I just realised, I can’t post anything on lemmy.ml

So, I checked https://lemmy.ml/modlog, there’s a new moderator.

All posts and comments talking about China, Jinping, Russia, and Putin have been deleted and users banned

    • hark@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      Correlation is not necessarily causation. A platform getting popular means people holding more mainstream opinions getting into the space, a lot of whom get offended when confronted with the unfamiliar. Now, when it comes to nazis, fuck them, they can get the fuck out with their hateful ideology, but I don’t see why people are so strongly opposed to communists other than buying into propaganda vilifying them.

        • hark@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Except the fervent “anti-tankie” movement here is quick to label anyone to the left of a US democrat as “tankie” and is really aggressive about wanting to defederate from any instance they think leans in that direction.

          • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I find it incredibly annoying. As you implicitly point out, calling everyone to the left a tankie is a great way to dilute the meaning of the word.

            Someone who defends Russia for their actions in the Ukraine War and says the US/West or Ukraine is to blame deserves to be relentlessly derided. But communism in itself is hardly focused on something like that. It’s just a subset of individuals who we should all be calling out.