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IDF says

The Princess Bride! It’s the best sick day movie there is.

He wasn’t the most recent returned, or returned in a coffin. Not sure that OP is referring to him.

Bruce Lowrance was returned in good health in 2018.

Here, let’s do a litmus test. Who is to blame for the Ukraine War? Would you decry the US if they falsely claimed to own most of the Gulf of Mexico and threatened civilian ships? If so, would you also decry China for claiming most of the South China Sea, including waters which are literally closer to other countries than to them?

I get that it’s a convenient rhetorical technique to try to turn the conversation onto the views common among communists that you find objectionable. I don’t agree that it’s relevant to the conversation at hand, though.

Every communist is not a tankie.

The thread of “authoritarian” communism that’s typically branded as “tankie” runs directly to Marx. I’m interested to know if you’re able to find any non-marxist communist tendencies to hold up as an example.

Where are your model communists? Or are you just anti-communist?

I don’t really agree. Stalin’s thoughts can be summed up in his synthesis of Marx and Lenin. There isn’t a “Stalinism” separate from Marxism-leninism, but his contribution to MLism was vital.

I also don’t really agree that Dengism is a thing. It’s a convenient shorthand Maoists use to describe modern China, but I don’t think Deng saw his contributions as separate from SWCC.

Also also, I don’t think you can fairly characterize modern Maoism as Mao’s interpretation of MLism.

All of these are very pedantic, so it’s very much ok if we don’t agree here! 😁

The “Communist Manifesto” was written by the guy who said “We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.”

A non-marxist who just wanted a commune would be something like a Utopian Communalist, or something like that.

It’s just a pejorative for Marxist-leninists/communists/“authoritarian communists”.

The lemmy platform was built by communists, and there’s a couple of active instances of communists on lemmy.

Marxism-leninism was first synthesized by Stalin. Stalinism isn’t a thing, but Stalin was a Marxist-leninist. Stalin was a Communist. Marx was an authoritarian communist as well.

“tankie” is just a red-scare pejorative for communists.

That wasn’t the comment you left though, was it?

No, he just failed to account for people.

What do you mean by this?

Marx is more hard-line than Stalin.

If they’re both “tankies”, then I think we’re clear that the term is just base red-scare anti-communism.

Edit: “sealioning is when I have to defend arguments I’ve repeated but don’t actually understand”

Was Marx a tankie?

“Tankie” is just a pejorative that anti-communists use for Marxism-leninists.

The developers of lemmy are Marxist-leninist communists.

Communists are literally the developers of lemmy

I’m sorry, I don’t speak Chinese. Can you say what you mean without trying to be coy? Or do you know that it violates the rules here?

um… but it’s listed under blocked instances right here… https://lemmygrad.ml/instances

Lemmygrad.com was a mock site put together by wolfsballs.com fash when that was still a thing.

It was defederated from lemmygrad.ml like a year ago.

Cope and seethe because… It’s lame for OP to crybully about a temp ban, of a single community, on an instance that isn’t even theirs?

This is the corniest attempt to stir controversy.

That’s cool, I just wanted to be clear on how I’m trying to interact - it’s easy to miscommunicate on the internet!

My issues with “Xi as Winnie the Pooh” center around the way it’s presented in the Western internet. Xi is often depicted with harshly yellow skin, and with comically slanted eyes.

There’s clearly a commonality between how racist caricatures of Chinese people have been created historically, like this:

https://thomasnastcartoons.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/the-coming-man-20-may-18811.jpg

https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/ckjoq7/xinnie_the_pooh_street_art_mural/ (sure, it’s not a real mural, but it was upvoted 400+ times)

To be clear, I’m trying to communicate that it’s considered racist/bigoted by Lemmy.ml’s mods, and that’s the reason the user was banned.

While I see it as bigoted, I understand that it’s commonly used in lemmy.world (where we are) and I’m not going to police it’s use, dunk on the user using it, or report it the way I would in .ML, Lemmygrad, or Hexbear.

The fediverse is an ideologically shared space, and I’m doing my best to reasonably interact on other instances!

With those qualifiers, would you still like me to share my reasoning?