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[–] Rose@lemmy.zip 33 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Ironically, ML's global rule 1 references its code of conduct, which says

Respect that people have differences of opinion and that every design or implementation choice carries a trade-off and numerous costs. There is seldom a right answer.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago

That‘s hilarious. The admins‘ version of respect is to delete the comment they disagree with and leave a smug reply.

[–] Laser@feddit.org 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] FederatedFreedom1981@lemmy.ca 54 points 5 days ago (7 children)

That's why I blocked lemmy.ml a long time ago.

[–] Stanley_Pain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah and nothing of worth was lost by doing it. I highly recommend everyone do so.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago

Except that no new user is told this upon signing up to any current instances that I am aware of, and especially someone browsing anonymously without an account will not be aware.

This is why we are a Tankie bar - we platform them, thus people conflate us together as if we ARE them, and nope right out and never come back.

Perhaps to be "fair and balanced", we should let in the Maga base actual Nazis a seat at the table too?

[–] blah3166@piefed.social 11 points 4 days ago

I went a step further and stopped using their software (lemmy/jerboa). #piefedgang

Side note, not sure if lemmy does this yet, but piefed merges comments from crossposts so you can view it all on the same page. super convenient.

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[–] Wataba@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Jill Stein is a sellout traitor too.

Fuck tankies and their delusions.

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[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 45 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Cowbee has some pretty bad takes

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 27 points 5 days ago

That’s their only takes.

[–] Murse@slrpnk.net 35 points 4 days ago (12 children)

Still not sure if the tankies actually believe their own nonsense, or if it's some 4chan-esque facade that Trumpers get a kick out of posting under some insufferable 'blue MAGA' persona.

I mean, they're Trumpers either way, but do they actually realize that?

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 10 points 4 days ago

I'd say the split is around 50/50.

Some truly believe this crap, and the rest are LARPing MAGAts

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago

Tankies are tribal loyalists whose chosen ingroup is leftists and alleged leftists. They do not understand the latter distinction. Like all conservatives, their stated ideals are ad-hoc justifications. Claims cannot contradict, in this worldview, because claims are not evaluated; they are only a card-shuffling word game to establish superiority.

They think that's all you're doing. They think that's all there is.

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[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 days ago (4 children)

"Imperialist EU"... Do they no longer understand the meaning of words?

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[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It's hyperbolic but they do that all the time for their own team. Got my comment deleted when I called out that lady who is saying we need to put "rich zionists" into concentration camps. The reason they gave: zionism

[–] null@lemmy.org 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I got banned from a lemmygrad community the other day. The mod called me a fascist pig because I support Ukrainians defending themselves from Russian invaders.

They're weirdly unwilling to tolerate criticism of Russia or China. The whole thing is a bubble community that cracks down on wrongthink. The irony.

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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 days ago

Idiot Junior tweeted his own e-mails arranging Russian kompromat in exchange for sanctions relief.

Two of The Idiot's campaign managers were convicted as foreign agents. Two.

He immediately fired the FBI director for investigating his ties to Russia. The next day, Russian officials secretly met him in the oval office, and the only reason we know about it is Russian photographers posting photos of them laughing it up.

But a connection? Nahhh, that's schizophrenic fantasy.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (3 children)

It’s less of an orangeboi-supportive statement, and more of a “I don’t like it when you neg on Russia >:(“ statement. But it’s no less of an idiotic position for that.

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Well I have to admit, it is somewhat demeaning to Russians.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's a running joke in American politics for Democrats to shit the bed in a dozen winnable states, then spend the next four years insisting "The tiny fringe third party candidate stabbed us in the back!" This, while cozying up to the most toxic reactionaries the US has to offer.

You can do a national tour with Liz Cheney and Jeff Flake for the last three months of your campaign. You can spend half a billion dollars on that weird Las Vegas globe thing, running annoying ads that only other DC consultants pay attention to. You can mirror Republican policy on issues Americans absolutely hate. And you can bend over backwards for the most horrid stew of reactionary oligarchs.

But it's still always those damned foreigners, those stupid independent voters, and the insidious Internet Leftists who are to blame when you lose.

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