There is a spector haunting Lemmy, the spector of trans people that disagree with you.
Liberals on Lemmy are ridiculously fast to let fly all sorts of conspiracy theories if it means discrediting any trans people to the left of them. Worse still, is that this behaviour is reinforced by Lemmy mods, look at this ban Cowbee copped for the crime of being allegedly uncivil to this transphobe:
Every day, I’m glad for you fuckers building at least this tiny queer safespace on the internet. Death to the cis, etc.
Sometimes I get morbid curiosity, that Frisish user apparently has me listed as “tankie influencer” which is kinda cute. The biggest thing though is that it’s overwhelmingly clear that any vague notions of being “left, just anti-tankie” is immediately overrun with defense of transphobia, anti-leftism, anti-DEI, anti-“wokeness” alt-right talking points, and it’s abundantly clear that no user there actually has read Marx.
As an example, one visitor had recently read Anti-Dühring from Engels and was confused as to why a MWoG post was titled something along the lines of “banned for knowing Marxsim better than an ML,” yet the body of the post showing the supposed knowledgable user’s takes contradicted what they had read with Engels. The mod on MWoG proceded to talk down to them and claim the Bolsheviks were anti-Marxist for the NEP and that it was the SRs and Mensheviks who knew better, and that the Nazi led Hungarian revolt was a “real worker movement.”
Very silly place indeed.
Tankie influencer is so based honestly.
Gotta sell tanks on XiaoHongShu now.
Goals
Didn’t think people genuinely gave that much of a shit about me, it’s kinda flattering. In a similar manner, the longer my Lemmy.ml mod log seems to get, the better it seems to prove my points about censorship.
I feel you, wear that badge with pride. I wish I was based enough to get one too.