They're still pushing the "Ukraine are Nazis, here's zero proof!" narrative?
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2025
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This is all just what I remember from research years ago, but at one point there was a pretty large chunk of nazis/sympathizers in azov specifically. They cracked down on extremism since then, but it's conceivable there's a few left.
Now using that to call every single Ukrainian servicemember and child a nazi to justify actual imperialism? Average braindead tankie take.
They cracked down on extremism since then, but it’s conceivable there’s a few left.
Also the most extreme ones are the ones that died first and after broad mobilization the relative proportion shrank naturally. That's just maths.
And even if these two were not the case, Ukraine has a simple explanation:
When asked about one of the two Russian groups fighting on Ukraine's side, one being extreme racists who want to make Russia smaller to get rid of regions with non-Russian ethnicities, a government official, maybe even Zelensky personally, said to the press that Ukraine does not have the luxury to pick who fights on their side when the alternative is rape and genocide.
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This is why I don't donate to the devs because it indirectly goes to .ml. This is also why people think Lemmy is nothing but tankies because they're ok with that image.
Directly. Numatic clearly said donations go directly to funding .ml since it's used for testing updates.
This is also why people think Lemmy is nothing but tankies because they're ok with that image.
Which is why I advocate for pushing large instances, like .world, to defederate as they have for the other 2 instances in the Triad
We can't force .ml offline and we can't force them to install an actually unbiased and fair admin team.
But we can control our association with them, if the rest of the network defeds from them at the very least we can all say "yea they're there, but we've cut ourselves off from them because they're nuts" and I think that could go very far
i’m so glad piefed is picking up steam! once voyager support is good i’m done with lemmy and donating to piefed
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I recommended to people to go to Lemmy, and then I got told "you mean the place where it is full of tankies?" Tankies give the entire community a bad name.
interestingly, a healthy portion of thethreadiverse is quite anti-tankie precisely because of these instances.
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Oh damn, they're not even pretending to not being a Russian mouthpiece anymore?
I don't remember a time where they attempted to pretend. It's just recently they started getting heavy with the site wide bans though.
.ml was the most tolerable of the tankie triad to me for a long time, but I eventually blocked it as they got worse and worse.
It's mostly the exact same people as the rest of the triad, they just keep their masks on a little bit better when they're on .ml.
The story at present has 9 upvotes, 12 downvotes. The OP posted:
If any salty Nazi cheerleaders want to complain that this isn’t a news source, you’re wrong. This is an active military correspondent’s blog giving a timeline for events which are not debatable. Better luck next time.
… which has 4 upvotes and 1 downvote.
I would bet money that one or two of the upvotes on it are from the .ml moderation/admin team.
dessalines upvoted it
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I just encountered the OP of that post today, saying EU is not real. You just can't with these people.
well just blacklist them, make it an echo chamber so it doesn't show literally anywhere else in the fediverse
Unfortunately, the "block" isn't really a block on Lemmy, it's barely a mute and that goes for user and instance blocks. Because dessalines refuses to implement a proper system (unsurprisingly). It's been 4 years since "blocks" rolled out
In any case it still allows their toxicity and misinformation to spread, trolling new users who come here unaware of the need to block and such
Really, the best answer is to call for wide defederation like the rest of the Tankie Triad is treated
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It gives them more strenghts. The same happened with /thedonald.
Damn they are still shilling that 3 years into this war.
Jfc... They need to call their handlers and get updated talking point
This is pathetic level propaganda
Mmm yes, must be a very reasonable author that goes by the name "AVATAR OF VENGEANCE" on the internet
.ml is great if you need to borrow some crayons. But that's pretty much all they're good for.
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