• Joe Cool
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    2918 days ago

    The comments are pretty interesting when you read them on lemmy.ml

    That instance has server wide word filtering enabled that can’t be removed.

    • Armok: God of Blood
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      4418 days ago

      Mass censorship is very cool and definitely not a stepping stone to an authoritarian hellscape.

      • @Alamp@lemm.ee
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        1918 days ago

        The idea that moderating slurs on an online forum is a stepping stone to an authoritarian hellscape really requires a special kind of brain worms

        • Armok: God of Blood
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          1317 days ago

          I got an instance ban from ML for two weeks because they treat “tankie” like some sort of slur.

          • Echo Dot
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            817 days ago

            The biggest bunch of snowflakes there ever was. They don’t like it when you actively describe them.

      • Echo Dot
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        1117 days ago

        Perhaps it’s a sexual thing. You know like if you are hit a lot as a child.

        Perhaps Tankies learn to enjoy censorship and repression. That’s the only justification I can think of for censoring themselves, it’s pretty hilarious when you think about it.

      • Joe Cool
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        1018 days ago

        I’m actually OK with it.

        It’s their instance, you can check the wordlist in the config. It’s the slur_filter_regex. If it would bother me too much I’d change instance or spin up my own.
        I’m more enraged by shadow banning like on “other platforms”.

        • Echo Dot
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          817 days ago

          ml hands out bans people who slightly disagree with their Communist loving opinions, how is that not censorship like on “other” platforms?

          • @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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            1017 days ago

            Lol it’s too much credit to call them communist loving. Marx would be turning in his grave if he saw the regimes these tankies venerate

            • Echo Dot
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              417 days ago

              Of course Marx isn’t really a good hold up either. Any actually communist society probably wouldn’t follow a lot of his doctrines. His beliefs, if actually implemented, would have all ended in civil unrest anyway. His views were inherently unfair and very much open to abuse and corruption. If you were unlucky enough to be on the bottom rung of society then that’s where you stayed.

              A modern view of communism would be much closer to socialism than anything Marx advocated for. At least socialism allows for social advancement.

              On a continuum where you’ve got tankies on one side and socialism on the other, Marx would be closer to the Tankies end of the spectrum than the socialist. He’s definitely not in the middle.

              • @areyouevenreal@lemm.ee
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                If you were unlucky enough to be on the bottom rung of society then that’s where you stayed.

                A modern view of communism would be much closer to socialism than anything Marx advocated for. At least socialism allows for social advancement.

                My guy you don’t know shit. Marx believed in a classless society. There would be no “rungs”. Also what he believed in is socialism, because communism is a form of socialism. This is what happens when you believe what the right wing tells you about Karl Marx without actually asking any leftists or reading it for yourself.

                A lot of the things Tankies believe like the concept of a Vanguard party happened after Marx. Marx would have never approved of the USSR, or at least how it ended and all the things that happened under Stalin.

                • Echo Dot
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                  117 days ago

                  Marx believed in a classless society.

                  Yeah but he didn’t. Because money still exists and been poor meant you got less money. So no matter what he said you would still have less. You’d need UBI to really go classless

              • @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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                Fair enough. I know a lot of his views were rooted in traditions and biases he grew up around. My point was more just that tankies and places like modern Russia and China aren’t really communist.

                My girlfriend is Chinese and she has shared so many examples of classism and wealth inequality there, many of which are enforced by the state and its laws. China is in many ways no more egalitarian than the US.

    • @Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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      718 days ago

      What’s hilarious about that place is you can type removed and they can’t tell the difference between that and a slur being blanked out by the system.

  • @whoisearth@lemmy.ca
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    Anon is a retard. Also why did that word go out of style? I know damn well it’s because it was abused but by definition:

    to delay or impede the development or progress of : to slow up especially by preventing or hindering advance or accomplishment

    It’s a fair critique. We need to stop this PC bullshit. I’m saying this as a father of two children in the spectrum and neither of them are retards.

    • @SparrowRanjitScaur@lemmy.world
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      It’s not about being PC, it’s about how the word is used. There’s nothing wrong with the word as it’s defined, but when it becomes a common insult it becomes less acceptable. Just like any other swear word.

      • If my name ever becomes a commonly used insult, what then?

        Any word can become an insult. It’s time to take some words back. We have to actively correct misused words. It may make a difference.

        • @dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee
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          I don’t get the obsession with reintroducing negatively charged words into the common language. Isn’t english a rich enough language that there’s an abundance of substitutes for words?

          • You may invent words as long as you like, but those words can definitely become corrupted as well. It will be an endless cycle.

            The only way to stop that is to put our feet down and correct the misuse.

            • @dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee
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              Look at something written 500 years ago. 100 years ago. 50 years ago. Language changes all the time, and there is no stopping that. Yep, language is an endless cycle of switching out common words and adapting to social rules. I’d highly reccommend to follow that flow instead of trying to bring back the “good old days” when n-words and r-words were common and accepted.

        • @mugthol
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          Well queer used to be an insult but the LBGTQ+ community reclaimed it. First though, some time needs to pass and afterwards the community that was targeted needs to decide to want to use the word.

    • @Fillicia@sh.itjust.works
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      Working (in French) with lot of people that are native English speakers, this one never gets old. We usually answer with “We know, that’s why your wage is subsidized”.

      They usually come back at us when we say “Je suis fatigué”