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Doubtful. Putin for example has been in power for decades. Stalin ruled Russia with an iron fist for the rest of his natural life after rising to power. Unless they're overthrown, that's what dictators do. That's the whole point of dictatorships, to make the leaders the new kings.

There's nothing stopping that dude from suspending elections and just ruling indefinitely.

Okay, let me explain something to your dumb hypocritical ass before you make a fool out of yourself any further:

You're clearly the only one being an asshole and a bully here.

You're the one being the -- how did you put it? "authoritarian we should try to avoid", and you're the one being a worthless hypocrite on top of it.

This is me talking to you via an alt account, an account I have because most people on Lemmy have at least 2 or 3 by virtue of federation.

You did nothing but take a cheap shot at some innocent dumb fuck who stuck their oar in because you wanted to hurt me and my feelings. And judging from the rest of your account activity, you very blatantly do the exact same thing you accuse me of doing, all the time, non-stop. And you have zero self-awareness at all.

So why would you even come here all offended at me in the first place, unless you yourself were just @FlyingSquid's dumbass alt? I guess we're all alts here, moron.

It's okay though. You're acting just like me and I'm here for it. 👏

🎼 'Cause I'm proud to be an American 🎵🎶🇺🇲🦅

I meant Lemmygrad, but the admin came to the thread and said "fuck you, I want to boost my numbers up, the tankies are staying" so it doesn't actually matter. 🤷

Yeah, I am pretty sure the All feed is intended to show content from a variety of instances, not to be dominated by a few shitty ones.

Probably best to not try to scrape the bottom of the barrel when defending authoritarians pushing lies and propaganda. Like, if you're going to go for a red herring, you could at least tone police me; that would at least be more plausible and less petty. Step your game up

That's exactly what they've been doing. Their Tianamen Square propaganda showed up on my All feed which is how I know about it to begin with. We're all being inundated with their garbage and we did not come to this instance to be flooded with propaganda and garbage.

I'm arguing with their shitty alt accounts here because they tried to mass downvote the thread and astroturf and gang up on me, because they don't want efforts to defederate them to gain traction, but guess what? It didn't work. Because they're little bitches who thought they could scare me away, and it did not work, because I am an asshole. 😉

You're here blatantly fucking lying to our faces thinking you can discredit me and protect those hopeless retards, proving my point. Tankies don't belong here. If you love them so damn much, go sign up for Lemmygrad.

I actually haven't really debated them and this isn't the first time I've seen them invade an instance. I want them gone because they are spreading blatant propaganda and that should not be allowed on any instance worth its salt

Point in fact, I came here to lemm.ee specifically because it was defederated from them, but now I see the past few days that they've been let on again and are now invading threads with pro-CCP astroturfing and inundating the All feed with their propaganda and garbage like they always do. And that shouldn't be allowed.

How do you foresee tankies poisoning the whole fediverse?

Because I've been watching what has been going on. Instances, big ones, that were previously hard-nosed about being defederated from them have mysteriously let them on their instances again, including this one. I signed up for this instance specifically BECAUSE it banned them, and then all of a sudden, for the past few days, my All feed is inundated with their crap.

That is shady, sus, and wrong. A lot of people came here specifically to get away from tankies and their garbage, and now we're expected to put up with it because the admins refuse to act and even let them back on? Explain to me how money, blackmail, intimidation, manipulation or abject retardation isn't involved in that?

Or how it won't happen to other instances once those cretins get a foothold in a big enough percentage of the fediverse?

It doesn’t even seem like they are trying to make a case, they are just bluntly stating misinformation. If we are going to remove all misinformation then we are going to need paid admins because even at the current scale its a full time job.

The admin already accepts donations so he has no excuse.

I see blatant misinformation everywhere on the fediverse already and only a tiny percentage is tankie related.

You can thank the alt-right dipshits at .world for that, and that's why I speak out now: unless admins' feet are held to the fire and they're held accountable for not protecting their users, it'll keep getting worse. The admins made an instance they want us to use and accept donations to keep it running. Therefore they have a responsibility toward us they're not meeting, and it results in dangerous shit like propaganda claiming the Tianamen Square massacre did not happen to run freely when it should not. That is crazy and you know it