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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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Banned from 196 for thinking 'the tankie triad' is a silly name (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi all, thank you for reading my post. modlod link

In the 196 sub an OP was asking for advice on how to change their friends opinions which they disapprove of, because they were trying to warn them off of 'the tankie triad' and their friend didn't have any issues with what they were seeing and was in fact subscribed to a number of instance already.

Clocks got banned first after suggesting that the OP try to be a genuine friend and try to find some common cause in real life rather than alienating people over abstract geopolitical factionalism:

[> The original post feels like bait, but here is an authentic response.

Maybe genuinely be their friend instead of alienating them based on political flavoring. Perhaps you can be better working together to help others in your locality or communities than squandering over geopolitical matters. Swallow your frustrations, being annoyed is a part of being in a community. You can move on. ](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/modlog?commentId=13347091)

I raised the issue that censoring earnest advice as 'tankie apologia' and preemtively writing off any common cause/ isolating people is no way to win people over either as friends or comrades.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but if 'genuinely be their friend' is 'tankie apologia' to be censored, I'm not sure you're going to be very successful convincing anyone of anything in the real world.

I then got banned for this one, for continuing to find 'the tankie triad' extremely silly:

yeah that's the context, I was just laughing because:

only Lemmy users with an axe to grind call them that

it sounds really silly, like they're a nemesis to dr venture.

I'm supposed to be the melodramatic one yet every day I get one-upped 😔

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I'm not here to tell them how to run their comm, my position is that this is way more draconian than anything I've run into in any of 'the tankie triad'. The same groups of people loudly complaining about censorship on 'tankie' run instances don't seem to have a problem enforcing vague/arbitrary vibes based censorship in their spaces.

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

Blahaj janitors are trolls, but tankies are worse.

Stay on .ml

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I go where I please. Not sure why you feel the need to tell me off, but ok.

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

Sounds like you don't go there anymore

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I'm actually now blessed to no longer have that shit cluttering my /all

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (5 children)

For anyone wondering why we have such strict rules regarding tankies in our community, it's because they have a tendency to try to worm their way into leftist spaces. Tankies constantly try to convince everyone that they are leftists and that being opposed to working with them is "leftist infighting", yet they will defend nation states which oppress unions, commit genocides, or do straight up imperialism. All the same things that capitalist nations do. They either embrace these things or deny they happened, or explain that they were somehow necessary. Some are earnest in how they try to convince others, and some know their stances are not popular and try to be subtle.

Tankies are not leftists, and disagreeing with them is not arbitrary. Based on this we have decided to not platform them on 196. This is mentioned in the sidebar and anyone who does not like this is free to go elsewhere. Additionally, we usually give a warning if the infringing comments are not too bad. Both instances posted about here were instances where they were warned yet continued with their behavior.

Edit: We also don't mind tankies being active on 196, we only mind them defending tankies or proselytizing.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (11 children)

If Marxists are not leftist, I do not know who is.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago (23 children)

It was mostly for your comment defending the other poster, and for the axe grinding comment. That combined with your stance that ukraine should not defend itself against russian aggression in your comment history made your comments read as you defending tankies.

You were also warned prior to the ban yet continued to make comments in the same vein as before.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago (5 children)

I'm not here to tell them how to run their comm

And yet here you are. I took a brief look at their sidebar rules and it's pretty clear that you broke one or two of their rules. I don't think that's a power trip. That's moderation. The Tankie Triad are also very heavily moderated.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I think the mod is maybe too sensitive on this topic. I'd go with BPR since there seems to be more context missing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

YDI. Leftist unity is bullshit tankies spout when they plan on murdering leftists as soon as we help them get into power. I wouldn’t expect any less from a .ML user though.

The absolute gall of you to come here, on an actually leftist instance, to complain we aren’t being nice enough to tankies.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

A lot of communities outside the “tankie triad” kind of autoremove anything that looks slightly suspicious coming from a “tankie triad” instance. I understand your POV but I don’t think it really reflects poorly on the moderators. BPR.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (22 children)

YDI you went to a thread with a specific anti-tankie topic in a comm that is explicitly no tankies

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