!"
Anyway, removing a comment about Tankies doesn't mean you support Tankies, especially when it's obvious ragebait. "You don't agree with me, therefore you're against me" is irrational.
Also, anticapitalist ≠ Tankie, just as being a communist or socialist or anarchist isn't equivalent. It just means you don't like capitalism. How that perspective is expressed in each community will vary, and just because Tankies don't like capitalists doesn't mean that it follows that everyone who doesn't like capitalists is also a Tankie.
There was no argument as you implied, I just made a comment which was perfectly aligned with the community and post it was made on but perfectly disaligned with the Tankie mods.
Right. There was no argument, because the mods prevented one.
If you feel their actions were unjust, bring it up with the mods. Make your case, and appeal their decision. Based on your other comments, however, it just seems like you're looking for sympathy.
It got seen by over a dozen people with no problem and wasn't even questioned by four people with a problem, but more importantly it was topical and only insulted people who wish us harm so whether it would have created a discussion or not should be fine unless the mods were Tankies.
I will not lower myself to beg Tankies to be on their Tankie Community, thats beyond stupid.
Or they don't want to deal with obvious trolls in their community?
See it being removed for flamebait
It insults Tankies, that's not trolling that's rationality at its finest, and should be a core pillar of any true anarchy.
What's a tankie?
People who promote authoritarian regimes such as Joseph Stalin's USSR and Mao Zedong's CCP.
It comes from describing people who sided with the Tanks in 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre where a reporter recorded a video of a tank flattening a protester who stood in their way, during nationwide unrest across China which resulted in millions of deaths as the CCP used military directly on its own citizens. It was recorded by journalists from all over the world and led to global sanctions against China from many many nations. It also coincided with roughly the fall of the USSR.
They're a huge problem here on Lemmy because there are state funded campaigns with troll farms and bots actively promote chaos and destruction in nations that oppose modern day Russia, North Korea, Iran, and China. Their main choice of weapon is pretending to be promoters of communism, anarchism, and liberation of minorities standing against the evil corruption of capitalism, when in practice they don't support communism or oppose capitalism by definition and those words just mean "their homeland" and "western government" respectively. They call NATO, the worlds largest defence pact and main deterrent from Chinese and Russian expansion, a form of "US Imperialism that oppresses others."
Tankies want war. They don't care about minorities or civil rights. They want us to harm ourselves and our nations so that their nation can become stronger.
So by definition not nazis.
Something something horse shoe
A Tankie is not a nazi, I never said they were, I said Tankies actively support Nazis, which is true.
Nice edit to remove calling them nazis and nazi supporters lolol
link me to the comment you're talking about
EDIT: Also I still say they're nazi supporters thats 100% true
Really just proving the reason you got comments removed and possibly banned for ragebaiting
Tankie comes from the USSR rolling tanks into Hungary during the uprising of ‘56.
Never seen that. Only that protester made tank stop instead of flattening him. USA would have definitely showed me pancake tank man if there was one.