The new lemming experience
(midwest.social)
naevaTheRat
Lefty MemesMaybe if people with your ideology only make things that harm you it's an opportunity to reflect.
The less polite ones don't even ask you first!
Nothing wrong with communists. I feel so radicalized by capitalism I'm almost there anyway.
It's the Russian/China apologists that are annoying.
Russia is bad, Chia.na is bad, and the U.S. is bad. All those things can be true. But all the insufferable posts about how great China and Russia are, and all the bad things you have heard about them m are just Western propaganda...
If they were serious about their ideology, then why do they care so much about someone thinks about China or Russia.
If they didn't brigade those issues so much, straight up ban people, just because they disagree, or hlrefuse to have any real discussion that doesn't center on just shutting other people down, then maybe people outside their group might take them more seriously.
I once got at least 10 comments telling me how good russia and china are and how bad USA is and that i am a USA sucker, welp kinda my fault for making a comment in the wrong instance
Anarcho communists welcome you. We hate all nation states equally. Unfortunately there aren't enough of us to brigade anything.
Some of us are just tired of western people not wanting to get a little nuance about none western countries. And the instance you admit that ofcourse no place is perfect you get hit with. "See x is bad, communism can't work in reality." It is tiresome and eventually I end up defaulting to standard answers or blocking people if they are rude.
On top of that I do think it is amazing how for instance India, China and Vietnam has improved the lives of billions, but every single time it hit western news it is followed by "but at what price".
And finally I have realized that things are not always as they seem and the propaganda machine makes it hard to discern the reality of many things. This goes for everything. I have no clue if it actually is dangerous to go USA or it just seem that way.
I'm sure you've had this explained before, how a unipolar world is worse than a detente.
Yeah, yeah, communists, whatever. Did you know that some people still pretend to be Finnish here?
torille.
You gotta remember that no one except known communists are pitched lemmy on the basis that it's developed by a communist. Everyone else gets that fact omitted.
And liberalism only survives in people that are fundamentally incurious about the conditions under which the goods and services they use are manufactured or arise.
Finally somebody says it. I was pitched Lemmy as a version of reddit that won't enshittify because it isn't run by Spez. There was no mention of communism whatsoever. I came expecting reddit as it had existed a few years prior to the API debacle. Now everyday I have to read a genocide denier accuse someone of supporting genocide because they voted against a fascist who supports genocide. Make it make sense.
And like, the communist thing isn't a problem in itself, but there is some kind of brain rot going on in this particular online space. You know last week I stumbled into a thread full of people claiming that North Korea is some kind of utopia and all the overwhelming evidence to the contrary is propaganda? That's not regular leftist discourse, that's some kind of looney tunes shit.
Reddit was awful from the moment it was created because it was designed to commodity and control the commons.
Unfortunately half of them are tankies larping as commies
The other half are posting, which is just as much a larp of political action. Effective organizing doesn't happen on the internet.
Of course it does, posting when and where to meet for public protests can happen with image posts on local area comms. Like someone posted an image that held information for dates, times and locations so people could attend March for Palestine. Really it's about sharing information which can be done with the good ol' wheat paste and paper, but can reach a lot more people on the internet.
While thats true, I do think people really forget that the actual labor that improves your community is offline, not another sick meme to dunk on the liberals
Its easy for it to end up feeling like performance to fit in with the in-crowd more than actual desire to fix problems. The internet can be helpful but only as a tool in service of actually doing political labor. If its not work you're probably not really accomplishing anything.
I remember on reddit seeing discussion about the mullvad vpn nonsense and someone replied that they were based, it's not like the left would ever care about privacy.
And I was just like...brutha, wut? People are truly that dumb aren't they?
Whoa there are one here? does that matter? in this era the letter c are kinda better than f or t, if you think about it.
Too many people have an inversion to leftism.
Transgender Anti-War Communists, no less.
The only thing scarier is a Muslim Mayor.
Is it at least of the luxurious gay space kind?
Unfortunately we're at the screaming at each other over precisely how to realise a stateless, monieless, classless society stage.
Although we do get to enjoy devouring the occasional lib that stumbles in.
Although we do get to enjoy devouring the occasional lib that stumbles in.
Mmmm... Lib vore...
We need to bring back feeling ashamed
Uh-oh. Somebody's got a shaming kink...
Food for thought indeed.
I don't think any of them are anymore communist then the CCP tbh.
They're just making free software with no algorithmic feeds, inherent bias, user monetisation, or dark patterns for everyone for other reasons.
So the head lemmy devs are communists? ?_?
Go chat to Dessalines or Nutomic about it and see what they have to say about their views.
I tried once, but they banned me for five billion years because they're tankies.
I've exchanged 5 sentences with you and I've gotta say I'm sympathetic to them already.
They are based ⚒️⚒️⚒️
No see, you don't understand.
The 'free market place of ideas' needs an 'invisible hand' to make sure it doesn't make any uh... mistakes.
And obviously, my particular and specific ideas about how to puppet that hand, well they are objectively correct.
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Or at least they WERE but you assholes are UNWORTHY of being SAVED so never mind!
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