Honestly I feel like most people on here are just tired of the ultra-capitalistic hell neoliberalism threw us into and want a better system that doesn't rape dry the Earth and doesn't allow companies to have the same wealth as entire states. Those people you mention are just a very loud, screaming minority.
I'm part of these people, I think most of them are social democrat and don't have any illusion about supposedly socialist countries.
Yes, they are a minority since .world became the biggest player, but they are still very visible if you mention those subjects and countries, they are going to pop up.
Nothing makes you understand why capitalism does not work in reality than living in the US for any amount of time while making less than 8 figures a year.
That's the thing you people don't seem to understand, I'd rather live here but in a country that's actually based on a logical system of resource distribution. Only cowards like capitalists flee instead of improve things.
Truth. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'd love to see a society where nobody lords over anybody, but I'm not crazy enough to think I can achieve that by burning everything down or putting a dictator in charge.
On the contrary, I consider a classless society to be the social Holy Grail that's probably only achievable with Star Trek-tier technology. I'm sure it'll happen eventually, but not today, and that's okay.
No, he's not. He's talking about supposedly-socialist people in the USA who idealize vaguely socialism related countries like Russia or China, and think they would have a better life in these countries.
vaguely socialism related countries like Russia or China
The Russian Federation isn't socialist in any way. China has a Socialist Market Economy, that's true, but nobody idolizes Russia nor do they believe they would live a better life there.
Please don't forget that the vast majority of non-US people lead significantly sadder lives.
The two most populous countries in the world are China and India, in that order, and I haven't heard many good things about the standard of living in either of them.
Yeah, for a website forged almost exclusively from former Redditors and especially ones who got burned by Reddit's abysmal leadership, I rarely see complaints about Reddit on here – arguably far fewer than on Reddit itself.
This is a federated cross-platform social network (hi from Mastodon, by the way), not one platform operated by one person with one ideology. No one is native or a colonizer here; those concepts aren't even meaningful here.
He says that because the creators are tankies and so were the first communities built around them like .ml administrated by the creators. Last year's Redditors migration after the API change moved the political center more towards social democracy and the people center towards .world.
I think those people consider the Lemmy federation to be their playground, and they are being xenophobic about others, but since there is not supposed to be xenophobia in their ideology, they call it colonialism instead.
That's been a welcome change in the last ~6 months. It was a fire hose blast of people going back and forth on whether a 'thing' was brought over from reddit, and whether or not it was welcome.
Oh, just insert whatever you remember from reddit. Replies that are obviously jokes but off topic, mimicking a meme or such; doing the 'follow the link' meme (though I only remember that one popping up once or twice); sounding out a sentence one word per reply... I saw all of those get panned or promoted. Some people screamed about leaving such habits at reddit, others thought they were the height of humor.
Lol since you mentioned you got banned i had a look... your comments were fuckin awful! Why world you advertise this? I'm absolutely embarrassed for ya... that you still feel this hurt when you got banned trollin.
I went to some other comms to check their logs and it looks like you get banned everywhere you post, fella.
Haha! nothing effin funnier than reading the hurt feelings of someone who got what they deserved.
Thank you, I've been having a lot of depression and feeling pretty worthless, but comments like these remind me that no matter how bad things get at least I'll never be this much of a loser.
Thank you! Your og ban wasn't as funny as i'd like but the second "ban evasion" banhammer made my lips curl up some. Thanks for bringing that to my attention!
I offended the fake commies with common sense. Rule 2 I’ve been told is something like don’t say anything negative about China. As for the other bans they were celebrating Israel hostages getting killed so I had a few words. That’s not even close to all my bans but you get the idea.
As I’ve said before, these fake communists would not make good comrades because they have really thin skin. It’s just a giant circle jerk for them.
It’s just a huge problem on Lemmy. Right now there isn’t enough content really to justify defederating so it’s like they are the weird family members than you can’t stand but have to somewhat tolerate
Say Windows bad as well. We're not allowed to use Windows for some reason... I use it, and I'm not sorry, but I really don't care about internet doots.