• @[email protected]
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    42 years ago

    If your point is that they’re pro-CCP, you’ll probably get your point across better by calling them “tankies” than “communists.” I identify as a communist, but I’d be first in line to say “fuck tankies.”

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        32 years ago

        Stalin and Mao were good actually, the CCP has never done a bad thing ever, and Russia should roll over Europe with their invincible tanks, because the west is bad, therefore anyone who disagrees with the west is flawless.

        That may be an uncharitable exaggeration, but surprisingly not by very much.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years ago

        Originally, a “tankie” was a Stalin apologist, but in more modern times, it’s come to mean just authoritarian communist. I don’t think it’s a self-applied term. More a derisive term used by anti-authoritarian leftists.

        The anti-authoritarian communists tend to call themsleves anarchists, anarcho-communists, anarcho-syndicalists, left libertarians, etc. And they’d strongly tend not to have anything good to say about Stalin, Mao, or the CCP.

        (There are right-wingers who call themselves “anarchists” or “anarcho-capitalists” or “voluntarists” or “minarchists” or “Libertarians” (note the capital “L”) or whatever, but they have pretty much nothing to do with the hard-left-wing anarchist movement that they appropriated the terms “anarchist” and “libertarian” from.)

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    I mean… Open source and federation are the perfect representation of the ideas of communism…

  • @[email protected]
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    62 years ago

    you’re saying that as if it’s a bad thing! especially as long as they just develop and stay out of pushing certain content, then I couldn’t care less. now if they were tankies on the other hand, that I would mind!

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      Their memes community is now full of post about how it’s ok to kill capitalists and other hatefull bullshit and no admin seems to care. Also their comics community is now just spam of extremly hateful comics from one of the admins.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 years ago

      This. It’s one things to disagree politically. It’s another to think violence is an acceptable means of conveying that belief.

  • Hangry
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    12 years ago

    This meme, again?!
    I do not understand the argument. Are you implying that being communist automatically pins you in the pro CCP?
    My country is socialist. My family is socialist. All my friends are socialists. I love socialism.
    By following the same logic, does that mean that I am considered a Nazis lover?

    • Possibly linuxOP
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      02 years ago

      No but many of the lemmy.ml founders embrace communism without evening considering how many people have been killed under that banner.

      When I first heard about the communism I assumed that the were just far left socialists. It turns out they straight up worship communist leader

  • @[email protected]
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    -22 years ago

    just a quick thought on up/down votes on the OPs post.

    my personal take… just because I think the content of a post is inflammatory or outright wrong, does not mean it deserves an insta-downvote.

    every post and thread is a chance to share constructive dialogue. if the thread goes off the rails, I hand out downvotes liberally. If it is actually informative or interesting, I hand out upvotes - even if I disagree with a particular argument.

    I have learned to spot idiots much more easily by watching the dialogue of a post develop and participating – without doing the “it hurt my feelings, downvote!” thing.

  • @[email protected]
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    32 years ago

    So far every website owner I’ve had issues with has been a billionaire capitalist, I’ll give the communists a shot.

  • @[email protected]
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    12 years ago

    So are the devs. Actually, they’re the same people. And you wanna know something else, they also run lemmygrad.

    So how is this relevant at all, I fail to see.

    • Possibly linuxOP
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      Do you believe in “removing” people who are “unfit for society” or the execution of enemy’s of the state (ei journalists)

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years ago

        Communism is not eugenics. I also would love to see who specifically you are saying was executed. Just calling someone a journalist doesn’t automatically mean they are good people who do good things. Be specific if you’re going to make an argument.

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          True but they execute anyone who dares to say anything other than the official media

          • @[email protected]
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            22 years ago

            You seem to have no idea what communism is. You’re just spouting classic anti-communist propaganda. I’d recommend doing some unbiased research.

            Meanwhile, I’m happy to support the communists who give us a platform the users are in charge of, instead of a capitalist who earns money off the back of free labor from it’s users

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          02 years ago

          You need a authoritarian oppression and mass propaganda to keep communism in line. Farms will fall to product enough food and you need to hide the reason for the failure from the people

  • Noetic97
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    32 years ago

    Good. We need more communists representing their ideas in open forums. I’d be more concerned if they were capitalists. That’s just Reddit 2.0.

  • QuentinCallaghanM
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    42 years ago

    Also water is wet. The devs’ political views are not important to me, the software they make is more important. “Separate the art from the artist.”

    • Possibly linuxOP
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      12 years ago

      True they start telling you how China is doing wonders for its people.

      I disagree politicly with many people on reddit. I don’t care if you disagree but it does bother me when they are following a dead idolology.

      I also don’t like lemmy.ml being as big as it is. We need to seperate the power of development from the power of administration

      • QuentinCallaghanM
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        22 years ago

        Also the devs expressed support for people creating more mainstream liberal instances. That’s the reason why there are recommended instances at Join-Lemmy.

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝
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    22 years ago

    This seems to be a particularly American concern, presumably dating back to the McCarthy era. Tye real question is: are they Tankies?

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      That’s a problem because communism is dangerous and destructive due to its dark patterns. Its the same thing as Nazism.

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        32 years ago

        funny how all you have talked about is how it has killed millions and how its the same as Nazism, could you provide a source? the killing billions part is a common anti-communist West propoganda that has been debunked

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    22 years ago

    Sometimes the best tech people are weird as hell. This might be one of those cases.

    Although I did hear that they censor content critical of china, which sucks.

    • Possibly linuxOP
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      12 years ago

      censor content critical of China

      This is exactly my point. China is authoritarian and has commited war crimes against people who it doesnt’t like. It also arrests journalists as enemies of the state.

      I’m not saying the west is completely perfect but China is much worse

      • @[email protected]
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        22 years ago

        Anti-authoritarian communism is a thing. I think mostly the issue folks here in this thread are taking with you is equating communism with authoritarianism. And I don’t think anyone in this thread is pro-China or defending censoring content critical of China. Quite the opposite in fact.

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          12 years ago

          But communism doesn’t work. All countries that implement communism have restrictions on free speech to hide the fact that it is a broken system.

          The reason communism doesn’t work is because people have no incentives to work. You can complain about the evils of the corporate empires but they at least have a motivation to improve even if that is sometimes at the expense of the people