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
You wrote "Do trans women get self concious [sic] about their penis size?" The question is certainly one most likely to be presented by someone feeling aversion to trans people, and in either case, it readily energizes such sentiments.
Your comments in ML's memes community was correctly appraised as appearing to take sides opposing generally all leftism, and favoring US imperialism. They were indistinguishable from US propaganda, framing the issue lazily and simplistically, as lacking any appropriate criticism for imperialism and propaganda. You also called someone a fascist, without having any sensible justification. and invoked a clown emoji as an attack, again without sensible justification.
Your exchange on Lefty Memes appears not possible to be reconstructed from the mod log, but the reason appears to be unrelated to criticizing Venezuela.
So you made a false assumption to avoid having to do any substantive criticism? Great!
Also, I don't bother arguing in good faith on the tankie triad, because I'd get banned anyways. Might as well shit on them. If you want to see my good faith arguments, there are plenty on my profile.
Yes, as i said, the reason given was trolling. Which makes absolutely no sense.
You wrote, "I got banned for criticizing Venezuela", whereas from the mod log it appears most likely that the reason is not related to any mention of Venezuela. The comments still available for review make no mention of Venezuela or anything related to Venezuela.
Regardless, at issue is not whether the assumption is false, that you are transphobic, but simply, as a fact, that you are more likely to be banned or censored by leftists if you are found posting such content.
If your content in one case attracts concern from a moderator, then they are likely to consider the information available, including your post history, to predict whether you would likely act as a constructive participant in their community. Someone who feels concerned enough to post about what is underneath the clothes of trans people has willfully provided an indication of being someone they would not welcome.
As for whether you are transphobic, I of course lack any direct knowledge about you. Perhaps you have an agreeable motive for asking the question, but the plain observation is that you are thinking and acting as someone transphobic. You may think you are still not transphobic, but I remind you of the duck test, and also the trope, "I am not racist but…".
Claiming not to be transphobic is only meaningful if you act not as transphobic instead of acting as a transphobic.
Finally, in the ML community, you chose to act as an anti-communist troll, you were banned for acting as an anti-communist troll, and then you complained for being banned as an anti-communist troll, pretending that the ban serves as evidence that you were treated inappropriately or unfairly, that you were right and others were wrong.
If you resent someone else restricting your anti-communist trolling in a leftist community, then you are not meaningfully a leftist, despite your claims. Alternatively, if you agree with the action, then your complaint is absurd on its face.
Generally, it appears to me that you insist on claims about yourself that contradict your actions, while blaming others and avoiding responsibility. Whatever problems are caused by some authoritarian leftists, your example is no better than of the ones you have been found to have directly criticized.