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According to Dessalines (.ml admin, head Lemmy dev) It's bigotry on .ml to call out Russia propaganda (media.piefed.social)
submitted 2 days ago by cm0002@piefed.social to c/meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works
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[–] AMillionNames@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Lemmy.ml is propaganda, and it will always be a disturbing reminder that Lemmy was developed by propagandists.

[–] KombatWombat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Liberals and neo-Nazis opposing Russia doesn't imply they have much else in common. In the run up to WW2, part of what made fascism seem tolerable to moderates is that it would be a strong check against the spread of Marxism, making it appear as a lesser evil. But that common enemy wasn't enough for liberal and fascist nations to get along for very long.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm convinced Desalinnes is a Russianbot.

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago

nah, just consumed by propaganda

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 day ago (3 children)

but neo-nazis are in support of Russia because they think Ukraine is owned by jews lol

[–] GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Funny how they consistently align on so many issues. I wonder why that is🤔

[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 11 points 1 day ago

There's nothing nazi in calling out the nazi jews of Ukraine. Have you seen their president? He's a jew and he's fighting matyushka Rossiia, that's pretty nazi of him /s

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Russia supporting Stalinists 🤝 Zionists

Falling for genocidal rhetoric of autocratic regimes.

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 33 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Just because neo-Nazi might accidentally be on the right side or something doesn't make it wrong. But leave it to Desalines to continue to be wrong.

You can lead a tanky to knowledge, but you cannot make them think.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Please help me, neo-nazis consume water, what can I drink in place of if?🤣

[–] jimmy90@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

when are we going to defed from these lying sacks of shit

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Tankies are bad faith actors. They know what they are doing and they are doing it on purpose. The goal is waste peopels time IMHO

They don't shill anything beyond idiotic talking points that are copy pasted

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's because Stalinism is conservatism applied to socialism rather than capitalism, and often these Stalinists prefer conservatives (or even fascists) to more libertarian leftists.

[–] GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

They're called Nazbols

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 5 points 1 day ago

Conservatism is authoritarianism. nothing more to it. Left and right is nothing more than an afect they adopt regarding those they seek to control. They always seek to conserve the power of the in group.

[–] drspawndisaster@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 days ago (4 children)

A lot of the nazis I've seen support Russia for... some fucking reason.

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's because they think Ukraine is owned by the jews

they also find Russia "based" because of how xenophobic it is.

[–] RidderSport@feddit.org 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Plus they love the general authotariansim and hope that Russia might bring the same to their countries. Often the nazi parties are also just paid for by Russia (and have ties to Chinese agencies)

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago

I do find it absolutely wild that tankies are in full support of Russia. like russia wouldn't even let you be queer lol

[–] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 19 points 2 days ago

I guess they can't help but admire the ruthlessness and cruelty that russian government displays towards every kind of minority that had a misfortune of being conquered into an empire

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 6 points 1 day ago

Well they were best friends in the beginning. So it makes sense.

[–] ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

i’ve been blocking them and hex bare for a while now

[–] tankfox@midwest.social 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

amen to that, I've noticed that 90% of the trash takes come from one of those two

[–] ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

it honestly makes me want to leave lemmy entirely… nobody would have a problem defederating with a nazi instance, why tolerate fake authoritarian “communists”?
….
and they’re obviously fake-ass concern trolls… i don’t want to share any space with them.

[–] tankfox@midwest.social 3 points 5 hours ago

I'm just happy that the cancer is obvious and can be isolated, this is something that simply cannot be done on non-federated platforms where the head is already rotting.

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 3 points 19 hours ago

you should raise this issue up with your instance

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It was my understanding that the socialist republics that made the soviet union were all sovereign. Guess they were Russian puppets after all.

[–] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 6 points 2 days ago

oh yeah, sovereign alright... as long as russia had the final say

[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Tankies like to call nazi pretty much anyone who they do not like. Pretty much how "woke" is used by the actual nazis, which, in turn, use this tankie rhetoric as a wild card to show us how they are not actually that dangerous as they seem to be. I'm pretty sure someone saw not just once, something the likes of "oh, now whenever there's something you don't like that's nazi, right?"

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

but don't you dare call them tankies!

[–] ArtemZ@maga.place -1 points 2 days ago

Mods on .ml and .world are about as mental as lemmygrad