I was just perusing the modlog when I noticed something interesting. Apparently posting news about Gaza/Palestine is not allowed on !worldnews@sh.itjust.works. I decided to check the side bar and didn’t see anything. The only pinned post also does not indicate that this is not allowed

edit: the mod in question is @Eyekaytee@aussie.zone . sorry for not originally tagging. i hadn’t realized it was a rule that this must be done. i thought it seemed inappropriate since i was trying to initiate a conversation about a community’s rules and culture rather than start drama about an individual

  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    The community of MWoG exists purely to attack communists. I have always said I’m a communist, you can read the screengrab yourself to see:

    In that “tankie” is just a pejorative for a communist, yes. I’m a Marxist-Leninist, and I uphold AES as legitimate.

    Workers of the world, unite! ☭

    For those who don’t know what a “tankie” is, it’s essentially a pejorative for “communist.” I recommend the Prolewiki article on “Tankies,” as well as Nia Frome’s essay “Tankies.”

    As for transphobia, here’s your server admin pushing transphobic conspiracy theories in your comm:

    What you’re referring to is quite frustrating, I agree. Even more concerning is that it’s such an obvious vector for foreign actors to leverage in an attempt to weaken the geopolitical dominance of the Western world. If Russia and China aren’t running psyops and trying to exacerbate the obvious political divide within western nations by utilizing transgender ideology as a wedge topic, they’re not even trying. It’s just such an obvious vulnerability that it beggars belief to think they wouldn’t be trying to fan those flames as much as possible.

    As for Zionism, here are your own posts and comments:

    • starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works
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      7 months ago

      I don’t know why I’m responding because I feel you act in extremely bad faith. MoG is a terrible comm, and I think that is why you are seeing transphobia upvoted. I think people see “China bad lol” and are frothing at the mouth upvoting it before even considering wtf he said after it. To say that’s the ENTIRE INSTANCE is so extremely bad faith, or maybe you truly believe that because you haven’t seen any of the normal people on the instance.

      Also bad faith to say “tankie” = communist/socialist. That wiki page is also bad faith, unless I have just somehow managed to see it used differently 100/100 times I’ve seen it used as a perjorative. Tankie implies defending Russia and China/ Soviet Union heavily, NOT just being a communist/socialist. Even the Wikipedia page says this… You can disagree but actually ask people if that’s what they mean. If someone says the wikipedia definition and you interpret it as something else without clarifying, you are very likely misinterpreting them. Very bad faith to say “it’s just being communist/socialist bro they just hate good ideologies bro” like cmon be an adult. “Tankie” does not just mean communist. Disgraceful misinforming people just to try and win an argument.

      • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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        7 months ago

        To clarify, I stated that the instance is a Nazi bar, as in there are some massive zionists, fascists, etc. allowed to roam freely, but that this doesn’t describe the entire instance:

        The instance is a Nazi bar, the two biggest comms are circlejerks for anti-communism and pro-western imperialism. There are some good users on occasion, but the instance itself is very reactionary.

        Secondly, the word “tankie” in its social use is as an anti-communist pejorative. It’s a strawman with ready-made characteristics built up by anti-communists to avoid actually having to address the arguments of communists. The wikipedia page isn’t maintained by a communist, it’s maintained primarily by liberals, they aren’t looking at it from the communist perspective.

        Neither link I sourced was bad-faith, either, unless you mean the communist perspective on a pejorative for communists is inherently bad-faith. It doesn’t matter what an individual specifically means by using “tankie,” in its social practice it just means “communist, but I don’t like it.”

    • goat@lemmy.zip
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      7 months ago

      You’re in a tankie instance, Cowbee; you hang out with tankies and repeat tankie talking points. You are a tankie and you’re not fooling anyone with your disingenuous fantasies about being a moralist, if you were, prove it now by criticising the Russian government, or better yet, Chinese imperialism.

      You won’t, because you are a tankie.

      As for Imaqtpie, I do not approve of him. I have quite the turbulent history with him.

      I’ve also been more supportive of trans-rights and gender recognition than you have, Cowbee.

      Oh, and even more, the lemmy developers, admins of the instance you use, lemmy.ml, are also transphobic, which is what imaqtpie was agreeing with, funnily enough.

      That didn’t work out too well for you lol

      • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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        7 months ago

        “Tankie” is just a pejorative for communist, it isn’t an ideology. Call me “tankie” all you want, but at the end of the day I read Marxist-Leninist theory and volunteer for a Marxist-Leninist org that has stances in line with the rest of Marxist-Leninist organizations. You can’t claim to not be an anti-communist, you maintain an anti-communist comm and oppose communism.

        Secondly, showing a handful of times you’ve spoken about sex and gender doesn’t mean you’re more supportive, especially since I have already explained that I disagree firmly with Nutomic:

        Communists tend to be the most supportive of trans liberation, I recommend reading Feinberg’s Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue as well as Nia Frome’s The Problem of Recognition in Transitional States, or Sympathy for the Monster. None of this is to defend Nutomic’s views as stated here, I firmly disagree with them. However, the idea that communists are supposed to be transphobic is just not true, generally. Cuba even has one of the world’s most progressive family codes, and the GDR was one of the world’s most progressive states towards the end of its existence. Marxism provides a framework that enables liberation of all oppressed peoples.

        The Russian government is a homophobic dictatorship of capital. China isn’t imperialist, it doesn’t run its economy based on international plunder, export of capital, nor is it under the control of a financial oligarchy.