If you say Tankies are MAGA and that the DNC are better than the GOP you get banned from DB0 (piefed-media.feddit.online)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by FiniteBanjo@feddit.online to c/meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works

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[-] TanteRegenbogen@feddit.org 26 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Also looking at your comment history and the modlogs, it looks like you like to deliberately push people's buttons and troll. For example posting non-vegan recipes in vegan groups is making you look not credible.

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As much as a nuisance db0 and their co-admins are, I am not gonna side with trolls either.

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[-] MadhuGururajan@programming.dev 16 points 5 days ago

Not gonna lie.. you do come off as an asshole so I could understand their reaction.

[-] bizzle@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

D'beezer sure has a lot of authoritarian tendencies for being The Anarchist Instance™️

[-] Magnum@infosec.pub 4 points 3 days ago

It does, also on their matrix channels, but they ban you for calling it out, which is kinda ironic. I really liked that instance, but they kinda overshot it with Gaza n stuff. I migrated away eventually.

[-] goat@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago

Mentioned it before, but no anarchist will leap to defend authoritarian states like dbzer0 regularly does.

[-] goat@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 days ago

What was your comment?

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[-] TanteRegenbogen@feddit.org 4 points 4 days ago

With that lingo, db0 has already become a tankie or has encircled themself with tankies.

[-] draco_aeneus@mander.xyz 4 points 5 days ago

To be fair, tankies are the opposite of the MAGA crowd? So I'm not really sure what you were getting at.

[-] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Tankies support Trump with all their might.

Check the sidebar for a good descriptive term of what a Tankie is. It really boils down to supporters and actors in favor of the CCP and the USSR, authoritarian communists, people who side with the Tanks used against Hungary and Tienanmen.

China, explicitly Xi Jinping and the chinese state owned TikTok with servers centralized in Beijing, were clear supporters of Trump's reelection campaign. They love that the USA is weakening, they love that ICE is kicking down people's doors and dragging them into the night. The USA global trade war has put China in a better position than previously for exports and cheaper imports. They even love Israel's genocide, China vetoed the only ceasefire resolution that the USA would agree to, with the release of hostages.

Russian and Chinese direct and overt support of Iran, who funded and armed the fighters in Gaza who attacked the music festival to reignite the war, and direct support of Syrian dictatorship, are just as atrocious as Republicans invading Iraq and Afghanistan. They're all just enriching themselves off of an infinite proxy war.

The countless similarities between authoritarianism in China and the USA lead many to call the faux communist brand of authoritarianism as "Red Fascism".

[-] draco_aeneus@mander.xyz 7 points 5 days ago

I haven't seen tankies like you're describing, which support the ICE raids and the genocide of Palestinians.

I have seen plenty of support of China and Russia, which I haven't seen with MAGA supporters (well, sometimes you do see some Russian supporters among them).

If a 'tankie' is a supporter of China, Russia, ICE and Israel, then yeah, I can see where you're coming from.

[-] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Might be a satire account but I think I found one in the wild: https://feddit.online/post/1455166/

[-] draco_aeneus@mander.xyz 3 points 3 days ago

Maybe I'm a bit naïve, but this does not read as support of ICE to me. More a "leopards are eating my face" moment. The point of the meme is to point out that the horrible things going on now with state-funded kidnappings is comparable to how the USA has acted in the past. To me, this reads as a trigger for Americans who 'support the troops' to do some self-reflection.

I can see how you read this as someone celebrating the punishment of American citizens for past American crimes. Of course, you and I know that makes no sense. The most responsible are not affected by the ICE raids, and 'karmic justice' doesn't help anyone anyway. I just don't think that was their intention.

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[-] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

True, tankies have a lot of bad takes, but being maga isn't really among them

[-] TanteRegenbogen@feddit.org 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

A friend of mine said ML friends of hers voted Trump, because "Kamala would have made the genocide in Palestine worse".

I asked my friend why the hell she has ML friends in the first place.

[-] Jax@sh.itjust.works 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

The reality is they voted Trump because they're accelerationists, .ml users are just bad people or brainwashed.

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