Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy?

• Shiggles@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “America does bad things, so I should support china/russia instead!”

  “Stalin/mao were (anything besides utterly reprehensible dictators)”

  “Communism could’ve worked if-“

  Honorable mention to thinking this coy “I’m going to act all hyper respectful and yet also like I know more than anyone about anything” bullshit gets you anywhere.

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  • msage@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Though to be honest, tankies spouting #1 and #2 get heavily downvoted. I don’t even see them anymore, guess my instance defederated them, but they were never strong positions here.

    Perhaps it’s the defederation, but my experience here does not resemble yours.

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    • Shiggles@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They’re mask off on hexbear/lemmygrad, they try to be subversive on lemmy.ml. I have in fact instance blocked the first two, you can usually dodge them on .ml. Lemmy is far less enjoyable if you have not blocked them.

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  • msage@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    First two sound like tankies, but communism definitely could work :P

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    • Shiggles@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Commune-ism sounds like a lovely idea on a small scale, you gotta solve a lot of political problems to make it work on anything bigger. Social democracies like the scandinavians seem to be the best way we currently know to run a humanitarian society.

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      • msage@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Are they though? I just feel like we aren’t solving the issues we ought to.

        First, nobody gets hungry ever again.

        Then, everybody gets roof over their head.

        After that, we can start discussing the next steps.

        And yes, we need to do this globally, with nobody left behind.

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    • avonarret1@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you aren’t human, perhaps

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      • msage@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s like saying we are too stupid to survive.

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So, you’ve been listening to lemmy.lm…

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  • lakemalcom10@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I just have Lemmygrad blocked and I never see this

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    • Wrench@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There’s a bunch of very active non-ml users that always turn any political discussion to “both sides are terrible, don’t vote for genocide”.

      Once you start recognizing names (or blocking), it gets less depressing. But it does feel like there are a lot more racist enablers in the political communities than there really are, just because of how fervent those few users are.

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      • irreticent@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Once you start recognizing names

        One of my favorite features of the Boost app is they allow you to tag a username with whatever label you want. It really helps to highlight the users that regularly argue in bad faith, troll, etc.

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