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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

Complains about communist censorship

Tankies censor them

Checks out

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Rule 1 strikes again.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

It's an accusation framed as a question.

But ya. The banning has gotten out of hand.

A critical mass of precious ideologues? Seems unlikely. I actually think somebody is trying to split up lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Have you not been in the same world I have for the last decade or so?

I mean you got the "pointless conspiracy theory when behavior can be explained as humans being human" part down but...

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I actually think somebody is trying to split up lemmy.

I doubt it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well aside, I love indications that someone has never seen a word in writing. The visual equivalent of a bizarre pronunciation. English is full of these opportunities because it's a creole gone feral. Occasionally you get it both ways, where people never connect appetizers called "ordervs" to a menu section titled "hors d'oeuvre."

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

If things get censored you can never have a discussion about them and I think that's bad.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

You can't argue with .ml people. They just want to praise their glorious mass murderer ... I mean, leaders.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 65 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Rule 1 is the lemmy.ml instance wide rule "officially" against bigotry, but unofficially and in practice, it's their catchall Rule for any speech they don't personally like i.e. speech critical of Russia/CCP/NK etc

[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 days ago (2 children)

You see, criticism of China = sinophobia = bigotry = rule 1. Easy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I got rule 1d for saying "BING CHILLING"

That was the entire comment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

BING CHILLING

I did a quick google search and all I got that it meant something like relaxing but somehow managed to be the next "ching chong".

Does it have something to do with "bing" meaning "cold" or "ill" or something else (because the Roman characters are not telling the pitch) and chilling could be "chi ling" or is just chilling in cold or sth?

How does everything become a slur anyway? Someday I might pick up the phone and say "Hello", just to be called offensive.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

I still fail to find it offensive, but I guess that's my fault for not finding stuff not offensive when people are not trying to be offensive.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It is precisely, exactly the same tactic as 'any criticism of the actions of the Israeli government and/or Zionists that support them = you are a Jew hating antisemite.'

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

So basically chinese disorderly conduct

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (6 children)

It's it all political posting? Has anyone tried a similar post with a pro Russia slant?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

How can anyone in good faith support the west?

/s ofc.

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