• Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
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      I have been there and not seen anything worth banning an instance.

      Can you give a direct link to somersaulting you think should result in de-federation?

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        You may have me confused with someone else. I didn’t say anything about defederation or banning instances.

        What in your opinion is behavior or views that is worthy of defederation? There appears to be many different standards for that from what I’ve seen.

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          Any account I don’t agree with is a saeloin. Got it.

          Someone provided what I was asking for and I changed my stance in a reply 10 minutes before you commented.

          See my reply to @SkyezOpen in this thread.

          Thank you.

          Finally something ban worthy.

          I agree completely that any instance that hosts that type of content should be de-federated.

          Now, I am sure you will retract your accusation…

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          Just throwing out the word tankie is pretty much meaningless at this point. It might as well be “woke”. If you have specific issues explain that rather than just trying to shut down a conversation with a word. Some users might be a bit too sympathetic too China but I’ve typically seen them more come from a reasonable non US propaganda viewpoint and have been open to actual criticism about China. Some of it can seem like whataboutism but to be fair a lot of the complaints I see about China are shit the US does as well so it can be a fair point.

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            In terms of the “tankie problem”, it’s mostly supporting Russian aggression in Ukraine pretty much solely to “own the libs” and “get back at the evil NATO”. Most “tankies”, a term that has become effectively meaningless from overuse, are more accurately political contrarians who care less about things getting better for more people and more about Owning The Libs.

            There’s honestly a good chunk of them on most fediverse instances just due to the general community vibe, with Hexbear having more than, say, lemmy.world, but less than lemmygrad. Hexbear stands out moreso to being the successor to Chapo Trap House, a community notorious for being so utterly vile to interact with that nobody wants anything to do with them.

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              I appreciate you actually explaining your position behind the use of the word. I have a lot of issues with NATO and some with Ukraine but I agree that Russia is the aggressor in this situation. I have noticed that some of their users are pro-Russia but most of what I’ve seen is more anti-NATO which I can understand. As I said in another comment I definitely see some of the users troll more than I agree with and I personally prefer to deal with things in a different manner but overall I’m fine with being federated with them.

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                No, but they’re absolutely the lesser of two evils here. I’m generally not sure how people justify a war of territorial expansion to stroke the ego of a geriatric dictator in Ukraine, then turn around and get angry about a war of territorial expansion to stroke the ego of a geriatric dictator in, say, Afghanistan.

                It’s hypocrisy. You dronestrike a children’s hospital in Kabul and everyone acknowledges the evil of it, but Russia dronestrikes a children’s hospital in Ukraine and suddenly it’s justified as “retaliating against western imperialism”. Sure, and Iran had nukes Uncle Sam needed to find, too.

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                  For me, I don’t support what Russia is doing. I just don’t want to further empower the US military industrial complex. Every couple of years there needs to be a new evil enemy for us to be scared of so that the money can keep flowing into weapons and so that we have excuses to extract value out of other countries in conflict. It’s obvious we don’t do this for humanitarian reasons or we wouldn’t be allies with countries like Saudi Arabia (or see the entire history of US intervention since WWII). Whether Russia wins or loses the war, people in Ukraine aren’t winning, they’re just seeing which imperialists are going to be exploiting them for the near future.

                  In the abstract I don’t oppose assisting countries against imperialist aggression with military force. But playing into US warmongering doesn’t really do that and in the process is further making the world a worse place.

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                    A good deed done for the wrong reasons is still a good deed. The reason why NATO is the lesser of two evils in this sense is that between two brutal authoritarian regimes, NATO is significantly more hands-off and more open to being manipulated by civilian interest than the more brutally right-wing Russian regime. One of these exploitative imperialists will probably let you get gay married, the other one will kill you for it. The US military industrial complex will pick a target regardless. It may as well be a target that ends up counteracting Russian imperialism; I’d rather have those bullets in Russian corpses than, say, whatever country Saudi Arabia has decided needs bullying this week.

                    Anyways, the core of the issue is that it takes a LOT of hand-wringing and “b-but both sides” to justify active warfare to sit back and let an imperial power shit hellfire down civilians’ throats. Anyone who actively supports pulling out of Ukraine is, bluntly, just kind of an idiot.

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                  Lesser of two evils? Please. How old do you think I am, ten? I’m not at all sure they’re the lesser of two evils, but then I’m pretty critical of things like imf, World Bank, allying with Saudi Arabia “ccp bad” garbage. Humans are animals and I’m here to learn and the western narrative is rather sanitized so no thanks.

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                    You are a political contrarian if you think invading a sovereign nation is justified by “the western narrative is rather sanitized”. You don’t care about people’s lives or welfare, you care about Being Special and Being Better Than Other People.

                    To be blunt, you disgust me with your callous disregard for the lives of innocents solely to be cool and edgy on the internet.

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                  Contrarian? Hardly. I’m just aware that Western Europe and the USA have their own agendas, engage in propagandizing their own citizens, to greater or lesser extent. Pretending otherwise is disingenuous. Notice how lacked the behavior, not the person, without knowing more? Try out sometime.

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                    So trying to frame this as “which is worse” is just a bad argument.

                    Put some effort into proving your position.

                    You also seem pretty condescending, why should people respect you if you don’t respect them?

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            Literally scrolled for 10 seconds and hey genocide denial. https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/c9fc2504-6828-4d30-ad4a-9224e2a2e58f.png

            Not to mention unironic Russia shilling. When I called out a mod he responded with “oh yeah well America worked with nazis.”

            Cool. That’s bad too. They’re contrarian to the point of parody. Literally any wrong by China Russia or north Korea is justified by “well America did the same thing” as if leftists as a whole aren’t already on board with that thing being bad, but it still doesn’t excuse that bad thing now.

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              Thank you.

              Finally something ban worthy.

              I agree completely that any instance that hosts that type of content should be de-federated.