PhilipTheBucket
@PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au
- Comment on Why is Lemmy.ml blocked? 4 days ago:
Sure. Like I say, the actual point is fine, and you’ll see it not being banned in any number of places in this comments section (and your whole thing about how they were deleting any criticism of Kamala before the election is absolute pure self-delusion). I do feel like having your comment deleted for calling all the other commenters shitlibs (or threatening to break someone’s skull or whatever else) shouldn’t be all that hard to understand, and it’s weird that you are insisting SO HARD that it must be because you said something bad about Kamala or that she was less than perfect.
You do understand that this whole post is saying something bad about Kamala, right? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills
- Comment on Why is Lemmy.ml blocked? 4 days ago:
Saying things that are not true, and swearing to them and getting super-passionate about it and all assuring each other that that’s how it happened, is like the bread and butter of some communities. Some people respond a lot more positively to simple confidence than they do to calm evidence and argument.
- Comment on Why is Lemmy.ml blocked? 4 days ago:
The mainstream consensus of lemmy.world and all the rest of the “normal” Lemmy instances is that the Democrats aren’t very good (for obvious reasons). I am extremely sure that I will be able to check the modlog and find that the actual issue was that the Democrats came up in some capacity, you were abusive towards other users or something similar, and then you were banned.
The .ml grouping of instances actually model this behavior, I think unintentionally: They are so flagrantly mean and hostile to anyone who ever doesn’t agree with their way of looking at things that it causes some kind of issue, and then they get to retreat to their cadre of like-minded people all agreeing that everyone is unfair all the time “for no reason.”
I was confident enough about it that I typed that all out before seeing your modlog. Then I checked.
https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=3896921
I predicted this months ago, I knew Kamala would loose. Did I vote for her? Yes. Did she deserve to loose? Also yes. Her political campaign couldn’t stand up to even the smallest bit of criticism. Thats why world and twitter users were busy calling anyone who critiqued her or even questioned her a “russian bot” or “tankie”. She made absolutely no attempt to gain votes and promised nothing to the voters, instead she basically said “Im not orange man, vote for me”. Now shes lost the NeoLibs are desperately trying to find a scapegoat, some blame protest voters and non voters, some blame the working class, some blame Muslims, some blame Jews, some blame Trans people, and furthermore some blame POC or any other minority that they can think of. This is exactly why Kamala lost, her campaign couldn’t stand up to scrutiny and now yall are coping to distract yourself from the fact that the slightly better corporate puppet lost. Cope and seethe ShitLibs
Yeah sure the critique of the Democrats was the reason you got your comment removed… If you look up and down in this comment thread, you will see at least a dozen people saying what you said. None of them are deleted. Because they’re not being unhinged and hostile about it, their comments critiquing the Democrats are allowed to stay. Imagine that.
I realize that this factual critique will do nothing to sway you lol
- Comment on Why is Lemmy.ml blocked? 4 days ago:
The same mods that scream about ml censorship will ban you if you critique neoliberalism.
I’m a mod who whines constantly about ml censorship. Can you point to a single time when I have ever banned anybody for critiquing neoliberalism?
This weird strawman where .ml pretends that everyone else on Lemmy is just a mirror image of them but tryannically enforcing neoliberalism instead of Stalinism is so fucking bizarre. Nobody here likes either of those things, it is on par with “the libs will have your kids peeing in litter boxes” MAGA fantasy.
- Comment on Why is Lemmy.ml blocked? 4 days ago:
There are lots of them, it’s a little of column A and a little of column B
- Comment on A rant on left-wing online infighting 6 days ago:
I’m going to make a FAQ entry for this or something lol
Long story short, no. The centrist’s candidate did win, no thanks to the communists, and Hitler with his growing street army was held at bay until the centrist’s candidate died, and then long story short the end came soon after, with the social democrats still denouncing Hitler in the hauntingly half-empty parliament with the communists after the communists had been disappeared from it. For all the good it did. But at least they were able to recognize that Hitler was the enemy. The communists could not. They were still holding anti-social-democrat rallies, and sometimes collaborating with the Nazis. Also, so was Stalin! Beyond the obvious military alliance he was also selling out German communists (who were loyally doing their best to destroy German civil society on his orders) to Hitler’s secret police, because of course he was.
