• recapitated@lemmy.world
    102·
    2 hours ago

    It hasn’t really been my experience here. Yeah there is some.

    Have you tried being less aimless at what you subscribe here? Do you come here because you want to connect with information, or just mindlessly doom scroll and consume?

    If you’re not intentional about your social media tools, you will have a bad time.

  • Toneswirly@lemmy.world
    181·
    4 hours ago

    you know I do wonder if, out there, all those right-wing instances that we’re de-federated with are sharing this same meme but in reverse…

    • wowwoweowza@lemmy.world
      11·
      3 hours ago

      Is there an article about this defederation with the people who we likely should be engaging in discourse?

        • dubious@lemmy.world
          2·
          42 minutes ago

          Right-wing instances were defederated after they wouldn’t moderate their users posting CSAM, gore, and nazi shit.

          seems like it would have been more productive to infiltrate and doxx than just to look away.

      • ArxCyberwolf@lemmy.ca
        4·
        2 hours ago

        They aren’t always defederated. Most users can still use conservative@lemm.ee, but most don’t bother because absolutely nothing ever gets through to the conservative users of that community no matter what sources or evidence to support arguments are used. It’s like talking to a brick wall. Some of the users like MomoTimetoDie are outright hostile.

  • 10_0@lemmy.ml
    83·
    3 hours ago

    True, gets a bit tiring when you come to relax with some memes and people are preaching about politics.

  • Letsdothis@lemmy.world
    33·
    1 hour ago

    If it was regular ol’ socialism around here, that’s one thing, but quite a bit of lemmy is straight Marxism. Don’t let them blur the lines, please.

    Yay socialism!

    Boo Marxism!

    • dubious@lemmy.world
      12·
      40 minutes ago

      at the end of the day, it’s all complaining and no action. i get so tired of hearing children whine and doing nothing about anything.

        • dubious@lemmy.world
          13·
          26 minutes ago

          that seems about as useless as bitching online about it.

          the system grinds down opposition. change from within is near impossible.

    • laranis@lemmy.zip
      19·
      4 hours ago

      Half socialism, half complaining about capitalism, half linux, and half startrek memes.

      Although, now that I think about it, the linux and startrek halves are often just a part of the socialism half.

      So, I guess the original point stands. Socialism all the way down.

    • f314@lemmy.world
      373·
      9 hours ago

      I mean, Linux (and the entire ecosystem) is a fundamentally socialist concept.

      • NateNate60@lemmy.worldOP
        22·
        8 hours ago

        I would say GNU is one that’s openly socialist. If Linux’s (or rather, Linus Torvald’s) philosophy is socialist, they either do a very good job of hiding the fact or there is a lot I don’t know about them.

        • frezik@midwest.social
          2·
          1 hour ago

          Unpopular opinion: “Open Source”, spawned from Netscape spinning off Mozilla, laid out in definition by the OSI organization, and advocated for by AnCaps like Eric S. Raymond, was always fundamentally capitalist. Devs spending a lot of free time doing free work for companies was not an accident. Capitalists borrowing ideas from the left and twisting them for their own uses is not new, either.

          Free Software is more rooted in communism. You’re doing this to help your community. RMS might have always denied it–probably because it wasn’t a good idea to advocate that way during the Cold War and after–but it’s a better philosophical fit.

          It’s past time to divorce the two.

          • NateNate60@lemmy.worldOP
            1·
            14 minutes ago

            That doesn’t make him a socialist. He doesn’t espouse any of the core socialist beliefs there. He’s just saying he’s a “woke communist” (as described by the right), which could mean anything from a centre-left liberal to a Marxist.

        • uis@lemm.ee
          51·
          8 hours ago

          Wasn’t Torvalds’ dad member of communist party?

          • NateNate60@lemmy.worldOP
            1·
            13 minutes ago

            Maybe so, but children don’t always adopt the ideology of their parents. They usually do, but not always.

          • frezik@midwest.social
            2·
            2 hours ago

            Yes, and was a member of the EU parliament until recently. Both his parents were pretty radical. Linus tends to keep his politics private for the most part.

  • GHiLA@sh.itjust.works
    83·
    5 hours ago

    puts down atheism pamphlet

    …later, we will find you and tell you god isn’t real.

    Did you ask?

    It never mattered. We were going to tell you anyway.

  • robocall@lemmy.world
    403·
    9 hours ago

    My partner has been insinuating that I’m a communist recently. I don’t think I’m a communist, I simply want to seize the means of production for the people.

    • Letsdothis@lemmy.world
      1·
      33 minutes ago

      It’s part of the plan. To get people to accept a perspective before learning from where one has to stand to have such a perspective.

      Something that can’t be denied is that there are bad actors in America who actively want the downfall of America. These groups look to the future and determine what will harm America in critical aspects. These groups (sometimes actively funded by other nations) arent actively seeking uprising or revolt this year, or next year, but maybe by the end of the decade, or maybe the next decade.

      These malevolent forces at work arent readily apparent. One of these goals is division. “Divide and conquer.” I don’t believe it’s completely by accident that politics are so divisive right now.

      I’m not that old, but I remember a time when people wouldn’t generalize and stereotype each other based on political leanings.

      We again need to prioritize love for each other over political standings.

            • Schmoo@slrpnk.net
              2·
              50 minutes ago

              It is certainly not without historical precedent. Anarchists were quite heavily involved with the Russian revolution for example, although many historical-revisionist marxist-leninists would prefer to downplay that.

              • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
                4·
                39 minutes ago

                MLs don’t downplay the participation of Anarchists in the Russian Revolution, at least not from what I have seen.

                • Schmoo@slrpnk.net
                  2·
                  19 minutes ago

                  I appreciate that you don’t, I even have you tagged as “a polite marxist” so I must have had a positive interaction with you before, but many MLs I’ve debated before have downplayed anarchist contributions to the Russian revolution. I can understand how you might not encounter that very often since you’re not putting yourself out there as an anarchist.

                • Schmoo@slrpnk.net
                  1·
                  15 minutes ago

                  Point taken, but although it may not have ended well for the anarchists I believe their involvement in the Russian revolution was for the better since it could easily have gone in a much worse direction without them. Anarchists are always putting themselves in harm’s way to make this world a better place.

            • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
              41·
              1 hour ago

              Ask the Anarchists on Hexbear why they’re fine with Marxists.

              In my experience, Hexbear is a much less toxic instance due to the anti-sectarian rules. Someone described it as “less like a Communist Party and more like the bar Communists hang out at after the meeting,” which is both cute and accurate. It’s a nice atmosphere if you aren’t a liberal.

              • WillStealYourUsername@lemmy.blahaj.zone
                12·
                1 hour ago

                It’s a nice atmosphere if you aren’t a liberal.

                Doesn’t sound like it would have a nice atmosphere for socialists or anarchists either

                Edit: Also that place allows coordinated attacks against non-tankies, and the most troubling users from blåhaj ran to that place, so I’m not super impressed.

                • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
                  4·
                  1 hour ago

                  Doesn’t sound like it would have a nice atmosphere for socialists or anarchists either

                  Like I said, you can ask the anarchists and socialists there yourself. I’m a Marxist-Leninist, it’s a nice atmosphere, and I get along with the Anarchists there as well.

                  Edit: Also that place allows coordinated attacks against non-tankies, and the most troubling users from blåhaj ran to that place, so I’m not super impressed.

                  Mind explaining what you mean by “coordinated attacks?” And what do you mean by “troubling users from blåhaj?” People leaving one instance for Hexbear isn’t necessarily indicative of Hexbear being bad.