Soon after I joined Lemmy a few years ago, I searched for communities based on my interests and subscribed to the ones with the highest numbers of users to ensure they are active. Sometimes I joined multiple, but then saw that some people post the same thing to more than one, cluttering my feed, so I left the smaller ones.
It’s only after my community ban from !games@hexbear.net for disagreeing about Ukraine that I was told about MeanwhileOnGrad, learning exactly what “the tankie triad” means and why big Lemmy instances have defederated from those. Lemmy.ml, where the ML probably stands for Marxist-Leninist, seems to have been defederated by fewer, possibly because it’s run by the creator of Lemmy, Dessalines. Nevertheless, there is evidence of Dessalines holding the same authoritarian communist views as the rest.
Recently, there were two posts on !privacy@lemmy.ml about Signal, but then in both cases, admin davel (who is known on MoG for seeing CIA’s hand in running Ukraine, among other things) and Dessalines linked (1, 2, 3) the same article by Dessalines, which not only argues Signal could be a CIA honeypot (as if it matters when proper e2ee is used), but also manages to shoehorn China even into that, claiming its government “prefers autonomy”. This sort of portrayal of totalitarianism as sovereignty is the reason I unsubscribed from the community. As it has been said by others, ML is not a neutral instance but a means of pushing authoritarian views onto unsuspecting users.
Edit: Made the post title clearer.
Once had a ml slag try to reason to me that political censorship is good lol
It was high in “but but the those people over there are bad why can’t I be?” energy.
Censoring and repressing your political enemies is good actually. If Biden repressed Trump by throwing his ass in prison there’s a good chance we wouldn’t be at war with Iran and Cuba might not be facing famine while fewer people would be harmed by ICE back home.
This axiom here isn’t “all political repression is good”, it’s “repression of political projects that are bad for the working class is good”
Go learn the definition of repression please. Also you are high in that “but but the those people over there are bad why can’t I be?” energy. Which I don’t see you saying is good.
You imbecile, you fucking moron.
If you guys had repressed the pedophile in chief we wouldn’t be in this mess idiot
You guys? Fuck up you don’t know where I am from. If trump was oppressed the way navalny was, we would have a whole other bunch of problems, such as political oppression like what happened to navalny.
And if communists hate trump so much why did their governments get him elected? Fucking think ya basic dogcunt.
Communist russia got trump elected? 😂😂😂😂
Seriously your dad bred his own sister didn’t he?
lol Navalny, the extreme-right racist fuck.
that’s Blue MAGA tinfoil hat BS
Care to elaborate on that?
No it isn’t. It’s well understood how much bots influenced the US elections. And they favored trump by a long shot.
People who do illegal things should be punished according to the law regardless of whether they’re a billionaire or not, and since the law doesn’t allow us to throw people like Trump in prison for harming millions of americans so he and his pedophile buddies can feel more powerful, then it needs to be amended.
You think Russia is communist? God damn I thought America had shitty education, but we at least learned about the fall of the USSR (though the 90s was framed as a warm time of reopening, not the greatest drop in life expectancy outside of war and famine in the 20th century)
Russia has infinitely less influence on American elections than our own billionaires.
Mate you said political censorship and oppression is good that has nothing to do with justice.
I do think russians are communists yes are you disagreeing with that? You the russian communist?
Fuck you are stupid here let me have a go at being as dumb as you:
IF YOU POLITICALLY OPPRESSED PUTIN NONE OF US WOULD BE IN THIS MESS IN THE FIRST FUCKING PLACE AND THERE WOULD BE NO THINKING OF TRUMP FULL FUCKING STOP, CUNT
figured out where I am from yet?
Yeah but what if Trump had repressed Biden and now you were in tye 10th year instead of the 6th year of the kid fucker running the US.
That particular sword cuts both ways. Something the tankies never seem to understand.
There is free speech in plenty countries, in none of them it’s absolute.
From Shitipedia: Common limitations or boundaries to freedom of speech relate to libel, slander, obscenity, pornography, sedition, incitement, fighting words, hate speech, classified information, copyright violation, trade secrets, food labeling, non-disclosure agreements, the right to privacy, dignity, the right to be forgotten, public security, blasphemy and perjury.
But when China does it it’s “repression”