• Wilco@lemm.eeEnglish
      15·
      23 days ago

      It’s a funny show quote … but very sad in this case. I hate the idea that there are MAGAts happily clapping because people are being deported into what are basically slave camps.

      The Nuremberg style trials cannot get here quickly enough. Simply voting this political party out of office is not enough at this point.

  • HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    34·
    23 days ago

    I literally have no idea how many down votes I’ve gotten. I do kinda miss seeing bad people get down voted, but I find this experience much more pleasant.

    • macniel@feddit.org
      271·
      23 days ago

      If you wanna get the down vote experience, just change to a instance that shows them.

    • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteEnglish
      6·
      23 days ago

      I can go to my individual comments and check the scores, but I like that I can’t see any cumulative score. I’m a sucker for “number go up” games.

      Lemmy isn’t a competition.

      • ameancow@lemmy.world
        English
        33·
        23 days ago

        Lemmy isn’t a competition.

        All social media is competition. We just don’t like admitting it.

  • philbgarner@lemmy.ca
    281·
    22 days ago

    Just wait until you feel the incredible feel of having one of them DM you calling you the N-word, threatening to “punch you in your N***** face” and then you use an IP tracker to find they’re using an Belorussian IP.

    I’ve been running off that accomplishment for some time.

    • Shardikprime@lemmy.world
      17·
      22 days ago

      Nagging people will usually cause them to call you a nagger but you don’t need to censor that LMAO 🤣

  • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
    3111·
    23 days ago

    If you haven’t been called a “Russian bot,” you’re not really challenging western imperialism yet.

          • wpb@lemmy.world
            27·
            22 days ago

            And that’s how you recognize a Russian election interfetterance bot, because it’s categorically false. The genocide Drumpf is carrying out is millions times worse and very different from the special military operation in Palestine that the Biden administration really had nothing to do with if you think about it.

    • sunflowercowboy@feddit.orgEnglish
      27·
      22 days ago

      What if get called delusional and crazy for trying to create the second coming in order to contradict Trump’s current ascension into godhood. While any logical people stay dismissive rather than reconstruct religion and spiritualism in a contemporary sense.

      However I understand the consequences, so I implant seeds of thought in the homeless on my way to work. Puzzles to solve, so that my name is slowly released and written of.

      I am writing a book and tagging the streets soon. All inspired by this one dude who writes in chalk everywhere in my neighborhood. Repent, god is justice, etc.

      I can use my voice to inspire thoughts and I will dominate the minds everywhere I go through my voice and words alone. Why? Christians base their whole lives over one archaic book of knowledge - nothing’s stopping you from writing your own to explain your kids the world. That’s all it is, but people forget that the whole point of Jesus is that religion and structures cannot alone do the work of good parents. It’s why Joseph is gone after age 12 and Mary is renowned in eastern Christianity along with other spliters, like mexican catholics.

      So I am writing for my kids, and I do this for the hope that mankind can accept their place. I constantly see people fighting the concept of capitalism rather than the actors behind it. Capitalism is a plight because it allows man to ascend beyond that of his bounds. To be without pain or want, to be without need or limit. However remember it is the man behind it, not the concept thereof. It is only when the heart abandons communism for the sake of the self and the self alone, that we cannot feel anything but ourselves. Suffering is persistent, there will never be without. However in it, you can find retroactive gratitude, and in turn form proactive gratification.

      Tower of Babel is about the rich exploiting mankind to reach their godlike status in a literal sense among the heavens. While not understanding the foundations they exist upon, the tower crumbles, just like man would when they forget the simplicities of every day.

      So far I have only surveyed Christian, Catholic, Buddhist, Sikh, and Shinto. I am intimidated by Hinduism and Islam. Funny that Sikh was birthed from these barriers blurring.

        • sunflowercowboy@feddit.orgEnglish
          11·
          22 days ago

          Im insulted you say only a little, however it is not at all. I just like studying religion as it has fascinated me, as an atheist conflicted. I realized if I want to rise my name, I must have something right to say. My name, not myself.

          I just have a lucky name, on the cusp of this millenium I was born the 2nd. My surname’s meaning to supplant, my brother a homeless man who said he was sent by god. Before being murdered said I was my mother’s compensation for all her suffering.

          I told my mom as she relayed the message, that he was just delusioned by some mental disorder. Yet here I am. I however know reality fully well and fear my safety, for I have a life I wish to cherish. It is why I must appease the sensibilities of manic Christians raising Trump to godhood.

          Do you think I wish to do this? No, I wish I could just enjoy my own personal suffering. I wish I could do something directly. I wish I could just enjoy my minecraft, but now time is limited. I do not wish to have my mother taken away.

