Yup. I actually pulled my Lemmy donations when Nutomic started his begging campaign last year with his “come on guys my kids need to eat” sob story while still refusing to actually apologize for his transphobia and still defending Dessalines problematic… Everything.
And they add new features at less than half the rate the piefed devs too. Too busy posting about how the Uyghur reeducation camps are ethical to write code, I guess.
And the quality of their code sucks. They’re using Rust, which is the most memory safe programming language, yet a Lemmy server eats twice as much memory as a piefed server with twice the users.
My first account on my first day or so I said something on one of their threads, thinking they were just super politically correct leftists, and they jumped all over me. Followed me around for months, the entire time I was on that instance really, some made non tankie instance accounts just to troll me. Pathetic really, but I got sick of it, I can give better than they can but I don’t want to get in pissing matches with trolls all the time.
You see, I didn’t know they were communists, so didn’t see why they would be offended by my comment, so defended it, like 50 replies if not more to hundreds of comments from multiple users jumping on my shit, until one of the cool ones explained to me they were communists mostly living outside the US, so I started ignoring them. But one of their enforcer types demanded I apologize and I told him to eat a dick or something, so that didn’t help.
They’re not communists, they’re Stalinists. Communism is a stateless, moneyless, classless society. They want the people’s authoritarian regime to step on their necks with the people’s boot.
Communism has been successfully practiced for 60,000 years, but every tankie state either collapses or goes capitalist.
More likely useful idiots, which is arguably worse in many ways?
It does teach the rest of us a lesson though, in how dangerous echo chambers can become. When nobody is allowed to challenge authority, facts easily become decoupled from reality.
Some say there is nothing worse than a true believer in propaganda. Idk if that’s always true. It’s kind of funny though, as I told them, in those workers’ paradises of Russia and China of theirs, if they talked their shit domestically, they would be sent to the gulag or re-education camps.
Inside an echo chamber, facts no longer matter. Like “AI is good” or “AI is bad”, while discussions that involve more nuance and subtlety about the topic become forbidden in either, as the mods/admins only allow their own chosen POV to remain, removing all others.
Making distinctions between Stalinists and Trotskyists or Second Internationalists or whatever in 2026 is just idiotic sectarianism. Trump is the president! We need to unite rather than focus on such petty squabbles.
The tankies aren’t on our side. We agree on a lot of problems. Let’s work on them we say, they say no, fuck you, only violent revolution will do it, and I hope you die. Is their attitude. They are tools of the fascist regime of Russia I suspect.
I’ll ally with people who want Trump gone and will take any action to make it happen. Those Stalinists think relinquishing their vote is a good way to get closer to voter reform and a higher priority than kicking Trump out.
This is why I’ve moved away from Lemmy and now do my monthly donations to Piefed.
Thank you for your contributions, SatansMaggotyCumFart
Yup. I actually pulled my Lemmy donations when Nutomic started his begging campaign last year with his “come on guys my kids need to eat” sob story while still refusing to actually apologize for his transphobia and still defending Dessalines problematic… Everything.
Fucking dumpster fire. Piefed is the way
And they add new features at less than half the rate the piefed devs too. Too busy posting about how the Uyghur reeducation camps are ethical to write code, I guess.
And the quality of their code sucks. They’re using Rust, which is the most memory safe programming language, yet a Lemmy server eats twice as much memory as a piefed server with twice the users.
My first account on my first day or so I said something on one of their threads, thinking they were just super politically correct leftists, and they jumped all over me. Followed me around for months, the entire time I was on that instance really, some made non tankie instance accounts just to troll me. Pathetic really, but I got sick of it, I can give better than they can but I don’t want to get in pissing matches with trolls all the time.
They’ve actually never followed me out of their echo chambers I think because the light is bright and it hurts their eyes.
You see, I didn’t know they were communists, so didn’t see why they would be offended by my comment, so defended it, like 50 replies if not more to hundreds of comments from multiple users jumping on my shit, until one of the cool ones explained to me they were communists mostly living outside the US, so I started ignoring them. But one of their enforcer types demanded I apologize and I told him to eat a dick or something, so that didn’t help.
They’re not communists, they’re Stalinists. Communism is a stateless, moneyless, classless society. They want the people’s authoritarian regime to step on their necks with the people’s boot.
Communism has been successfully practiced for 60,000 years, but every tankie state either collapses or goes capitalist.
As I called them when they insulted me, the long palsied arm of russian intelligence.
More likely useful idiots, which is arguably worse in many ways?
It does teach the rest of us a lesson though, in how dangerous echo chambers can become. When nobody is allowed to challenge authority, facts easily become decoupled from reality.
Some say there is nothing worse than a true believer in propaganda. Idk if that’s always true. It’s kind of funny though, as I told them, in those workers’ paradises of Russia and China of theirs, if they talked their shit domestically, they would be sent to the gulag or re-education camps.
Inside an echo chamber, facts no longer matter. Like “AI is good” or “AI is bad”, while discussions that involve more nuance and subtlety about the topic become forbidden in either, as the mods/admins only allow their own chosen POV to remain, removing all others.
Making distinctions between Stalinists and Trotskyists or Second Internationalists or whatever in 2026 is just idiotic sectarianism. Trump is the president! We need to unite rather than focus on such petty squabbles.
The tankies aren’t on our side. We agree on a lot of problems. Let’s work on them we say, they say no, fuck you, only violent revolution will do it, and I hope you die. Is their attitude. They are tools of the fascist regime of Russia I suspect.
I’ll ally with people who want Trump gone and will take any action to make it happen. Those Stalinists think relinquishing their vote is a good way to get closer to voter reform and a higher priority than kicking Trump out.
I feel like I’ve seen that username on reddit. Somehow I remembered that one.