Tankies keep posting “NATO-backed Zionists” on the comm. It’s completely delusional because China, Russia, India, etc. all support Zionism as well. I was banned for pointing this out. I knew I was going against tankie narratives so I’m not surprised. It’s still pretty pathetic. Tankies literally value their alt-empire over actual meaningful anti-zionism.

FWIW I’m not especially anti-tankie either. I consider them the same as libs. People who are def better than fash but not necessarily allies.

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    Why though? What’s the benefit of this?

    Tankies are mostly wrong about everything but occasionally they make a good point. These ideological bannings are pointless and create harmful echo chambers.

    I’m OK with it if you’re creating a highly curated space where only sourced, factual information is permitted but that requires a lot of work and I’ve never seen it done on Lemmy.

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      You don’t need to be so knowledgeable or do long research to know that Russia is the agressor

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        Obviously but I guess I’m just saying people are wrong about a lot of things a lot of the time and I think a ban is a really excessive response to that.