No less a person then Leon Trotsky explained this in a good amount of detail and was able to see it coming even at the time and tried to prevent it (again, for all the good it did). I’ll let the World Socialist Web Site explain:
https://www.wsws.org/en/special/library/foundations-ger/10.html
73 - The KPD had been established as a response to the betrayal of social democracy. But it proved just as unable as the SPD to weld together the working class and lead it into a struggle against the Nazis. A ten-year campaign against “Trotskyism” had politically corroded the party and transformed its leadership into a willing tool of Stalin. It repeated all the opportunist and ultra-left errors, against which Lenin and Trotsky had fought ten years before, and hid its paralysis and fatalism behind radical phrase-mongering. Until 1933, Trotsky tried relentlessly to correct the wrong course of the KPD. His writings on Germany from these years, which fill two thick volumes, prove his genius as a Marxist and political leader. Banished to a remote Turkish island, forced to rely on newspapers and reports from political friends, Trotsky demonstrated an understanding of German events and their internal dynamics that remains unparalleled to this day. He foresaw the events clearly and precisely and developed a convincing alternative to the devastating course of the KPD. The KPD responded not with arguments, but with slanders, violence and the entire weight of the Moscow apparatus.
74 - At the heart of the policy of the KPD was the thesis of social fascism. From the fact that both fascism and bourgeois democracy were forms of capitalist rule, the Comintern drew the conclusion that there was no contradiction between them, not even a relative one. Fascism and social democracy were the same―in the words of Stalin: “not antipodes, but twins”―the social democrats therefore were “social fascists”. The KPD rejected any collaboration with the SPD against the rightwing danger and, in some cases, even went so far as to make common cause with the Nazis―for example, when it supported the referendum initiated by the Nazis in 1931 to bring down the SPD-led Prussian state government. Occasionally it called for “a united front from below”. But this was not an offer to collaborate, but an ultimatum to the SPD members to break with their party.
75 - Trotsky decisively opposed this form of vulgar radicalism. He recalled that Marx and Engels had protested fiercely when Lassalle had called feudal counterrevolution and the liberal bourgeoisie “one reactionary mass”. Now Stalin and the KPD were repeating the same error. “It is absolutely correct to place on the Social Democrats the responsibility for the emergency legislation of Brüning as well as for the impending danger of fascist savagery. It is absolute balderdash to identify Social Democracy with fascism”, he wrote. “The Social Democracy, which is today the chief representative of the parliamentary-bourgeois regime, derives its support from the workers. Fascism is supported by the petty bourgeoisie. The Social Democracy without the mass organizations of the workers can have no influence. Fascism cannot entrench itself in power without annihilating the workers’ organizations. Parliament is the main arena of the Social Democracy. The system of fascism is based upon the destruction of parliamentarianism. For the monopolistic bourgeoisie, the parliamentary and fascist regimes represent only different vehicles of dominion; it has recourse to one or the other, depending upon the historical conditions. But for both the Social Democracy and fascism, the choice of one or the other vehicle has an independent significance; more than that, for them it is a question of political life or death.”[3]
76 - Trotsky fought untiringly for a policy of the united front. This would have made it possible for the KPD to use the contradiction between social democracy and fascism to unite the working class, win the confidence of the social democratic workers and expose the social democratic leaders. In an article written at the end of 1931, entitled “For a Workers’ United Front Against Fascism”, he explained: “Today the Social Democracy as a whole, with all its internal antagonisms, is forced into sharp conflict with the fascists. It is our task to take advantage of this conflict and not to unite the antagonists against us.” One must “show by deeds a complete readiness to make a bloc with the Social Democrats against the fascists” and “understand how to tear the workers away from their leaders in reality. But reality today is―the struggle against fascism.” It was necessary to “help the Social Democratic workers in action―in this new and extraordinary situation―to test the value of their organizations and leaders at this time, when it is a matter of life and death for the working class.”[4]
77 - The refusal of the KPD to accept such a policy led to the German catastrophe.
