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[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Boy, they sure are going full Gonzolo Lira over there...

[–] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It’d be wonderful if all tankies met the same fate he did.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

I'd much much prefer they live to reevaluate their opinions, but I do understand the sentiment.

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 11 points 2 days ago (5 children)

@WestBromwich@feddit.uk did you even know you'd been banned due to this comment?

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[–] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago
[–] grue@lemmy.world -3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

Meanwhile, they've poisoned the discourse enough that mods on other instances are over-sensitive to anything that even resembles the sort of stuff they say, and are going overboard in the other direction. For example, I got 24h banned from !politics@lemmy.world a few days ago for calling Democrats right-wing (which is also an easily verifiable fact -- nobody disputes that economic liberalism is right-wing, except apparently in that community now).

Edit: some people here are really mad about facts. FYI, you folks are part of the problem. I'll also note that none of the downvoters have bothered to refute my argument/explain why the mod action against me was justified, so I can only conclude that they know I'm right and are simply butthurt about it for some reason.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

Yeah, there's an element of hypervigilance going on especially now. I hope it'll die down some after the election. Really need to make people understand the difference between 'left-wing' and 'tankie/tankie apologist shithead'.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You sound like a tankie. I'd imagine the mods probably are pretty gun happy when they see some potential tankie show up.

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