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On lemmy.world I posted a comment on how liberals use 'tankie' as an invective to shut down dialogue and received tons of hateful replies. I tried to respond in a rational way to each. Someone's said 'get educated' I responded 'Im reading Norman Finkelstein's I'll burn that bridge when I get there' and tried to keep it civil.

They deleted every comment I made and banned me. Proving my point, they just want to shut down dialogue. Freedom of speech doesn't existing in those 'totalitarian' countries right? But in our 'enlightened' western countries we just delete you.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 years ago (26 children)

Holy shit what an insufferable group.

"Define Tankie"

Red fascist

Who defines a buzzword with a buzzword ffs.

Also! (Paraphrasing)

[...] people who justify genocides. [...]

'scuze me what the fuck? Who here says genocides are cool and good actually? We are like the first fuckers to point them out and scream about them???

And even more!

Comrade Spood

Now that's dose of Anarcho-Debilizm let me tell you. "Just press the communism button Xi and we'll succeed no problem! They will just let us exist and everyone will love each other :3"

And it just still keeps going!

Educate yourself. / Please change and grow as a person. / Read a book.

Motherfuckers I read too much compared to your sorry asses.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago (20 children)

Educate yourself. / [...] / Read a book.

Their education:

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I refuse to believe there's actually 1.6gb of anarchist literature in existence that's not supplemented with lots of random unpublished PDFs and saved blog posts that are rife with poor grammar and spelling errors.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Nah, it's only 1.6gb thanks to videos of Chomsky rambling included.

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