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@ Cowbee @lemmy.ml

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Actually, this town has more than enough room for the two of us

He/him or they/them, doesn't matter too much

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    Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this.

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  • Lemmy.world is extremely liberal, I wouldn't classify it as left-leaning. Both .world and sh.itjust.works are generally liberal, maintaining MeanwhileOnGrad leads to more right-wing people. I did not say far-right, or even right-wing, but right-leaning.

    Marxists are absolutely left wing, not sure what your point is here. Marx and Engels were both called "authoritarian" by their contemporaries so much that Engels wrote On Authority. I don't think it makes sense to separate Marxism from Leftism, and redefine leftism as Anarchism.

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  • You can aleady block instances if you personally wish, is my point. Everyone knows about Lemmy.ml having Marxists. My point is that rather than trying to move communities and keep them consolidated, embrace the differences between instances and be okay with Lemmy.world and Lemmy.ml both having Linux communities, as an example.

    I don't share your fear of Marxism and Marxists, which is why I tend to avoid Lemmy.world communities.

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  • All instances, except for the lightly moderated ones, have censorship issues from time to time. You can say one thing on one thread, and that same thing can get you banned in another thread on the same instance. This is an issue with the great degree of political polarization on Lemmy.

    My point is that Lemmy is multipolar. It’s divided between the right-leaning instances like Lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works, the left-leaning instances like Lemmy.ml, slrpnk.net, blahaj.zone, and dbzer0, and the leftist instances like Hexbear.net and Lemmygrad.ml. Mods and admins on each instance are guilty of maintaining the “instance line.”

    When I called them out on their one sided censorship, with a screenshot of the modlog above, I promptly received a community ban on all communities on lemmy.ml that I had ever participated in.

    While I won't repeat what got me banned, this is what got me banned from Political Memes on Lemmy.world, this isn't just a Lemmy.ml thing. This is also when one of the moderators claimed they weren't censoring anyone and were incredibly fair on a comment chain calling out their censorship, and refused to elaborate. They would not even tell me how I could edit my comments to comply with their rules.

    What does this all mean?

    Honestly, I think close to everyone knows that Marxists dominate Lemmy.ml, Lemmygrad.ml, Hexbear.net, etc. I think close to everyone knows Liberals dominate Lemmy.world. I think everyone knows that anarchists dominate dbzer0, slrpnk.net, Hexbear.net, etc.

    If your call to action is to defederate Lemmy.ml, then that's just contributing to this polarization effect, as people would jump ship from .world and .ml to the other if it fits their views better. If your call to action is that people should move communities from Lemmy.ml to other instances, this has already happened a bit, this thread gets reposted very frequently. All it really seems to me is that you're spreading drama.

    What do I recommend?

    Rather than trying to consolidate communities across instances, replicate communities as needed. Communities on Lemmy are more like hashtags for an instance, and instances are more like subreddits of old. Instances have their own cultures and values, so a Gaming thread on Hexbear, for example, is going to be different from a Lemmy.world Gaming thread, and that's a good thing. All sorting can still let you see other instances, there's no need to risk moderator dominance over communities by trying to consolidate on a single instance. Heck, this community is an example of that very process.

  • Hot Takes Gom Jabbar

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  • You can tell a take is a bit too good when you get both more upvotes and downvotes than the comment you reply to 😎

  • Hot Takes Gom Jabbar

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  • See, your problem is having bad takes. Sounds like a skill issue to me

  • Hot Takes Gom Jabbar

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  • As anyone who recognizes my username would know, I would die immediately.

  • Lemmy.ml will have around 1-2 hours of downtime tomorrow, Friday at 1430 CEST.

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  • Totally won't just stay on my Hexbear account...

  • Former KKK leader David Duke endorses Jill Stein

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  • You can also appeal to the disaffected Leftists jumping ship, or the non-voters. You don't need to campaign to the right of your predecessor.

  • Am i the only one who feels like it's the same handful of users posting and commenting on lemmy?

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  • Huh, I haven't seen any sh.itjust.works comments on Hexbear, and sh.itjust.works is an anti-marxist instance as well. Interesting, could be a weird federation thing.

  • Am i the only one who feels like it's the same handful of users posting and commenting on lemmy?

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  • Interesting, when are the latest posts in those communitues?

  • Am i the only one who feels like it's the same handful of users posting and commenting on lemmy?

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  • Hexbear is Marxist, yes, and is defederated with sh.itjust.works and lemmy.world.

  • Am i the only one who feels like it's the same handful of users posting and commenting on lemmy?

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  • Sh.itjust.works is also defederated. If you're a liberal, then you probably don't care for Marxism and Lemmy.world is going to be fine, the mods are anti-Marxism as well. You'll just run into the same issue of having a few posters dominate is all.

  • Am i the only one who feels like it's the same handful of users posting and commenting on lemmy?

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  • Lemmy.world is defederated from the major Marxist instances, so you might want to join a different instance for a fresh look. Lemmy in general is small enough to be dominated easily, what helps this is finding a good instance and treating said instance like a community with different tags, rather than treating communities like subreddits.

  • Red states are redder. Blue states are bluer. And our politics? Hotter.

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  • but at what cost?

    You said the thing! Lmao.

    Either way, the industrialization originated with the CPC taking power and establishing Central Planning. Later, Deng invited foreign investment while maintaining central planning and state supremacy over Capital. Read Socialism Developed China, Not Capitalism, it's a short 20 minute essay.

