• @goatOPM
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      They deny the Holodomor and Uyghur genocide. As well as paint Stalin as a benevolent leader.

      • @[email protected]
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        I am, admittedly, not very educated on the specifics of the Uyghur genocide, though I’ve tried to read the reports covered by the news. Ultimately I think there is much we don’t know about the situation, which I think to some extent is a legitimate point of critique for the Chinese government. Holodomor on the other hand is something that is debated even in academic circles:

        While scholars are in consensus that the cause of the famine was man-made, whether the Holodomor constitutes a genocide remains in dispute.

        The quote is from Wikipedia, but also found in various formats in other sources. Now, the actual important point: Do you think their alledged stances on these questions make them evil? Because people are more complex than that, and I think the comment I linked above should tell you everything you need to know why they are also on Lemmygrad and also tell you that they are indeed not a bad person.

            • @goatOPM
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              810 months ago

              So do you or do not believe the Holodomor is a genocide?

                • @goatOPM
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                  It’s a pretty simple question. Was the Holodomor a government-military-led crisis?

        • @Saledovil
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          Taken from Wikipedia:

          In 1948, the United Nations Genocide Convention defined genocide as any of five “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.” These five acts were: killing members of the group, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children out of the group.

          So, while there may be debate on whether the Holdomor technically meets the definition of a genocide, it still constitutes mass murder.

          • @[email protected]
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            -1010 months ago

            That is not necessarily true because it is not easy to establish intent. As far as I know there is not a clear idea on even the numbers, only estimates that have been quite far apart. I do not think there is adequate grounds to conclude that it was done with intent, nor to rule it out, hence why it is under debate.

            • @Saledovil
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              2010 months ago

              Yeah, but man made famines still aren’t okay, even if you don’t intent to destroy a people.

              • GerryMandering
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                310 months ago

                Would you consider the frequent man-made famines in ireland in the 19th century, including the very famous great famine, an example of ‘genocide’ or mass murder?

              • @[email protected]
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                010 months ago

                Of course not and I think the most valuable we can learn from history is how to prevent something of the kind from happening again.

                • @goatOPM
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                  410 months ago

                  That’s why we should steer away from authoritarianism, which is what these communities want.

            • @[email protected]
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              710 months ago

              Soviets took away all food from Ukrainian villages. They searched for hidden compartments, they probed the ground, so it wasn’t possible to hide food. They didn’t allow picking leftover grains from fields. What is the probability that the famine was unintentional? I doubt it was a big surprise that people without food starve and die.

            • @can
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              What about Canadian genocide of the indigenous? Surely you count that?

                • @can
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                  310 months ago

                  It is, but so are some others that people seem to miss.

              • @PM_ME_FEET_PICS
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                Canada recognizes its multiple genocides against the First Nations. We have days dedicated to indigenous Canadians and activly trying to put indigenous voices first.

                The same can’t be said about China, Russia or the US.

        • PugJesus
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          Would someone who denied, say, the Holocaust not be a bad person because of their ‘alleged stances’?

          You want to go home, and rethink your life.

            • PugJesus
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              Ah, of course, I keep forgetting Ukrainians aren’t people to tankies.

              • @[email protected]
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                Uhm, I do not think you have a good understanding of what I am saying if you think I do not care deeply for the Ukrainian people both then and now. I understand that it is upsetting to debate something as horrible as what happened, but that is also why it is important to try to get the narrative right.

                • @goatOPM
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                  What do you think the narrative is?

            • @goatOPM
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              It is not nazi apologia.

          • @Brocken40
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            At some point you gotta live with em, you can try to tell a tankie or a Trumper the truth and they’ll nod along politly but still get drunk and spout nonsense. as long as they ain’t starting a militia or beating they wife might as well let the old dog bark

        • @[email protected]
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          210 months ago

          It’s irrelevant if they themselves are in their hearts are evil. People in powerful positions who leverage that power to diminish the historical importance or even existence of a genocide (or, for you, merely an intentional man-made famine directed specifically at a subset of a population deemed undesirable that resulted in millions of deaths) are acting as a force of evil.

          Waving your hands and uttering the incantation of “we can’t know if they are evil” doesn’t disappear specific evil actions.

          And, good actions don’t “cancel our” the bad ones either. Volunteering at a soup kitchen doesn’t give you a free pass to beat your wife.

          Each action is evaluated within it’s own context.

  • @goatOPM
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    Originally written by @[email protected]

    See their post announcing Lemmy: https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/cqgztr/fuck_the_white_supremacist_reddit_admins_want_me/

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

    Hey all, longtime Marxist-leninist, recorder of left audiobooks, and megathread shitposter here.

    Posting this in light of a recent one week Reddit ban I earned for shitting on US police, as I’m sure many of us have gotten in recent weeks.

    So I’ve spent the past few months working on a self hostable, federated, Reddit alternative called Lemmy, and it’s pretty much ready to go. Unlike here we’d have ultimate control over all content, and would never have to self censor.

    Obviously as communists, we agitate where the people are, so we should never abandon Reddit entirely, but it’s been clear to all of us from day one, that communities like this stand on unsteady ground, and could be banned or quarantined at any moment by the white supremacist Reddit admins. This would be both a backup and a potentially better alternative. Moderation abilities are there, as well as a slur filter.

    Raddle isn’t an option obviously since it’s run by this arch anti tankie scum, ziq.

    I wanted to ask ppl here if they’d like me to host an instance, and mod all the current mods here.

    The instance that post mentions at the end became Lemmygrad. Lemmy.ml and Lemmygrad are the same people, and the creators of Lemmy hosted Lemmygrad (and are thus admins there).

    This was their first post announcing Lemmy as a real thing you could go use. (It’s also why a good chunk of the Threadiverse is absolutely infested with tankies.)

    • @[email protected]
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      So… basically, all this time I’ve been using what started out as an alt-left version of Truth Social?

      While this does explain a LOT, I’m still gonna keep using Lemmy since a lot of good has definitely come out of it too (think the antique memes, c/nostupidquestions and the one-user art c/‘s), and unlike Reddit it’s open-source, so even the corrupt programmers lack complete control over it; every instance is merely a reflection of the person who made it. And at least .world has somewhat saner people, which is probably why its native user accounts outnumber ml ones nearly 4:1. What are they gonna do, double-block this community from ml?

      • @goatOPM
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        Pretty much yeah.

        Though mind you, about a year or so ago, the developers refused to act on the extremist content, not allowing any programmer to edit the slur or filter list. They eventually caved, though.

    • r3df0x ✡️✝☪️
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      68 months ago

      Imagine going so far down the rabbit hole that you unironically believe that the Reddit admins are white supremacists.

      They’re absolutely corporate shills though and they’ll do whatever they feel like in the name of keeping the money flowing.

  • r3df0x ✡️✝☪️
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    I’m aware that the developers of Lemmy have questionable political views. In the end they’re doing everyone a valuable service and they’re infinitely more socially acceptable then being on the other end of the spectrum. If that were the case, Lemmy would be completely taboo.

    I am not intending to shill for people who unironically glorify Mao.