A specter is haunting lemmy.ml

Jesus, that thread

Their “anti-Orientalism” (read as pro-tankie) policy has been known for a good while.

Lemmy.ml was always garbage and I blocked almost every community there because most of their posts are about capitalism or landlords

100% this person is a landlord

this really upsetting since they have c/technology and c/privacy communities. Someone might post something like high-tech surveillance of actvtists or Uyghurs

lmao this is from the thread's OP

Lemmy dot ml is like, one step away from becoming another Lemmygrad.

Pro-tankie is when I'm not allowed to imply that Westerners are good-hearted and rational, but everyone else is a bunch of animals who need us to teach them how to be human

Lmao one of the top comments

(it takes 2 braincells to realize the CCP is 1984 incarnate).

Fuck these tankies man. I’m as leftist as they come and I HATE what these people are doing to the cause.
They did it, they did the meme unironically!
- lol, the reply
  1984 was based on the Soviet Union
  insight from lemmy.world as always
  Read another book besides 1984, Animal Farm and Harry Potter, please
- I mean "leftist as they come" maybe they're ultraleft?
  Lmao no we know they're just bernie bros
Imagine telling on yourself like this
1949
oh 1 brain cell is enough for that
This is where I learned the word tankies. It sounds like British slang honestly.
- thats my favorite part too!
not wrong lol

"i'm as leftist as they come" means "i am very slightly to the left of the democrats/tories/cdu"

It generally means that they literally just want free shit without putting in any work. Actual Socialists want fair value for their labour.
- Pro-market laissez faire capitalist anti-unionist (they just take your money) but I like weed and I don’t hate gay people
  I’m far left.
- i want free shit without putting in any work
- It generally means that they literally just want free shit without putting in any work.
  well things like health care, food and shelter should be free without any requirement of work.
"i'm as leftist as they come"
I saw a post say that unironically, then someone replied with:
You ironically have a post saying that Muslims are culturally terrorists and all Muslims need to fall in line with French cultural authoritarianism.

Shoutout to @dessalines@lemmy.ml for being based as always, even if he does allow filthy libs on his site.

Check out Dessalines' Marxism Study Plan

Edit: oh this post is about a different mod, but as an instance admin myself I was scrolling the modlog yesterday and saw Dessalines had removed some of those same articles themselves, putting "no sources" as the reason. I figured there'd be a post about it soon lmao.

https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/2400166

Holy fuck, this person is evil. Implying the communists ::: spoiler CW used Gas chambers to kill Jews. :::

Lmao they cited ziq from raddle.
As pointed out in the linked comment chain, the person might just be old enough to be referring to the Nazis. Another indication of this is that the person is posting from a German domain, so probably born there, so probably referring to being born there but earlier.
- Why do you think they mention Nazis and Gas chambers when the comment about it was about online communists? Cause they try to imply communists would act like Nazis.
  They mention the Nazis in relation to communists tankies and hexbear though.
  
  So what the person calms down is that lemmy might get a tankie free fork. So I stay with my reading of it.

@jackmarxist@hexbear.net

@dessalines@lemmy.ml

They always seem to end up succumbing to patriarchal cults, where Lenin-Hitler-Mao-Trump gets to do whatever he wants to your sons and your daughters, and you and your working class have no recourse.

a spectre is living rent free in lemmy

I've been very lenient with libs. I generally let them say whatever they want as long as they say it in a respectable manner and don't break general rules. Don't really remove any pro Ukraine threads either rn.

Edit: It's just Dessalines removing stuff a lot. He is become authoritarian.

Here are my mod actions(I've been too much of a liberal here sadly)

Dessalines is an evil tankie???
Wait so you didnt even ban them? Lol they just single you out because you had marxist in your name
- Yeah I just banned a spam bot and another guy spamming random shit with alts. Dessalines told me to be chill with bans.
We love our mods
Hot take: lemmy.ml is robust enough that it often tackles Nazi apologia on its own without intervention, so it might be better to let some of those posts through just so they can get dogpiled.
I think you can hammer harder, they are currently pissing and shitting themselves just because you removed some really indefensible shit, they will do so anyway about everything.