Honestly? Starting to look like it. From one partnership with an authoritarian Imperialist empire to another, I guess.

Now these are some shitposts.

English as an Additional Language. It’s the new term to replace ESL, English as a Second Language, since it’s overwhelmingly common for non-english speakers picking up the language to already speak more than one language

I was teaching university students from various parts of the world whose English skills weren’t strong enough for them to just be part of the regular student body.

The one ban I received from .ml was for when I indicated that I used to teach EAL to university students. Funny that I can directly insult members of .ml and nothing happens, but make clear that k have lived life experiences that will contradict their narrative? Banned for being uncivil.

I watched the Chinese students insist to the Taiwanese students that they’re part of China. The Chinese students were visibly confused that the Taiwanese students didn’t believe this to be true, and were willing to fight about it, detailing the shit China has done/attempted to do to their country over the years. My co-teacher had to step in, because things started to escalate.

I wonder what the Chinese version of “they drank they Kool-Aid” is.

The strategy of appeasement didn’t work for anyone.

.ml commenting on energy shortages:

Because I basically only participate in Lemmy in the bathroom and don’t always take time to think through things like which part of the acronym is “America,” lmao. But, appreciated.

among friends and acquaintances from Asia (incl. Taiwan & China), WtP has been a symbol of resistance against Xi Jin Ping and authoritarianism in China.

You answered your own question. Don’t let them get under your skin. But to further validate you:

The comparison is about appearances to Xi, specifically. No one is saying the people of China look like Winnie the Pooh, and no one is using Winnie the Pooh in propaganda designed to oppress the people of China.

Tankie’s scream “racism” at Winnie the Pooh, exactly the same way MAGA’s scream "racism’ at DEI. They do not know, nor care, what the word actually means, and are using it to further their agenda by taking a position they can fallacious argue is morally superior. It is fake pearl clutching and moral grandstanding to justify nationalist fascism.

They’re literally Chinese MAGA. Unfortunately, MACA MCGA doesn’t roll off the tongue as well as “tankie.”

“Look at these gullible fucking idiots finding beauty in life. What absolute buffoons.”

I mean, c’mon man. Who fuck cares. It makes people smile and hurts no one. Not everyone needs to miserable as you.

I mean…

Maduro was widely considered head of an authoritarian government characterized by electoral fraud, human rights abuses, corruption, and severe economic hardship. Between 2013 and 2023, Venezuela dropped 42 places in the Press Freedom Index.[24] According to estimates by the United Nations (UN) and Human Rights Watch, under Maduro’s administration thousands of people have died in extrajudicial killings and seven million Venezuelans were forced to flee the country.[25][26][27]

It continues, but there’s no value in copy-pasting a whole Wikipedia page here. Just go there yourself and follow the citations. You’re welcome to dismiss whatever news articles and sources you find on whatever grounds you want, but if you want to know the reasoning, no one is working to hide it from you.

C’mon, man. Says the guy rolling accounts to come to this community, post slurs and tell people to kill themselves. Please don’t tell me you’re genuinely incapable of seeing the irony.

Pot and the kettle and all.

At some point, you’ll get a reply that “I’ve had more clever conversations with ChatGPT”.

He literally goes the same route every single time. It is the most pathetic pseudo-intellectualist discourse I’ve seen in a long time. I had fun with it one night, but eventually he got boring and I moved on.

I almost hope he’s a paid shill. The alternative is far sadder. But it’s honestly more likely he’s some work at home tech guy who has just spent the past X years bathing in the Kool-aid.

Oh, is it the same guys running the Piefed?

I will be moving on from everything Lemmy associated. I don’t want to be connected to those wannabe fascists in any capacity. I just don’t use social media enough to care right now. I’ll browse Lemmy a couple times a day, when I am in the bathroom or waiting in a line or whatever, but it rarely gets much more out of me than a spare minute here and there, so I haven’t really cared enough to put time and energy into decided where I am making the jump to.

Maybe I just swap over to the Piefed instance and be done with it.

Yog might be one of the worst of them, too. He’s been posting on the Canada community a lot ever since we’ve started butting heads with China, only to share anti-government propaganda.

There’s an irony in how much I dislike the current Federal government only being trumped by how much I dislike shills for authoritarian nations trying to manipulate public discourse. Often he’ll post an article with a conclusion I fundamentally agree with, but either get there through extremely cherry-picked arguments, or use the conclusions of the articles to start into his personal argument into batshit-crazy takes.

I’ve taken to down voting him and moving on. It feels bad, but I am too busy to spend time and energy refuting his absurdity with the necessary nuance of “yes, the government is bad, half of what you said is true, the other half isn’t and here’s why.” I just do not have the amount of time to be the level of terminally online that would be necessary to deal with someone like him properly.

I wish .ca would just defederate with .ml and be done with it.

Can we not increase the visibility of someone this disturbed?

I understood the purpose of this community to be to catalog and pick apart the poorly constructed hypocrisies of the tankies that plague this platform, and, sure, find solidarity in having some laughs at their expense while we do it. This guy’s posts are just sad and hateful. Deleting his posts/banning his accounts just to screenshot the things he says, repost them and make fun of him really seems to defeat the purpose of deleting them to begin with. There’s no argument to deconstruct, and no misrepresented opinion to catalogue. They’re just a sad human spreading vitriol instead of getting the social/emotional help they desperately need.

I feel like, as a community, we should make an effort to simply ban and move on from people like this.

And why are anti-authoritarians accidentally attracting the company of supposed anti-lefists? Imagine accidentally admitting in the subtext of your post that your understanding of leftism is that it’s inherently authoritarian.

Honestly, the one unifying factor across all of the .ml defense squad is that they seem to have no idea what the words they’re using actually mean. They love making posts that sound fancy, but are truthfully vapid, and often meaningless. Or, in cases like this, completely miss the denoted meanings of their arguments.

The username you’ve chosen this time is especially disturbed. Please seek help. Disagree as you might with our collective politics, calling for someone specifically to kill themselves is fucked up. You should feel bad, and if you don’t, you should be wondering why.

Let’s be clear: giving Tiananmen Square a juvenile nickname is a propaganda strategy to make people who disagree with him feel equally stupid and juvenile. Davel’s entire spiel is, top to bottom, hypocrisy, as he’ll happily weaponize whatever propaganda techniques he can use while mocking others for falling for it, completely oblivious that his body is 72% Kool-Aid at this point.

The irony of his rant about uncomfortable truths will likely be forever lost on him.

My first take when glancing at this was to mentally read it as a political compass meme, which left Dessalines placing his position in the “Authoritarian Right” category.

I know that wasn’t the conscious intention here, but it’s a fun little Freudian slip.