According to .ml China is a total Utopia, but just don't talk about those pesky human rights violations, those aren't important or anything anyways ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Removed by mod is how you know you've won an argument on .ml
Tankies have an invalid ideology that can not hold up to the most minor analysis.
That's why they have to ban all dissent.
Same goes for any other fascist right wing ideology.
I feel like that "removed by mod" goes better without any further explanation. It's not really needed.
Lol, the .ml tankies favorite rebuttal when you bring up their bans/censorship is that "only bigots get banned, we totally welcome debate as long as you're not being bigoted!"
So I try to capture the full context to dispel that
Haha yes. It's good to provide receipts I guess.
If you ever want a mindfuck, take a look at any kind of impassioned political discussion on some instance outside of lemmy.ml, and then the exact same comment thread as it appears hosted on Hexbear or lemmy.ml. A lot of times it will look dramatically different. It's really remarkable how distorted a view of reality they're able to create for their users. There looks like there's this universal consensus on the tankie viewpoint, with maybe a couple of shouty outliers who don't make any sense trying to disagree with it.
If you look from outside, they're just making a joke of their instance, but if you look from the POV of the users, the result is a perfectly seamless excising of certain parts of reality for about 95% of what they see. The visible results of someone getting banned and their comments removed fall in this incredibly rare 5% of times or less. The fucked-up thing is it works. That's why they will swear that all debate is allowed and they're perfectly open to challenge. I think a lot of the users who are living in the censored environment really believe that that is true.
Can you elaborate?
lmao what a jerk
There must be a word for the “le very civil discussion” dorks that seem to inhabit every ideology - say the most outlandish shit and yet pose themselves as put together and respectable when you call them a fuckhead.
What is that shithole and how do I block/avoid it?
The flagship Lemmy instance, lemmy.ml, part of the Tankie Triad. The other instances are Hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml, these 2 are much much louder and worse about it and have been pretty widely defederated from many instances at this point.
But because lemmy.ml is run by the main lemmy devs (Who are hardcore tankies btw), host a number of official Lemmy comms and try to be more subtle about it via admin/mod action (as documented) most instances treat them with "kid gloves" and don't defed
If you're open to moving instances (or just having your current account as a designated NSFW account) I'd recommend trying out Lemmy.cafe which defed's from the entire triad
You can do a whole instance block from the profile settings on the webui, however, it should be thought more of like a mute rather than a block. You won't see stuff from them, but they can see your stuff and interact with it (i.e. they can downvote you, shit talk you) you just won't see it. (it's been brought up a bunch as one of the big Lemmy issues).
Now if you want to have fun with it and poke the bear a bit, you can try to speedrun a site ban from them, which unlike a "block" actually does prevent all .ml users from seeing your posts and comments