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Apparently I'm now a shitlib for not buying into this disgusting tankie propaganda that it was all the Wests fault and Stalin had to ally with Hitler.
For a mod who loves to ban others for bad jacketing, they sure have no problem doing it to other anarchists.
The Ban:
The Context:
I love how all tankie defense boils down to "dO yOuR OwN ReSeArCh"
Wish it was only tankies. But with them, there's the additional implication that all aspects of Soviet history should be public knowledge, and if you do not know these things that alone makes you a ... reactionary? capitalist bootlicker? Something like that.
My experience with these people is that they are extremely selectively informed about Soviet history. So ironically, they are actually quite ignorant on the topic, but they expect only their very specific cherry-picked facts and interpretations to be well understood by everyone, but none of the context or intervening events that might paint the USSR as anything other than the most benevolent organization in all of history.
Where "your own research" means "Cowbee's research."
What is cowbee? Google isn't helping
A blatherer whose every response seems to involve trying to get someone to read a book that i'm starting to suspect they wrote, or are actually a fourteen year old who read their first thing that Spoke to them.
Cowbee did not write Blackshirts and Reds. Lol
Sorry but this is PTB. Criticizing Stalin and the USSR doesn't make one a liberal. Wtf.
Just for context, won't really engage further with this: I take 0 issue with people criticizing Stalin, the USSR etc. I'm not a Stalinist, ML nor MLM.
It was only for that specific insulting comment and claiming the USSR outright allied with fascist Germany. Literally every day that kept Germany from fully carrying out Generalplan Ost and Operation Barbarossa in general saved countless lives and allowed for proper industrialisation, later allowing a war effort at all.
I do not have any interest in engaging with people using that tone and straying from proper discussion (again, 0 problems with people trying to discuss things even if erroneous) and do not want them part of the com, it's as shrimple as that.
I took no issue with OP of that specific thread.
You banned me for being a shitlib, not for being 'insulting'.
Because it read like a shitlib take ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Edit: and shitlibs usually are insulting too
But not you. You'd never be insulting to anyone.
Is "shitlib" not insulting?
There was way more nuance to the situation. The moderator linked a summary of the false equivalence, as well as the extra context.
you showed up to be like: "fucked up, tankie defending Nazi alliance" as if history began and ended in 1939.
YDI, I can see how you ended up a 'world news' moderator though
tankie punks fuck off
I'm actually an anarchist, but you're gonna use whatever pejorative makes you comfortable
You just like to say you are. You're anti-ukraine and from russia. You put up more tankie posts and anti-dem posts than anything critical of the repubs.
You're a tankie.
The reason I am often pissed at the democrats is due to how bad they are at actually opposing the republicans.
You're just a 'team blue' maga type
You're just a 'team blue' maga type
If I search for "maga house", "maga car", "maga outfit", I'm going to get some very specific images as a result.
Please show me an example of this "blue maga" in image form.
I hate to be defending a .ml user, and Diva of all people, but you asked so here you go:
All of this is going to get an anti-trans Democrat like Gavin Newsom elected to office. This is what people mean when they say 'Blue MAGA'. It follows the exact same "cult of personality" populist playbook as MAGA.
There is infinetly more nuance
no there isn't. they worked with the nazis. it doesn't matter why they did it, they still did it. if the choice is working with the nazis or death, then the only choice is death. go out fighting and give them hell.
PTB.
I'm banned from there for publicly calling out one of the mods for covertly supporting the American right-wing. I deserve the ban, let's be clear, I intentionally went out of my way to spam warnings across the community. That said, the moderation of that comm seems to be getting worse since I was last there.
PTB.
Edit: To be clear, this was the same moderator, who seems to be the head moderator, and in light of this, it now seems clear that they weren't just supporting the American right-wing, but moreso supporting any and all totalitarianism.
PTB, Defending stalin for siding with nazis is crazy
Defending Stalin, period. Is crazy. He arguably killed more people than Hitler...
true, idk why ur getting downvoted
Because tankies don't like it.
Linking to anything Cowbee said as "fact" is insane.
PTB and on the basis of blatant misinfo as well. Disappointing