blahaj has fallen
blahaj has fallen
comrades, the Protracted People’s War against the liberal hive and haven for bigoted chasers that is lemmy.blahaj.zone has succeeded! blahaj has fallen! or at least fallen off.
really tho, i just checked in on their site to see how its been since defederating. that was only 3 days ago btw! it feels like its been a week lol. their daily user count has fallen by over 1/6th since defed. and while this could be attributed to less traffic during the work week, the posting situation there is abysmal. in the past 24 hours, 78% of the posts came from c/196, making it difficult to tell that their instance is a dedicated queer space. and while they have gained ~30 users since defederation, we have gained over 200! its pretty much just 196 at this point.
while its sad to see a queer space fail, i suspect its for the best. i hope all the anti-capitalists there find their way here, as many already have. especially the trans folk there, its genuinely sad that they feel like they have to accept chasers in their space in order to have a community that accepts them. that is the difference between liberal tolerance and socialist liberation— tolerance allows for objectification and marginalization, while liberation demands dignity and equality. may all the blahaj gender diverse who oppose capitalism find their way to c/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns!!!!
stuff like this are the best “dunks” the 196 reactionaries can manage:
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/2042262
this meme is weak and displays their ignorance. you cant have a conversation with ppl like the OP. they will just bombard you with thought-terminating cliches. gulag gulag! Uyghurs! hologramodor! no food! purges! NKVD KGB Stasi! free Tibet so they can have their wholesome slaves again! Taiwan is a legitimate state!
countless hexbears would be willing and even enthusiastic to have a good faith, respectful, nuanced discussion about these topics with them. but they dont want that. they want to roll in their own shit like a pig with massive balls. the good ones will find us, or other socialist spaces. but for such a small instance, there are too many scratched and soon-to-be scratched liberals for us to do any good with federation.
evil authoritarian tankie redfash cuba: most progressive family code on earth
wholesome nato democracy defender poland: lgbt-free zones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT-free_zone
LGBT-free zone
liberals would accept this as a type of “safe space”
i love bringing up Cuba in these arguments bc it makes their heads spin
:angery:
Polska A, Polska B moment. The southeast is hell for queer people. Podkarpacie is our little Florida.
hey its me i came here because of the blahaj defed
It was the NATO puppet West Germany, who reimprisoned 100,000 gay holocaust survivors. Not the Soviet Union.
EDIT: Yes, I like history: !daily_us_history@lemmygrad.ml
I don't really want to create another thread about their crappy instance, so I'll just add this as a comment here instead:
Is Azov Neo-Nazi? CW: Fascist apologia for a neonazi paramilitary.
This article from France 24 reported how Azov Regiment has been de-ideologised.
Yeah, because the leaders of Azov were dispersed amongst the armed forces of Ukraine, effectively spreading the ideological nucleus of Azov like seeds in the wind to take root across the entirety of the nation's forces.
Andriy Biletsky and the people who make up the National Corps political party are neo-Nazis who deserve scrutiny. However they have no political power and do not represent a majority of Ukrainians.
"Deserve scrutiny"
Oh boy, here comes the next wave of liberals tutting and wagging their fingers at the leader of a military group who literally has Nazi tattoos. That'll surely get him to change his fascist beliefs.
The fact that Neo-Nazis "have no political power" (political power, apparently, comes out the bottom of a ballot box to these people 🙄) is ahistorical liberal cope.
The Nazi party didn't have "political power" and yet they rode their paramilitary dominance in the Weimar Republic to being installed at the levers of power in the republic in order to stage a coup because they were never capable of achieving political power through liberal democracy.
So this whole notion that "the Nazi problem in the Ukraine is, like, totally a non-issue bro" because they can't get themselves elected is just incredibly ignorant of what happens when fascists have enough guns (and political influence outside of holding seats in a parliament).
...do they honestly think that the fascist forces in the Ukraine would somehow be above staging a coup and seizing power because fascists are bound to adhering to the rules of liberal democracy?
What world do these people live in??
oh god, pass the eye bleach! what is is with liberals and whitewashing nazis?
i'll add another link to the pile lol
Guessing game: Russia's moon mission crashed. Whose fault is it?
some of the commenters act like Russia is still communist, it's weird.
feddit.de user with three thunderbolts
Definitely not sus
Stasi
The guys with state-run gay night clubs while West Germany kept the nazi gay laws in place?
Vietnam too is in process of implementing LGBT Friendly laws like Cuba. If USSR were here today it would be doing the same instead of what we have today in Eastern Europe/Russia.
U.S. too didn't have legal gay marriage until 2015. So maybe they should look at themselves in the mirror instead of shitting on a country which hasn't existed for over three decades.
