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Meanwhile On Grad
Documenting hate speech, conspiracy theories, apologia/revisionism, and general tankie behaviour across the fediverse. Memes are welcome!
What is a Tankie?
(caution of biased source)
Basic Rules:
Sh.itjust.works Instance rules apply! If you are from other instances, please be mindful of the rules. — Basically, don't be a dick.
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, Islamic Terrorism or any variation of Tankie Ideology.
Revisionism — No downplaying or denying atrocities past and present. Calling Tankies shills, foreign/federal agents, or bots also falls under this rule. Extremists exist. They are real. Do not call them shills or fake users as it handwaves their extremism.
Tankies can explain their views but may be criticised or attacked for them. Any slight infraction on the rules above will immediately earn a warning and possibly a ban.
Off-topic Discussion — Do not discuss unrelated topics to the point of derailing the thread. Stay focused on the direct content of the post as opposed to arguing.
You'll be warned if you're violating the instance and community rules. Continuing poor behaviour after being warned will result in a ban or removal of your comments. Bans typically only last 24 hours, but each subsequent infraction will double the amount. Depending on the content, the ban time may be increased. You may request an unban at any time.
Woah, isn't lemmy.ml isn't the instance hosted by lemmy's devs?
Wouldn't it be a weird turn of events if most instances would defederate with the original one
Edit: I realize this will never happen, but I'm shocked at how political the dev's official community is (see pinned post here).
Yeah, it's pretty disgusting. They also don't allow you to add or edit the slur list, meaning that you can't add the numerous slurs tankie's use.
I got caught up in this purge. I called everyone's favorite lemmy.ml tankie worldnews troll a racist for suggesting I have never been to HK and explained I have family in China and have been many times. That made him big mad. This was after he removed the agency of ten million Ukrainians by suggesting they were CIA shills.
Apparently you are not allowed to express a stake in Chinese society on lemmy.ml. Tankies really hate it when people with actually experience with autocratic regimes burst their circlejerk.
Edit - the modlog shows it was actually over a different comment I guess.
I know virtually nothing about tankies but it sounds like their beliefs are really twisted around and confusing.
Like all extremists
Do you still have those comment chains?
Actually according to to modlog I guess the specific comment they removed was a pretty obvious joke "Ok you can fuck right off and go be a degenerate tankie elsewhere but that's kind of funny ngl." I just assumed it was the other thread. Didn't realize you can actually search the modlog not logged in.
I guess they actually just don't like being called out.
Well that's disturbing.
Especially since it's hosted by the devs themselves...