==please incorporate the word rule in your post titles==
Here are the things that get you banned:
-saying anything remotely iffy with a lemmygrad or hexbear account
-tankie behaviour
-nazi behaviour
-authoritarian behaviour
-genocide denial
-prejudice of any kind
-anything else that is clearly bad

Things that get your post/comment removed:
-AI generated content
-anything in the banlist
-posts that are so off topic that they don’t fit on 196 at all
-moldy memes (old memes, crusty memes, irrelevant memes. The type of things you’d see on your aunt’s Facebook page or Elon musk’s Twitter account with a laughing emoji as the caption)
-corpoposting

Ban length varies, and is mostly based off of whether or not I think you will change your behavior. I have baned certain people for upwards of 2000 days.

---------EDIT:NSFW RULES---------
NSFW Content is now fully permitted BUT it must be tagged. Any NSFW content that has not been tagged and blurred will be removed. Content warnings should also be added to the title in brackets. Example: [penis] or: [explicit description of sex].
Non-sexualized breasts of any gender are not considered inappropriate and therefore do not need to be blurred/tagged. Yes, even female breasts.

IRL GORE IS NOT PERMITTED UNDER ANY CONDITION.

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Please leave any suggested edits in the comments.

JAN 2024 UPDATE: MOLDY MONDAYS
Monday is now moldy Monday. on this day and only this day moldy memes are not only allowed, but encouraged. The crustier the better. The type of thing that’s been reposted at least 2,000 times with filters and bad crops and watermarks and hopefully minions. please caption with moldy rule

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      • setVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.ca
        6·
        7 months ago

        You deleted your comment, but I can still answer. Basically, both home servers tend to revolve around alt-left fascism, so we’re extremely wary of what these users have to say.

          • setVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.ca
            5·
            5 months ago

            I should actually be using the term “far left”, as after research, as far as I can tell “alt left” is a term used by alt rights (i.e. neo Nazis, white supremacists and the likes) as a knee jerk reaction to whoever calls them alt right. My bad on that.

            Examples of far left governments are China and the USSR, with policies that concentrate power at the government and makes it difficult for people to hold power and have a voice.

            As for fascism, it was historically considered inherent to far right governments, but some argue that far left governments that fit most of the characteristics of fascism should also be described as such, hence far left fascism, but it could also be described as far left authoritarianism.

            • Moss@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPM
              3·
              2 months ago

              I wouldn’t call those far left at all personally. authoritarianism and fascism are blanketly not leftist systems of government

              • Moss@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPM
                5·
                2 months ago

                The concept of a tankie is a person with the cognitive dissonance necessary to both have majority leftist ideology yet still believe in and support authoritarian governments

              • setVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.ca
                3·
                2 months ago

                Right, my above comment was a bit disjointed. The vocabulary gets a bit vague when it comes to putting a political spectrum on a 1D axis.

                My concern with my comment is that I wouldn’t know where to put, e.g., the Chinese government on the political axis. It’s both communist-like yet authoritarian.

                • Moss@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPM
                  5·
                  2 months ago

                  haha You’re all right. I think something like the Chinese government is definitely one of the more difficult ones. It has its roots in communism, but at this point it’s very much a capitalist autocracy with high social investment and surveillance. authoritarian for aure

            • melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee
              2·
              3 months ago

              nobody would call them far left. it’s not particularly far left. its authoritarian, even the political compass has more nuance here, cmon man.

              • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                1·
                2 months ago

                I’ve seem many people from Europe refer to communist parties and Russia as far left because they do embody certain socialist ideas that are leftist but take it well beyond the point of being a good thing, so in this regard yes they are far left. Thing is you absolutely can go way too far with any philosophy. I do agree that what they did with the political compass is good though because it reflects the actual nature of being an extremist socially while also representing the economic value, though in these situations they are still very far to the left of countries with economies that aren’t exclusively controlled by state (North Korea is a great example).

          • melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee
            3·
            3 months ago

            “why do you want communism?”

            “because I want to tell people I disagree with to shut up, at gunpoint. also I love uniforms and the general aesthetics of the USSR. also some economist from 200 years ago said it’s what’s next, so we gotta”

            so not to do with any actual communism, egalitarianism, etc, or any actual left stuff, or people not dying on the streets anymore, or liberation of thd human spirit; just red star brand reactionary bullshit. I prefer their yeast.

  • Rekticulum@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    110·
    1 year ago

    TFW the other leftists wont let you try to subvert the movement into “the people’s fascism”

    they are ruining leftist unity

  • MisterFrog@lemmy.world
    64·
    1 year ago

    Because of the Reddit migration, 196 is coming up in my Lemmy feed a lot, I have no idea what it is (because you haven’t made a description).

    This could be your chance to gain more community members if you update your description

    • Silverstrings@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      65·
      1 year ago

      Well sort of the point of 196 is that you can post almost anything, the only rule is that you have to post each time before leaving. This rule isn’t enforced for obvious reasons, unlike the ban against tankies.

