birdwing
@birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Is it possible to be a leftist, but still really enjoy capitalism? 8 hours ago:
That’s called social democracy. At its core, being left means being anticapitalist. Social democracy itself does not reject capitalism, though does regulate it strongly.
One reason people may favour social democracy is that it allows for a market economy, but another for opposition is that this still enables bribery through lobbies, as in all forms of capitalism.
- Comment on Introverts of our era spend their time on their computers, but what did introverts do before? Like when literacy rates were lower (pre-1950s)? Or before the printing press? 21 hours ago:
Minus the stars, it’s my life. It’s pretty good.
- Comment on "United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronym 2 days ago:
This comment belongs right in a badling sublemmy.
- Comment on Most of us are the bottom row to the billionaire's pyramid scheme. 2 days ago:
Finally, we’re all bottoms :3
- Comment on How would you quickly describe Lemmy to a non-fediverse person? 3 days ago:
Instead of having reddit, you have multiple reddits that can see each other’s content and post on each.
- Comment on Parents and students fight against anti-racist book banning 1 week ago:
Is this “Parents and students fight against the book banning of anti-racist works”,
or “Anti-racist parents and students fight against book banning”,
or “Parents and students fight against anti-racist books, calling for them to be banned”?
If the last, then that’s horrendous.
- Comment on Discussion: Long-term need for automation tools for moderation 2 weeks ago:
What’s the difference between piefed and lemmy? Is one financed/supported/organised by commercial companies (or people that work for them)? Are they both grassroots and independent?
- Comment on Discussion: Long-term need for automation tools for moderation 2 weeks ago:
For the first option, if possible, having it be manually whitelisted per post/comment or user, would also be handy.
Not directly related, but I’d also like to know where and how to donate to the Lemmy devs.
- Comment on Lifetime of earnings not enough for UK workers to join wealthiest 10%, report says 2 weeks ago:
The wealthiest 10% is not a goal. Why should it be?
The goal should be:
a decent house, a clean environment, excellent public transport, free education and healthcare, and so on.
- Comment on A lot of media depict the United States as being invaded by fascists from the outside. Nobody thought fascism will come from within until now. 2 weeks ago:
Maybe we should use a similar playbook but inversely to defeat fascism from within.
- Comment on Has anyone Pooped in the shower? 3 weeks ago:
I mean if you think about it, if it doesn’t damage anybody… just clean up afterward, I suppose?
Disgusting yes, but not harmful compared to orange guy and his creeping on kids.
- Comment on What, greedy, powerful people would do to keep and increase their power in a world that is approaching a period of increasing weather disasters? Would a post-scarcity society benefit those people? 3 weeks ago:
We need a counter-2025 Project.
- Comment on What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur? 3 weeks ago:
Fascist, because it’s not a slur; it’s a declaration of a fact, that applies to too many people.
- Comment on Video call apps should have a baby/toddler mode that locks the touch screen 4 weeks ago:
Or you just parent them properly.
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 4 weeks ago:
True, freedom and anti-fascist censorship is important.
Wouldn’t it then be a better idea for one of us to secretly install a ‘mole’ instance for the far-right? Once a critical mass is reached, they can be all banned, and then a few new moles can be installed. Rinse and repeat.
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 4 weeks ago:
But, how would you inconvenience the Nazis then? How would you deter them from the fediverse?
- Comment on The Wikipedia page for the fediverse describes a den of iniquity 4 weeks ago:
Thanks, another recommendation for my block list then :3
i’m a peaceful leftist and support criticism of fascism. if that makes me toxic then you’re the problem :3
- Comment on ‘Blueskyism’, Political Violence, and Open Social Networks Under Authoritarianism 4 weeks ago:
When people are forced into a corner, the only winning move is to eliminate the fascist.
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for letting me know, blocked them. Blåhaj on, comrade!
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 4 weeks ago:
Barring them from everywhere would be ideal, but if not that, barring them from as many places as possible would be good too. Billionnaires have too much power and they are the powderkeg, in my view, that enabled fascism. So imho, we need to reduce their numbers and wealth, redistributing it to everyone.
I defend barring fascists everywhere, and not compromising the resilence of the fediverse to censorship from fascists.
And as for social and political means… in Germany, the AfD has had fewer votes as a % of turnout, than what the Republicans got in the US. I think the real cure is to combat algorithms by the root, and to seize the power over them back to the left and anyone non-fascist (or not as insane).
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 4 weeks ago:
But the issue is, the Nazis then still have their own bar. And that creates a hub for them to advertise, spread, and sow hatred. And eventually, to try to buy the owners of the media platform. This is the literal “embrace, extend, extinguish” playbook they’re using.
And I think it’s better if we shut down their bar and bar them from even coming to any bar.
They want to go to a bar? Either don’t be a fascist or shut up.
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 4 weeks ago:
Except that what I call for is a collective defederation from those fascists.
The ones sectioning themselves off are the fascists by virtue of holding repulsive ideologies.
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 4 weeks ago:
They lie because they believe they’ll be part of the “in-group”, while in reality, they are going to be censored the moment their higher-up has the ability to turn on them without retribution.
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 4 weeks ago:
I disagree with them being welcome, if we have more fascists over here eventually we’ll get overrun. Best to shut that door immediately.
- Comment on "Pro-life" and "pro-choice" aren't actually opposite positions 4 weeks ago:
They oppose abortion until it’s in a school shooting.
- Comment on "Pro-life" and "pro-choice" aren't actually opposite positions 4 weeks ago:
I don’t trust the billionnaires to support neutrality. Whenever they ever have an ability to influence, they can and will abuse it to kick people down the ladder.
- Comment on "Pro-life" and "pro-choice" aren't actually opposite positions 4 weeks ago:
Because outlawing abortion can and will cause deaths. For example, if you have an ectopic pregnancy, that’s life threatening.
Or what if you don’t want to have the child of a rapist? It feels like you’re being invaded, and you don’t want a child growing up without love. And abortion clinics aren’t present because of stupid reactionaries, so trenchcoat it is.
Or what if you simply cannot afford to raise a child right now, and anticonception fails? Then abortion is necessary.
Anti-abortion is murder.
- Comment on "Pro-life" and "pro-choice" aren't actually opposite positions 4 weeks ago:
“Radical left” as you propose doesn’t exist. In a truly equal society, billionnaires don’t exist and instead those that would’ve been, would’ve worked the same jobs as anyone else.
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 4 weeks ago:
turns out it’s actually a russian matrushka all the way down
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 4 weeks ago:
Maybe us commies and socialists need to do it the same way, work against them.