• Mongostein@lemmy.ca
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    49 minutes ago

    Oh that guy. He spends all day on Lenny pushing pro-Russia and pro-Chinese propaganda. It’s probably his job. I’ve asked him to hook me up with extra work, but no leads yet.

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      29 minutes ago

      LoL. A capitalist that cannot conceive of someone speaking what they believe in. They must be getting paid for it!

      Perfectly on the nose. Chef’s kiss

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        lol a tankie that assumes everyone that disagrees with them is a capitalist. 🙄

        It’s the posting all-day every day that makes me think it’s a job.

        I wouldn’t expect the mom’s-basement-communists to get that though.

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    Ah yes, the famously communist Russian Federation. The RF is nakedly an imperial fascist regime that doesn’t even have communist window dressing, it boggles the mind that self-proclaimed communists and anti-imperialists support them.

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    Yogthos is either a fully paid professional propagandist or a highly skilled amateur. Probably the latter.

    I’d call him(?) the single worst person of lemmy for the reason that every time he speaks of things that have nothing to do with politics, he seems like an absolutely cool dude. I remember even that in the first weeks of Russia’s aggression on Ukraine, he was being kinda somber and realistic about it. But then The Message somehow reached him and he started spouting Russia’s propaganda at full blast. He’s clearly intelligent and literate while doing this, which is just doubly sad.

    In him, Communism has completely ruined a perfectly good person, and it’s a tragedy every time it happens.

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    Lmao, I blocked him so long ago I forgot about his existence. Now look what you brought there, a forgottenone!

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    5 hours ago

    Lmao, it’s yogthos. Canada’s most notorious freedom fighter lmao.

    /s.

    That dip couldn’t find the freedom he is “fighting” for if Marx drew him a map with directions.

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      Yeah, the reason he’s so happy about everything Russia does is that he’s a software engineer with over a decade of experience living in Canada, he’s living the cozy life and literally never going back to Russia because he’s way too soft for that at this point.

      That particular post also got me banned from the community. I said something to the tune that I’ll agree with the state department on China, North Korea and Russia/Ukraine, but disagree on Cuba and Israel/Palestine, which probably makes me more of a leftist than all those dictator simping tankies. Someone did not like me pointing that out.

      You ever point out to those people that Russia and China are very much NOT communist countries nowadays and people only simp for them because it’s opposition to American global hegemony… Yeah you’ll just get banned. I’ve been banned from .ml memes AND hexbear memes communities by now.

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    9 hours ago

    Yogthos is always here to provide the shittiest of takes and the most phallical of fallacies.

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      5 hours ago

      The best part is that he is a very well paid software engineer living in ThE WeSt.

      Couldn’t be more of a hypocrite if he fuckin’ tried.

  • MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    I dont get how tankies can support a “communist” nation like China that has an investor class and whose system requires the mistreatment of the proletariat.

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      The “Party” sits above the “Money” in their power structure, unlike most of the Capitalist countries nowadays were (after 4 decades of Neoliberalism) Money is a power above that of the State (and remember, the State is what the voters supposedly control in Democracy, so that means that Money is a higher power than Democracy, which is why many have pointed out that countries like the US are Oligarchies not Democracies).

      And, for reference, in Fascism too (or, in fact, all other Autocratic systems) the State sits above Money, so I’m hardly saying that by itself that is enough to make that system good

      The real hypocrisy of tankies, IMHO, is that the “Communist” nations they support in a tribalist way still have elites, they’re just not chosen via Money but instead via ability of climbing up the Party ranks (so Cronyism and Sociopathy) whilst genuine Leftwing thinking is about Equality, the very opposite of there being people who get privileged treatment for any reason other than need (that reason being money as in Capitalist system or something else is quite irrelevant in Leftwing thinking)

      If you just see them as tribalists wedded to an ideology shaped by a specific kind of elites who use a specific kind of slogans around Equality to support the continuation of the structure that maintains their elite privileges, (which is parallel to what’s done in Capitalism which similarly has the whole bullshit about how wealth is the product of merit to justify discrimination based on wealth) you can understand why tankies would think what they do about China.

      They’re still mindless simpleton tribalists, but it’s interesting to understand how using as foundation for ones own judgement an ideology controlled by somebody else without doing at the very least some analysing of it just as easily yields a tankie, a Fascist or a (Neo)liberal depending on which ideological bundle of slogans they’ve unquestioningly adopted.

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      8 hours ago

      “Because they’ll eventually take away their wealth or kill them” is an argument I’ve actually seen on .ml. I’m not against the sentiment of getting rid of the capitalists but cmon, when someone says China isn’t socialist and points at a clearly capitalist behavior you can’t be “it’s still socialist because the capitalist thing will be fixed in the future”. Then every country might as well be socialist, we’ll just fix capitalism at some later date.

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      14 hours ago

      Don’t worry, someone will be along shortly to recommend 2000 pages of communist literature that wouldn’t even prove their point even if you read it all.

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      16 hours ago

      Because they don’t support communism. They just like one version of ogliarchy better than the other.

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    Yogthos is the kind of piece of shit that “critically supports” bombing Ukrainian kindergartens and maternity wards as long as, somewhere in the world, at least one Western tear is shed over it. Blocking them makes the fediverse far less unpleasant.

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      9 hours ago

      Wonder why that user account is above the rules of the instance and its communities. The modlog is full of examples which should apply to their behavior as well

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        Lemmy.ml has banned him a couple of times for short periods though. Lemmygrad.ml is obviously perfectly ok with everything he’s saying. Some instances (such as the one I’m using) have also blocked him permanently.

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        They’re a mod of several .ml communities. Just like every communist dictatorship, laws and rules don’t matter when it’s the one in charge breaking them.

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            Perhaps there should be a new word for this communism that doesn’t oppress

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              Isn’t it just Marxism or communism.

              Like democracy doesn’t have a new word because some people oppress in the name of it

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    19 hours ago

    Wut? Was he talking about the previous Ukrainian government, sponsored by Russia™? I can’t make sense of what he is saying, actually.

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      Dude doesn’t know about Euromaidan. I wish some of these children would go to russia.

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      I had to reread it a few times myself, but I’m pretty sure that’s what he’s talkin about

      Because everyone knows Russia is well known for their totally legit free and fair elections/s

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        i got a veteran friend who would not take kindly to people saying her country should be permanently tied to a country whose name she refuses to spell correctly. the .ml tankists have, apparently, no concept of a false flag operation

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          When Russia interferes, it’s fair and democratic elections, when the weat spens a few million on pro-democracy and anti-corruption initiatives it’s Western election interference and bad.

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          When Russia interferes, it’s fair and democratic elections, when the west spens a few million on pro-democracy and anti-corruption initiatives it’s Western election interference and bad.

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          Or they argue in bad faith.

          I hope so because I don’t want to believe people can be so stupid they can probably not breathe and walk simultaneously.

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    Huh. And here I thought Yogthos was a Chinese plant. Turns out they like the taste of Russian leather just the same.