Are they "slava ukraini
" people? Because, Ukraine is just as unfriendly towards LGBTQ as Russia is.tbf russia did pass a trans genocide law recently. but i used to help trans refugees leave ukraine before the war even started in 2014, it is not good there for queer people, at all, and anyone who says otherwise is a giant piece of shit
In Russia, being trans without gender marker in the documents changed and watching news about Argentina is terrifying. While the Ukraine does not currently prohibit getting F64.0, it may do that very quickly, using the "they are doing this to dodge the draft" rhetoric.
I am afraid that some of my friends (or, in the worst case, everyone) won't be able to get out.
OP tells on themself. lol; lmao, even.
Honestly my psychoanalysis of Ada is that she simply is a boomer. When r/196 first moved to c!196 on Blahaj she admitted she wasn't familiar with it. I doubt she would let them on there if she knew but now she's in up to her neck. Doesn't excuse her for not unmodding Moss and getting someone mature.
All in all that instance was devoid of content, had every actual discussion buried by a haha funny about girldick, worshipped NATO and had more chasers than trans people. If it wasn't for Hexbear it would still bleed users due to low quality. Good riddance.
the op of that 196 thread:
First, I’m not a liberal.
Second, it’s fucking shitty that liberal politicians only really give a shit about queer people when it’s convenient. Though your version literally makes no sense because the neoliberal isn’t throwing them in a gulag like, say, Stalin did. Their inaction towards injustice is bad but you’re saying it’s as bad as perpetrating the injustice itself which is just stupid.
Third, this is a tankie-free subreddit, so fuck off.subreddit
In the Capitalist USA, it was illegal to be LGBT+ until 2003 (2015 if you count gay marriage being illegal) and several states are now beginning to recriminalize it.
Until the late 2000s' (and even after in some cases) gay clubs and other LGBT+ spaces would be raided by police, brutally arresting and killing LGBT+ people.
Some of the largest news outlets in America are allowed to spead queerphobic propaganda and accuse trans people of grooming and other lies without punishment.
After Russia became capitalist in the 90s', LGBT+ rights have only gotten worse under capitalism, not better.
So where is your "Fuck capitalists" banner, 196?
But please, tell me how evil and scary Stalin was while your own anti-communist utopia rolls back its LGBT+ protections it's only had for last 10 or so years, if you can even call them real protections, Queers have never been truly safe in the streets of the US.
When you press the communism button instead of not pressing it and it was actually powered by a monkey's paw
Frankly remarkable projection there, given that it's the US that backs coups to overthrow elected socialist leaders and install fascist dictators like Pinochet or Armas.
They're so confused and arrogantly uninformed. They know a couple of catchphrases and just put them together like madlibs to form their arguments.
This is genuinely not what I want to see and I have no idea why Ada is being so stubborn about 196. They are turning their queer space into a chaser meme space, and eliminating all the potential it had.
On the offchance that you're reading this, it's really not too late to fix this Ada you just need to bin off that problematic mod and people here would genuinely make the effort to turn the situation around. People want you to make the right decision and will instantly turn around their opinion if it occurs, you are correct that cooperation is better for both spaces, shit like this is so easily resolved.
Why would ada be reading posts on here. Hexbear defederated from them not the reverse. She thinks scolding the shitty 196 mod a bit is adequate, you don't (I don't either which is why I moved over). In this situation we're going to stay defederated.
isn't 196 the bulk of the site? this is pure speculation, but maybe Ada is afraid to rock the boat?
Idk why you would ever allow r/196 to move to your instance. I had to unsub from that place like a year before I even moved to Lemmy. I'm not trans so maybe my perspective is a bit skewed but that place always seemed to fetishize trans people so much, especially mtf. Also the users there seemed very keen on pushing one specific way to be trans as valid. When anyone in the comments would complain about any of this they would be downvoted to hell. I'm of the mind that even if you don't think you're doing anything objectively wrong if people complain that it's hurtful you should try to be accommodating, especially in a trans place/community. I genuinely don't understand why you would allow that kind of community to migrate to your instance if you have a goal of building a safe space for queer people.
On a different note I specifically avoided blahaj when trying to find an instance to settle on cause I saw 196 was there, so I guess I dodged a bullet.
It seems like the main purpose of the site might be 196, or if it wasn't before it has been co-opted into becoming that.
At the beginning Ada had no idea about 196, it was just supposed to be a queer-focused Lemmy instance. After 196 moved there during the blackout it lost all chance of being that due to the "culture" of 196 also coming with it.
tolerance allows for objectification and marginalization, while liberation demands dignity and equality
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more proof behind the pudding that not all trans/queer spaces are safe for trans and queer people. sentiment can be good, but you need to back it up with tanks
queer lives are not up for debate, ban the fuck out of everyone who disagrees
Taiwan is a legitimate state!
