Essentially, there have been two reactions over on grad today:

1. I didn't vote, neither of the candidates were going to stop the war in the Gaza Strip, therefore, there could be no good outcome for the US, therefore I can't be held accountable
2. I voted for a third party, which Republicans will have to acknowledge and respect

So as usual the level of irony and hypocrisy is difficult to grasp.

Here this one using Memri TV meme to do dunk on the French.

For those who don't know MEMRI TV is Israeli propaganda that's made to paint the Arab world in a negative picture.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East_Media_Research_Institute

Critics describe MEMRI as a strongly pro-Israel advocacy group that, in spite of describing itself as being "independent" and "non-partisan" in nature,[5][6][7] aims to portray the Arab world and the Muslim world in a negative light by producing and disseminating incomplete or inaccurate translations of the original versions of the media reports that it re-publishes.[8][9] It has also been accused of selectively focusing on the views of Islamic extremists while de-emphasizing or ignoring mainstream opinions.[10]

First comment removed from asklemmy thread about who's good/bad re Israel/Palestine is apparently too nuanced and anti-extremist for snowflake dessalines. Ya gotta fuel the hate and extremism if ya wanna comment round tankie parts...

The linux ban was regarding a comment (pretty sure the OG comment was different) about Russian maintainers being removed from the linux project. Obviously you can't call out capitalist Putin's authoritarian dictatorship in the communist sub, because ML mods are pro-authoritarian and pro-dictatorship; not anti-capitalist... At this point I'm convinced most "tankies" are just PsyOps operatives.

Chat, is saying "stop sucking putin's dick" homophobic?

Worth knowing that the defederation was because Tankies called for more Charlie Hebdo attacks on France, and later double-downed

I don't understand why extremists always try this tactic. No one believes it. Not even them. Someone should really research this. I think it's because they want to appear normie since they have to now appear better.

I also personally disavow any violence towards anyone. No one wins with violence.

The original french post that motivated hexbear's decision : https://jlai.lu/post/11504685

There is already various posts here giving us reasons to defederate them, one of them calling to violence against french :

On jlai.lu :

Dessalines, one of Lemmy main developper is taking part :

Some of hexbear supporter denying being part of an attack without any apologies :

Should we support Lemmy or migrate to another software as Mbin, piefed, sublinks ? Time will tell.

Mbin

• Mbin's roadmap : https://github.com/orgs/MbinOrg/projects/5
• One instance running Mbin : https://kbin.earth/

Piefed

• Piefed's roadmap : https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/projects/7800
• Flagship's instance : https://piefed.social/
• Piefed news : !piefed_meta@piefed.social

Sublinks

• Sublinks's roadmap : https://github.com/orgs/sublinks/projects/1/views/6
• Flagship's instance : https://demo.sublinks.org/
• Sublinks news : !sublinks@discuss.online

So it doesn't matter who wins the election, but if Trump does win the election, all the people who didn't vote will be the ones who spring into action and stage a revolution, to stop the catastrophe that happened because he won the election.

Got it. Now we're clear. Thanks.

This seems like the place to discuss it but having a bunch of posts would get annoying. Maybe just create a single post where people can comment.

good luck with that lol

As a bonus, nontankie removed comments, as usual.

https://lemmy.ml/post/21739834