• loaf
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    3913 hours ago

    I finally just blocked the entire instance. A lot of those folks aren’t exactly… right.

    The hardcore tankies as just as bad as holocaust deniers.

    • @ikidd
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      65 hours ago

      Pretty sure most of them are holocaust deniers, just not the Holocaust you’re thinking of.

    • @[email protected]
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      77 hours ago

      Same. I really wanted to be around other leftists but holy fuck the vast majority of them need serious help.

      • loaf
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        57 hours ago

        My first account was on .ml, and it took me about half an hour to get completely jumped by a bunch of Stalinists. Ended up deleting my account, and was hesitant to create a new one.

        Thankfully, it seems to be two instances, and I’ve blocked them both. My experience after that has been great.

        • @NOT_RICK
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          Three instances. ML, Lemmygrad, and Hexbear

            • DarkSirrush
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              43 hours ago

              Lemmygrab gets defederated a lot, your instance admin probably decided they aren’t worth it and blocked them entirely.

      • IndiBrony
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        57 hours ago

        Wait, is ml supposed to be left leaning? 😂

    • @WhatAmLemmy
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      Tankies and fascists have more in common with each other, and feudalists, than they do with workers/socialists. I’m convinced the horseshoe theory is just narcissism presenting across the political spectrum.

      Only a fucking narcissist could believe authoritarianism, control, and subjugation are desirable. That’s why its delusions of grandeur and megalomania all the way down.

      • Diplomjodler
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        49 hours ago

        Authoritarians gonna auth. Why particular holy book they wave around, the Bible, das Kapital, mein Kampf or whatever they have in North Korea is merely incidental.

        • @NOT_RICK
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          16 hours ago

          I’d say the equivalent in Nork is probably On the Juche Idea

      • @[email protected]
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        28 hours ago

        Just got majorly downvoted on works for asking why free speech is a bad thing and the only response was a snarky comment saying I’m from 300 years ago.

        I’m about to delete my account after being on here for a year and a half because most popular Lemmy instances are just turning into the worst parts of twitter exiles.

        • @[email protected]
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          Don’t be childish, you must know that going against the circlejerk/hivemind is a guaranteed downvote brigade on any social media site. But depending on the thread/community/server/phase of the moon, the hivemind can believe completely contradictory things.

          You just have to read the room, and if you’re going against the general mood in the thread, you have to put in extra effort to get your point across. And sometimes you just wear the downvotes like a badge of honor, because it means you’re not a sheep.

          • @[email protected]
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            12 hours ago

            I guess because Lemmy is getting so many more active users after twitter and Reddit fallouts that some of the qualities that it used to have regarding are being drown out.

        • @NOT_RICK
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          16 hours ago

          You mean sh.itjust.works when you say works?

    • @[email protected]
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      Tankies are just fashists who are exploiting the glitch that makes the ideology behind the largest mass murders in history more socially acceptable in the west.