I’m banned from a bunch of random places cuz I made a joke about Jack Ma disappearing for “re-education”. Loud critic of the CCP. Goes missing unexpectedly for a bit. Returns and suddenly sings the praises of the CCP. Definitely not fishy at all and you can’t joke about it.
some of you think Trump or Cuomk would be a better leader than someone like Mamdani, who’s probably too radical even for you because you’d rather have a rapist capitalist than someone who’s even slightly more anti-capitalist than Reagan. Seriously. Mamdani isn’t even a leftist really and I bet yall would have called him a tankie before he beat the mainstream DNC candidate
Congrats, you get fascist rightoids then 🤷♂️
Totes.
I was banned from socialism on Lemmy.ml the other day.
For providing a detailed post with scientific references demonstrating how the Tibetan language is disappearing (and how the infographic posted was likely propaganda/misinformation).
I had many users respond calling me slurs and none really responding to the body of my post in any way. Then, instead of moderating the bullying, the mod called me a shithead, provided his own references and banned me to prevent me from responding.
The kicker? The references he linked to supported exactly what I was saying! He hadn’t read them.
Also funnily, the mod log states that I infringed “Rule 1”. I checked. Socialism’s rules are still TBD (after 7 years).
The lack of context… also were you talking about China by any chance ?
You not posting this in context makes you super untrustworthy in my book.
It’s not hard to suss out the context: https://leminal.space/modlog?userId=17385373
Dictatorship is by nature untrustworthy, so which one do you pick: trustworthiness or dictatorship?
By “trustworthiness” do you mean continuing to try to vote our way into policy which benefits the American people? Because that hasn’t worked in 40+ years.
Yeah I’ll take a “dictatorship” like China if it means we get socialized Healthcare, 25,000 miles of high speed rail, affordable housing and nationalization of corporations who have received billions if not trillions in subsidies. American “democracy” certainly hasn’t delivered on any of that.
You think Linus Torvalds is untrustworthy?
You clearly don’t understand dictatorship.
You’re just missing context.
Impress me: create a context where you want your own rights taken away. 3, 2, 1, Go!: ___________________________.
Linus Torvalds is a BDFL. dictator can have many meanings: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/dictator
Not all different meanings have to do with ‘me having my rights taken away’
I could just as easily say “president is untrustworthy by nature” or “king”, “prime minister”, “dictator”, “state”, “soldier”, “police”, ”judge” etc. Dictatorship doesn’t automatically equal “authoritarian tankie evil communism everyone starves”
Dictatorship by definition means the person or party that dictates. A judge is not authoritarian for providing someone a fair trial regardless of how harsh or fair they are, but they are still dictating a system or an action. So when you hear “dictatorship of the proletariat”, it literally means you and everyone else controls the law. It doesn’t mean you get to decide everything it means that democracy actually involves every single person that participates instead of being “dictated” by money.
Every country expresses authority in some way, wether it’s USA something like Bay of Pigs, UK with their actions in India and Africa, USSR defeating Nazi armies and liberating concentration camps sometimes WITH the us and British. Technically Warsaw ghetto uprising was “authoritarian” and it was a good thing that they expressed authority on the Nazi regime.
Just trying to provide some clarity, a lot of people in the US truly have no idea how evil our government is and what they do overseas to help maintain your lifestyle, and it barely does a good job of maintaining our lifestyle. If anything socialist policies are always provably better at building society, and even the bare minimum in the US are people like Mamdani or Walz that prove even if you enact quasi-leftist policies like healthcare you’re an evil communist who likes dictatorship. You’re falling for it but you don’t have to, if you believe in people like AOC and other “progressive” dems like Ilhan Omar in theory you should be unlearning these things you’ve been taught by the right wing American media.
any ml instance is a blight.
Its a CCP propaganda machine.
.ml deleted yet another comment I made on a normal news article pretty much saying something similar about authoritarians. And the mod had the balls to chastise me after deleting my comment and butwhatabout-ing “American imperialism” or some BS.
I would have never even commented had I realized it was .ml. What a bullshit place that is, their private little Pravda and Memory Hole.
Do you actually believe US is not imperialist?
Normally when people refer to “.ml” they mean the dev instance, lemmy.ml, not lemmigrad.ml.
I’m not commenting on the substance of your post, just pointing out the mismatch.
They are both pretty extreme.
lemmy.ml is just lemmygrad.ml wearing a mask - badly.
Grad is definitely worse than ml, but enough people on ml are tankies (including the devs) that it’s easy to group both together.
Genocide is bad, wether it’s the Holocaust or the Very Real White Genocide in South Africa. If you have a problem with this statement, it’s because you think genocide is good.
Shit, there is a white genocide in South Africa ? like right now ?
They’re making a joke by using a logical fallacy known as a false premise.
Damn that was hard to wrap my head around. I think I understand now. Cheers
It’s so real, definitely happening. Trump even said so.
(If English isn’t your first language, they’re mocking OP’s implication that because people downvote <moronic comparison>, that means they love <bad thing>)
If anything Trump saying so is making me trust the statement less, but I’ll look it up. Thanks for the clarification
Ooohhhh no wait, you were being sarcastic. I’m lost now
Lets follow the pattern of OP that Shinkan is mocking: “I don’t like eating puppies, whether it’s done by nazis OR users named Hadriscus”
You would downvote this, because you understand he is implying you, Hadriscus, like eating puppies, and also comparing you with nazis.
He is then coming here to say “Hey, look, Hadriscus downvoted me! That means he is pro-eating puppies.”
That is frankly too convoluted for me to understand, but at least I now know both of you were sarcastic in your writing. Thanks for clarifying
You’d probably also get downvoted IRL for saying this out loud south of the mason-dixon line, too
Your screenshot says “memes@lemmygrad.ml”, not “lemmy.ml”.
Don’t do the mistake I did posting a meme, don’t even bother going in this instance, don’t bother at all.
Blocking an entire instance seemed extreme at first, but with the level of crazy in .ml I finally just ripped off that bandaid and did it. It remains the only one.
The fediverse has been a much better experience ever since!
I started with the yiff ones but you do you. My block list is pretty extensive.
Those are communities, and yeah those were quick to be blocked for me as well. I’m talking about entire instances, which to my knowledge there aren’t any yiff ones - so far .ml is the only one that’s been so consistently bad that it’s actually worth throwing any trace of the baby out with the bath water.
Are yiff.it or yiffit.net not instances anymore? Maybe I’ve been here longer than I thought.
I haven’t run into those - might not be federated with solarpunk. Definitely sound like good candidates for the chopping block though.
But think of all the downsides!