I have recently unlocked a new lore tablet wherein I learned that many of the Lemmy communists also hate Trotsky for some reason. I thought he was fine, he was one of the few Bolsheviks who seemed like he did more thinking than killing and so I liked him (what little I know of him). But I guess it makes sense, since Stalin thought he was enough of an enemy to hunt him down and have him killed. And a lot of the Lemmy communists seem to like Stalin? For some reason? I still don’t understand that part. How it is that “Gavin Newsom is abusive to the homeless people” (which, he is) represents a reason not to support him even against literal Hitler, I have trouble wrapping my head around “Stalin killed millions of people and allied with the Nazis and fought alongside them” being not a deal-breaker, but I don’t think there is that much critical thinking being applied to it TBH. Where the affinity for Stalin comes from, I genuinely do not know, but if you want to enlighten me I would be happy to hear.
- Comment on A rant on left-wing online infighting 1 week ago:
I don’t care if you vote or don’t vote
Why do you ban content from your server that says it’s a good idea to vote, then?
- Comment on A rant on left-wing online infighting 1 week ago:
Yeah. I was seriously curious what they were going to switch to after the election, a lot of them have pretty much just gone silent except for general “we all hate Israel amirite” messaging, and maybe individual issues they wanted to weigh in on. A bunch of them jumped in to make sure everyone knows Graham Platner is a POS and a Nazi, which to me was fascinating.
- Comment on A rant on left-wing online infighting 1 week ago:
Riddle me this
Where did all these people go who were so supportive of the Green Party and PSL and all that? During the election, there were super important parties to vote for, who represented a chance of real change not these dumbfuck Democrats, and a bunch of people on Lemmy were rallying behind them and saying they planned to vote for them and basically never shutting up about it. What happened to those parties and all that advocacy for them? Why, after the election, did it pivot right back around to focusing purely on the Democrats (or on how important it is not to vote just in general as a general rule)?
Also, there are people existing outside the two-party system, Bernie Sanders is one. Do you support expanding out efforts like that to try to break into the two-party oligarchy fest?
- Comment on A rant on left-wing online infighting 1 week ago:
I made a couple more, just for you!
(Infighting is when you reply to infighting I guess, lol)
- Comment on A rant on left-wing online infighting 1 week ago:
Absolutely true. And yet, whenever US politicians do buck the trend and become vaguely left and give strong criticism to Israel and stop us arming them, this same group of people calls them “Zionists” or throws paint on their campaign offices, and tries to insist that leftists shouldn’t support those politicians, either.
Almost as if it was always about creating division in the left and not about Israel in the first place…
- Comment on A rant on left-wing online infighting 1 week ago:
The narrative was vote Biden and move him left.
Whose narrative was that? The narrative was, Trump is trying to end democracy and put Hispanics (and later Democrats) in concentration camps, so vote for his opponent. Seems like that was kind of borne out by the future events.
Are you still pissed off that people were suggesting voting for Kamala Harris, watching the state of the US and the world right now? Are you proud of advocating for not voting?
- Comment on A rant on left-wing online infighting 1 week ago:
While lemmy itself isn’t a target for propaganda bots
Why do you assume this? It’s impossible to tell most of the time, but every so often one of them fucks up and reveals that something hinky is going on.
The most recent example was someone who was furious about Graham Platner and said we shouldn’t support him, fellow leftists, while also claiming to have been in the US military and also to be from Platner’s tiny home county, using both of those as sources of authority to speak on it, and I can say that at least the military side of that was definitely a lie because the person didn’t know how the US military works.
What is the explanation for that, other than that the person is deliberately doing propaganda against progressive candidates?
- Comment on A rant on left-wing online infighting 1 week ago:
I’m sure there were social democrats in 1933 complaining that communists weren’t getting in line behind the left-most faction of the NSDAP.
