fixed cyberghost's "meme"

This has made my Lemmy experience considerably better

How do you do instance-based filtering (other than starting your own instance and defederating)? This is something I’ve been looking for.

We out here

The_Donald of the Left.

Do you agree with this meme and consider yourself part of "the Left"? Just curious
- That's irrelevant, also, I'm not interested in discourse with you. Bye.
  
  Then you shouldn't have said anything
The_Donald is when you believe the opposite of The_Donald
They're tankies, aren't they? i.e. Red-coded fascists that don't care about things like worker enfranchisement unless it's a way of expressing American diabolism. That's not the left.
- Well they claim to be left but they are delusional. They are definitely fascists the support fascist regimes like North Korea. They claim it's not a fascist country just a communist one, but anyone with a brain understands it's also EXTREMELY FASCIST.
  
  Yep - wrong, dumb, fascist - name a more iconic trio.

Libs are subconsciously uncomfortable thinking about real politics. Too many contradictions with their world view. Leftists are not. Hence a lot of us engage with these threads, it gets to the top of our all, and more engage.

lMao

Holy shit. Too bad instances can't defederate HB. They seem to not understand that they're tankies.

I support crushing fascists with tanks.
Nooo not tankies! Don’t they know it’s illegal to be a communist
- they wish it was and will side with Nazis to make it a reality
  
  Classic Hexbear take that is not remotely based in reality.
  
  They historically have aligned with or created fascist movements to oppose communists around the globe. Read the Jakarta method, read about the contras.
Too bad instances can't defederate HB.
Can you please elaborate?
They seem to not understand that they're tankies.
Tankie is a social construct and is used to lazily discredit everyone to the left of bernie. It functions to libs the same way as "woke" functions for chuds. As a term it's basically meaningless to anyone outside of the internet.
- I love how you guys have decided that your definitions are the only correct ones. It's your primary weapon here, for obvious reasons.
  
  I love how you guys have decided that your definitions are the only correct ones.
  You're strawmaning hard here, because I never said it's a definition or that it's the only one. It's just my understanding of the term. What part of it is wrong in your opinion? I want to consider it
  It's your primary weapon here, for obvious reasons.
  Because it's obvious that when you're challenged on your understanding of words you have nothing to say?
  
  Communism is political science, words have meanings and we tend to use the correct ones, yes.
- I have only seen it used in reference to people who support dictatorial regimes with socialist aesthetics, mostly MLs. I have yet to see an anarchist be called a tankie. Also you can hear it IRL, not commonly though since most MLs are on twitter and the like and not IRL.
  
  Based on your answer, I've discovered what tankie means: Tankie = Marxist.
  Successful Marxist movement results in a dictatorship of the proletariat. Dictator = tankie.
  Hence tankie is a term used to describe any Marxist.
  Thanks for contributing to this scientific breakthrough!
  
  Nah, first premise is false in more than one way. You are conflating the ideology Stalin made with Marxism.
  The second error is that there has never been a dictatorship of the proletariat, every time it has been a political party that seizes power for themselves and not the workers. In doing so they become the ruling class with differing class interests than the workers.
  Marx must be rotating in his grave with the speed to power the whole globe at this point.
  
  What my society looks like when a party seizes power for themselves and not the workers
  (Source: Thomas Piketty's World Inequality Report 2022, for fun maybe try poking around and finding a non socialist state with any comparable inversion of income inequality.)
  
  Do you believe capitalism is good because it helped some people? The whole point of socialism is to put the means of production into the hands of the workers and not a vanguard party. Yea, the USSR did quite a lot of imperialism which it used to reduce income inequality of the Russian people but it was never socialist.
  
  Do you know what imperialism means
  
  Yes, the USSR annexing it's neighbours and then exporting their resources and people was very much imperialism.
  
  Read this book to stop seeming so silly.
  https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/
  Also the non Russian SSRs voted to keep the soviet union around at higher rates than the Russians.
  
  Yeah, clearly the Soviet, Chinese and Cuban workers had completely different interests than being raised out of poverty and squalor. Damn those dastardly political parties and their... diligent work towards eradictaing poverty while promoting actual, decentralized democracy.
  
  Well, Cubans still live in pretty close proximity to squalor. They can't even afford to maintain their own buildings, don't have a functional transportation system, and people live on what, $20 a month? The one saving grace is out there health care system is decent. And by that, I mean much more equitable than in the United States.
  
