I saw this post titled “Scratch a anti-harm reductionist and a fascist bleeds” (https://lemmy.world/post/33320759)
I commented that “harm reduction” apparently means sending billions in weapons to israel while they commit genocide and shutting down campus protests speaking out against that genocide. I said that seemed pretty fascist to me.
Within an instant, they downvoted my post and banned me. Guess it’s my fault for posting in a circlejerk community, but I’m still scratching my head on how that makes me a tankie. Something tells me this mod would be calling in the tanks to suppress any dissent if they could.
I’ve removed them
Thank you!
Thank you for letting us know
One of the c/MeanwhileOnGrad mods is a power poster who permabans anyone as a “tankie” for making even the mildest of criticisms. Ironic for someone so vociferous about “authoritarianism.”
Seems like mods at .ml got some competition on “Who wants to be a power tripping mod?”, eh?
awwww, now thats a valid drama queen
PTB
PugJesus should not be in charge of anything more than his own diaper.
He accused me of being a “tankie” when I criticised Israeli propaganda lies.
Looks like @PugJesus@lemmy.world has been going on a rampage against people who are critical of Israel lately, PTB for sure.
@goat@sh.itjust.works Might want to kick this mod out of your community since he’s poisoning it for others and kicking out people he shouldn’t be.
Looks like @PugJesus@lemmy.world has been going on a rampage against people who are critical of Israel lately, PTB for sure.
Lately?
This is the second post in a row here about his actions.
Yeah it’s not a good look that Tankie now means “I don’t like genocide”. Just further dissolves the word’s meaning and enables .ml and hexbear to do more things.
Yeah it’s not a good look that Tankie now means “I don’t like genocide”.
It’s what it’s meant on lemmy, particularly .world, for a while now. centrists just use it like (other) republicans use “woke.”
It means “this person has an opinion I know I’m morally wrong about. I don’t want to change my position but I also don’t want to look bad, so I’ll pick a term I can’t define and use it as a cudgel against them.”
I’ve been called a Tankie for wanting the Democrats to support trans rights to win against Trump.
Means nothing in 2025.
enables .ml and hexbear to do more things.
Making us sound so nefarious, and I’m only a little evil. The word tankie has definitely been getting worn out to the point of being the centrist equivalent of chuds calling people “woke”
What things are we malevolent tankies going to do, aside from voicing our opinions in the fediverse? Enforce authoritarian bedtime?
I wish you would because I’ll never get to bed at a reasonable hour otherwise.
That’s a bit reductionist
That’s a bit reductionist
But only a bit.
Well when people get banned for being anti-genocide and war as “Tankie” what does it mean?
It means that someone is being allowed to mod who shouldn’t be.
I don’t know, I didn’t ban anyone for that reason. I’ve since unbanned the users who were banned for those reasons and have cleared the air with Pug that this is inappropriate moderation.
Hope he learns this lesson but don’t expect him to forgive you or anyone else for it.
I’ll investigate later, thanks for the ping. I’ve since unbanned some of the users, such as @hark@lemmy.world, the others I’m still investigating and some are also spam
I’m fine with people sharing different views, even if they’re controversial. Tankies are also allowed to comment in the community, as long as everyone follows the rules and is mutually respectful towards each other, feel free to engage.
By the way if Lemmy-UI doesn’t let you remove the mod, use photon or Tesseract to do it.
Wasn’t gonna bother until after I saw this, but looks like PJ gave me a ban for clarifying UN reporting on sexual assault.
Didn’t think I was posting anything spicy but you never know the crowd.
That sounds like .word mods, banning people for proving them wrong.
Yea, seems likely
That bucket guy said ‘rape of Jews on October 7th was widespread’, and the ‘widespread’ part fucking got to me.
Not that it’s a huge difference but I couldn’t stand that guy running around citing that UN report that said it found ‘reasonable grounds to believe sexual violence occurred’, which is a fucking far cry from ‘rape was widespread’
But, if I were to be charitable, i could see a mod coming in cold to that conversation just assuming the worst. But im pretty sure it was pug, if the ‘sort by mod’ function is accurate.
The genociders have produced zero evidence for any rape.
Except their own OCIf only that actually mattered.
truth matters
It most likely is, check this community. He’s banned people for calling him out on unrelated communities .
Pug is mentally unwell and lashes out at people wanting something better in the world.
I’ve had some heated exchanges with pug in the past but this is the first time I can say for sure he’s moderated me, and for something extraordinarily tame.
The banhammer is a disagree button.
The majority of bans in meanwhileongrad are temporary with the exception of trolls and alt accounts
You were banned for using semantic arguments that rapes occurred.
The UN is not a judicial body and cannot unilaterally define criminal offences within sovereign states. The UN can, however, assist and fund independent bodies to investigate, which found reasonable grounds that Hamas raped women during the 7th of October massacres.
