My first months on Lemmy were spent on Lemmy.world, which was the biggest instance at the time. I had no experience with Hexbear because .world had defederated that instance. I sometimes saw it being described as a "tankie" instance, but it was nothing specific.

After I moved to .zip, I came across [email protected], which seemed to be free from anything overtly political and reminded me of r/Gamingcirclejerk, so I subscribed to it and occasionally made comments related to gaming.

Today I made multiple comments to a post about an article on the STALKER game developers having removed the Soviet symbols and the Russian audio in the remastered edition of the game. I would argue that in the thread, there were no comments from me that could be construed by a reasonable person as defensive of Nazism, fascism, or even hinting at it. For example, in one of the comments, I linked a Ukrainian law that prohibits the use of Nazi symbols, though I highly advise looking through all my ten comments as to avoid any misunderstanding or false impressions.

Conversely, one comment posted by another user dismissed Holodomor as Nazi propaganda, which I reported, but a moderator of that community just ended up calling me out for that and taking no action, followed by them banning me.

The thread containing all of my untouched posts is still available via lemmy.zip. My comments are also available for viewing via my user page. They are not available on hexbear due to the ban.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You're confusing ML's who are authoritarian with non authoritarian ideology like marxists (minus the lenninism) or other forms of communism. Arguably ML's are only communist in name. Similar to how the NDSP for the Nazi party was not a socialist party - they just picked up a false flag because it was popular. And that's often the problem with western teaching on socialism and communism - there is a massive conflation with what it actually is and what malefactors (e.g. Lennin/Stalin or so many other dictatorship examples) have projected on to it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

High five. 🖐️ I'm glad to not be the one posting this again constantly. Between the two authoritarian groups propaganda. It's basically impossible to have any sort of discussion about it sadly.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yeah I feel like a broken record myself. It's tough because there's such a huge population of people who have been taught 'communism = evil dictatorship' and not think critically about any of it, read any of the literature, study the history of it, etc.

I could go on but I am sure you know already.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

Yes the whole noun versus adjective thing. Communists aren't communist. And their faces go blank as a dial tone plays in their head.