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China tightens access to Tiananmen Square while 32 are detained in Hong Kong (www.npr.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't ever let anyone forget or brush under the rug the horrible acts that occurred in Tiananmen Square on June 4th, 1989.

https://www.history.com/topics/asian-history/tiananmen-square

[+] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No thanks. I don't give a fuck about getting ratio'd. Let the people decide. Assuming this platform ever gets more traction, which it seems to be doing, the vast majority of the people that come here won't be tankies so... no, no I don't think I will go somewhere else.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

These people really want their echo chamber, not a good look for Lemmy imo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (10 children)

One of the main reasons I've switched over to feddit.de. Hope more instances have the sense to block servers that are openly pro-imperialism and pro-totalitarianism.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Indeed, the "they're all a bunch of tankies over there" narrative is one of the more common objections I see to Lemmy when I mention it as a valid Reddit alternative over on Reddit. Bit of a chicken-and-egg problem, mind you - we need non-tankies to balance things out. Here's hoping that there's enough new blood coming in anyway to manage that.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nah, eventually they will be outnumbered an dislike to go beyond lemmygrad because they get endlessly shit on

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think that tankies, arguably, are hardly leftists at all.

Looking at the community, all I see is Red-Draped Reactionaries.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow. There's a lot of CCP folks working the federated space.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

One of the big instances, Lemmygrad, is basically dedicated to that crowd. If the influx of Reddit refugees doesn't counterbalance them then at some point I'll probably move to an instance that doesn't federate with them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've already done the same, can recommend it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could just block it, that way you don't have to see it, and don't have to start a new account.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Sure, though I like the idea of more explicitly supporting instances with better quality control.

Seems like there's also no way around blocking individual users who openly support fascists.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Hey, tankies, decent countries don't have to violently suppress their populations and then lie about it. Oh, and socialism is worker ownership of the means of production, not whatever the fuck they're doing in China.

(inb4 people assuming I must support the US since I hate China)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Meanwhile in Taiwan, the island's equivalent of the Tiananmen massacre from the KMT dictatorship (the 228 incident) has its own memorial park and museum.

No need for a self-inflicted legitimacy crisis when you respect your citizens' basic rights.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow a post on lemmy denouncing the CCPs actions instead of denying them or even trying to justify them? Thats rare

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (26 children)

I plan on actively posting to counter the constant barrage of tankie propaganda that is very clearly an issue here. Misinformation is a very real issue that we face in our society and unless we actually do something about it, it will only continue to get worse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Senokir @Solaris1789 I hope they don't ban you

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If this community doesn't welcome people who actively fight against misinformation then I am more than happy to be banned.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@Senokir In general they are, at the very least, hostile to folks who do so. It's a main reason I use #Lotide (via narwhal.city) rather than #Lemmy (although there are newer #Lemmy instances out there now that I'm considering joining eventually)

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