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Meanwhile On Grad

Documenting hate speech, conspiracy theories, apologia/revisionism, and general tankie behaviour across the fediverse. Memes are welcome!

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Basic Rules:

Sh.itjust.works Instance rules apply! If you are from other instances, please be mindful of the rules. — Basically, don't be a dick.

Hate-Speech — You should be familiar with this one already; practically all instances have the same rules on hate speech.

Apologia — (Using the Modern terminology for Apologia) No Defending, Denying, Justifying, Bolstering, or Differentiating authoritarian acts or endeavours, whether be a Pro-CCP viewpoint, Stalinism, Islamic Terrorism or any variation of Tankie Ideology.

Revisionism — No downplaying or denying atrocities past and present. Calling Tankies shills, foreign/federal agents, or bots also falls under this rule. Extremists exist. They are real. Do not call them shills or fake users as it handwaves their extremism.

Tankies can explain their views but may be criticised or attacked for them. Any slight infraction on the rules above will immediately earn a warning and possibly a ban.

Off-topic Discussion — Do not discuss unrelated topics to the point of derailing the thread. Stay focused on the direct content of the post as opposed to arguing.

You'll be warned if you're violating the instance and community rules. Continuing poor behaviour after being warned will result in a ban or removal of your comments. Bans typically only last 24 hours, but each subsequent infraction will double the amount. Depending on the content, the ban time may be increased. You may request an unban at any time.

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Concern for EU? On .ml? also BAN (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/meanwhileongrad

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Source: https://lemmy.world/post/27238865/15926831

Modlog: https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=352604

Also hilarious how all @[email protected] will get is 24 hour (just caught another yesterday or the day before) ~~slaps on the wrist~~ bans for their slew of expletives in their comments, but not a single cuss word in this comment and yet is worthy of a 30 day ban lololol

.ml not only censors dissent, they don't even consistently enforce the rules they do have. If you're in the IN crowd with them you can slew pejoratives and spread known propaganda all you want

Boycott .ml today! No posts, comments or upvotes on .ml comms!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

I suspect that becoming wildly cursing aggressive against any "enemy" point of view fulfills some important functions for maintaining the groupthink.

It demotivates anyone from participating in lemmy.ml if they have an enemy view, obviously
It creates a "conflict" that will then motivate people to step in and shut down the conversation, preventing there from being some kind of reasoned discussion on the topic that might have poked a hole in the narrative. This isn't all that vital on lemmy.ml itself, since the mods can simply censor opposing views, but outside of lemmy.ml it becomes more important. A lot of communities will ban "divisive" topics, because of this tactic working, thus eliminating places where discussion could take place that could puncture the narrative.
Most crucially, it works to insulate the lemmy.ml user from being able to have conversations in which they might realize holes in the narrative. If they react to certain messages by saying, "What are you talking about? There is no genocide in Xinjiang." then a very dangerous type of conversation might ensure. If they react with, "Yeah LIBBBITY LIB LIB how much does the State Dept pay you you fucking bootlicker I GUESS YOU LOVE NAZIS fucking disgusting" then they're a lot safer from someone having a reasoned response. Actually, the type of response they'll get will just reinforce their overall impression that the outside world is hostile and hates their point of view. I've seen lemmy.ml users who seem to be genuinely confused about why people are "attacking" them when they came in with all guns blazing. In their accustomed environment, that kind of gleeful insulting hostility is rewarded and welcomed, and so when they get hostile pushback, it feels weird and like people are against them.

I think that last point is a hugely important and underappreciated feature. It's also at work in MAGA propaganda. It's also part of why Mormons are required to go into the outside world but interact with it within a format that will guarantee people won't be receptive to them. Nobody on the planet is going to develop a more favorable view of the Mormons because some of them surprised them at the door of their home and talked to them about how important it is to be Mormon. The purpose of the setup is to impact the Mormons in the equation. So, also, it is with how lemmy.ml users learn to interact with non-tankies.