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In semi-related news, yesterday I got suspended for 3 days from !politics@lemmy.world for joking about the death of a billionaire and from !worldnews@lemmy.ml, also for 3 days, for airing misgivings about a collaboration between Chinese and Hungarian cops.
Some people really need to chill the fuck out 🤦
Getting banned from worldnews@lemmy.ml is incredibly easy as they’re super sensitive about china and anything negative gets deleted or gets you banned. They love simping for prc/ccp and pretending they’re not.
Yeah, the ban reason stated in the modlog was just one word: "Sinophobia" 😄
They’re just like Israel misusing antisemetic. They throw that and rasism around trying to defend / deflect actions by the prc/ccp that they well know are fucked. It’s pretty pitiful
My ban from hexbear - and I know this is super low hanging fruit - was for genocide denial.
For saying that Russian atrocities in Ukraine resemble genocide. These people are literally incapable of processing irony.
Sounds very familar to r/Sino. I wonder if there's any connection...
Afaik lemmy.ml and lemmingrad are both tankie as fuck
Some people on ml aren't (though many are. I'd say it's about a 70-30 split of moderately to far left sane people (70%) to actual tankies (30%) in my admittedly completely anecdotal experience.
Have yet to see anyone from lemmygrad who's NOT a tankie, though. It's a real shame since the name is a damn fine pun!
I almost made an account there because of that, before finding out that it's more than just a joke name lol
Two groups join lemmy.ml: those who know it's the instance run by the core Lemmy developers and join hoping for a stable experience, and those who join because of the devs' political beliefs. This leads to a weird mix of actual quality content and tankie propaganda.
I wish it was all the latter so I could block the instance without losing the former.
I have met maybe two or three other .ml users who know anything about contemporary leftist politics or political science in general. Even the moderates over there are just parroting the same century old orthodox dogma which has literally zero contemporary examples. "Haha mass murder is funny, violent cannibalism, why don't people like our message, they must be brainwashed, we will make them learn."
These are, by and large, people who seem to believe that Jacobin or the fucking Internationale suffers from a lack of edgy fan service.
Unfortunately, tankies often actually have a really good sense of humor. Shame they waste it on such bullshit.
Shit my final ban was just for saying that I don't remember there being much mass rape during the US revolution.
It's incredibly ironic that these are the people who created Lemmy because they kept getting banned from reddit for saying liberals should be dropped from helicopters.
I've seen a few posts advocating various ill fortune for billionaires get removed. As I said somewhere else, I can kind of understand it from a CYA perspective. The staff don't want to turn into a violent conspiracy hub. On the other, billionaires are ruining the world for everyone else and defending them is fucked up when viewed like that.
I wasn't even advocating for anything or celebrating a death, just making a dark joke about not caring because it was a billionaire. I mean, I definitely DO consider billionaires and hectomillionaires inherently harmful, but unless they're KNOWN to be truly heinous like Trump, Kissinger, or Limbaugh, I don't go anywhere near as far as to actually celebrate their death, which is what the rule specifically forbids.
I get how there has to be a limit, but joking about not caring about some billionaire who wasn't even a public figure? That's not harming anyone unless you're saying it at the family or sadistic shit like that 🤷
Lemme guess... Tesla drowning incident?
Yup, that's the one. My joke was basically complaining that it was cruel to connect her to Mitch Mcconnell just because her sister married him and then saying "nevermind, she was a billionaire 🤷"
Anyone got a link?
https://lemmy.world/post/12957614
Checking back, it's a veritable massacre of deleted comments on that post, probably a dozen or two other people banned as well. Looks like the mods panicked lol
Huh, post not visible on my instance!
That's weird.. I'm pretty sure it can't be a defederation issue since you're on sh.itjust.works and it can't be because it hasn't federated YET either since it's a post from yesterday 🤔
Well, I feel better – I was able to open their profile after all, where it shows me their last post was from 29 days ago. Scrolling down, all their comments have a million down votes.
They get accused of supporting naughty regimes so I’ll assume they read the post of mine and could tell I’m such a great ally for justice that it was best for me to be kept out of their hair.
What in the world, the person blocked me!
Outrageous! :) (I’m nice & chill)
That person is probably a total douchenozzle anyway and it wasn't a very good post 🤷😁
Been suspended from lemmy.ml is like a rite of passage.
Any political community demanding "civility" is enabling trolls by misunderstanding how humans interact.
Tankies can simply fuck off.
I stay well away from .ml and hex. My blood pressure is too sacred.