Replace NSDAP with the centrist coalition to defeat NSDAP and this is unironically 100% correct. The communists were furious at the very suggestion, and were still fistfighting in the streets with SPD supporters while then plans were being drawn up for both of them to go into the camps. How is this your example lol?
- Comment on President suggests being anti-Trump is ‘probably illegal’ in rant about Seth Meyers 1 week ago:
Seth Meyers has an absolutely inimitable way of shitting on Trump. It is, basically, just explaining what happened in clear terms, just with a slight amount of humor and occasional jokes. Mostly, though, he’s just explaining what happened.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, maybe. I thought I made it pretty overt in the community rules, let’s see how it shakes out in practice.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
No no – me. Your judgement is flawed, obviously. Only mine is correct. /s
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Maybe it needs some kind of re-framing, so it’s clear that it is only for bad mod decisions. If it winds up as just people wanting to continue bickering when the mods are trying to stop them I will probably have to change something.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
No, no, see: It’s going to be all people who just want to make a valid point and the jerkface moderators wouldn’t let them (which definitely does happen.) That other thing, where they are just convinced they need to be able to be unhinged at other people and throw insults around and now I’m going to give them a perfect place to do it, that doesn’t sound like something Lemmy would do.
(You may have a point. IDK, I’ll try being liberal with the banhammer if that does happen that way.)
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- Comment on Palestine Action protest: police begin making arrests at London demo 5 weeks ago:
It is easy to be against atrocities in the aftermath, when there is no cost. Most of the time, the weight of “allowed” political opinion, and quite a lot of real public opinion, is at the very least tacitly accepting. If it was otherwise someone would have put a stop to them.
That’s one of the bright spots is that public opinion about Palestine is radically shifting, in a way that will make it hard for Israel to sustain any of this for too much longer I think. Of course that’s of no value to any Gazans who are already dead or about to die, waiting for “progress.”
- Comment on Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs 5 weeks ago:
Matrix is an absolutely pale imitation of Discord.
Yes it is very upsetting that the most popular chat platform in the Western world is in league with Sauron, but Matrix as a replacement is a glorified ICQ client that regularly yells at you that your device is untrusted now and there’s no hope of fixing it, you loser.
- Comment on [deleted]@quokk.au - For content that was deleted somewhere else 5 weeks ago:
My point isn’t that this link obeys the rules. My point is that the rules are often weird and pointless in a lot of cases including this one. (And also super-strictly enforced against harmless content, except when the mods decide they don’t want them to be, at which point they suddenly are not even against harmful content sometimes.)
Case in point: Literal obvious disinformation on an important topic being posted to !news@lemmy.world. I reported it. Let’s see if they are as strict about their rules when it comes to that content as they are about this thing being banned permanently unless it gets picked up by some 0-editorial-control political click farm “news” site, at which point it suddenly becomes allowed.
(IDK why I am so salty all of a sudden about this today, but I am.)
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- Comment on Michigan governor asks to 'lower the temperature' after church attack 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, good luck with that
- Comment on In the long ago past, people needed to do THIS 1 month ago:
Haha yep. The whole family was involved. I don’t even think it’s necessarily a bad thing, it’s definitely not comfortable but as long as you don’t have bad intent, it’s probably better that everyone has some kind of tabs on what’s going on, and you have to face up to justifying to them why and how you’re hanging out with their daughter.
- Comment on In the long ago past, people needed to do THIS 1 month ago:
There are motherfuckers out there now with NO idea what it was like potentially having to talk with a girl’s parents first, any time you wanted to call her
- Comment on Netanyahu addresses empty hall, after most delegations walked out in protest 1 month ago:
Who left: Almost everyone
Who stayed: Oh, I think you know
- Comment on Kremlin bans fuel exports until the end of the year as Russia’s supply is disrupted by Ukrainian drones 1 month ago:
s/bans/is unable to provide/ - Comment on Is there some sort of "underground" net for old computing? 1 month ago:
I was going to say SDF as well.
Want to log into a TOPS-20 system or a PDP-11? Well, you can. Poke around, make some C programs. I haven’t mucked around with anything all that much but they have a 100% real deal old school nerd society going there.