So arguing that the UN wasn’t verbatim with what the user, @PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au, said is a bad-faith position to take, it’s handwaving away that the rapes occurred and implying that the UN is a judicial body.
Basing the entirety of your argument on ‘Well, not ALL of them were raped’ is a pretty disgusting stance that handwaves atrocities, which is in violation of the Apologia and Revisionism rule. Your ban was made permanent, and you weren’t warned beforehand, which I’m not happy with, so I can unban you within 24 hours if you so desire and if you follow the rules in the future.
I’m also not interested in arguing about the validity of the rapes either because it’s not relevant to the thread at hand.
I was addressing someone saying that ‘rapes of jewish women were widespread’, which to my ears is an unfounded characterization of a report which went to great lengths not to say anything half as definitive. If anyone in that thread was guilty of apologia or revisionism, it sure as fuck wasn’t me.
But you’re right, this isn’t the place to argue about it. Do what you want.
I’ll unban ya since you weren’t given a warning
@hark@lemmy.world , could you maybe add a “ban reserved” or something in the title?
Why? The ban was reversed by a different person. Edit to the main post would be more appropriate if anything. His main point stands, PJ is unhinged.
Hm, good point
Idk, if he didn’t kick our pj before why would goat do it now.
Pug and I had a falling out, and he stepped down but retained his moderator role. If you check the modlog you can see he hasn’t acted in quite a while until just recently
Why not remove him if he’s causing more issues for you?
I’ll consider it
Having an unhinged narcissist as a mod is not ideal for any community.
Honestly my bet is PJ is kept on the team despite all of this.
He’s been removed
I agree, and I’m sure you’re as critical of Davel as you are as Pug.
No idea who Davel is but I have seen numerous bans by PugJesus recently for made up reasons. Usually “tankie” etiquette, by which he means anyone left of center, quite literally. Sometimes “sexual assault denier” by which he means people disagreeing with Israeli propaganda lies. To makes it worse he bans in unrelated communities because someone disagreed with him.
He is not capable of being a moderator.
PTB, I don’t see the tankie connections either.
Seconded. This is a perfectly normal and reasonable response. anyone who thinks Israel isn’t committing a genocide is either ignorant, a troll, or malicious
Thank you for obtaining my comment! I couldn’t find it in the modlog and didn’t know how else to get it, so I had to recall what I wrote from memory.
They probably banned you with content removal, that doesn’t generate modlog entries (Lemmy 0.19 anyway, 1.0 will generate these)
Oh good. They’re fixing that. Mods were taking advantage of that bug far too often.
It’s a bug. Mods aren’t doing it intentionally, and most dislike it as much as everyone else.
I always suspected this guy was continuously posting historical memes and artifacts to, at times, post his own revisionist agenda. No wonder he’s a power tripping mod too.
I unsubbed from the “MeanwhileOnGrad” comm because it’s getting so repetitive. We get it, those instances are full of psychos who say psycho shit, so there’s no point in doing anything else other than blocking or better yet defederating. PugJesus in this case is not much different than those hexbear crazies calling everyone they don’t like “liberals”. They just call anyone they don’t like “tankies”
PugJesus gets extremely triggered by the phrase “statch a liberal and a fascist bleeds”.
Literally. He finds that statement inherently incorrect while he defends genocide, transphobia, excuses racism from the party he likes, and hates communists and socialists.
He’s been scratched and wants to make sure everyone knows.
He’s a vile POS
What other posts would you like to see on Meanwhileongrad? I mean, the community is dedicated to posting examples of extremism from tankies throughout Lemmy and the developers themselves.
looks at the op of the post you commented on
Yep, Power tripping Bastard alright. Any criticism of Israeli genocide and the politicians he supports that fund it “Tankie behavior”.
Even though most liberals in America are against it.
PTB. That’s a pretty standard leftist position, I don’t see what’s tankie about it.
Associating anti-genocide with tankies is a tactic.
The libs don’t like to be called tankies so it’s used to scare them off anti-genocide comments.
Very similar of associating anti-genocide with antisemitism.
Cheap hasbara tricks.
PTB.
Setting aside the question of your true ideology, I don’t think people should be banned for their ideology. Bans should be based on behavior.
Ironically I hate tankies as much as anyone and I’m having a big fight with one right now but I still think they should be allowed to participate on the same footing as everyone as long as they follow the rules.
Edit: after reading further this is even worse because the rules are actually pretty much in line with my position. Tankies are explicitly allowed to participate as long as they follow the rules. So this isn’t even supported by anything other than impotent mod rage.
Ideology to some extent is behavior, or at least helps determine behavior, when people act in a manner consistent with their own ideological positions. I can see an appeal to “allow all ideas as long as they don’t make trouble”, but when the nature of most ideologies is to include something along the lines of “it is a morally good thing to spread this ideology to other people” to a lesser or greater extent, and some ideologies require harmful behavior for one to act consistently with it, the conclusion that seems obvious to me is that believing in certain ideologies is itself bad enough behavior for it to be justifiable to exclude those people from a given online community, because such a person will either cause trouble or be a hypocrite. And after all, ideology isn’t some immutable inherit trait, a person can change one’s ideology and people often do.
