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Banned for being: Too White, opposing Russian imperialism, using the word 'authoritarian', not praising the CCP, saying war criminals should be punished regardless of nation.

Capital offenses in tankieville, it would seem.

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[–] aleph@lemm.ee 28 points 4 months ago

"Cunt" is misogynist

Mod has clearly never met an Australian

[–] praise_idleness@sh.itjust.works 28 points 4 months ago

Slowly they will fade away. There are a lot of alternatives that are much more friendly and not, you know, tankie.

[–] mashbooq@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That modlog is a pretty hilarious read

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Lmao at calling anti CCP "yellow peril"

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 months ago

Meanwhile "Capital W white behavior."

Which, to pick just one failure of consistency, is not capitalized.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)
[–] mjhelto@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago

Psh, you dirty anti-communist!

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Well actually, here’s 27 links to sketchy sources and propaganda. No I won’t make any actual argument

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And if you don't read every bit of those 27 links and make a detailed response to each and every point they make, then I'll smugly dismiss everything you say regardless of its validity because clearly you're not here for REAL discussion. Oh, and throw in a few personal attacks and/or memes for good measure.

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 8 points 4 months ago

Hello, I am a third random user wondering what the original comment was, because the .ml admin in the thread deleted all the other comments

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

"Oh, China isn't perfect? Hmm, have you considered outrageously biased news source 'the Grayzone' disagrees?"

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

OFF THE WALL ANTICUMMUNISM

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Doing a kickflip "no state should own the means of production."

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Just got banned and finally decided to block this community. They clearly don't want to believe their precious Russian shock troopers can commit war crimes and are disgusted when the Ukrainians do it back to them.

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It took me about a month to ban ml and hexbear.

I was able, as an anarchist, to joke along with their memes, up to the point I mentioned Taiwanese elections.

Whooo boy, big mistake.

Like yes, capitalism bad, but China also bad? List a bunch of reasons why. Nope, those are all insane propoganda, despite me personally knowing people who've fairly recently fled Hong Kong, and its not because theyre fucking Kulaks or something, they are working class.

Much like QAnoners, they live in an alternate reality bubble, which can be fairly easily shown to them and then they just pull a bunch of absolute bullshit out of their asses, dubious claims with no sources which often strain basic logic given an even cursory knowledge of world or regional history.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

So this is how I find out I was banned for "anticommunist rhetoric".

I will wear this as a badge of honour.

[–] timestatic@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago

Good day fellow anti communist!

[–] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy.ml is the new hexbear.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

Lemmy.ml's moderation has always been like this, unfortunately.

[–] Tomassci@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago

"banned for being too white"

Where's the image of the white person from family guy wearing the "King of the Black people" ribbon? Because that's what might be happening here

[–] YeetPics@mander.xyz 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

First time interacting with "totally real leftists"?

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Totally real lefties breathlessly defending every action from totally actual leftist North Korea.

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 3 points 3 months ago

"You said the word cunt. Banned for a month for misogyny."

If only there were a word for countries or other power structures that halfheartedly look for reasons to throw people who say things they don't like in jail

[–] timestatic@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago

This is a sad but hilarious read at the same time. Ml just digging their own grave to irrelevance. Also, what banning argument is "horseshoe theory". They say it like its a completely invalid disgusting thing. They might just not wanna be associated with the right but the autocratic tendencies are the same!