Lol, of course the place that stands to document y’alls crap gets slanderd by the people it’s documenting

Literally authoritarian 101 lmao

Megathread

Authoritarians

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support or defend acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof.

It’s matrix actually, but it’s been brought up before, some of the more prominent tankies all have a collab document that they copy/paste from

Hint: look at Dessalines modlog

or the megathread

Documentation of the admins authoritarianism and censorship

Some highlights from the link:

“If you don’t support Russia then you just don’t understand geopolitics” ~dessalines, main .ml admin, head dev https://lemmy.world/post/27352415

“See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn’t count!!” ~ Davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/30673342

“NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!” ~dessalines, main .ml admin, head dev https://lemmy.world/post/31595035

Showing support for Ukraine on .ml is worthy of a site ban - dessalines, main .ml admin, head dev https://lemmy.world/post/32775563

Nutomics continued transphobia https://lemmy.world/post/29222558

Rightttt, just anti-comminism, nothing to do with the admins and their authoritarian simping lmao

Oh no, a .ml’r accusing something of being “anti communist” when they take a stance against authoritarianism, how shocking lmao

The receipts on .ml