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Our goal is to be the one stop shop for leftism here at lemmy.world! We welcome anyone with beliefs ranging from SocDemocracy to Anarchism to post, discuss, and interact with our community. We are a democratic community, and as such, welcome metaposts that seek to amend the rules through consensus. Post articles, videos, questions, analysis and more. As long as it's leftist, it's welcome here!

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One of the mods is removing the no tankies rule, this must not continue. (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by Zstom6IP@lemmy.world to c/leftism@lemmy.world

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Tankies are against the rules here, if you are a moderator, you are supposed to enforce the rules, not remove them.

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[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 8 months ago

Edit: I don't have any control in how you choose to handle issues in our community, I just react the way that seems most appropriate. That being said, I do want to find a solution here. I believe we should ban the behaviors of tankies, rather than leave it up to interpretation for what's allowed. We have a few options here; I'd prefer we make a metapost on amending the rules to whether we should explicitly ban support for totalitarianism or ban tankie discourse.

I would certainly appreciate this. While I have significant problems with the pro-totalitarian ideology (I'm closest to anarcho-syndicalism - rigid hierarchy, trusting in a human with absolute power to act selflessly, and mass murder of dissidents doesn't sit well with me), when they are well-behaved and the toxic behavior disallowed, they can provide great discourse. I would echo others in stating that vigilance against the comm being subverted for totalitarianism is important but, do agree that the other rules really should cover the biggest behavioral problems.