Just blocked lemmy.ml from my Lemmy account, and I swear to god it’s one of the best things I’ve ever done on this platform. My homepage feels actually clean now.

For the past few months I’d been seeing a lot of tankie posting and pretty much far-left propaganda on my feed. It got tiring enough that I finally checked my blocked-user list, and realized pretty much everyone I’d blocked was from lemmy.ml. So I just blocked the whole instance instead.

Saying this as someone who considers themselves a leftist: I used to think Lemmy itself was an echo chamber. Turns out lemmy.ml was the problem the entire time. Probably the reason I tolerated it for so long is that I agreed with a lot of what they posted, but like an oversaturated meme, I’d had enough. Browsing the platform was starting to feel way too tiring instead of fun, which defeats the point of being here in the first place.

The breaking point was seeing some dude post a “meme” implying North Korea and China are basically communist utopias and that the West sucks. I mean, the West does suck, but come on - you’re saying North Korea is the ideal the West should strive for? What the hell…

  • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
    23·
    1 day ago

    But did you notice how irrelephant pointed out that THEY (tankies) should be entirely free to criticize whomever, wherever, however, and at whatever frequency they like…

    Whereas in turn you should be allowed the freedom to… STFU about the situation?

    It’s almost like there’s one rule applied to one group, while there is an entirely separate rule differently applied to the other “side”?

    Watch Innuendo Studios’ The Alt-Right Playbook series (entirely free on YouTube), and you will be very glad that you did. Once you train yourself how to spot these tactics, you will never find yourself arguing with people who user toddler logic again. Ultimately, some people use logic not to arrive at any kind of Truth but instead only as a means to an end, and more often than not as a club to bash their enemies with, which is basically anyone who is vulnerable to such tactics. You cannot stop trolls from doing such, but you can prevent those tactics from working on you.

    • Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      1 day ago

      Omg you’re right! im a secret tanky, how did you figure it out!

      And yes, what i desperately dont want is for you not to complain about tankies because if everyone complains about tankies enough then we’ll actually be defeated! The number one weakness for us tankies is when people complain about us, it leaves us totally powerless!!

          • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
            11·
            1 day ago

            Fwiw I upvoted your earlier comment - I don’t have to agree in order to enjoy it - and you had a cake icon displayed at the time. And I never said that it was an insult, that was entirely a self-pwn purely inside your own mind there.

    • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      Watch Innuendo Studios’ The Alt-Right Playbook series (entirely free on YouTube), and you will be very glad that you did.

      i-cant lmaoooooo

      the bluemaga bubble is a crazy fuckin place

      • goferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        0·
        5 hours ago

        It gets better, they also claim bush was a progressive… But yeah it’s just those they hate are the ones that deny reality.

        https://lemmy.world/comment/25161572

        OpenStars

        Conservatives can be progressive too though - e.g. George Bush, the Republican President of the USA prior to Obama.

        And speaking of the USA, the party on the “left”, the Democrats, are most definitely liberals, while the party on the “right”, the Republicans, are conservatives. One thing that that means is that for most of modern history, there has been no true “left” party, hence most people inside the USA - and by extension, most people on Facebook, Reddit, Instagram, etc. since they got their start and maintain their strongest base in the USA, prior to opening up to an international audience. So to your average Redditor, “left” =~ Democrat = liberal.

        And ironically, as horribly incomplete as that statement is, it is still more accurate than what tankies, especially Hexbears, believe. e.g. that Russia, China, and North Korea are somehow “communist”, rather than totalitarian dictators under the guise of democracy and capitalism.

        And that is why I am saying: they’re not left at all. They only claim to be, which does not make it true.