      • Quetzacoatl@feddit.de
        14·
        1 year ago

        before leaving as in before switching to another community while browsing? or as in when you unsubscribe? and what if I never leave

        • Silverstrings@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          20·
          1 year ago

          I have no idea, I think it means whatever you want it to mean. Usually folks interpret it as visiting the sub and then going to a different one but you could also interpret it as leaving permanently, like I said it isn’t actually enforced. It’s just meant to encourage lots of irreverent posting.

  • Gormadt@beehaw.org
    30·
    1 year ago

    Ah yes, some good news today as well

    Happy to see this community is starting off on the right foot

  • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    24·
    1 year ago

    I’ve got a slight suggested edit

    Basically the first item to get banned adding Hexbear to the list with Lemmygrad

    I’ve been seeing a huge influx of tankie takes from hexbear accounts all over (and here) since they federated

      • Preston Maness ☭@lemmygrad.ml
        10·
        1 year ago

        None of us have any issue with communists

        • saying anything remotely iffy with a lemmygrad account
        • tankie behaviour
        • authoritarian behaviour

        Color me skeptical.

        • Wispy@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          23·
          1 year ago

          Thinking communism is a good system and sucking of dictators is a bit of a difference isn’t it lol.

          I literally today saw a post celebrating and congratulating Xi for being a leader for so long, you know, while forcing that no one else could take power.

          Also associating communism with authoritarianism is very saying.

          • Preston Maness ☭@lemmygrad.ml
            6·
            1 year ago

            Thinking communism is a good system and sucking of dictators is a bit of a difference isn’t it lol.

            I literally today saw a post celebrating and congratulating Xi for being a leader for so long, you know, while forcing that no one else could take power.

            Also associating communism with authoritarianism is very saying.

            I can see I was right to be skeptical. “I love communism; just not in any of the ways that it has ever historically or presently succeeded.”

            • barsoap@lemm.ee
              18·
              1 year ago

              Communism has never been implemented. We had “really existing socialism” which then drifted off into state-capitalist tyranny, capitalist tyranny, or straight tyranny. Cuba and Vietnam fare better, they’re drifting towards democratic socialism.

            • Wispy@lemmy.blahaj.zone
              16·
              1 year ago

              No, i don’t consider it succeeding if there’s a dictator in power. Is that a hot take? Again, I’m fairly anti-capitalist too. I am also anti-authoritarian, and thus also against dictators. Hence i do not consider Xi’s CCP
              Successful.

              Edit: what barsoap said is also true. China utilizes a capitalist system as economy. Do you really think those factory workers own their factory themselves? If so, how are there so many Chinese billionaires? Billionaires shouldn’t exist in a communist society.

            • smooth_jazz_warlady@lemmy.blahaj.zone
              15·
              1 year ago

              MLs be like “the state will wither away bro, I swear it will work this time” and then create an authoritarian nightmare society again.

              Although at least you’re not getting anywhere with your stupid military fetishism, because you cannot topple an existing power through force of arms unless the state military is in tatters, and with the threat of nuclear war preventing any kind of large-scale engagement between major powers, good luck waiting for an opportunity.

              The only way to topple a major developed government now is through the Union of Unions, striking with enough of the population to break the economy in half, and bring the establishment to the bargaining table with two options: give us what we want, worker democracy, or we take away your access to food, water and power. And if that worked, and then you authoritarian fuckers tried to pull your usual shit on us in the aftermath, we’d just strike again until it was your turn to choose between worker democracy or dying of thirst with no food and no power to make your demise any more comfortable.

              Go and start, or join, a fucking union, and try to make things marginally better for your fellow workers, instead of doing nothing but sucking Stalin’s necrotised dick over the internet.

              • MxEli@lemmy.world
                7·
                1 year ago

                Go and start, or join, a fucking union, and try to make things marginally better for your fellow workers, instead of doing nothing but sucking Stalin’s necrotised dick over the internet.

                I just need you to know this made me let out the loudest damned snort. Perfect description, 10/10 no notes.

          • Black AOC@lemmygrad.ml
            3·
            1 year ago

            …What’s the difference? “Tankie” is just meaningless lib perjorative anymore, and it’s impossible for you to not know and observe that.

            • Moss@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPM
              10·
              1 year ago

              A Tankie is anyone who’s an apologist for the Chinese, soviet, North Korean, or other more minor fascist/opressive States. The are the Communists who yearn to lick the boot of Big brother, rather than truly empower the people

              • bloubz@lemmygrad.ml
                5·
                1 year ago

                Those states were state capitalism under authoritarianism. But I think a small portion of people on these communist actually support what has been done under these regimes but rather want to support communism where some chance had been given (by Lenin at early years for example)

              • Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.ml
                5·
                1 year ago

                Hold on a minute, are you saying that the capitalists in China, Russia, and N. Korea institutionalized ultranationalist, petit‐bourgeois movements to reinforce capital and maintain their levels of profits? Can you show me when this happened?

              • Black AOC@lemmygrad.ml
                3·
                1 year ago

                …So, every actually existing socialist project, you think are genocidal despots. That’s what I mean when I say ‘you glow’. You are the feds, you are 5-0, you are twelve, you are a pig, you are a WHOLE cracker, hold the saltine.

  • lewisje@midwest.social
    17·
    1 year ago

    How does one get flair here?

    Also, because I’m bad at image-memeing, blåhaj sounds like what you do when you’ve had a few and a cop pulls you over.