Tankies welcome
Feel free to share your educated and polite opinion.
Within reason, of course. The strict rules of MoG still apply, but so long as you are fair, respectful and truthful, you shouldn’t have to worry about these.
When arguing your points, try to aim for quality over quantity–no one will sift through Gish gallop. Try to keep your sources at 3 points. When sourcing your material, you should use MBFC and link sources with High-to-Very High in Factual Reporting.
Don’t be ashamed or cautious about linking your main account. It’ll allow others to see if you’re arguing in good faith.
You can insult others but expect to be insulted or banned in return. If you want to convince people, try to be polite and understanding and attempt to find an agreement before a disagreement.
Try to avoid voting. It muddies discussion. This goes for non-tankies too.
Follow the rules.
Some rules are leaner here. You still cannot justify atrocities, but you can celebrate and encourage good things that communist states have put forth, whether it’s art, technology, or sociological progress.
Just as a refresher of these rules:
Sh.itjust.works Instance rules apply! If you are from other instances, please be mindful of the rules.
Hate-Speech – You should be familiar with this one already; practically all instances have the same rules on hate speech.
Apologia – (Using the Modern terminology for Apologia) No Defending, Denying, Justifying, Bolstering, or Differentiating authoritarian acts or endeavours, whether be a Pro-CCP viewpoint, Stalinism or any variation of Tankie Ideology. There is no justifying Genocide.
Revisionism – Downplaying or denying atrocities past and present will result in an immediate ban.
Bans typically only last seven days, but repeat infractions will have longer sentences. You may ask to be unbanned.
So, please! Talk about your woes on our world and its diverse societies.
hey (:
(here’s a challenge, try to make your arguments without mentioning the US)
When I first joined ml, I made the mistake of pointing out that China was, regardless of their self-labeling, a communist country.
Whew. I had tons of people losing their minds on me, claiming I was a troll and that I was full of shit. I shared something similar to this, and they basically screamed “fake news” and downvoted.
Those guys are special.
China doesn’t seem communist though, at least not in the classic sense. It’s more so state run capitalism with strong controls on corporations. The population there doesn’t live in a classless society either, seeing as they have a GINI coefficient similar to the US hovering around .4 (0-1 where 0 is equal and 1 is infinitely unequal)
China is the perfect blend of communist authoritarianism and corruption, and capitalist inequality.
you should post those reactions!
China is a communist state the same way my dog is a vacuum cleaner though
Don’t worry friend, just another couple of years and China will become a true Communist state, just have to culturally genocide Tibet, Xingjian, and anywhere else that isn’t Han Chinese. Keep up the good fight!
Just a little question. Is it true that the lemmy.world instance is similar to lemmygrad in the manner that is run by tankies that like censoring people? I heard rumors before the reddit migration and they sayed that of the main instances i shouldnt join neither .lm nor .world since they where run by tankies. They also told me to stay away from behaw but i heard they are not tankies just very echochambery.
Lemmy.ml is by the same tankies on lemmygrad, they used to return the same IP when you pinged them.
I don’t think world is run by tankies.
Beehaw is very safe and handsy with your user freedoms. The admins there are also dicks.
My understanding is that lemmy.world is largely mainstream liberal/neolib.
The latest big admin drama was discussing preemptively defederating from Hexbear, due to their politics and explicit intent to subvert and make converts.
Oh, ok. Thank you. So lemmygrad.ml and lemmy.ml are diferent but not really then.
Not really, no! :c
I’ll start:
I’m not the biggest fan of Capitalism. My preferred form of Capitalism is present in all first-world nations, guaranteeing rights for Workers and Individuals, Healthcare and Services for the Public, Freedoms for Individuals and Enterprises, and equality and equity for the people. Is it perfect? No, certainly not. It has its flaws depending on Class and Government.
But I’d still much prefer it over Communism, which needs to rely on other countries or rely on strict authoritarianism.
One could make a case that tankies are more similar to capitalism and communism is an opposite ideology to them
Considering every tankie lives in Capitalism and doesn’t do anything to stop it, yeah, you’re pretty much right.
I think maybe we should relax the rule for CCP, Russian, Stalinism, etc. apologia for this thread? I don’t really see the purpose of this thread if those viewpoints aren’t allowed here.
The apologia is only for excusing or denying the genocides and massacres.
Guys, I thinks you overkilled it with strict rules and moderation - there are no tankie posts here. What’s the point then?
The point is this thread
