Rimu published yet another hit piece against the /0 instance and this time posted it in his own instance comms as well. One of his mods jumped in, admitted they don’t know anything about anything, but nevertheless felt confident enough to state their opinion as fact and in the process insult all of us collectively, then stickied his opinion for good measure.
So I decided to reply sarcastically, at which point that mod insulted me and locked the thread, which is apparently a feature in piefed which simply hides/deletes further replies in that thread, but since it’s not a feature in lemmy, it appears to function like a shadow delete.
This is what my last reply would have been.
(Yes I’m being snarky, but that “I’m so mature” bullshit just rubs me the wrong way.)
In my opinion, using mod powers to get the last insult in, is just bastard behaviour.
i would love to hear your opinion tbh
My opinion of what, specifically?
you seemed very sure of yourself, maybe you should just say what you think instead of being evasive and condescending
I don’t think most people use tankie as a perjorative for communists broadly, and I don’t think Rimu uses it that way either (which is what you were implying, right?)
But like I said, I’m unsurprised that you feel like they do.
i said:
you are now saying:
that’s a different claim; my claim was that ‘tankie’ is used as a pejorative against anyone on the left who’s not aligned with us imperial ‘foreign policy’.
you say that you don’t think it’s used as a pejorative for communists broadly
the fact that there are communists who have views which are aligned with us ‘foreign policy’ is not something that is in dispute on my end; you’re addressing a different claim.
we are here because i raised rimu’s documented goal of excluding ‘tankies’ through platform design. what does that exclusion mean if not targeting anti-imperialists?
Which you did in defense of this claim:
So either it was created out of an anti-tankie (and nazi) ideology, and being anti-tankie == being anti-communist (unlikely), or it wasn’t created out of an anti-communist ideology.
excluding anti-imperialists while catering to pro-US leftists is still anti-communism in practice; even in the cold war there was an acceptable vs unacceptable left.
historical US anti-communism looks exactly like that in fact, revolutionary anti-imperialists get targeted while liberal-compatible communists are permitted and promoted.
I can’t take the stated desire to exclude nazis seriously when rimu has not spoken out against the platform being promoted as a place to be free from ‘degenerate roaches’ (referring to predominantly gay/trans ‘tankies’). all energy seems to be directed leftwards and he’s even posted and commented in the comm where that type of language has been long-permitted.
Assuming “excluding anti-imperialists” means “adding features tankies and nazis won’t like”, then maybe? But I don’t think I agree that it does.
That’s a loooooong thread with a lot of links to loooooooong threads, but I think I see the comment you’re referring to here. Has anyone asked rimu to make a statement about that comment? Has he even seen it?
rimus comfort or lack thereof with the promotion of piefed in the nazi bar as an alternative to the ‘tankies’ is something which he can clarify if he chooses. it makes it hard for me to take his opposition to nazism as anything other than performative without that.
i don’t expect a real response from him, the evidence is posted on hexbear and his stated position is ‘Do not take anything a hexbearian says at face value.’
nazis are not anti-imperialists and as i stated i’m not convinced they’re being deterred at all. if anything the open anti-communism is a beacon for them.
I get that you want to assume that ‘tankies’ and nazis are the same, but as I just clarified, designating an out-group of incompatible leftists to slander as ‘tankies’ because they do not align with us ‘foreign policy’ is just straight up anti-communism.