All that being said, that particular statement isn’t really a clear statement of ideology at all. I disagree with it’s implication, but all it really does is demonstrate either a misunderstanding of what harm reduction means, or a viewpoint that is too black-and-white to allow for it, which can be a feature of too many ideological positions to narrow it down.
Yeah, I absolutely agree with you. !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works allows Tankies to comment and engage, some of them do, but only if they follow the rules.
Most of the time they don’t bother with the community though because their views and extremism don’t hold up to scrutiny.
Most of the time they don’t bother with the community though because their views and extremism don’t hold up to scrutiny.
I’m sure it’s not because of the mods’ behavior.
The modlog is open, and the majority of bans are temporary, you can verify it yourself
I’ve interacted with your fellow mod plenty in the past to know everything he’s about.
He shrieks “tankie” at everyone who disagrees with him, particularly at anyone who disagrees with his support for netanyahu’s genocide. And you made sure he got to keep his banhammer to use as a disagree button.
He shrieks “tankie” at everyone who disagrees with him, particularly at anyone who disagrees with his support for netanyahu’s genocide
Don’t forget screaming fascist for wanting Democrats to win against Trump like he did to @Return2Ozma@lemmy.world
And I’ve since reversed those bans and reminded him of the rules. if you have something with him, take it up with him.
And I’ve since reversed those bans and reminded him of the rules.
He’s not going to stop banning people for disliking genocide.
if you have something with him, take it up with him.
I have. Got me banned from most of startrek.website. He got super pissed off when I said that centrists hate communists so much because they’re still salty about the fall of berlin.
Well we’ll just have to wait and see then
And that’s how you end up with a Nazi bar.
Yeah I’ve heard the proverb but I think it’s not that hard to set behavior based rules that exclude Nazis.
Of course not, but what about the other Nazi-adjacent pieces of shit like Tankies?
Sadly some fash boot lickers are fine with a Tankie-Bar.
Had to laugh a bit at your modlog history of trying to dictate who are the bad trans vs the good trans.
Average horseshoe theorist. Previously.
Are you a “tankie”? Or is that mod just such a turbolib that they think you must be a tankie if you’re farther left than blue maga?
that mod just such a turbolib that they think you must be a tankie if you’re farther left than blue maga
It’s that one. Perfect description of pj
The mod never elaborated, but based on their behavior, I assume the latter.
That’s a… weirdly noncommittal answer.
I’m not a tankie, but I don’t know why the mod thinks of me as a tankie.
It basically says “I am not sure, I am not a Tankie, I think it is the second one.”
If you call out genocide, you’re a Tankie.
If you defend genocide, you’re valid and will win the election now!
How can the mod be a turbolib when he claims to be “vaguely leftist”? /s
Maybe he’s simply lying, but I suspect it’s that he’s oblivious to or suppressing his own unexamined political positions.
So we’re all agreed at this point in the drama circle that PhilipTheBucket is one of his alts, right?
I got into an argument with pug like 3 days ago (over an admittedly hot take of mine, which he screenshotted and shared in the same community)
In came Phil to play the good cop but ultimately ended up being the exact same type of troll, as I interpreted it then. At least he had the exact same type of antagonistic bad faith interpretation of my words.
Good to know I’m not the only one to think something weird was going on with them. If they aren’t the same person, they sure share the same online schedule and biases a lot.
Phil has lied for Pug, so they’re definitely in some kind of kahoots.
Nah, they have very similar worldviews and argument styles but I’m pretty sure they’re distinct people. I’ve pissed off PugJesus and gotten personally blocked by them but I haven’t irritated PhilipTheBucket to that point yet___ on this account.
I personally see more similarity between philip and cm0002, but who knows.
I find them all fucking tiresome and tell them to their face. Only on the drama shit tho, I love the effort they put into content generally. I should clarify.
Personally my interactions with the two of them make me doubt this.
Though with both the conversations did spiral into a huge thread, and although they do share a lot of opinions, the behavior in those conversations was different enough to give me pause on jumping to this conclusion.
Yeah I really don’t think they are the same person.
Possibly. Or at least the same type of idiots.
He’s just a shithead who sides with a abusers, not the same but at least a useful idiot.
PTB
PTB. Libs are obsessed with tankies. Different sides of same imperial coin.
(FWIW: I was really hating on tankies before the genocide of palestinians. At that time tankies were focused on supporting the invasion of ukraine… But in the past two years tankies have really outshined the libs and exposed their support for genocide. That’s part of why libs are so mad. They would rather cry about their loser election than admit their complete failure and oppose genocide.)
How can someone that likes Snatcher be bad?