  Theyre also a small island nation which has survived 60 years of brutal siege and sabotage by the imperial core 70 miles away.
  
  Do you think that US actions against Cuba such as sanctions and blockades is part of the reason Cuba is a poor country?
  And if yes, to what extent?
  
  You didn't do the reading :(. Dictatorship of the proletariat is a concept Marx and Engles adopted. Stalin didn't create it.
  I don't know what you think the proletariat taking control of the state is suppose to look like, but there will always be a communist party involved. The mechanisms of power exist to be ruled by a party.
  Communist parties should be judged by what they do for their poorest citizens. With that in mind, AES countries are doing a decent job. Things get better when they are in power, and get way worse if they are overthrown
  
  You're wrong, what Marx talked about was the whole class of workers being in power. Stalin perverted that idea to a vanguard party. Stalin's system has always resulted in a ruling class composed of a class that was no longer the proletariat (if they even were to begin with). That system is not socialist, it is in fact no better than a capitalist system, as the hierarchies at work are equally unjust.
  
  State capitalism with an authoritarian regime, if you will.
  
  Russia and China were never Marxist.
  
  Have you read any marx?
  
  I have only seen it used in reference to people who support dictatorial regimes with socialist aesthetics, mostly MLs.
  yet to see an anarchist be called a tankie
  https://hexbear.net/post/214901
  https://hexbear.net/post/374789
  https://hexbear.net/post/126901
  There's more in the_dunk_tank if you're willing to dig
  https://hexbear.net/c/the_dunk_tank
  Pro Tip: Sort by Top All. Anarchists getting called tankie tends to get a lot of upbears because we have anarchist comrades on our instance. We're a left unity instance
  https://hexbear.net/search?q=tankie&type=All&listingType=All&communityId=31&page=1&sort=TopAll
  
  Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net
  
  No idea what the first link is even about, seems incomprehensible. The second link seems true but I have no idea what was said prior. The third link is about programming. Seems there is one potential example of an anarchist being called a tankie. Seems like the vast majority of times it's being used in reference to MLs still.
  In all seriousness there are plenty of people who misuse words but tankie seems to have a very clear and easily defined definition, it has even remained the same historically. Comparing it to the crazies using 'woke' is dishonest at best.
  
  And I assume by "dictatorial regimes" you mean any actually existing socialist country, right?
  
  No, I do not. I made it clear multiple times that dictatorships with socialist aesthetics aren't socialist in any other way.
  
  Sure, but the evil potato chips are still Cuba, China, Vietnam etc, right?
  
  Literally every one of our anarchist users have been called tankies, lmao
Have fun worshipping the machinery of enslavement and death. As it crushes you, I hope it comforts you knowing at least you weren't a tankie.

As they get banned from more instances, the instances they are not banned at start seeing a higher concentration of them.

Not how federation works.
- Right, it's not that there is something actively pushing hexbear to them, but because there are fewer places for them to go, it becomes more likely that they will end up in the remaining instances.
  For example - let's say 2 hexbear users like to look at memes. They were previously using the lemmy world meme community, but now, since they are defederated from there, they will go to different instances' meme communities. But then, more defererate, and it funnels a higher concentration of them into the remaining instances' meme communities.
  
  The point of federation is we don't have to go to other instances to see there posts. I'm commenting from hexbear all, not the Lemmy meme community.
  
  This is the lemmy.ml memes community, so unless I am very mistaken about how things work, I don't think you found your way here from hexbear all.
  If lemmy.ml defederated from hexbear, you would no longer see this community on the "fediverse all" section, just like you cannot see communities from lemmy.world.
  The point being, as available communities become fewer and fewer, hexbear users looking for meme communities will probably concentrate on the few remaining to them, instead of being spread out over the many otherwise available.
  
  It's literally the top non-stickied post in our active feed
  
  yes, you are very mistaken about how things work.
  This comment was posted from hexbear.net, a site that lemmy.ml is federated with. That's how federation works.
  
  Right I get that. Lemmy.ml is visible to you in your federated feed. It sounded like the person I responded to said that this was part of the hexbear feed, which I don't think it would be, since that only displays hexbear communities.
  All beside the point though - the point is that as more and more instances defederate from hexbear, the pool of meme communities dwindles, funneling more hexbear people into the few remaining to them simply by the lack of other options.

We can smell liberal lies from a mile away

Why the fuck do both authoritarian sides use "liberal" as an insult?
It's because they both think the common man should be submissive or forced to submit to their brand of authoritarianism.