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Oh look, another sub to ban.
Bye, Tankie.
“Oh my god, that person questioned my narrative about “x” they must be whomever I’m othering because I’m insecure and it’s easier to take trash than deeply reflect why. I’m going to label them that, that’ll teach them.” Please. 🥱
I love it when they burst into a rant about how easily offended others are when you call them out on 'banning' (blocking) a sub for having a meme they didn't like, lmao.
It's even more hilarious 'cause I got banned from one of the tankie subs for asking the idiot I was arguing with if he got dropped on his head as a baby. They flagged that as "ableism" and kicked me out. LOL. Hypocritical, crybaby bitches.
I mean, they banned you for having a funny username, and they banned me for asking if someone was dropped on their head as a baby. They're crybaby bitches.
As for sources, I'm assuming most of that was posted after I was banned and could no longer reply. The only one I remember ignoring completely was one dummy who posted some hour long justification piece by Lukashenko, and like... I'm not about to waste my time listening to a dictator talking shop.
As for my penchant for insulting people... yeah. I don't suffer fools gladly. It's just not in me. So I amuse myself by telling them precisely what I think of them without couching the language.
I think you're confused about the meaning of "suffering fools". You can suffer fools by being polite to them, or refuse to suffer them by being real with them.
Here is Merriam Webster's definition of this incredibly common colloquialism.
Now, as a practical example, me sharing that definition with you is being polite to a moron (i.e suffering a fool). You had every opportunity to look it up before spouting off, but you didn't. You just chose to show your ignorance instead. When I say that I don't suffer fools gladly, I'm not making up my own definition as you seem to suggest; I'm using the widely understood one.
Why do I give a shit about being banned from a sub filled with morons? They're obviously free to ban anybody they'd like, for any stupid reason they'd like. For example, they banned you for having the handle "gayhitler420", and they banned me for asking politely if someone suffered brain injury as a child. Both of which are, in my opinion at least, incredibly snowflakey reasons to ban someone. If being banned by a group of shiteating howler monkeys is the price to pay for telling them that they are morons, well, I pay it gladly.
I knew that would be twisted but left it. I’ll be more precise: authoritarianism is authoritarianism, but I don’t know enough about their other perspectives to say they’re no good. Perhaps an exchange of ideas may bring two or more perspectives closer. Maybe not.
Well, then. Maybe you should spend some time on Tankie spaces and learn what they're about before just assuming that anybody who doesn't like them is just being a close-minded asshole.
Nah I see how this works. Bye
Why are you still here? Didn't you announce that you were blocking this sub like 4 posts ago? Get out!
Because i see how this works. You’re not better than them, you’re doing the same thing they complain about, and so far, that’s what authoritarians do. I forget a lot about tankie things that I don’t understand, because they’re usually banned, shouted down, etc. You keep showing your insecurity in my inbox, have the last word and feel smug. You’re so sure about your ideas, you can’t tolerate me entertaining otherwise. Maybe I’d come to the same conclusion for myself if I can’t let that happen because it’s not possible to hear from them. I used to defend freedom of speech for Nazis too, but I learned. I also learned about psyops of everyone from cliques to governments, including inflation and band wagon.
I'm sorry; did you just compare some asshole shitposting online with an authoritarian? Are you actually stupid? Do you just not know what authoritarianism is?
Yeah. I think you might legitimately be stupid. You know you can go check out any Tankie spaces on Hexbear or Lemmy.ml any time you want, right? Like, a couple instances defederating from them doesn't in any way silence them. They're still free to post their garbage opinions on their own instances.
Ok, yup. You're legitimately stupid.
Why are you still here, again?
Ow oooh owwww I’m going to wither and die because someone on the internet felt threatened by a different perspective and rather than have legit rebuttal attacked like they accuse tankies of doing.
I mean, wither and die if you'd like. It's no skin off my nose. But I don't in any way feel threatened by your "different perspective". I just think your perspective is dumb as hell. And I'm postulating that you've probably got to be a complete moron to hold that perspective.
