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What's a Tankie?
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Come on lib send me the Tiananmen Square video of tanks doing the things you claim they do. @Williama:Genzedong
Some answers haven't "disappeared for mysterious reasons", it's for spreading misinformation. If you disagree then come on, send me a video of the "horrendous crimes committed by China in Tiananmen Square". I fully consent. @Williama:Genzedong. Surely at least one of the "victims of the massacre" would have recorded something the "ruthless military regime" and their oh so very "despicable acts of massacre".
If you and other libs are annoyed that the devs are "tankies", then go back to reddit.
I'm not sure what this means, is this a reference i'm supposed to know?
Not sure if this is aimed at me, but i haven't claimed anything to do with tanks, at any point, ever.
That's fair , i meant "mysterious reasons" in a less factual and more sarcasm way, but i can see how that might have not come across.
That's subjective, which is what that whole thread is about no?
I wasn't really emphasizing the subjectivity of the claims, as much as just pointing out that answers had been removed and they might be found in the modlog.
You seem to have a strong opinion on this, i do not.
I'm sure you can search for whatever videos you need, i haven't made any claims i would need to provide video evidence for.
I won't be providing evidence of positions i haven't taken or claims i haven't made, that would be silly.
Still not sure what this reference is.
See the above section about there being no claims or positions taken.
If you want to imagine i've sent you proof of this imaginary claim i've made so you can be upset in your imagination , feel free.
See above re: claims that never happened
You really chopped up that comment into tiny pieces just to respond line by line and say absolutely nothing worth reading.
What a giant eyesore waste of time
@mods The rest of this chain was offensive, but this comment consisting solely of a personal attack is not ?
Or! Maybe shut the fuck up instead of acting like a whiny narcissist?
So wrapped up in your own head that you're literally having a conversation with yourself out loud
You seem upset, so i don't think you're going to help me out but if you could point at the bit that was narcissistic i'd be genuinely interested in where you think you saw that.
@mods
Please explain how my calling this person a whiny narcissist is more hostile or offensive than this person's snide ass "If imaginary persecution is your thing" and deserving of moderation whereas their behavior is not?
That is my matrix username
I respond to a someone probably exploring communism asking about a term with an emphasis on the deleting of certain posts spreading misinformation, which might miss guide the person asking the question into some kind of vaushist "leftism" or turn them off from exploring marxism. The specific posts spreading misinformation are claiming a very accusatory claim used by western imperialists to make a government look bad, which in a less fortunate country that is just developing, could be the result of support for a coup to put in a puppet government. Whether you support that claim which is objectively false (https://tankie.tube/w/p/kFZ2joQah4kmt2KSpzPHtb?playlistPosition=6&resume=true <-- is an entertaining starter with sources) is irrelevant when people think these people spreading such disinformation are some kind of heroes.
Ah, makes sense.
That also makes sense, mostly, i disagree with some of it on a logical principle level, but i really don't have a personal horse in any of the political parts i also don't know/care enough to get one.
All the things you said might be true, they all might be false, though i suspect they're all subjective enough to be context dependent, i also suspect we aren't going to agree on the difference between subjective and objective, which is my main disagreement with the statement as a whole.
My main point was, there were answers that are now deleted, that is provably true.
The subjective accuracy of those answers isn't really the point and no claim was made on that aspect.
Also, the implied /s for "mysterious" didn't land and that's on me.
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