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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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I saw this post titled "Scratch a anti-harm reductionist and a fascist bleeds" (https://lemmy.world/post/33320759)

I commented that "harm reduction" apparently means sending billions in weapons to israel while they commit genocide and shutting down campus protests speaking out against that genocide. I said that seemed pretty fascist to me.

Within an instant, they downvoted my post and banned me. Guess it's my fault for posting in a circlejerk community, but I'm still scratching my head on how that makes me a tankie. Something tells me this mod would be calling in the tanks to suppress any dissent if they could.

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[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 59 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Lemmy comment: '"Harm reduction" apparently includes selling billions in weapons to israel while they carry out genocide and shutting down campus protests speaking out against that genocide. Seems pretty fascist to me.'

PTB, I don't see the tankie connections either.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thank you for obtaining my comment! I couldn't find it in the modlog and didn't know how else to get it, so I had to recall what I wrote from memory.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They probably banned you with content removal, that doesn't generate modlog entries (Lemmy 0.19 anyway, 1.0 will generate these)

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[–] frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 15 points 1 week ago

Seconded. This is a perfectly normal and reasonable response. anyone who thinks Israel isn't committing a genocide is either ignorant, a troll, or malicious

[–] MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 1 week ago (31 children)

Looks like @PugJesus@lemmy.world has been going on a rampage against people who are critical of Israel lately, PTB for sure.

@goat@sh.itjust.works Might want to kick this mod out of your community since he's poisoning it for others and kicking out people he shouldn't be.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Yeah it's not a good look that Tankie now means "I don't like genocide". Just further dissolves the word's meaning and enables .ml and hexbear to do more things.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yeah it’s not a good look that Tankie now means “I don’t like genocide”.

It's what it's meant on lemmy, particularly .world, for a while now. centrists just use it like (other) republicans use "woke."

It means "this person has an opinion I know I'm morally wrong about. I don't want to change my position but I also don't want to look bad, so I'll pick a term I can't define and use it as a cudgel against them."

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What things are we malevolent tankies going to do, aside from voicing our opinions in the fediverse? Enforce authoritarian bedtime?

[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I wish you would because I'll never get to bed at a reasonable hour otherwise.

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[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (17 children)

I'll investigate later, thanks for the ping. I've since unbanned some of the users, such as @hark@lemmy.world, the others I'm still investigating and some are also spam

I'm fine with people sharing different views, even if they're controversial. Tankies are also allowed to comment in the community, as long as everyone follows the rules and is mutually respectful towards each other, feel free to engage.

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[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Looks like @PugJesus@lemmy.world has been going on a rampage against people who are critical of Israel lately, PTB for sure.

Lately?

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[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

PTB

PugJesus should not be in charge of anything more than his own diaper.

He accused me of being a "tankie" when I criticised Israeli propaganda lies.

https://lemmy.world/post/33330562

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

PTB. That's a pretty standard leftist position, I don't see what's tankie about it.

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[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 1 week ago

looks at the op of the post you commented on

Yep, Power tripping Bastard alright. Any criticism of Israeli genocide and the politicians he supports that fund it "Tankie behavior".

Even though most liberals in America are against it.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (16 children)

PTB.

Setting aside the question of your true ideology, I don’t think people should be banned for their ideology. Bans should be based on behavior.

Ironically I hate tankies as much as anyone and I’m having a big fight with one right now but I still think they should be allowed to participate on the same footing as everyone as long as they follow the rules.

Edit: after reading further this is even worse because the rules are actually pretty much in line with my position. Tankies are explicitly allowed to participate as long as they follow the rules. So this isn’t even supported by anything other than impotent mod rage.

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[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Are you a "tankie"? Or is that mod just such a turbolib that they think you must be a tankie if you're farther left than blue maga?

[–] hark@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The mod never elaborated, but based on their behavior, I assume the latter.

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[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 week ago

If you call out genocide, you're a Tankie.

If you defend genocide, you're valid and will win the election now!

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 week ago

that mod just such a turbolib that they think you must be a tankie if you're farther left than blue maga

It's that one. Perfect description of pj

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 week ago (11 children)

One of the c/MeanwhileOnGrad mods is a power poster who permabans anyone as a “tankie” for making even the mildest of criticisms. Ironic for someone so vociferous about “authoritarianism.”

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[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 week ago

I always suspected this guy was continuously posting historical memes and artifacts to, at times, post his own revisionist agenda. No wonder he's a power tripping mod too.

[–] releaseTheTomatoes@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I unsubbed from the "MeanwhileOnGrad" comm because it's getting so repetitive. We get it, those instances are full of psychos who say psycho shit, so there's no point in doing anything else other than blocking or better yet defederating. PugJesus in this case is not much different than those hexbear crazies calling everyone they don't like "liberals". They just call anyone they don't like "tankies"

[–] SinAdjetivos@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

PugJesus gets extremely triggered by the phrase "statch a liberal and a fascist bleeds".

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 week ago

Literally. He finds that statement inherently incorrect while he defends genocide, transphobia, excuses racism from the party he likes, and hates communists and socialists.

He's been scratched and wants to make sure everyone knows.

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[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

So we're all agreed at this point in the drama circle that PhilipTheBucket is one of his alts, right?

[–] adminofoz@lemmy.cafe 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I got into an argument with pug like 3 days ago (over an admittedly hot take of mine, which he screenshotted and shared in the same community)

In came Phil to play the good cop but ultimately ended up being the exact same type of troll, as I interpreted it then. At least he had the exact same type of antagonistic bad faith interpretation of my words.

Good to know I'm not the only one to think something weird was going on with them. If they aren't the same person, they sure share the same online schedule and biases a lot.

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[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Personally my interactions with the two of them make me doubt this.

Though with both the conversations did spiral into a huge thread, and although they do share a lot of opinions, the behavior in those conversations was different enough to give me pause on jumping to this conclusion.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 week ago

Yeah I really don't think they are the same person.

[–] anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I personally see more similarity between philip and cm0002, but who knows.

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