• culpritus [any]@hexbear.net
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    11 months ago

    I’m an advocate for defederating all their instances. But it’s because they make the fediverse a worse experience for users and I believe in curated positive spaces (à la the Nazi bar thought experiment) over unfettered free speech.

    Someone that really understands the nazi bar scenario, and very effectively applies that logic to ‘tankies’.

    wonder-who-thats-for

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      11 months ago

      Neurodivergence, a boatload of childhood trauma, and like a smidge of drugs (to manage the first two)!

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          I looked at it. I agree with yall that liberals are the greater threat, but I’m one of those people who prefers to say that all the things I disagree with are things I disagree with.

          I’m an idealist. I don’t agree to authoritarianism of any type. As far as authoritarianism goes, I’d prefer communist, but overall, I’d rather we didn’t at all.

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    Amazing replies (emphasis added):

    If anyone wants to argue. Both want an oppressive rule that brings about very great gains to the society. Certain parts are eradicated.

    All in the name of greater good.

    More importantly, oppression magically skips over them.

    Yes, that is fascism. Funny you ask.

    The post is about removing tankies from the community and that’s justified partly on the grounds that tankies what to remove certain parts of society (fascists, counter-revolutionaries).

    They’re trying to do the liberal thing of calling a particular action bad )while ignoring the target of the action)…and at the same approving of the action when their community does it.

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    Russia, China and North Korea’s apologists

    Literally what has the DPRK done to anyone that people would need to apologize for?

    I mean things that really happened, with evidence and stuff. The Wile E. Coyote atrocity stories sourced from South Korean tabloids that constantly appear in the Western press don’t count.

    Think real hard…

    • I’ve, once or twice, MLs over-correct and try to deny the personality cult that has organically arisen around the Kim family in the DPRK.

      But that’s such an utterly meaningless thing to care about, when the worlds richest man feels comfortable enough to go mask off, and do a Nazi salute on live television, and when the new administration is attacking Trans people so aggressively.

      Like, for a supposedly queer friendly instance, those are some fucked up priorities.

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        I get what you mean. There is probably more dynastic worship than I’d select for my ideal society, but I hesitate to judge the degree, because I know all of my information is distorted through the lenses of geopolitical rivalry and vast cultural gaps.

        For example, I remember when kim-jong-il died, the public displays of weeping really seemed like cult stuff, but I later learned it was a Korean cultural phenomenon that long predated communism.