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[–] Justas 2 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Weirdly zero mention of Russia

Kek

[–] Jiggle_Physics 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Where are they finding this love for Israel? Like, I haven't seen anything but hate for Israel, zionism, and the Palestinian genocide. The bots that try to counter this narrative get nowhere, or get removed... I don't even seen the conservative c/ praising Israel.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Thought the same. Usually its people calling for the destruction of Israel and wanting to commit ethnic cleansing in Israel, but I couldn't remember seeing someone massively support Israel.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"Any rebuttal is shut down by these drones." Proceeds to complain that their whataboutism isn't respected as a valid "rebuttal".

[–] Cheradenine 62 points 4 days ago

I liked that bit, anytime I use whataboutism, I get called out for whataboutism

[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Lemmy world is defederated from hexbear, so this user has gone out of their way to use an alt to view posts from there. That's their problem.

The whole Israel tangent is bullshit anyway, I always see posts and comments critical of Israel for genocide across pretty much every instance.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The liberal strawman they have constructed defends Israel. And remember, much like the right, "liberal" is the most scathing insult they have. They genuinely can't fathom anyone being leftist and not a tankie.

[–] QuoVadisHomines 13 points 3 days ago

They genuinely believe liberal is an insult rather than an ideology that they disagree with which is kind of weird.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

this user has gone out of their way to use an alt to view posts from there

I mean, they mostly just made things up.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"Lemmy is more right wing than Reddit" — someone that hasn't browsed a country subreddit in years.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

and commenting on an account in a instance, that justs the same side of the coin as right wingers. yes i know they "are ultra left or whatever that means" but they use alot of the same talking points as right wingers.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago

That's because they're Stalinists, and Stalinism is fascism cosplaying as communism.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

I feel like throwing a fit about the political alignment of a platform fundamentally built on democratic principles is always a self-own. "It's not fair that people don't upvote my unpopular opinions!"

[–] [email protected] 43 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Absolutely unhinged and measurably false. Sure the second highest upvoted post over the last 12 hours is about genocide in Gaza.

I guess my Tianenmen onion ruffled some jimmies lol.

I really find it hard to understand how people get into this twisted mindset.

Edit: just reading the thread. Yikes.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (2 children)

| > anniversary of tiananmen square massacre

| > everyone's posting about tiananmen square!

[–] Justas 1 points 1 day ago

I'll talk about January 13th on January 13th and nobody will be surprised.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

I believe you're referring to the impromptu, unannounced, Tiananmen Square Tank Parade...

/s

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think feathers are ruffled but jimmies are rustled?

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[–] breecher 29 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So bizarre that they start off with whining about Trump and Musk being criticised. One should have thought that that would be something a true communist could agree with.

[–] goat 13 points 3 days ago

They love both Trump and Musk

[–] QueenHawlSera 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There are sadly leftists who have embraced censorship as a virtue.

But I am one socialist who never will.

[–] throwawayacc0430 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It can be a valid tactic in limited circumstances.

Exhibit A: Germany and Defensive Democracy, banning nazi parties and the "communist" party (not very communist btw, just a USSR proxy), also criminalizing overt hate speech.

But it can also be abused like some western democracies have started to ban anti-israel protests under the guise of "It's 'Antisemiticism'".

A double-edged sword.

[–] QueenHawlSera 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Nothing sickens me quite like Israel's on-going genocide and America's carrying water for it

[–] QuoVadisHomines 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

None of this reflects my experience here. Are they visiting lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

yeah where the fuck is any mention of gaza being terrorists? I've seen nothing but overwhelming support for Palestine and complete disdain for Israel here.

[–] QuoVadisHomines 4 points 3 days ago

Exactly, at this point support for Israel is uncommon as I would expect from a site that is not filled with bots.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"whataboutism is effective propaganda". No, it's a reminder to address the actual argument, not talk about America lynching negroes.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 days ago (1 children)

“whataboutism is effective propaganda”

I mean, it kinda makes sense for a tankie to be pushing Russian distraction techniques?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

And conveniently leaving out Russia despite being so worried about global geopolitics.

Hmmm i wonder who would do such a thing..?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Honestly there is a reason Lemmy doesn't have great mod tools

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Oh, they're mad as hell their echo chamber has lost its echo.

Also, our parliament has rules for a reason, and deliberately disrupting proceedings is a big deal for a very good reason. You break the rules, you get suspended.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Eh there's a difference giving the usual ritual slap on the wrist for a ritual stunt, as is done when parliamentarians hold up signs, come in with t-shirts with political slogans, or whatever, and suspending parliamentarians for unprecedented amounts of time on top of that timed such that they will miss the budget vote.

As such, broken clocks being right twice a day the tankie got it right in this instance, OTOH, if you look at the actual thread the comments they mention got their deserved pushback and (depending on level of ignorance of the poster) downvotes.

Apparently previous NZ precedent includes no suspension for driving a truck into parliament? Some Kiwi send me a link I want to see that.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago

yes, because they got defederated and cant"troll" on general lemmy instances, much like how conservatives in thier isolated echo chambers whine about the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago (1 children)

the fuck did I just walk into

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[–] goat 24 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I can imagine how the devs must be seething at the fact that the app they made, and let's be honest here, for the sole purpose of spreading propaganda, is slipping away from them.

[–] goat 5 points 3 days ago

That was one of their biggest reasons for bringing in Hexbear

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

looks who in denial, when they called tianamen square AI slop. its odd to me they are anti-israeli, yet support governments that would be supporting genocide.

[–] Estiar 8 points 4 days ago

The pictures literally date back to then. That's so much denial.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

When u build a free decentralised platform u get real freedom. Lemmy has always been the true embodiment of the marketplace of ideas. They are only now realising it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's a stretch. There will always be overzealous mods who ban you for things you say on other instances. Personally I think they're doing me a favor.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

~my keyboard aint crusty, just a little dusty
but it got the rainbow-frill~

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Don't make me bring out my inner CIA

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