Had some fun with this. Rules:
- When a tankie post comes up, post a legitimate, fair argument. Do not argue in bad faith. No matter how nasty the post may be. Legitimately combat the disinformation there by going into their bubble and posting a sane response.
- Watch the responses come in. Especially if the post is on the tankie triad.
- Don’t feed the trolls. Don’t respond to anything, unless there is actually a legitimate attempt to have a legitimate discussion. Otherwise, start a game of tankie bingo to help prevent yourself from responding to the madness.
Suggestions for expansion welcome.
It’s this perverse liberal fetish of believing everything they don’t like is controlled by communists.
In this case it’s the perverse belief that lemmy is being puppeteered by a secret cabal of communists to subvert the creative design of lemmy of being a free-speech alternative to the corporate chokehold that is known as reddit
The soviet union was the victim of a secret communist plot to put communists in charge of the soviet union
Was lemmy not originally created by a communist? I feel coming to a website/websites made(possible) by a communist full of communists and then crying about all the tankies is sort of silly even in premise.
Yes and exactly as you said. It’s pure performative theater.
Some people really have far too much free time they spend online
There are waaaay too many upset about something so small. And sadly a few who make it their entire personality/reason for being on lemmy
That’s not a very strong argument. Its like saying you can’t complain about capitalism if you consume products of capitalism. More directly, I am sure other components of how you yourself access lemmygrad.ml were created and are maintained by heinous people. Internet itself was created in context of cold war anti communism. Devices, telecom networks etc.
Even more specifically one of the Lemmy devs is known to make comments against trans people. So is it the law of Lemmy that we all must adhere to?
Its not wrong on the mere premise, its wrong in factual basis and in conclusions drawn.
I think you misunderstand what I’m saying. Communist spaces are so sparse and niche online in comparison to lib or even fascist ones that seraching out a space by a Communist full of Communists and then complaining about all the Communists is ridiculous. It is not at all comparable to living in a world where capitalism and the “products of capitalism” are pervasive and often required to live in the modern age.
[Red flag outside]
“Hey, this place is full of Soviet sympathisers! Ugh! Fuckin’ tankies are everywhere!”