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Lead Lemmy Developer, Dessalines, denying the Tiananmen Square Massacre and
praising the Uyghur Genocide https://sh.itjust.works/post/8419342
[https://sh.itjust.works/post/8419342] Dessalines AKA “parentis_shotgun” on
Reddit, is the main Lemmy dev, also the admin of lemmy.ml [http://lemmy.ml] and
lemmygrad.ml [http://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/
[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 [http://Lemmy.ml] tankie censorship
problem: https://lemmy.world/post/16211417 [https://lemmy.world/post/16211417]
And the discussions for finding/creating alternative communities on other
instances: https://lemmy.world/post/16235541 [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
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie]
There were different blocs. There were both weirdo libs and anti-Deng Maoists/ultras involved, who wanted diametrically opposite things. The western liberal narrative is that the maoists were a small bloc (if they acknowledge them at all) and the liberals were the bulk of the protesters, and AFAIK the ultra narrative is that the maoists were the main movement and the liberals were tangentially present wreckers.
Not to mention that the liberals were trying their hardest to get some bloodshed happening so that they could cry about the government’s ‘brutality’ and lack of democracy. I think one of the liberal leaders actually said that other atudents should be brutalised for her cause but not her because she was too important.
"4) When protests broke out in China in April 1989, demonstrators were not calling for democracy, but purer socialism, free of corruption and inequality, which were endemic at the time. Students carried pictures of Chairman Mao and sang the Chinese national anthem repeatedly.
Western hybrid warfare includes two key principles:
Locate and amplify GENUINE local grievances, and
Rebrand them as calls for western liberal democracy and freedom."
interesting