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Weirdly zero mention of Russia
Kek
"Any rebuttal is shut down by these drones." Proceeds to complain that their whataboutism isn't respected as a valid "rebuttal".
I liked that bit, anytime I use whataboutism, I get called out for whataboutism
"Lemmy is more right wing than Reddit" — someone that hasn't browsed a country subreddit in years.
and commenting on an account in a instance, that justs the same side of the coin as right wingers. yes i know they "are ultra left or whatever that means" but they use alot of the same talking points as right wingers.
That's because they're Stalinists, and Stalinism is fascism cosplaying as communism.
Lemmy world is defederated from hexbear, so this user has gone out of their way to use an alt to view posts from there. That's their problem.
The whole Israel tangent is bullshit anyway, I always see posts and comments critical of Israel for genocide across pretty much every instance.
The liberal strawman they have constructed defends Israel. And remember, much like the right, "liberal" is the most scathing insult they have. They genuinely can't fathom anyone being leftist and not a tankie.
They genuinely believe liberal is an insult rather than an ideology that they disagree with which is kind of weird.
this user has gone out of their way to use an alt to view posts from there
I mean, they mostly just made things up.
Absolutely unhinged and measurably false. Sure the second highest upvoted post over the last 12 hours is about genocide in Gaza.
I guess my Tianenmen onion ruffled some jimmies lol.
I really find it hard to understand how people get into this twisted mindset.
Edit: just reading the thread. Yikes.
| > anniversary of tiananmen square massacre
| > everyone's posting about tiananmen square!
I'll talk about January 13th on January 13th and nobody will be surprised.
I believe you're referring to the impromptu, unannounced, Tiananmen Square Tank Parade...
/s
I think feathers are ruffled but jimmies are rustled?
I think you might be right!
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"whataboutism is effective propaganda". No, it's a reminder to address the actual argument, not talk about America lynching negroes.
“whataboutism is effective propaganda”
I mean, it kinda makes sense for a tankie to be pushing Russian distraction techniques?
And conveniently leaving out Russia despite being so worried about global geopolitics.
Hmmm i wonder who would do such a thing..?
Oh, they're mad as hell their echo chamber has lost its echo.
Also, our parliament has rules for a reason, and deliberately disrupting proceedings is a big deal for a very good reason. You break the rules, you get suspended.
yes, because they got defederated and cant"troll" on general lemmy instances, much like how conservatives in thier isolated echo chambers whine about the same thing.
Eh there's a difference giving the usual ritual slap on the wrist for a ritual stunt, as is done when parliamentarians hold up signs, come in with t-shirts with political slogans, or whatever, and suspending parliamentarians for unprecedented amounts of time on top of that timed such that they will miss the budget vote.
As such, broken clocks being right twice a day the tankie got it right in this instance, OTOH, if you look at the actual thread the comments they mention got their deserved pushback and (depending on level of ignorance of the poster) downvotes.
Apparently previous NZ precedent includes no suspension for driving a truck into parliament? Some Kiwi send me a link I want to see that.
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So bizarre that they start off with whining about Trump and Musk being criticised. One should have thought that that would be something a true communist could agree with.
They love both Trump and Musk
Where are they finding this love for Israel? Like, I haven't seen anything but hate for Israel, zionism, and the Palestinian genocide. The bots that try to counter this narrative get nowhere, or get removed... I don't even seen the conservative c/ praising Israel.
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the fuck did I just walk into
A bar. Why the long face..?
looks who in denial, when they called tianamen square AI slop. its odd to me they are anti-israeli, yet support governments that would be supporting genocide.
The pictures literally date back to then. That's so much denial.
When u build a free decentralised platform u get real freedom. Lemmy has always been the true embodiment of the marketplace of ideas. They are only now realising it.
That's a stretch. There will always be overzealous mods who ban you for things you say on other instances. Personally I think they're doing me a favor.
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I feel like throwing a fit about the political alignment of a platform fundamentally built on democratic principles is always a self-own. "It's not fair that people don't upvote my unpopular opinions!"
There are sadly leftists who have embraced censorship as a virtue.
But I am one socialist who never will.
It can be a valid tactic in limited circumstances.
Exhibit A: Germany and Defensive Democracy, banning nazi parties and the "communist" party (not very communist btw, just a USSR proxy), also criminalizing overt hate speech.
But it can also be abused like some western democracies have started to ban anti-israel protests under the guise of "It's 'Antisemiticism'".
A double-edged sword.
Nothing sickens me quite like Israel's on-going genocide and America's carrying water for it
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but it got the rainbow-frill~
Don't make me bring out my inner CIA
Honestly there is a reason Lemmy doesn't have great mod tools
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