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I don't know if this is the right community, if it isn't warn me and I'll move the post!
So I saw a meme about piracy on reddit (apparently a tankie HQ) and I wanted to share it on the biggest piracy instance on the fediverse, with good intentions I post, it gets some replies, but the funny thing is I can't reply as the post has been removed by the admins of that instance.
I couldn't care less, it's just a low-quality meme, in fact I'm amused more than I'm sad. These libs are doing what the US state dept was doing during the cold war FOR FREE!
I hope you all can share my amusement at the fact that apparently all it takes nowadays to be called a tankie is to be against big tech and to post from a mainstream instance. You don't even have to be a communist, it's full paranoia on their part at this point.
The meme in question, nothing "tankie" about it as far as I can tell.
Edit: btw the community about censorship on lemmy has been.... Eliminated
This is the House Un-Lemmy.Worldian Activities Committee. You have been accused of being a tankie. How do you plead?
Do you now or have you ever had an account on a tankie instance?
Do you now or have you ever had an account on an instance federated with a tankie instance?
I guarantee it's because of the word "privileged", what a bunch of absolute babies. A lot of db0 users are cool but their admins are so fuckin libertarian-brained. Hey jackasses, it's not "tankie" to point out that if you spend a large amount of your time browsing an internet forum you are probably decently well off in life. Also the meme is making fun of people who are anti-piracy! Its on your side!!
Removing pro-piracy posts on the pro-piracy community to own the tankies
(insert hexbear brainworm emoji)
it's not "tankie" to point out that if you spend a large amount of your time browsing an internet forum you are probably decently well off in life
I spend a lot of time browsing an internet forum because I'm unemployed and homeless and I need a distraction to occupy my brain and keep the PTSD flashbacks away. Back when I had a job, I spent less time online because I was busy actually doing it. But I did still need to spend more time online than most people because if I let myself just enjoy life in the moment and clear my mind, the flashbacks from my abuse would come in and ruin my day with feelings of powerlessness, fear, and anger. Now that I have PTSD and also live in a homeless shelter, I spend more time online than before.
Why would well off people spend more time online? Most of the chronically online people I know need lots of time on the internet because they're trans, disabled, or unemployed. If meatspace was kind to them, they'd spend more time there, but it's not. They're the kind of people who are looking for an escape because life is cruel to them.
That's fair and I don't mean to discount your experience. A better phrasing would be, if someone is chronically obsessed with "the tankies" to the point that they actively moderate benign stuff off of an internet forum and do the state department's Red Scare propagandizing for free, that person is almost certainly middle-class and well-off at the very least. It's the same demographic that dominates reddit and the wider lemmyverse is just reddit 2.0
I'm sorry for your shitty situation, friend, I hope things get better for you
Someone that lives a comfortable life in a first world country got offended and removed the post, that's all there is to it. There's nothing "tankie" about the meme
I tried to create a db0 account, noped out when their rules have no tankies.
their rules have no tankies
How the fuck does that even make sense lol
They allow anarchists and communists, just not the kind of socialist who says we can't do a communist revolution right away, and instead we have to do a socialist revolution and then slowly reach communism over a century of slow, moderate reforms. People who are opposed to the idea of achieving communism within their own lifetimes aren't communists, because why would they be? They're always saying to slow down, don't rock the boat, don't be too radical. Standing in the way of communists who want to actually do communism.
Unfortunately, db0 has secret rules against being autistic so fuck em.
I mean, just posting from a lemmy.marxist-lennist account is tankie adjacent right there 🤭
Lol, you're (probably) joking but at this point I've seen about a dozen people from liberal instances like .world equating lemmy.ml and lemmygrad. I mean we're still leagues above the average reddit.world user but we are pretty heterogeneous.
Wow even a social Democrat could've posted that. Pathetic behavior.
There's a thin line between 'tankie thought' and 'based justification of media piracy' that nobody can define because there isn't a line, it's the same thing, and liberals just convince themselves that there must be a line because otherwise they'd have to acknowledge the substance to ML.
Uhm sweaty this is a safe space for crackers. Please keep tankie drivel like white privilege and world systems theory out of here.
Huh, crackers... Now that you mention it, that word used to have a different meaning... One related to piracy...
Wonder how long before this "piracy" instance starts talking about copyright law and how important IP protection is.
Though I expect we'll see a lot, lot more of this from libs going forward, we're in a new age of McCarthyism and anything they don't like will be called "tankie propaganda."
Also unrelated but the cat in your profile picture is pretty
Thx, as a reward here's some other random unsolicited pictures of my cats, to unsubscribe from random pictures of my cats text "STOP"
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The black one is the older and is named frippa, my username comes from her
My favorite is remì though, the tabby one
We had an older one called micia (slang for female cat in Italian) but she sadly passed away in February, stopped eating and even the vet couldn't figure out what was wrong (we had to took her because her previous owner had passed away) she probably wasn't able to manage the shock, she was old (about 13)
A lemmy instance focused around piracy and other tech stuff, some of their users are pretty good and some of them are even comrades but the mods/admins are, sadly, insufferable radlibs
s and they know it.
