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That's quite a common thing on lemmy.ml servers. Glad their hole started being recommended to people in other communities to average reactions.
I don't follow, what are you happy about?
Lemmy.ml isn't a true echo-chamber, it's an English-dominated pro-communist space with very little defederation. We see anti-communism every day simply by speaking English and existing, so having a space that runs against the popular grain doesn't mean that's all we interact with. Lemmy.world is closer to being an echo chamber, it largely conforms to hegemonic viewpoints and defederates from communist instances.
Secondly, communists are not "pro-dictator." Socialist countries are democratic. We may critically support non-socialist states against colonialism and imperialism, but that support is critical, not uncritical, and certainly cannot be confused with being "pro-dictator."
Third, anti-communism has always been common from instances like Lemmy.world. This is not a new development, so saying "finally" instances are being more anti-communist doesn't make much sense.
Finally, not sure why you need to use ableist terms like "deranged," you can get your point across without throwing disabled people under the bus. I have no idea how your "first interaction with Lemmy was ruined," but it's abundantly clear that you stand opposed to communism, and as such it makes perfect sense that you'd have a bad time seeing pro-communist positions.
I'm sorry, but that's not about pro-communism and anti-communism. You know Russia is no longer a communist country, right? That's about pro-war and anti-war. Blaming Ukraine for the start of the war and following genocide (or denying that genocide happening) is one of the most absurd and dangerous fakes created by Russian propaganda and it deserves to be challenged.
You made it about communism by complaining about tankies, I was simply responding to that point. All of us are aware that Russia is no longer socialist, neither is Ukraine, to both of their detriments. You are covering up the ethnic cleansing committed by Kiev against the Donbass region, which is why Russia entered the Ukrainian civil war 8 years after it started. Russia is not committing genocide, but arguably Kiev was towards the ethnic Russians in the Donbass region.
You didn't challenge anything, you just started ranting about communists and threw around ableist terminology.
From Wikipedia:
Not about communism as a political philosophy.
This is a common myth created by Russian propaganda. I invite you to check it for yourself. Open an official website of any town that was part of Ukraine before 2022 and had Russian majority in population. Check publications before 2022. You'll see an abundant use of Russian language and culture. Even Zelenski, with Russian being his first language, often spoke it in political campaigns.
Now many of these towns are ghost towns due to shelling.
Tankie is a pejorative for those who defend socialist states. The "authoritarian" part doesn't really make any sense, considering the Marxist analysis of authority is that what matters most is which class has the authority of the state.
Either way, the ethnic cleansing of the Donbass region was widely reported even by western organizations until 2022, then this was all wiped away and minimized.
Never heard it used against democratic socialists who acknowledged mistakes of the past.
So you believe there were no authoritarian socialist states in history? Ones that silenced critics, shot protesters, censored press and didn't have competitive elections? Lol.
This war killed almost half a million people already on all sides combined (if we believe Russian MoD, this number way exceeds a million). Do you think the “ethnic cleansing” would kill this much in a thousand years? According to DPR-operated media, only 17 people died in last years before 2022 on Donbas, most from uncleaned minefields.
As I said, tankie is a pejorative used against people that defend socialist states. Self-described "democratic socialists" are not socialists that have "learned from history," they are those who have removed themselves from it. Socialism, both in theory and historically, is fundamentally democratic. Demsocs are, in practice, those who claim to support socialism while accepting bourgeois historiography, whining and weeping for the oppressed fascists, landlords, and capitalists that wind up at the short end of existing socialism.
As for the idea of there being no authoritarian socialist states, I mean quite the opposite. There has never been a "non-authoritarian state" in general, as the state itself is a monopoly on violence in the hands of a given class. All slave, feudal, capitalist, and socialist states have been authoritarian, but each serves wildly different classes, the socialist state representing working class authority. That's why the question isn't "is this state authoritarian or not" and instead is "which class controls this state?"
As for the bit on the Donbass, 14,000 people were killed by Kiev, many civilians. Do these civilians not have a right to their own self-determination, to secede from a neofascist state?