Also, what is a legit rebuttal to someone who's so dumb that they think that there's no place to interface with Tankies? You're pretty ridiculous.
I just wanted to chime in to say Penis
Right, right. You don’t “feel threatened,” so you immediately try to kneecap someone to prove how tall you really are. Sure.
You've made a pretty pathetic case for yourself. To me it looks like you are the one who feels threatened and insecure. I guess it's hard to know how you look to the rest of us.
Yes, I went and followed another thread, and you all kept showing in my inbox. The other things I did were interesting and I forgot until the rage notifications came in. Like another commenter was asking for a solidly rational answer, so was i. I didn’t even know the term until more recently and I don’t agree with my ideas so great, i need violence, coercion, insults etc to come in. Anyway, my homegirl and mutual friends were all together in between times and this was space filler for downtime/(sometimes) idle contemplation (one need not accept an idea to entertain it). Thanks for the compelling arguments that “convinced” me. I did change my default filter for a minute and see a post in the top ten about subscriptions to whole other instances, so I’ve done that and it’s as rampant as hexbear, unsubscribe. I literally thought it was fascist based on the large, flashing “freedom! Own the libs!” that was so obnoxious, it hurt my eyes and I was confused about the nature of the server. Again, authoritarian communism. Yes, I understand the distaste but Communist philosophy in general isn’t something I’ve been widely exposed to outside a couple of college classes, and I daresay, English lit and soc 101 were probably where I got any exposure at all (maybe also critical reading, thinking, syllogism etc classes). It was definitely… illuminating. And i only got dv’d, cursed and insulted for wanting to see for myself, rather that doing the same, calling anyone stupid, moron, shitlib, fascist etc.
No there’s no reason to call me that. I said i for distracted and it was like a train wreck. You know you shouldn’t look or engage unless you have something to offer without clogging up bw but then you do because whatever reasons (in this case distracted, then amused Ava amazed by what Kelly poppin in my inbox. Does unsubscribing from the sub stop inbox replies to comments? I also said I was busy, yes i know and have a superficial understanding of the term, and how would I know what to search for that wasn’t censored/blocked/bad faith info without asking for a general direction?
You’re obnoxious af
I think you need to stop feeding the troll, you've fed them enough
Fair enough, you may be trolling each other
I’m not convinced I was. I finally saw part of the problem was not defining our terms. I defined mine, and right-wing-authoritarian does not implicitly “fascist” in any stretch, using the term as described by a a altrmyer.
You think you're entitled to our attention?
There's only so much time and effort people are willing to spend failing to educate willfully moronic reactionaries.
If you morons won't learn, add nothing of value, and insist on polluting lemmy with your nonsense, why would we not just block or defederate you?
And yet you’re willing to give attention to hurl epithets.
Block or defederate me? Rofl. Or communists who checks notes gave us the platform? “You morons” ah yes, thanks for reminding me I’m part of the group you’re insulting, maybe they put their viewpoints on the platform they created? I don’t see you signing up for truth social and doing the same thing; perhaps they’re not as authoritarian in some ways as say… you
Absolute word salad.
Tankies aren't communists - they're red-fascist dogs that don't care about worker enfranchisement.
You can fuck off now.
What? Ofc they are. Are you conflating “authoritarian” with “fascists?”
Depends. If a government is oppressive to civil rights and punishes dissent, but they're a rival/adversary of the US, do they get a pass for that?
A tankie would say yes, because they're too blinded by anti American sentiment to think objectively. Generally speaking, a tankie will defend the Chinese government's censorship, for instance.
think the problem is the psychological and political definition of “right wing authoritarian” are very different, but we (including myself) don’t know or forget, and also don’t define our terms at outset. Thanks for your reply. Btw I’ve always been dubious of “enemy of my enemy = friend.”
Bye Felicia
Good! We don't want Tankies or Terfs here.