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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Basic Rules:
Sh.itjust.works Instance rules apply! If you are from other instances, please be mindful of the rules. — Basically, don't be a dick.
Hate-Speech — You should be familiar with this one already; practically all instances have the same rules on hate speech.
Apologia — (Using the Modern terminology for Apologia) No Defending, Denying, Justifying, Bolstering, or Differentiating authoritarian acts or endeavours, whether be a Pro-CCP viewpoint, Stalinism, Islamic Terrorism or any variation of Tankie Ideology.
Revisionism — No downplaying or denying atrocities past and present. Calling Tankies shills, foreign/federal agents, or bots also falls under this rule. Extremists exist. They are real. Do not call them shills or fake users as it handwaves their extremism.
Tankies can explain their views but may be criticised or attacked for them. Any slight infraction on the rules above will immediately earn a warning and possibly a ban.
Off-topic Discussion — Do not discuss unrelated topics to the point of derailing the thread. Stay focused on the direct content of the post, rather than engaging in unrelated arguments.
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You'll be warned if you're violating the instance and community rules. Continuing poor behaviour after being warned will result in a ban or removal of your comments. Bans typically only last 24 hours, but each subsequent infraction will double the amount. Depending on the content, the ban time may be increased. You may request an unban at any time.
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At least they're honest they're not, and I deliciously quote, "actual anarchists" -- Took a bit, but yes, you guys are not actually anarchists, well done on the relevation.
I told you this ages ago lol, and your response was, and I deliciously quote, 'eat with tankies at a campfire'
Calling this community a Nazi bar is incredible. I've not seen a single comment here defensive of any form of Nazism, be it historical or rebranded (e.g. the alt-right or MAGA). My impression is that the users' views here range from anarchist to liberal.
It's projection. Dbzer0 is a tankie bar, so therefore mog must be a nazi bar.
It's an analogy. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Nazi_bar
In this case, it is saying that the tankies are so obnoxious that once you let them in the door and make it clear they'll be protected there (even indirectly by banning and being hostile to "turbolibs" who are arguing with them), they will completely ruin your space by driving everyone else away. It's nothing to do with literal Nazis.
Honestly props to db0 for recognizing the problem, I think. And yes, multiple people told him this would happen and he ignored them or made fun of them. Oh well lol, hopefully this will be a learning experience and we'll all come to a better place as a result.
In the screenshot, an infamous tankie from ML is calling MeanwhileOnGrad a Nazi bar.
Oh... it honestly didn't even occur to me that anyone might be using "Nazi bar" in any sense other than talking about dbzer0 here, simply because that is precisely what is happening to them which it sounds like db0 is realizing.
My bad. Cowbee is out of his damn mind although I guess that's not new. I honestly don't even know what he's trying to get at there, I guess it could be some kind of Karl Rove tactic where they simply pick things they've been accused of and repeat the accusation back at the accusers without it really needing to make any sense. But regardless, it's still relevant that "Nazi Bar" has nothing to do with literal Nazis. They don't need to be accusing MOG of being Nazis for the analogy to hold (although like I say I have absolutely no idea what the logic would be under which it would).
I like to think of this behaviour as a cargo cult. Just repeating stuff without any understanding of the underlying meaning. The idiots on /r/T_D used to do that and it's very common with tankies too.
You are a Zionist front. The community contributors and moderator parrot debunked Israeli propaganda, and conflate anti-Zionism with antisemitism.
The particular term might not be my own way of describing the community, but it is generally an accurate observation that you dwell in a rabbit hole of reactionary misinformation.
No, you're a Zionist front. And you're transphobic.
You keep saying debunked, debunked, debunked... But you've actually yet to do so.
Because you know it's gonna be something like "you said Hamas raped people on Oct 7 -- the first rape actually occured at 12:01 on Oct 8, you ZIONIST SHILL"
SHE DESERVED IT, SHE'S A COLONISER
Chopping it up with the guys that don't fail to shoot them in their backs during the revolution? You can't make this stuff up😂