I described authoritarians. Socialists, communists, and anarchists are not tankies unless they defend authoritarian regimes.

You and objections have done plenty of vibes based accusations yourself. I'm apparently both a capitalist, an authoritarian, against revolutions, not "woke", etc etc. You're both equally arguing in bad faith. Didn't even mention the warning in your post. You came into our community and defended your auth ideology, got warned, then continued and got banned. Can't complain when it's in the rules and you got warned.

You are right that there is no point in continuing this.

Where have I stated that I'm against revolutions? I'm against dictatorship and oligarchy.

Anyways, you've made it clear your not an anarchist despite all your claims. You can't seriously see nothing objectionable with the stuff OBJECTIONS is saying

Tankies have no class consciousness. If you wanna work with these people then great for you. I've seen a lot of evil opinions from .ml users (the ones that are tankies, not all of them obv.) and I really doubt you somehow have not. We don't have to tolerate them on 196 however.

It's not about purity. Go look at what OBJECTIONS is saying in the other post. They're not a leftist, and they admit their propensity for dictatorship quite eagerly over and over. They're not alone in their opinions on .ml.

Nothing abstract about not tolerating auths.

Edit: It's like that saying about eating dinner with nazis. If you are so adamantly protecting tankies then why should I believe you aren't one.

My issue was not primarily the anti war stance, but that in combination with staunchly defending tankies. Tankies are intolerant by their very nature (as in their ideology is intolerant), and so Diva was banned for defending the intolerant and for likely being a tankie herself.

Looking over her comments here I am less sure that she is a tankie, but she for sure thinks being one is okay and is really into defending them. Again, the point of the anti-tankie rules is to not give tankies a platform.

What a truly dumb argument.

Anyways, like many I consider it solved with the contract of tolerance. You aren't covered by the contract anymore if you go not tolerating people. Any benefits extended to you by the contract only apply as long as you agree to be tolerant.

We also ban for transphobia or for being a fascist. Is that banning all dissent as well?

Yeah I don't quite get this at all. There are some pretty openly vile tankies on the tankie instances. There's one in the other post right now lambasting libertarian socialism and proudly supporting dictatorship. I don't understand why anyone would defend these people.

I for sure have seen liberals throwing that word around thinking commie and tankie are interchangeable. We however use the term correctly.

My experience is that those that complain the loudest about this tend to be obvious tankies in their comment history. I've seen many be angry at how the word is used and then have posts on .ml where they proudly call themselves a tankie.

Most of the people we ban are worse than you, and call ukrainians vermins, some deny the tiananmen square massacre, or make bogus claims about how communist the CCP or russia today is. They are almost always from .ml.

.ml absolutely has a problem with tankies. That you continue to believe that most tankies are just leftists or that your stance on ukraine is not problematic makes it pretty clear who you are.

For anyone wondering why we have such strict rules regarding tankies in our community, it's because they have a tendency to try to worm their way into leftist spaces. Tankies constantly try to convince everyone that they are leftists and that being opposed to working with them is "leftist infighting", yet they will defend nation states which oppress unions, commit genocides, or do straight up imperialism. All the same things that capitalist nations do. They either embrace these things or deny they happened, or explain that they were somehow necessary. Some are earnest in how they try to convince others, and some know their stances are not popular and try to be subtle.

Tankies are not leftists, and disagreeing with them is not arbitrary. Based on this we have decided to not platform them on 196. This is mentioned in the sidebar and anyone who does not like this is free to go elsewhere. Additionally, we usually give a warning if the infringing comments are not too bad. Both instances posted about here were instances where they were warned yet continued with their behavior.

Edit: We also don't mind tankies being active on 196, we only mind them defending tankies or proselytizing.

For anyone wondering why we have such strict rules regarding tankies in our community, it's because they have a tendency to try to worm their way into leftist spaces. Tankies constantly try to convince everyone that they are leftists and that being opposed to working with them is "leftist infighting", yet they will defend nation states which oppress unions, commit genocides, or do straight up imperialism. All the same things that capitalist nations do. They either embrace these things or deny they happened, or explain that they were somehow necessary. Some are earnest in how they try to convince others, and some know their stances are not popular and try to be subtle.

Tankies are not leftists, and disagreeing with them is not arbitrary. Based on this we have decided to not platform them on 196. This is mentioned in the sidebar and anyone who does not like this is free to go elsewhere. Additionally, we usually give a warning if the infringing comments are not too bad. Both instances posted about here were instances where they were warned yet continued with their behavior.

Edit: We also don't mind tankies being active on 196, we only mind them defending tankies or proselytizing.

We already have a no authoritarian rule in the sidebar, so that won't be necessary

It was mostly for your comment defending the other poster, and for the axe grinding comment. That combined with your stance that ukraine should not defend itself against russian aggression in your comment history made your comments read as you defending tankies.

You were also warned prior to the ban yet continued to make comments in the same vein as before.