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https://lemmy.ml/comment/15062456

Honorable mention for the one bellow wondering what bad decisions the DPRK has taken.

Edit: Title typo

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[–] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

fOoD StaBlE

fOoD StaBlE

Man I blocked yungthos ages ago. I don’t know if I’d even be going on lemmy if I couldn’t block people like him.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 35 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

"Refusing aid to a tyrannical murdering regime is just virtue signaling that hurts the innocent."

"Upholding a tyrannical murdering regime with aid is the same as performing its murders yourself."

Which one do tankies believe? Well, it depends on whether the tyrannical murdering regime is pro-US or anti-US.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 51 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

They also think NK is food stable lol

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 25 points 10 hours ago

It is stable in the sense that they have been starving for a long time

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 19 points 10 hours ago

The DPRK is genius

It is much less of a burden if you don't feed people

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

how did you get the tankie flares to show up on those people? did you have to add them manually?

[–] TheFrirish@jlai.lu 12 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I add them manually on the Voyager app you should try it! I think Connect has it as well

[–] Draghetta@lemmy.world 11 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, I thought they were user flares and those people had a modicum of self awareness. Silly me to attribute double digit neurons to tankies.

[–] TheFrirish@jlai.lu 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I'm just marking them just to see how much of my feed they take up

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Perso, je bloque, je comprend pas ton courage.

[–] TheFrirish@jlai.lu 2 points 3 hours ago

Ça me permet de faire du recensement au moins pour notre instance.

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago

oh that is really nice to know about. i've been using voyager for about a year now and i'm constantly surprised by all the wonderful features they keep adding.

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I suppose they just edited the picture

[–] TheFrirish@jlai.lu 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Using tags on Voyager to identify people.

Also... Boom you got tagged!

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Wait, I didn’t know about this feature! Ty !

And how do you enable separate upvote/downvote ?

[–] TheFrirish@jlai.lu 2 points 2 hours ago

no worries cool username by the way. learned something today

[–] borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I’ve had yogthos blocked since like my second day on lemmy, you’re a braver person than me just tagging them.

[–] Stanley_Pain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

He's literally Russian so no surprise there.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 14 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Funny, I called him out on being more interested invattacking Liberalism andsupporting fascist regimes than actually speaking out against human rights crimes, and noted that he has a concerning bias towards political spheres which currently have an approaching/ongoing election. My suspicion became that he's a tankie programmer who happens to just like this space in his down time, but genuine Putin praising Russian citizen/asset was never really off the table.

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 3 points 3 hours ago

I’m convinced at least one of the .Ml admins are literally just paid shills for totalitarian regimes (Davel). Yogthos has the same link spam with no substance argumentation.

What’s interesting and telling is these guys’ rhetoric isn’t actually focused on particular issues, but exclusively the actions of states and how Russia, China, and North Korea are all pinnacles of morality and success, while US bad.

The more of their shit you read the more obvious it becomes

And they run the instance

Idk. Doesn’t bode well for Lemmy long term, they make the entire software stink

[–] borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Is he a Russian immigrant to Canada, or just a Canadian with Russian ancestry?

[–] Stanley_Pain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 hours ago

He posted a pic of him holding a Russian passport. Not sure if his or not.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 14 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Occasionally I wonder if I should unblock .ml to get more content, then I always remember why they're blocked in the first place.

[–] hitwright@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

If you jerk their chains enough, they will block you ;)

[–] Draghetta@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

If you’re into brainrot might as well install tiktok and watch skibidi toilet knockoffs, still better content than tankie hogwash

Yup, and less horrifying than people casually defending genocides