10h ago

I thought they were cool

Every time I post criticism of the instance an admin goes nuclear.

https://lemmy.ca/post/26593917

https://vegantheoryclub.org/post/1125134

https://lemmy.ca/comment/14667151

https://vegantheoryclub.org/post/1125134/1730468

https://lemmy.ca/post/21312702/9225643

https://vegantheoryclub.org/post/1095942/1713872

https://vegantheoryclub.org/post/1033788/1695910

Elect: to select by vote for an office, position, or membership. by Merriam Dictionary

I thought voting "doesn't work?" Are you telling his logic isn't even consistent by his own standards.

This is the same instance sheltering the well-known troll Universal Monk.

https://vegantheoryclub.org/post/1129019

The tankies communities quickly collapse when challenged first Hexbear now Vegantheoryclub. It's almost as if their foundation is weak.

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My first reaction was tldr
But i did read it...im not sure this is saying what you think it does. To me it sounds like you have multiple accounts and are cyber stalking this user and now making an info dump when they are leaving lemmy?
Like everyone needs a hobby but you've picked a weird one.
Can't believe i just wasted my time reading someone's vendetta shitpost

What in the world is a Mormon Satanist?
Other than that TL:DR...
- Who knows. You probably want to start preemptively blocking UM's accounts now though. He has about 20 or so and several alts so it will take a bit.

None of these really prove they’re a tankie though. Most of these are saying they’re not. Seems dubious.

They need meat, that's all.

"using tanks to suppress Hungarian fascists makes me a tankie???"
Yes, supporting using tanks to suppress Hungarian leftist revolutionaries, the literal event which spawned the term tankie, makes a person a tankie.
- I don't think they were saying they wanted to use tanks to suppress Hungarian fascists. They're saying that they're being accused of wanting to suppress Hungarian fascists (?), just because what they actually said was that they don't like America.
  I can't really make head or tail of the whole thing. Just wanted to point out that I think you might have misread that one part.
  
  Ah, that interpretation makes sense. Repeating the canard about Hungarian revolutionaries being fascists, I think, made me interpret it in a less generous light.

Funny how he calls the Hungary protestsers "fascists" and says they were suppressed completely leaving out the fact they were killed by tanks and troops. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956
This is the same guy who claims the "taiwanese want to reunify with China and that Ukraine should roll over and let Russia have all the land"
- I think there are malicious people on Lemmy who have learned to exploit tribal boundaries to get people on their side. People claiming to be vegan, or anarchist, or queer are three giant glaring examples of this. Once you've made the claim, you can come out of the gate with whatever bad-faith gibberish serves the purpose you're trying to accomplish, secure in the knowledge that a sizable amount of the people in that same tribe will go to bat for you because you're in the club.
  (Also people claiming to be communist.)
  I'm not saying that anyone professing to those things is a fake. Most people in all are clearly are being honest about it. I'm just saying that, even if someone's in your tribe, you need to look at what they're actually saying, and that it's okay not to support them even if they are wearing being-on-your-tribe on their sleeve to tempt you into being a good member of the tribe and backing them up on whatever action or belief they are currently about.
  
  Tribalism is the stupidest thing ever. I remember seeing posts about Reddit meetups, advertising something by saying "support them, they're a redditor," etc, like using a given social media site somehow implied trust. It doesn't.
  The same is true for political affiliations, gym memberships, or sports team preferences. Someone liking the same thing as you doesn't make them "better" than someone else, it just gives you something to talk about.
  Yet look at how many people cite influencers, famous athletes, or politicians for things they have no expertise in. It's dumb. Why don't people think for themselves?

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