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  • That's not racism, they're literally the same race according to everyone including the fucking CCP!!! I know you don't have to worry about facts, but don't be so pathetically transparent.

    This is exactly racism, there are numerous ethnic groups in China and Taipei.

    Also I doubt you've been to China lately, saying they're on the path to Marxism is hilarious, let me guess, the new York stock exchange is the hub of western socialism too?

    No, the New York Stock Exchange exists in the context of an 80%+ privatized system where the bourgeoisie control the state.

    They've copied us in everything but name, it's a properly capitalist economy, which is why they're doing so well. They even had their own real-estate financing bubble, we're so proud.

    I am once again asking you to explain why an economy that is over 50% publicly owned and managed, around 10% cooperatively managed, and the remaing private sector has CPC control, is Capitalist. Read Socialism Developed China, Not Capitalism. You haven't read Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao, or Deng, that much is obvious, but surely you can read a 20 minute article, right?

    All the Healthcare and other improvements are from the west, are you honestly trying to tell me they invented any major medical breakthroughs? Because if they had, we would have copied them, which we haven't. Not a lot of western drugs licensed off China, they stick to copying the low-end.

    Yes, they have invented tons of medical breakthroughs. The West is interested in profit above all else. This is western chauvanism.

    And SMC is still a decade behind tsmc, no matter how much they cry, they don't have euv in volume or anything on the level of euv, and they were one of the biggest consumers of Nvidia (fabbed in Taiwan with a Taiwanese founder and ceo) until they got cut off.

    And yet SMC is gaining on TSMC.

    This is exactly the same mindless propaganda the Soviet union tried to spread, you need to get better.

    You have never read Marx or any Marxist, why are you pretending you're an authority on Socialism? It's ridiculous cosplay.

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  • I think it's more that related topics have Marxism brought up. I certainly don't spend all my time reading theory and trying to get people to read theory, I also love coffee (especially espresso), hiking, cooking, gaming, and I have a job. However, when there is a lot of discussion and misconceptions going around, I do my best to correct them. It's easy to think Marxism is someone's whole existence if you don't see them outside that context.

    If I am relaxing, I am usually on my Hexbear alt anyways.

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  • I didn't say it was the majority. The Communists turned China from a largely agrarian country, one of the poorest in the world, into a superpower over the last 75 years, which came with drastic reductions in poverty and increases in life expectancy. This wasn't just "copying western medicine," but rapid industrialization and central planning.

    Mao is often described as "70% good" by Communists, he helped install Socialism and wrote good theory, but he was a left-deviationist that largely failed to properly analyze China's Material Conditions.

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  • Yes, China had a bulk of the world's population and had the largest impact on said metrics. Do you think it was magic that caused this?

    If you copied any western medicine and hygiene, your life probably doubled.

    Mask-off racism and western-chauvanism.

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  • The revolution in China brought a catastrophic wave of death.

    Life expectancy doubled under Mao.

    Meanwhile the same people across the channel had incredible prosperity without the 50m dead from the GLP and CR, while inventing incredible technologies the mainlanders can't even understand, much less copy like everything else.

    Racism, much? Also not true at all, the mainland has incredibly advanced production because the majority of the world produces there.

    China is absolutely crippled by the genocidal failed regime that is the CCP. They're only prospering now because Deng is a proper capitalist, and that's where the life expectancy comes from:

    The PRC is has never had a recession since the Dengist reforms, which were a reversion to Marxism from the Ultraleftist Maoism. Read the article Socialism Developed China, Not Capitalism. Deng was a Marxist-Leninist, and introduced a Socialist Market Economy because Mao had tried to achieve Communism through fiat, before the productive forces were ready for it. The majority of the PRC's economy is publicly owned and operated, and this proportion is increasing over time.

    Mao was the only proper communist, and he just got everybody killed because he was a complete idiot. I'm sorry your ideology is so transparently broken.

    Mao was an Ultraleftist, he helped bring about Socialism but miscalculated. He made numerous mistakes and errors in judgement. Deng reverted the PRC to a Marxist path.

    And the Soviet union did well at first because Lenin relaxed communism in favor of partial capitalism, which Stalin reversed and killed millions in his purges, leading to the Holodomor and other catastrophic failures, which brezvhnev repeated and lead to the failure of the ussr.

    Lenin used the NEP the same way the PRC is now using their Socialist Market Economy. Lenin didn't "relax" Communism, the Productive Forces weren't ready for socialization. Funny thing about Stalin is that Life Expectancy also doubled under him.

    Nothing but failures all the way down.

    Dramatic improvements in Life Expectancy, home ownership, access to healthcare, education, drastic jumps in literacy rates, ending famine, dramatically developing industry, and more are "nothing but failures all the way down?" You have no idea what you're talking about.

    But thank you, for actually identifying with both China and the ussr, you make it much easier to prove you obviously wrong compared to the whiny little shits who dream of an ideal communism that never actually happens.

    You have no clue what you're talking about, which makes it much easier to prove you obviously wrong.

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  • You have no points, only a lack of historical knowledge. The revolutions in China, Cuba, and Russia brought huge increases in life expectancy, literacy rates, access to healthcare and education, housing rates, and more. Read Blackshirts and Reds.