MeanwhileOnGrad
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Meanwhile On Grad
Documenting hate speech, conspiracy theories, apologia/revisionism, and general tankie behaviour across the fediverse. Memes are welcome!
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One of the mod is especially trigger-happy. They will blatantly blame Ukraine for the war, sport a russian flag in their bio and ban people for "being racist to russians".
It's 100% meanwhileongrad material.
I think I know which mod you're talking about, but while they do have more tankie sympathies than I'd like I haven't seen them do any of these things save for the Russian flag, which is next to the British and German flags to indicate the languages they speak.
I understand what the flags mean. I'm saying it displays a bias.
They're very keen on "freezing the conflict" (beneficial only to russia), and any criticism towards russia is "russophobia".
Clearly a great moderator for "lefty memes" lol.
Yeah... no. Even if that made sense, which it doesn't, you know full well that that's not what the average bystander will think when they read "sporting a Russian flag in their bio."
Assuming that's true, sure? That's a shit take, but not exactly tankie material. People are allowed to have shit opinions. Besides, the mod that banned the OP is Flatworm, not Alsaas, so that's a moot point.
Literally never seen that happen.
"[] The "civilised" Evropa in action, death to the (neo-)imperialist/colonialist fortress that is the EU"
"Death Death to the IDF!" (and the USA of course)"
I've skimmed these off the top, you don't need to be a detective to see that the person is a tankie, with a heavy bias towards russia.
I think any true leftist recognizes that there's only one agressor in that invasion.
This only raised my opinion of them so... Why exactly should this make me conclude they're a tankie? I'd expect any leftist worth their salt to share a more or less similar sentiment.
If you have an argument that they're a tankie make it; you've said nothing of substance in your response.
Lmao, I should've known from the start...
Well, at least I can give you a tag, so my time spent replying to you wasn't a complete waste.
TIL that saying "imperialists bad" makes one a tankie nowadays.
No, but calling for "death to EU and USA", while praising russia and ussr does.
Also, thinking the EU is imperialist is a sign of poopy-brain.
Glhf.
[Citation needed].
Or maybe, just maybe, there's context you don't know that makes their position make sense? There, from a quick Google. Or you can look up EU fishing in West Africa.
From their position... as a tankie?
I'm not clicking on anything that comes from you guys...
Then look up EU neocolonialism? At some point you have to learn things if you want your opinions to make sense.
"Do your own reasearch", huh?
OR, you can stop living in your propaganda bubble and look at some actual sources.
I don't give a flying fuck what makes sense to you. Not many thing do, probably.
"Here's a link" "no" "then look it up yourself" "no." At least I got to entertain myself with some quality anti-intellectualism I guess.
Hilarious that you treat yourself as some sort of credible source.
"dude, just look up chemtrails, I swear it's the imperialist EU mind control!!!!"
The anti-intellectualism is entirely concentrated on your side. This is just sealioning.