There's almost always a more deserving community that could use some good content and growth!

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Not only it is wrong from a historical point of view, but it also ignores current political conversations in which "Leftists/Communists" are used as a scare tactic.

Fair enough, i guess i also "fear" communism in a sense and believe that humanity must work to prevent ourselves from reaching such a state (at least the sort that is typical of it) but i don't think that's where much of the criticism on Lemmy stems from

I have a lot of criticisms, but I don't currently have the energy for a long debate. However, my main criticism is that Marxism is unnecessary as many good things have been achieved and can be achieved under a social democracy.

There's also the point on how Marxism is practically unachievable without collectivisation, which allows for the possibility of tyranny. Soft totalitarianism as i like to call it. It has gone wrong in the past and will probably continually do so.

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No need to insult me bro

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I don't know why ml is so hated

Diva (she/her)

There's still plenty of instances run by people willing to tolerate misogyny, racism and transphobia in the name of extreme centrism and defending capitalism.

I actually laughed out loud reading this in the modlog "triggered far left liberals" OK Ben Shapiro

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If you left your ultra-white, ultra-left, and ultra-woke political echo chambers you'd learn that the terms dick-sucking and dick-riding comes from AAVE and is used frequently by the Black-American community. AAVE slang tends to mock the actions described in the insults and not those performing them.

I know all this because i actually interact with humans in the real world. I don't sit at my desk all day, arguing about fuck all on the internet while extending my moral values to individuals on the internet like Americans who don't know that words like "cunt" and "f*ggot" have meanings not tied to negative connotations outside the US do. This nuance is typically lost on the left and is why i identify as centrist nowadays.

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I know all this because i actually interact with humans in the real world.

could have fooled me

This nuance is typically lost on the left and is why i identify as centrist nowadays.

wow, shocking, nobody could have predicted this.

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And you going into the modlog to research my bad behaviour. Very rich!

Diva (she/her)

It's super easy, and I tend to find the funniest content that way. For example any time some lemmitor is crying woe about authoritarians censoring them, it's almost 100% of the time that they've just been spewing vile shit and redbaiting gets them sympathy.

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they've just been spewing vile shit

I guess we're all prone to spilling vile shit huh

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I have some bangers, it's true

archomrade [he/him]

Better .ml than .world, honestly

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Lmao that you added a content warning there. That should've gone on [email protected]

You know, the beautiful thing about being centrist is that i come under fire from both sides of the political spectrum so at least there's some solidarity between me and you there - assuming you believe liberals to be on the left.

Diva (she/her)

I CW it because it's a moderated .world comment I'm reposting to .world in a different context, just being courteous to the mods here.

Liberalism is a center-right wing ideology, that's why so many communists and anarchists have issues with liberals and will call liberals (for example social democrats) the left wing of fascism.

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just being courteous to the mods here.

I much prefer the sarcastic interpretation more

You know we could go on another argument spree about why this is or isn't the case, but I'm not in that spirit today. Have. Have a good day.

Diva (she/her)

I agree, no need to get into a new issue this deep in a thread. As you found in the modlog I am gainfully employed and do need to get to work lmao.

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Oh, it's the regularly scheduled sabre-rattling post.

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Some Lemmy instances are generally hostile to Marxists, who are more concentrated on Lemmy.ml.

Cowbee [he/they]

OP makes these posts on around a monthly basis, they have a pattern of posting these instance-drama related posts fairly regularly.

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He has a little star in his calendar for every month.

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Yep, they even get a bunch of their posts from Lemmy.ml communities and cross post them to non-Lemmy.ml communities. That's fine, but this is just a huge dedication to inter-instance drama.