Hi all, thank you for reading my post. modlod link

In the 196 sub an OP was asking for advice on how to change their friends opinions which they disapprove of, because they were trying to warn them off of ‘the tankie triad’ and their friend didn’t have any issues with what they were seeing and was in fact subscribed to a number of instance already.

Clocks got banned first after suggesting that the OP try to be a genuine friend and try to find some common cause in real life rather than alienating people over abstract geopolitical factionalism:

> The original post feels like bait, but here is an authentic response. — Maybe genuinely be their friend instead of alienating them based on political flavoring. Perhaps you can be better working together to help others in your locality or communities than squandering over geopolitical matters. Swallow your frustrations, being annoyed is a part of being in a community. You can move on.

I raised the issue that censoring earnest advice as ‘tankie apologia’ and preemtively writing off any common cause/ isolating people is no way to win people over either as friends or comrades.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but if ‘genuinely be their friend’ is ‘tankie apologia’ to be censored, I’m not sure you’re going to be very successful convincing anyone of anything in the real world.

I then got banned for this one, for continuing to find ‘the tankie triad’ extremely silly:

yeah that’s the context, I was just laughing because:

  1. only Lemmy users with an axe to grind call them that
  2. it sounds really silly, like they’re a nemesis to dr venture.
  3. I’m supposed to be the melodramatic one yet every day I get one-upped 😔

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I’m not here to tell them how to run their comm, my position is that this is way more draconian than anything I’ve run into in any of ‘the tankie triad’. The same groups of people loudly complaining about censorship on ‘tankie’ run instances don’t seem to have a problem enforcing vague/arbitrary vibes based censorship in their spaces.

  • AlDente@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    35·
    3 days ago

    Not tolerating tankies and not tolerating any dissent are two completely different things. I’m specifically calling out the later. When suggested to add a “no dissent rule”, the mod respond that they already had that covered. It sounds like reddit-admin kind of behavior.

    • _cryptagion [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      54·
      3 days ago

      That is not what they said, you fucking liar. They very clearly said they had a “no authoritarianism” rule. The “no dissent” bullshit was @[email protected] stupidity. At no point did they ban dissent, nor did they say they were.

      You idiots are making up lies to argue against just because you got your little tankie feelings hurt.

      • Canyon201@lemmy.world
        45·
        2 days ago

        why are you so hysterical about this? everyone is talking about this normally and you come in raging lol its kinda funny ngl

      • AlDente@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        22·
        3 days ago

        Their exact words are still there, so there would be no point in lying about it. The exchange reads:

        Maybe you should add “no dissent allowed” to the rules… -Diva

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

        It’s may just be a joke, but it is clearly equating authoritarianism and dissent. That is all I was commenting on. I don’t care about the fate of Diva or the banning of tankies. I just thought this back and forth was funny and ironic. I hope you get the chance to relax this weekend.