Lead Lemmy Developer, Dessalines, denying the Tiananmen Square Massacre and praising the Uyghur Genocide

https://sh.itjust.works/post/8419342

Dessalines AKA “parentis_shotgun” on Reddit, is the main Lemmy dev, also the admin of lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml.

Their post and discussions on Reddit (archive as the original post must have been removed):

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

Please join the discussions for Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem:

https://lemmy.world/post/16211417

And the discussions for finding/creating alternative communities on other instances:

https://lemmy.world/post/16235541

What is a tankie?

Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes or their allies. More specifically, the term has been applied to those who express support for one-party Marxist–Leninist socialist republics, whether contemporary or historical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

  • Cowbee@lemmy.ml
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    28 days ago

    Are there people that don’t know that Lemmy is developed by Marxists, and their instance is run by Marxists? Thought that was common knowledge, that’s why Lemmy exists in the first place, it was developed along Communist principles.

    • AlexisFR@jlai.lu
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      28 days ago

      That’s not quite correct, they are Marxists Leninists, who are the more Authoritarian and reactionary counterparts.

      • Cowbee@lemmy.ml
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        28 days ago

        All Marxist-Leninists are Marxists, not all Marxists are Marxist-Leninists.

        It’s accurate to describe them as Marxists still.

        • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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          28 days ago

          technically accurate sure, but it implies that all marxists are tankies, which is absolutely not true.

          what precisely would be the problem with referring to them by the specific term for what they are?

          • Cowbee@lemmy.ml
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            28 days ago

            What separates Marxists from Tankies? I’ve seen dozens of definitions of tankie.

            It’s important to recognize that Marxist-Leninists far, far outweigh the number of anti-Lenin Marxists. You don’t have to agree with Lenin to acknowledge that at this point he is almost as relevant to Marxism in a geopolitical context as Marx himself.

                • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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                  27 days ago

                  Some folk identify the .ml (or the pronouns of hexbear users) and work backwards from there.

                  Simply: the bad faith was having .ml there in the name. I’ll take him for his word and bet that’s what was meant.

                  *edit And it isn’t like I haven’t seen wingnuts go “.world eh? More like .nazi!” as well. It is just that whole general vibe with the people who all up and comment about blocking shit.

                  • fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee
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                    27 days ago

                    I’ve had enough bad faith interactions with lemmy.ml accounts that it’s become helpful to expect it from them.

                    Sure there are some actual people over there who are willing to engage in a fair way, but its not worth rolling the dice.

    • fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee
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      27 days ago

      Plenty of people try Lemmy then promptly leave when they realize it’s run by “Marxists” (i.e. people pretending to Marxists as a facade for spreading CCP propaganda).

      • Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works
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        27 days ago

        it’s run by “Marxists”

        Lemmy isn’t run by any one entity. Lemmy is essentially just the protocol that the Lemmyverse is built off of, which itself is an extension of ActivityPub.