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On lemmy.world I posted a comment on how liberals use 'tankie' as an invective to shut down dialogue and received tons of hateful replies. I tried to respond in a rational way to each. Someone's said 'get educated' I responded 'Im reading Norman Finkelstein's I'll burn that bridge when I get there' and tried to keep it civil.

They deleted every comment I made and banned me. Proving my point, they just want to shut down dialogue. Freedom of speech doesn't existing in those 'totalitarian' countries right? But in our 'enlightened' western countries we just delete you.

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[-] TheConquestOfBed@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 year ago

I got 11 upvotes on a Ho Chi Minh quote in the clown shoes thread. Was that all you guys?

[-] Valbrandur@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 1 year ago

I see it got deleted. Ho Chi Minh should have known better and organize Vietnam's liberation from colonialism through confederated and horizontally-organized municipal communes, I suppose.

[-] Valbrandur@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 year ago

By the way, it seems that moderators in 196 are deleting those comments from lemmygrad posters in a way that appear as visible while seen from lemmygrad while they appear as deleted by mods from any other instances (or so I suppose, I do not know very well how does Lemmy work). This is happening even if there is no breaking of rules in sight.

[-] IntoDaLagoon@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

it seems that moderators in 196 are deleting those comments from lemmygrad posters in a way that appear as visible while seen from lemmygrad while they appear as deleted by mods from any other instances

Whoa, that's pretty 1984 Animal House of them

[-] Rasm635u@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 year ago

As Hakim or Yugopnik (I can't remember exactly) said, "tankie" is the new "commie"

[-] citsuah@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Yugopnik I think from memory. He was saying how libs can't say "commie" because its such a dated word and nobody takes it seriously (except some conservatives who still say it unironically which is actually hilarious😂). It's too much associated with redscare era propaganda. Tankie doesn't carry this baggage but has exactly the same function.

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[-] GarbageShootAlt@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 year ago

It might be interesting to start a conversation on the appropriate comm there about whichever rule is being enforced (check the modlog) and challenge the rule.

If you mean the blahaj 196, i doubt it will do anything, because it's apparently this rule by their mod:

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