Alright, this is another one of those things where I feel like I only know half the story and so instinctively take the side of whichever old imperialist-capitalist propaganda I haven't yet unlearned. My impression was that Taiwanese leftists overwhelmingly want to not be part of China, and this is partly because the only claim to Taiwan that China has comes from pre-revolutionary settler-colonialism. Which is to say, that Taiwan is a legitimate country, even when the ROC rule of the island is not legitimate, if that makes sense.
I had a Taiwanese friend once. Online. Seven years ago. We were never close and only ever chatted about conlangs. This makes me a certified expert on strait politics who is incapable of having wrong opinions. Worship me for I am correct in all things.
Adding onto what WhatWouldKarlDo said, the situation in China is what it is because of the aftermath of a civil war. After China was colonized by the West + Japan for a hundred years, the Chinese people overthrew them all along with the Qing dynasty. But there was fighting over who should replace them: the Kuomintang or the Communist Party of China. The CPC eventually won, but the KMT refused defeat and retreated to Taiwan, where they still claim to be the legitimate government of all of China and have never signed any peace treaties to end the war (it's technically still ongoing).
To make another USA analogy, it'd be as if the Confederates fled to Puerto Rico after the American civil war and never gave up hope for ruling over the whole country.
(ofc this is a simplification; there are other parties besides these two and a lot more happened that I didn't mention like how the KMT ruled over China for a little while. This is just the gist of it)
And the kmt was originally a socialist party, it's why both Taiwan and the mainland still revere Sun Yat-sen. The KMT got taken over by a bunch of liberals though which purged the left and they all went to the communists
There’s a complex split in views which you can view as a spectrum from
- Independence now or soon
- Maintain the status quo with the distant objective of independence
- Maintain the status quo with the distant objective of reunification
- Reunification now
2 & 3 are basically the same in practical terms - kick the can down the road and let the situation develop peacefully, trade with China and develop relations while maintaining full de facto autonomy for now.
2 & 3 are overwhelmingly the most popular stances with roughly equal splits over the long term, the plurality position see-saws between them over the decades.
1 & 4 are not popular, to the point of being fringe with single digit support in most polls.
There has been a surge for (1) over the past maybe five years, but this has declined rapidly over the recent election cycles and this picture was complicated by the fact the politicians who align with (1) were also riding a wave of disgust with corruption by the KMT which is basically (2) and (3), so plenty of (2) started voting for (1) out of dislike for KMT corruption. But this wave seems to be rapidly receding, ironically enough because (1) was beating the drums of war with China in politically opportunistic fearmongering that it scared plenty of (1)’s back into the status quo (2) camp, largely benefiting the KMT. It also didn’t help that (1)’s had a major corruption scandal of their own.
Really the main driver of local politics is corruption rather than independence. Independentists will beat the drum of war to create a sense of crisis and nationalism, seeking to wedge (2) away from (3) but this tends to happen most when (1) is doing badly politically or when a major US weapons deal is being made (that’s not a joke.)
(4) usually sees 5-10%.
The idea that Taiwanese are itching to declare independence right now is not well supported by polling over time. By far the most popular position has been some form of maintaining the status quo, with a split between the long term goal of unifying and the long term goal of formalizing independence.
The current situation makes Taiwan a kind of giant Hong Kong colonial possession of the USA as a military base just off the coast of China. A sustainable peace for Taiwan would require ejecting the US military presence because that’s an untenable threat to China.
I think the mainland Chinese would be happy with a one-country two-systems arrangement that sees Taiwanese autonomy enshrined constitutionally while giving control of the island for purposes of defense and foreign policy to China. That seems the best practical outcome to me.
Even if that were completely true, the island of Taiwan has been under the rule of mainland China since 1683. That's longer than the existence of the United States. This would be like if the CSA had occupied an island off the coast of the USA, and Britain had guaranteed their independence instead of letting the US Civil War come to an end. I don't think it matters whether the PRC has a claim to the island older than 1683 or not. It's STILL under Chinese control, and the ROC needs to be wiped out. We can talk about whether it should remain under Chinese control or not after that happens.
Let's not pretend Taiwan is not a settler-colonial state in living memory, unlike the PRC. It's no coincidence that the biggest support for reunification by ethnic group is the Formosans (yes, they are actually several Formosan ethnic groups, but they make up a tiny portion of the population now and have a great deal in common as non-Han colonized peoples).
Also, this is the start week of college for most people which is probably a large portion of their userbase.
czechia isnt the best place for lgbt people but it isnt too bad
