Saw some posts about .ml today and thought I'd jump on the bandwagon lol
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I came here for funny memes and shitposts. Now I've got to answer for choosing the wrong instance because apparently it is run by tank enthusiasts who we all hate for reasons I don't understand.
It's not hard to understand.
Dessalines and Nutomic, the two lead lemmy devs, think that Tianenmen Square didn't happen. They think the genocide currently going on in China of that particular group of muslims (Uighyur or something like that, I can't spell it right) is actually a social program for their own good. They think that Ukraine is legitimately filled with Nazis in their government and military and that Russia is rescuing the poor populace from their oppressors.
Effectively, China and Russia can do no wrong. Dessalines in particular regularly bans people from lemmy.ml who say otherwise.
The term "tankie" is in reference to the tanks China drove over people during the Tianenmen square massacre.
Edit for the sake of jackasses: Better explanation of the term "tankie" from another commenter here. And it's spelled Uyghur.
Happy now?
You're the type of person that drives people from social platforms or, at the very least, calm conversation.
The person you responded to made a statement on wanting to join Lemmy for fun discussion/humor and you responded with a politically fueled response that really had nothing to do with their post.
Like, just chill for five seconds and have a normal conversation with people looking for the same...
They said they didn't understand, so I explained.
The heat was directed at a different user and added via an edit after the initial comment was made, because that other user threw vague ass shade instead of saying what they meant to begin with (that I was wrong about the origin of the term tankie and that it was lazy to not check my spelling, so clearly my point amd that of others saying similar wasn't worth anything).
One of the core tenets of getting a good lemmy experience is to block early and often. If you think my response of describing what people mean when they call the main devs tankies was somehow too political, then please block me. And memorize where that button is, because I guarantee this is nothing compared to the folks actually trying to make points politically around here, lol.
Apologies. My misunderstanding from your original comment and edit. Thought you were coming out with the heat over a basic comment, but now see the follow discussion you're talking about. Thank you.