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On lemmy.world I posted a comment on how liberals use 'tankie' as an invective to shut down dialogue and received tons of hateful replies. I tried to respond in a rational way to each. Someone's said 'get educated' I responded 'Im reading Norman Finkelstein's I'll burn that bridge when I get there' and tried to keep it civil.

They deleted every comment I made and banned me. Proving my point, they just want to shut down dialogue. Freedom of speech doesn't existing in those 'totalitarian' countries right? But in our 'enlightened' western countries we just delete you.

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[–] lemat_87@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is liberal mental space, full of "freedom of speech". Liberalism is a cancer which leads to right extremism. And social democracy leads to liberalism. If you exclude ML from discourse, you eliminate whole left wing point of view consequently.

[–] areyoulessthan@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unrelated, but I like your pfp.

[–] lemat_87@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you comrade!

[–] SunsetFruitbat@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Sometimes it kind of of makes me feel really irritated in a way because like, a lot of these people who are so overly concerned over "tankies", don't have that energy directed at fascists or reactionaries? They seem more concerned over "tankies" than reactionaries or fascists who are in power in various places and are hurting people. Like they will make a post or whatever denouncing "tankies", but where is that towards fascists? or reactionaries? If anything all they do is help fascists and reactionaries whether they are aware of that or not.

[–] ShiningWing@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's why it's really funny that there's a decent amount of libs trying to pretend that Lemmy (either .ml or as a whole) is this super "tankie" thing when they're really the opposite

Like, if the rest of the Lemmy universe was "tankie" we wouldn't need Lemmygrad in the first place

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's pretty funny that liberals see themselves as proponents of open debate and rational discourse, but in practice they start freaking out as soon as anybody challenges their dogmas.

[–] IntoDaLagoon@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Real "my girlfriend goes to another school" situation, except the girlfriend is their respect for other people

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[–] ButtigiegMineralMap@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago (54 children)

Go ahead liberals. Call me a tankie. See if I give one ten thousandth of a fuck. Literally such a low-tier insult. “Uhh its like… uh…you support this large cool looking machine that stopped Color Revolutions and was responsible for Liberating the Eastern Front during World War II” “Yea, I do😐” “😨”

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[–] sovietsnake@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We should call liberals coupies because of all their coups.

[–] ledlecreeper27@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Call them boaties because NATO sent 19 warships to surround and blockade Lisbon in 1974 after Portugal overthrew fascism and started nationalizing industries and redistributing land.

[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Where can one read more about those events?

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[–] citsuah@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago (29 children)

omg i just had the misfortune of wandering into this thread, https://lemmygrad.ml/post/806853 i am so glad we have our own space where we can safely laugh at these fools. omg.

[–] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Holy shit what an insufferable group.

"Define Tankie"

Red fascist

Who defines a buzzword with a buzzword ffs.

Also! (Paraphrasing)

[...] people who justify genocides. [...]

'scuze me what the fuck? Who here says genocides are cool and good actually? We are like the first fuckers to point them out and scream about them???

And even more!

Comrade Spood

Now that's dose of Anarcho-Debilizm let me tell you. "Just press the communism button Xi and we'll succeed no problem! They will just let us exist and everyone will love each other :3"

And it just still keeps going!

Educate yourself. / Please change and grow as a person. / Read a book.

Motherfuckers I read too much compared to your sorry asses.

Yeah it was torture. I tried to keep it civil and lighthearted and actually engage but they are so programmed it's almost knee jerk comment reaction at this point.

Also fun and great that so many Lemmy instances won't federate material that threatens their worldview. I mean, I'm 100% anti Nazi anti fascist and anti authoritarian but what does that even matter right? How dare I say there might be a different way to view say Cuba China Vietnam or North Korea...

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[–] klieg2323@lemmy.piperservers.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Liberals once again refusing to acknowledge their hippocracy. They must be fuming after Comrade Hakim's latest video

Hakim is so on point. Brilliant video.

[–] KilgoreTheTrout@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's also happens when liberals talk about foreign policy. The reduce critics of US foreign policy and NATO "America bad." Which is exactly as reductive as the hyperbolic critique they're trying to make.

A lot of this comes from the community from the streamer whose name starts with the v and who used to go by Irish Lassie. His community is especially toxic when it comes to using the term tankie as a pejorative.

And they don't even keep the smear to people that support the Bolsheviks. They've been saying that about Noam Chomsky and Jeremy corbyn and basically anyone that has been critical of NATO in the last few years.

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