Lead Lemmy Developer, Dessalines, denying the Tiananmen Square Massacre and praising the Uyghur Genocide

https://sh.itjust.works/post/8419342

Dessalines AKA “parentis_shotgun” on Reddit, is the main Lemmy dev, also the admin of lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml.

Their post and discussions on Reddit (archive as the original post must have been removed):

https://web.archive.org/web/20230626055233/https://old.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/cqgztr/fuck_the_white_supremacist_reddit_admins_want_me/

Please join the discussions for Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem:

https://lemmy.world/post/16211417

And the discussions for finding/creating alternative communities on other instances:

https://lemmy.world/post/16235541

What is a tankie?

Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes or their allies. More specifically, the term has been applied to those who express support for one-party Marxist–Leninist socialist republics, whether contemporary or historical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

  • Greg Clarke@lemmy.caEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Everyone that has been on the Internet for more than a few days has an illinformed hot-take floating around. You can learn something for a perspective even if it’s not based in fact. Read with compassion and you don’t have to believe everything you read.

    • Blaze@reddthat.comEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Indeed, but this is more about admins banning users from the entire instance because they don’t share the same political views.

      • beardown@lemm.ee
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        11 months ago

        .world does this all the time though, especially if you criticize Israel or Biden (or other CIA projects)

        • nahuse@sh.itjust.works
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          11 months ago

          This would also be deeply problematic. I’ve seen it posted elsewhere, and asked the same thing:

          Can you back this assertion up with any proof?

          Edit: they can’t, they’re just insulting people with disabilities and don’t like they got called for it.

          • beardown@lemm.ee
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            11 months ago

            Yeah, I’ve had comments deleted and have seen others deleted that criticized Israel or that criticized Biden’s support of Israel.

            So my own eyes have shown me that this is true. My own eyes have also shown me that .world is run by mods who push an agenda that conforms with the CIAs goals of domestic control over the US population. Which, if I wanted to read that midwit drivel, then I would’ve stayed on Reddit.