Long story short: got into argument with mod and famous @Cowbee@lemmy.ml. Not regretting it.

Thread located is here: https://programming.dev/post/54115657

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You can guess who they are talking about.

Also for those not in the know AES = "actually existing socialism" i.e. state capitalist dictatorships that are socialist in name only

Source https://lemmy.zip/comment/27823468

Modlog https://photon.lemmy.world/modlog?user=21817046

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@Astronut@lemmy.zip

ACP = American Communist Party Basically a PatSoc party founded by Haz al-Din (Infrared) and Jackson Hinkle (self-proclaimed "MAGA-Kommunist" who called for a boycott of GTA6 because he claims it is zionist)

Source https://lemmy.ml/comment/26832770

A common narrative of tankies is that Russia meddling in elections, especially to help Trump win being a Russian asset and all, is all a hoax

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Source https://beehaw.org/comment/6045531

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Whelp. So I actually had the most interesting discussion I've had on ML. Generally, I ignore the nasty comments there and only respond to those who are actually trying to have a somewhat decent discussion. They're few and far between, but they exist. Which ended up happening - I had an extended discussion with Cowbee on what a dictatorship is and what democracy is. While IMO there were pretty huge gaps in his arguments, I have to respect that he actually engaged in the discussion without the usual name-calling, putdowns and insults I'm used to on that corner of the fediverse (yes, it's a low bar, but credit where credit is due). And I'll be honest, it was a fascinating window into the world view of people who think like that. Call me crazy, but I actually learned something.

At some point, the discussion started going in circles, and I figured there's no point continuing, since as far as I could tell, everything relevant had already been said, and he didn't exactly seem to have anything new to add, either - so I stopped responding. (To be fair, I stopped responding once before because life got in the way, but the discussion resumed after I noticed that the thread was actually still alive for whatever reason.) This morning, I wake up - banned for 6 days. Reason: imperialist. The discussion had next to nothing to do with imperialism. It's like whoever it is who banned me didn't even bother trying to give a proper explanation. Meanwhile comments like

That’s literally exactly what that means you fucking moron

didn't get a ban, even though they're in blatant violation of rule 1:

Be civil and nice.

Interestingly enough, my comments are all still up. I've tried to archive it (unfortunately neither archive.org nor archive.is worked) because I actually genuinely found the discussion interesting, even if Cowbee's arguments ended up reinforcing my own opinion more than I thought it would.

Weird place, ML.

EDIT: I checked lemmy.ml's modlog and interestingly enough, my ban isn't listed there, even though I'm very clearly banned from the community. Not sure what's going on there (or if I'm maybe misunderstanding how this works)

Source https://lemmy.ml/post/50095046

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Today's featured tankie is @hamid@crazypeople.online. Former admin @hamid@vegantheoryclub.org, instance that was on track to be the fourth Tankie instance of the Tankie triad before hamid shut it down because people were calling it out last year

The term Tankie has a clear definition that Cowbee likes to ignore:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support or defend acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof.

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Source https://lemmy.ml/comment/26612675

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Source https://lemmy.ml/post/49690377

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Source https://lemmy.ml/post/49584601

Moreover, just as Europeans don't want to see modernization in China's Tibet and Xinjiang

To the Tankie admins of .ml, the cultural genocide is just "modernization"

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