Have you tried engaging in a good-faith discussion instead of whatever half-witted rage-bait you attempted the first time?

Ah, hardcore commies. The level of density is incredible.

Their mentality is like:

Mao starved 10x the holocaust number of people but it’s okay, because it was unintentional!

Comments are wild here

Not necessarily the best example in this post, but in general, I find I get downvoted a lot when I make a good faith comment in .ml posts where I think I’m agreeing and am trying to understand the topic further. Getting 20 downvotes kind of kills my motivation to engage any further, though, so I usually just delete my comment , shrug, and move on. I’ve gotten to the point where I try to avoid wasting my time and energy commenting on .ml posts in the first place.

Maybe it’s just a different perspective on what a downvote means? To me, I’m generous with upvotes and withholding an upvote means I don’t find it interesting or disagree. I use downvotes sparingly for spam, trolling, comments made in bad faith, etc.

A downvote in my mind roughly translates to “fuck off”, so if a group gangs up and tells everyone with a slightly different worldview to fuck off, then they eventually will and said group will be all by themselves in their own echo chamber. If that’s the goal, then fair enough.

.ml is Lemmy’s The_Donald or /r/Conservative. Obviously different ideologies, but the behavior is the same. Bunch of petulant children.

Saying the Soviet Union, Khmer Rogue and Mao were examples of bad leftist authoritarianism will get you banned from stuff there too.

this has got to be one of the dumbest posts I’ve seen here, who the fuck gives a shit

Holy shit can you keep this dogshit on meanwhileongrad?? Like we get it there are crazy soviets on the internet, get over it you don’t need to turn every server into meanwhile

.ml W

You are just a typical liberal who is equating fascist society and socialist society just because they are “authoritarian”, you are ignoring what they achieved and what were their ideas. By this logic liberalism and fascism are same because they both are capitalism.

They have very predictable trigger points. Also I am starting to believe that there is a bot which automatically downvotes anything that contains the word tankie.

Me: googles tankie

Last week highly-upvoted comment on reddit claimed that environmentalism is nothing more than russian-bot fueled fad.

idk bro im in america and i gotta say id take a tankie authoritarian just to have a little revenge on the right wing authoritarians, then hopefully society will have had enough strongmen for the rest of my life.

So, I’ve been exploring these comments for the past 30 mins. They honestly make me wonder; are we seeing an echo chamber effect by instance?

Does Lemmy have any tools to count upvote/downvote by user instances, especially by comment layer. I think I want to dive into this rabbit hole.

I’d say it’s because the bar for “tankie” is “anyone who had a problem with selling weapons for genocide.”