          How do you convince someone? Have something in common. What do most of these people have in common? Christianity. So Trump uses christian rhetoric to rise himself. My rhetoric just uses their scripture along with lots of coincidences of my life.

          Then again it seems the triviums are a lost art. Most nowadays do not know theyre called liberal arts because they freed you. Or that math once was under such a name.

          Jesus is commemorated because he stood against Rome, it isn’t new. The demon Legion? Hmm what an odd name for a demon, maybe the Legionnaires should vanquish them. It is the first recorded instance of fascist pig as an insult. Why is it so convoluted? Speak against america Rome and find out.

  • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
    3721·
    23 days ago

    Remember that the admins of the Tankie Triad regularly post and brigade threads pushing their invalid ideology on other instances.

    And they have a dozen or so alts ready to downvote dissent.

    Tankies literally have to manipulate social media so people pay attention to them and control narratives or else they get laughed out of every room they enter.

    • Binette@lemmy.ml
      126·
      23 days ago

      Hexbear is the one that mostly ““brigades””.

      The only reason this happens is because they can’t downvote. So they comment instead.

        • Binette@lemmy.ml
          134·
          23 days ago

          Correct me if I’m wrong, but I rarely see any mass comments from people in ml. In political topics, it’s mostly barely a handfull of the same users. Plus, political topics often get pushed to the front pages, so it’s not unlikely that the users see it themselves, whether or not Davel posted the thread in question.

          • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
            78·
            23 days ago

            He’s the one I see pushing shit mostly, him and Cowbee.

            I haven’t seen them posting their garbage recently tho. They’ve cut down in the last couple weeks.

            I’m sure they’re just using alts now.

            • electric_nan@lemmy.ml
              102·
              23 days ago

              How can you have a problem with Cowbee? They are the most well-read and patient poster that I see on Lemmy. I can understand disagreeing, but saying Cowbee is “pushing shit” isn’t accurate.

              • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
                82·
                23 days ago

                Hey, found this comment from searching my name (I’ll fully admit that I do so from time to time, out of morbid curiosity). I’ll clarify 2 things:

                1. I only have 2 accounts. @[email protected] and @[email protected]. I swap between them, but take care to never mix upvotes (I keep my Hexbear upvotes pretty purely on comms on Hexbear and Grad, and use Lemmy.ml for everything else). I am an admin on neither, I only moderate Hexbear.net’s c/theory, and only to pin and unpin the weekly Capital and Super-Imperialism reading threads. I have never removed a post or comment, nor have I banned anyone, ever.

                2. I do push Marxism-Leninism. I’m a Marxist-Leninist, I don’t attempt to hide that. My goal is to create more comrades and to develop a more “correct line” among comrades on Lemmy. That’s the big purpose of my Lemmy.ml account in general, my Hexbear.net account is more for relaxing, talking about video games, or following the news. Helps me compartmentalize. I wouldn’t call it pushing shit, but I do push Marxism-Leninism, and do so openly.

                I can also address @[email protected]’s claims. The “alt” they can’t see me on is my Hexbear.net alt. I cannot mass downvote them with it even if I wanted to both because we cannot downvote on Hexbear, and because I can’t even see Lemmy.world accounts from Hexbear. I also don’t upvote myself, that takes too much effort and I only care about upvote/downvote ratios so far as it helps me gauge the effectiveness of my argumentation, so that would get in the way of that.

                I cannot verify that others are not using alts to up or downvote comments, but at the same time I don’t think anyone can verify that the reverse is true, either, except perhaps admins looking at up and downvote history. SoftestSapphic has already accused several other accounts that in no-way speak like me of being alts of mine, without any proof.

                What this means is that SoftestSapphic has nothing more than a gut feeling asserted as an unchallengable truth, the idea that the “tankies” are using deceptive measures to manipulate public opinion. Moreover, said user regularly gets banned for general hostility even on non-Lemmy.ml communities, just check their modlog. No proof is ever offered for their claims, but they will certainly parade their theories around in an attempt to discredit me, which is why I am even responding to this character assassination in the first place.

                Sometimes SoftestSapphic is 100% correct, and I’ll frequently upvote them when they are. Calling out the ineffectiveness of Leftists trying to work with the Democrat Party in the US, rather than build up our own working class parties and orgs, is undeniably correct in my opinion. Fascists should be opposed violently as well. I also like this comment, for example, going over the ineffectiveness and disillusionment with voting in the US Electoral System, especially because the system itself is the target, not the whims of individuals subject to it. This is good Materialist analysis! The issues start to arise, in my view, when they lose sight of Materialist grounding and resort to gut feeling and what I would consider conspiracy theories.

