lol … lmao even
If you think lemmy.ml is bad, check out hexbear. It’s where r/CTH went after they got banned.
Ayyy, we got a shoutout!
They have done it, they have crafted the perfect liberal comment:
Lemmygrad is tankies idolising the USSR instead of the CCCP.
fucking amazing, you really can tell when people haven’t spent a single fucking second investigating something
After reading their posts complaining about Lemmy.ml I actually visited that place for the first time expecting super Stalinist and Maoists banning people left and right and defending genocide and instead all I saw were posts like “gee, Twitter sucks, am I right?”
Which, ironically, it the same way I found Hexbear (people saying that chapos were scary left wing extremists and me wanting to find out for myself and finding out that actually y’all are pretty cool)
lemmy.ml is just a normie place for the most part, which makes it all the more funny when people claim it’s full of tankies who ban you for saying anything bad about China.
I guess some communities there might remove the lame ”lol Tiananmen Winnie the Pooh social credit!” comments, which is just like
I also love how those comments are all talking about voting styles as though that will be the thing that fixes western democracy. I got caught up in that particular bit of wonkery for a long time too, feels nostalgic.
Even within that wonkery, shit like STAR is designed to have the least hated candidate (i.e. the bland shitty centrist) win. Whereas Instant Runoff is simple, easy to understand, and produces a winner that people actually want, the most liked candidate instead of the least hated. But that would be bad for centrists so it’s bad.
Huh. I never really put that much thought into STAR and just sort of blandly agreed when people said that it was better than Instant Runoff because idk… it sounded aesthetically cooler? lol. brain very simple. I continued to support Instant Runoff instead mostly because it seemed more achievable due to momentum., I never really thought of the material difference between them like that. Thanks for this post.
I think it’s important to preface this by saying that I am not offended by or concerned with anyone’s politics
Beautiful start
I block every .ml communoty on sight, as they’re laced with tankie propaganda/agenda.
Comrade… Mali?
they’re so fucking dumb, they think .ml actually is just a domain made by marxist lenninists or something lmao
There was someone in that thread who was like ”What if we made a site called lemmy.trotsky? They’d be so owned.”
Well, that was a depressing read
The people there literally think that America is better then China because they can “debate and vote out Nazis”
Jesus, where do you start with such brainwashing? They really think that America is a democracy, no matter how many times the rich fucks who run their country just do whatever without oversight.
Funny how it’s always “America isn’t perfect, but…”
But it’s never “China isn’t perfect, but…”
Right. You’d think it’s just a basic logic to realize that “MUH COONTRY NAMBA WUN” and “My country bad, all the other are even worse” is the .
There’s an old joke about an American and a Soviet sharing a beer. The American says, “You don’t know what its like to have freedom. If I was in California, I could say whatever horrible thing I wanted to about Governor Ronald Reagan, and nobody would stop me.”
The Soviet nods and smiles. “Perhaps this is true, in California. But do not fear. I assure you, if I was in St. Petersburg, I could also say whatever horrible thing I wanted to about Governor Ronald Reagan.”
We’ve been in a post-truth era now for a number of years. There’s nothing that can be done. China has over a billion people. If they want propaganda bots to saturate the internet, they got it. Just keep promoting internet safety, critical media thinking skills, and real historical facts.
The lack of self-awareness and ironically, critical thinking skills on display in those comments is so tragic.
“If the Chinese media says something, don’t believe it! The American media told me that.”
Marx would have been a Patriots fan. He would have had the face of Bill Belichick on his bedroom wall. He would have gotten season tickets to every game and watched all the big games at the bar with his friends, while drinking a big glass of Coor’s Light. You wouldn’t catch Marx dead rooting for the Green Bay Packers. Marx would agree with me that Aaron Rodgers is overrated and any pass under 40 yards isn’t worth making. I love Marx so much. He’s my favorite Democrat.
Marx would 100% be a packers fan and would vehemently argue for fan ownership of every team
Tbf Marx or Lenin wouldn’t be fond of modern day Russia or China because Russia is a capitalist hellhole built on top of the corpse of the USSR. Meanwhile China is still not pressing the Socialism button
Yeah and I don’t think anyone here is supporting Russia? I always lose my mind with how these people put words in our mouths. Not wanting to do war against a nuclear power doesn’t mean we support said nuclear power.
As for China, I don’t know how critical most Hexbear posters’ support for them is. At the end of the day it doesn’t matter much if the support is critical or not, the important thing is to oppose the manufacturing of consent. And I don’t trust any leftist who doesn’t understand that the bare minimum is to oppose the State Dept’s line on the enemies of the US, because if we swallow it unopposed we are failing to do even the bare minimum of proletarian internationalism.
