Maybe if people with your ideology only make things that harm you it's an opportunity to reflect.
People on Lemmy are extremely annoying and refuse to use block lists to tailor their experiences and instead engage in endless circlejerks. The people who need to police the tankies are the worst of the worst.
The people who believe they should write alternative, compatible software to impose their own secret blocklists on the "tankies", unbeknownst to their users, are the actual worst of the worst.
The worst of the worst is actually evil commies who deliberately post shit that they know is going to get a tripple rainbow argument going >:D
They're arguing about quantum gravity or something down there. It's fucking amazing.
I already have ideas for the next one.
This is really it.
There's the fascist-owned platforms...most notably truthsocial, but definitely also X and Meta and all their platforms as well. I'd also say spez has absolutely bent the knee...several times. Fuck /u/spez.
And then there's the communist-operated platforms. Lemmy, and basically the entire fediverse.
I wouldn't say all instances are communist operated, certainly .ml, but many of them are just liberal, socialist, technohippies. (A term that I just coined now, and would gleefully apply to myself)
Only reddit still gets any of my traffic, and that's largely out of muscle-memory.
People really don't care about communists - it's the authoritarian boot licker we have a problem with.
Some people seem to care quite a bit.
The Americans?
I'll just leave this here. I think there is a nice middle ground somewhere. Where idk.
If communism is a failed system, why does the US keep going after communist places? Surely they're not a threat right? 🤔
Because there are no communist places. There are places where the ruling class plays pay lip service to the idea, but in reality they aren't communist. And the US tends to just ignore real implementations of socialism round the world.
Allende, Lumumba, Sankara and Castro would disagree with you.
: Person posts something about communism.
: Buncha people in the comments inevitably say the same stale, dumb things about communism.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
My girlfriend is different from all the other communists. She doesn't count.
I don't see any communists here, officer...
Yeah seriously what's this post on about? There are no communists on Lemmy; but there's plenty of bootlickers on here cosplaying as such.
Damn communists! They ruined communism!
As much as the Scotch ruined Scotland. Fair.
yeah but HASAN PIKER!!!
screams in terror
Lemmy has destiny stans now? 🤣
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