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I replied to someone saying that the USSR defeated the Nazis saying that it was a group effort. Got into an argument and called a Nazi repeatedly because "I was mad that the USSR defeated the Nazis and hated them for it" which is ridiculous. This isn't the first time that's happened on Lemmy. What's up with that?

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[–] Asudox@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago

The comments have turned into a debate, and we all know what .ml is like. This post would’ve been better suited to !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com or !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works.

It’s generating unnecessary reports, wasting our time.

Locking.

[–] Jiral@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Don't take it personal. There are some deep Tankie holes on Lemmy, primarily .lm, they'd even take offense if you were suggesting, that maybe not absolutely everything is splendid in North Korea and I am not kidding or exaggerating here.

[–] webadict@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

They are so weird there. They were arguing that North Korea is definitely not an authoritarian regime and also definitely not starving their citizens or some stupid shit, and one of them started yelling about how I probably believed North Koreans all had the same haircut because of the mainstream media, which I... didn't, but I said if they did, it wouldn't be crazy because they have less diverse media to access, but also that wouldn't have anything to do with why North Korea's government is bad, but I was just so confused why they were mad about it.

[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

There are some deep Tankie holes on Lemmy

Deep Tankie Holes are what I'm calling my Lemmy moderator themed porno

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[–] CedricWhaley@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You think they're bad at ml? Wait till you get a load of hexbear.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I like hexbear's cute pictures. They, unfortunately, do not like me. That's okay, it is their instance to run after all. They should run it how they want.

Its not like they purposely built a secret ban list in server hosting software and tried to hide it from the people who downloaded it.

[–] CedricWhaley@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm glad we can all find common ground on the "admiral Patrick is a douchebag" front.

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[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Oh gosh, any snarky comments about the reality of China and the fact that they are pumping out more billionaires than the US always gets deleted on ML.

They are fucking delusional and ignore all evidence that challenges their bizarre viewpoints. When it comes to Russia they are even worse. They are not wrong about Russia doing the heavy lifting in WWII, but they are definitely being assholes about it.

Whenever I am on Lemmy and noticed someone being very passive aggressive around politics you can almost guarantee they are from ML.

[–] innermachine@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

I have found that if u make a legitimate argument backed by facts that are irrefutable, the mod will ban you and delete all your comments for breaking from their echo chamber. Decided to return the favor for their whole instance so I no longer have the misfortune of seeing any of the drivel on their communities. Sucks because there was a couple I enjoyed despite the tankies, but there's much better alternative communities on other instances that won't kick u out for having a differing opinion. .ml/hexbear basically = authoritarian cuck, it's like the communist version of Trump supporters as weird as that sounds.

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[–] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 18 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Mods on Lemmy are like the mods on reddit but on steroids. They'll ban you for completely petty nonsense.

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[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (12 children)

Yeah. Welcome to lemmy.ml

Many of us just block all the communities of lemmy.ml. this way you are out of reach of the tankie mods.

Unfortunately, lemmy.ml is one of the big instances, so you're also cutting a big chunk of Lemmy content. But if enough people join the ml boycott (there are already a lot of people that block ml), eventually ml will shrink and other more sensible instances will prevail.

[–] cm0002@lemy.lol 4 points 5 days ago

Actually, according to lemmyverse.net (great place for comm discovery btw!) and my own experience cross posting .ml content, .ml is almost entirely held up by a core set of the most diehard tankie users. Most .ml comms are overshadowed by comms on other instances with much higher Monthly Active Users numbers.

The comm search field goes by pure subscriber count which doesn't really decrease for any reason other than a user actually unsubscribing from a comm so all of those insane numbers on some .ml comms are just overinflated and don't reflect actual traffic. It's full of dead and/or banned accounts, alts and some still active users

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[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago

Yeah like others have said they don't like people saying bad things about China or Russia. I'm banned from a few places for saying jack ma (founder of ali-baba) was disappeared for re-education since he used to be a huge critic of the Chinese government, went missing for like a week, then came back and suddenly started praising the Chinese government and thats not even a little sus?

[–] Latuga17@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I got in an argument because someone there claimed the only reason the holocaust is commemorated is to support zionism and I said that there might be other reasons too to commemorate a genocide. Then I made a negative comment about put in the same thread and it was deleted immediately.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

.ml is tankie horseshit

[–] knife@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago (2 children)

it's hard to tell why because all of your comments have been deleted

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