Right now the political parties in the USA are one side, who are filled with actual nazis, and then on the other side is everybody else.
This from an administration who already ran a sucsessful 2016 campaign based on the ideas of racism, which ended in the preventable deaths of over 1 million people. Yes, covid played a part, but the administration at the time downplayed covid’s seriousness. Thus enabling roughly half the country to treat it as a political issue rather than a deadly disease. And trump, behind closed doors, knowing a tape recorder was on, fully admitted to embracing covid with the belief that it would kill more leftists (since they live in the city and more densely compacted) than it would right wingers (since they live in isolated farms).
And people, willingly voted for him in 2 more elections. He didn’t win 2020, but it’s not like it was a landslide.
Roughly half the country are nazi supporters. They wanted this.
And you ask if we should work with opposing parties? Maybe in more sane times, when the issues on the line are things like communications acts, or tax reform. But not now. Not when the agenda is “burn all those who oppose us”.
vxx@lemmy.world 1 week ago
How are you that sure they’re striving for the same goal when their actions point to favouring authoracies and silencing opposition?
Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
have the code they’ve written successfully aided them in doing that?
nagaram@startrek.website 1 week ago
I ultimately agree with a lot of communism and as such I’m probably more likely to agree with the average Tankie than most people.
And with that disclaimer, yeah kinda it has aided them in doing that.
They created a reddit alternative that has a “default server” as it were. And they have the ability to admin that source of information to tailor to their specific ideological needs.
But is it effective in a grander scheme? That’s pretty debatable.
Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
i personally don’t see that as an issue tbh, they were never really trying to push ml to be the main instance imo, i vividly remember when people were flooding in from r****t and because ml didn’t really bother upgrading server hardware it was insanely slow, and so people moved to other new instances like .world instead
and i mean they have and always had a whole section of their docs dedicated to censorship resistance so i really doubt their purpose for ml is to censor people, but just to make a “safe space”/“echo chamber” (call it whatever you want) for tankies