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!
What is a Tankie?
Alternatively, a detailed blog post about Tankies.
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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.
Brigading — If you're here because this community was linked in another thread, please refrain from voting, commenting or manipulating the post in any way, this includes alt accounts. All votes are public, and if you are found to be brigading, you will be permanently banned.
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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The reason you were banned was trolling.
Not admitting any responsibility for being disruptive and insincere is simply dishonest.
In fact, you seem to have a history of commenting in socialist communities with content that is provocative but also absurd.
Further, a memes community is generally not suited to starting debates.
Finally, no socialist group will roll out the red carpet for someone who propagates transphobia.
You mean tankie communities. I'm a Marxist myself with Leninist tendencies. All I'm doing is calling out bullshit Marxism.
This is your only criticism i can accept, although you'd have to level that same critique to those engaging with me in the thread as well. Furthermore, a simple slap on the wrist rather than an outright ban would've sufficed IMO.
Me? Transphobic? You seem to have the wrong guy pal
It's part of their MO. Anyone who disagrees with them in any way is (a) Zionist and (b) transphobic.
It is part of why they stake out these absolutely wild positions (we need to not call out Dragonrider for trolling / Hamas didn't rape anybody on October 7th), to bait people into disagreeing with them from the "wrong side," and then they can get all scream-y about the accusation and have something real to point to that actually sort of vaguely looks like they have a point. Then, they take that little grain of sand and spin it up into a world-spanning pearl where the whole of MOG is Zionist and transphobic. It actually works pretty well.
Like it's such a weird comment. Here's me literally asserting that the male/female paradigm is a spectrum in response to an actual transphobe. These debate tactics are always so lazy. They have nothing to get you on, so they resort to ad hominems they know they're gonna receive mass support on regardless of your actual points.
So fucking stupid
Taken factually, yes. It's not meant factually. It's meant tribally, to tag someone as "enemy" by assigning something irredeemable to them and marking them as a hated enemy in the eyes of the group. That's why the tags are always the same, and have nothing to do with anything the person actually said or did.
Couldn't have said it better. There has to be a name for this phenomenon.