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I'm shocked.
They've also infiltrated the administration of lemmy.ml and specifically c/worldnews.
Administration? Lemmy was built by a guy that denies tiananmen square massacre.
Before you get downvoted by the tankies, note for historical accuracy (so that I will be downvoted because they like that even less, OTOH lemmygrad doesn't even see me so w/e): The massacres were in side streets, not on the square itself. The party was at first split as to how to deal with the protests, the students were to simplify quite a bit Dengists alarmed by the power shifts within the party away from Dengism following Hu Yaobang's death. Hardline faction was amassing the army outside of Peking, Peking locals went out there and handed them noodles and explanations as to the situation, explaining that the protesters were their sons and daughters, good socialists^1^, not some bourgeois anti-revolutionary mob. Dengist faction lost out in the internal party struggle, hardliners decided that the army shall march, army marched, Peking locals erected barricades etc. in the streets leading to the square, get massacred, army arrives at square, delivers final ultimatum, students retreat, with no further or at least minimal bloodshed.
^1^ According to Marxist-Leninist-Maoist type thought. People understanding actual theory understand that Dengists are even more capitalist than Lenin, but MLs never acknowledge that state capitalism is, indeed, capitalism, and Dengists never acknowledge that they're not even doing state capitalism any more but run of the mill oligarchic capitalism.
Can someone please explain to me the drama of Lemmy.ml and why everyone seems to be leaving it?
I don't know. I just saw a thread there yesterday about "young people are more favorable on China" and inevitably the discussion ended up being largely about the many Chinese atrocities, all of which the mods promptly removed, as well as leaving all the comments claiming that those were all CCP bots coming to...spread anti-Chinese propaganda?
I dunno, don't take my word for it, head over to worldnews@lemmy.ml and have a look for yourself through the barren comment sections.
Better yet, look at the modlog.
Lemmy.ml is run by ML. Marxist-LENINIST. They will not allow almost any critique of any government that falls under that umbrella ever. But will gladly hypocritically criticize any western power for the same thing.
If it was wrong for the US Britain and the west to do it. It's wrong for China, North Korea today or the Soviet Union in their time to have done it as well. Not a free pass for them to do it. When it comes to anything criticizing their political ideologies you may as well be on something like lemmy.conservative in many ways.
Proper link - couldn’t find the referenced thread
Complaint about the server from six months ago
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !worldnews@lemmy.ml
honestly they just expect more evidence
I think they're not moderated by Americans so their standard for what's "acceptable" is less "what's politically-aligned" but "what's backed by the available evidence"
Weird, as social leaning instance, they should be opposed to modern China! Should we help them?
Amazing how effective propaganda can be.
Got banned from there today for suggesting that disappearing prisoners isn't the status quo in "the west".
Oddly enough I've been downvote-stalked since and I find it hilarious.