                This form of “Left-dogmatism” has been a long-running problem within the Marxist current (no idea what SoftestSapphic personally ascribes to, just speaking from what I am familiar with), and has manifested in movements like the Peruvian Shining Path under Gonzalo, which focused more on assassinations than building a legitimate and inclusive party, accomplishing little more than terrorism. When you abandon consistent materialist analysis, you run into errors in judgement that do more harm than good. Mao summarizes this problem quite concisely in On Practice:

                We are also opposed to “Left” phrase-mongering. The thinking of “Leftists” outstrips a given stage of development of the objective process; some regard their fantasies as truth, while others strain to realize in the present an ideal which can only be realized in the future. They alienate themselves from the current practice of the majority of the people and from the realities of the day, and show themselves adventurist in their actions.

                SoftestSapphic, if you’re reading this, I do think you have a promising future as a good Leftist. You have a very strong will, and your heart appears to be in the right place. I recommend you make it an effort to focus on theory and materialist analysis right now, perhaps join an org if you aren’t in one. On the off-chance you decide to take my advice, I can recommend theory for you if you let me know what you’ve already read, or answer questions you may have about Marxism-Leninism. Or, you can just check out the introductory Marxist-Leninist reading list I made, it even has audiobook equivalents if that’s your preference.

                Hope that answers everything!

        • Rhoeri@lemmy.worldEnglish
          43·
          23 days ago

          He’s a .ml admin. The .ml mods are useless flaccid knobs. They don’t do shit. Check the modlogs. Almost all of .ml actions are done by the two butthurt clowns that run .ml.

          They really have no need at all for moderators.

    • SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social
      41·
      22 days ago

      The first time I had ever heard of the word “tankie” was on Lemmy. It’s just not a thing that about anybody I know offline is, or has heard of. So I don’t understand the obsession with them. Even if they’re doing every evil thing claimed, it’s a) the metaphorical tempest in a teapot, and b) not even working, based on the number of people here who seem to make hating on tankies part of their identity.

    • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      32·
      23 days ago

      Tankie Triad

      Are tankies the pro- or anti-fascist crowd? I thought they were far left whereas fascists far right. It’s hard to keep track of all these vying affiliations.

        • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
          82·
          23 days ago

          Semantics is literal meaning, though. Words mean things.

          I’m sure there are many words for left-wing authoritarians: fascist isn’t it. Instead of making fascism meaningless, can we pick a correct word? Maybe authoritarian?

          With all the fascism denounced around here, they’re a rarity, and it’s perplexing to know what say to the far more common left-wing authoritarians who argue against democratic values because they’re not left enough.

          • peregrin5@lemm.eeEnglish
            16·
            23 days ago

            Horseshoe theory is real. Right wing and left wing fascists are both fascists.

            • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
              11·
              23 days ago

              Horseshoe theory

              the far-left and the far-right are closer to each other than either is to the political center

              are both fascists

              Are closer doesn’t mean are the same: horseshoe theory doesn’t support your claim.

              They’re both authoritarians that repress human rights. They’re as bad as fascists. Identifying those elements that make them as bad—authoritarianism & repression of human rights—clarifies discussion.

              When we articulate problems accurately, we can criticize them in all guises.

    • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
      2423·
      23 days ago

      Have you considered that there’s just plenty of people who disagree with you?

      Also, you lot suck at coming up with names, tankie troika is way more ominous

  • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayEnglish
    11·
    23 days ago

    A ton of times it’s the hivemind. Posted a picture of a truck with a Nazi emblem(half panzer division skull and an SS logo) on my local sub. And at first it went up then someone said it was 75th ranger emblem. Hivemind bought it up without even so much as a quick Google search. And heavily ratio’d me. People are just stupid.

      • ameancow@lemmy.world
        English
        4·
        23 days ago

        No, avoiding contention is why we’re in this mess and why the world is segregated again.

        But I’m not going to say “Go argue on the internet” I am going to tell everyone to get the fuck over their social issues and just TALK to the people in your life who hold shitty positions and are either dimwitted about politics, uninvolved or being brainwashed by social media. They can be turned, I do it ALL THE TIME and I feel like I’m the only fucking human left who doesn’t feel overwhelming fear engaging with another human ffs.

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
    8·
    22 days ago

    I got banned from news for pointing out that if you don’t exist in the system you’re under no obligations to follow the laws.

    ie: if the government purposely kills you on paper you’re “legally dead”, and dead people can’t commit crimes.

    the exchange became so heated one of the snowflake mods removed my comments under “obvious troll is obvious” and banned me for being a troll.

    jokes on them, I was serious.

  • Crikeste@lemm.ee
    115·
    22 days ago

    When people call me a tankie ☺️

    I love how people just spew nonsense they know nothing about. It’s validating knowing I pissed them off lmfao 😇

    • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
      31·
      22 days ago

      oh shit yes. its usually very validating when they prove you right immediatly