MeanwhileOnGrad

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Meanwhile On Grad

Documenting hate speech, conspiracy theories, apologia/revisionism, and general tankie behaviour across the fediverse. Memes are welcome!

What is a Tankie?

Alternatively, a detailed blog post about Tankies.

(caution of biased source)

Basic Rules:

Sh.itjust.works Instance rules apply! If you are from other instances, please be mindful of the rules. — Basically, don't be a dick.

Hate-Speech — You should be familiar with this one already; practically all instances have the same rules on hate speech.

Apologia — (Using the Modern terminology for Apologia) No Defending, Denying, Justifying, Bolstering, or Differentiating authoritarian acts or endeavours, whether be a Pro-CCP viewpoint, Stalinism, Islamic Terrorism or any variation of Tankie Ideology.

Revisionism — No downplaying or denying atrocities past and present. Calling Tankies shills, foreign/federal agents, or bots also falls under this rule. Extremists exist. They are real. Do not call them shills or fake users as it handwaves their extremism.

Tankies can explain their views but may be criticised or attacked for them. Any slight infraction on the rules above will immediately earn a warning and possibly a ban.

Off-topic Discussion — Do not discuss unrelated topics to the point of derailing the thread. Stay focused on the direct content of the post, rather than engaging in unrelated arguments.

Brigading — If you're here because this community was linked in another thread, please refrain from voting, commenting or manipulating the post in any way, this includes alt accounts. All votes are public, and if you are found to be brigading, you will be permanently banned.

You'll be warned if you're violating the instance and community rules. Continuing poor behaviour after being warned will result in a ban or removal of your comments. Bans typically only last 24 hours, but each subsequent infraction will double the amount. Depending on the content, the ban time may be increased. You may request an unban at any time.

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geneva_convenience doesn't like Zohran Mamdani (media.piefed.social)

submitted 1 week ago by PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social to c/meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Shamber@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Did know that we let smooth brain cunts have a platform on lemmy

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

In some places here they get to dictate the whole discourse and consensus, which is upsetting

[–] astropenguin5@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah, he's pretty prevalent on !progressivepolitics@lemmy.world, I argue with him a lot there. Particularly in his posts of random shit BadEmpanada says. It's sometimes fun but usually annoying.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Yeah. It's a big problem. I was alarmed seeing people that I knew to be bad-faith political trolls starting to make new political communities to "compete" in the discourse space with places like !politics@lemmy.world (which itself is pretty much a pile of ass for different reasons, but that's a separate conversation). And, since then, those innocent looking communities been steadily growing in power and influence.

They now have themselves a whole new instance, too: https://altmedia.house/. One fun exercise is to pick one of the names at random out of that "this community likes" list in the sidebar, and see what that person thinks about Russia or the Ukraine war. Except for people like Noam Chomsky who are out of circulation currently, in every single one of the people I tried that with just to investigate, I found some bullshit.