• Letsdothis@lemmy.world
    21·
    30 minutes 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!

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      39 seconds ago

      quite a bit of lemmy is straight Marxism

      “What’s the difference between Socialism and Marxism?”

      “Well, Socialism is when you do the things I like but Marxism is when you do the things I don’t like.”

      “What do you like?”

      “Generating passive incomes on the labors of other people!”

      Boo Marxism!

      Said the Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaire

  • recapitated@lemmy.world
    71·
    59 minutes 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.

    • recapitated@lemmy.world
      1·
      58 minutes ago

      Or maybe it is that bad and I’m just tuning it out? I pass by a lot of stuff that I don’t interact with.

  • Toneswirly@lemmy.world
    17·
    3 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
      1·
      2 hours ago

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

      • ArxCyberwolf@lemmy.ca
        2·
        1 hour 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.

  • GHiLA@sh.itjust.works
    71·
    4 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.

    • f314@lemmy.world
      313·
      8 hours ago

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

      • NateNate60@lemmy.worldOP
        21·
        7 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
          1·
          30 minutes 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.

        • uis@lemm.ee
          31·
          7 hours ago

          Wasn’t Torvalds’ dad member of communist party?

          • frezik@midwest.social
            1·
            44 minutes 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.

  • robocall@lemmy.world
    333·
    8 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.

    • NateNate60@lemmy.worldOP
      13·
      8 hours ago

      The socialists must flee what was formerly known as Twitter, now under the control of a totalitarian fascist regime ruled by a mad dictator, or face extermination, and are now refugees wherever they ended up on the Internet

      • pyre@lemmy.world
        7·
        7 hours ago

        it’s also currently known as twitter. even the madman calls it twitter and says tweet and shit. he’s so fucking dumb.

        • BlanketsWithSmallpox@lemmy.worldEnglish
          76·
          11 hours ago

          It’s only us vs the billionaires! Don’t let them try to pit us against each other!

          Anyone who owns more than two houses deserves to die!

          Anyone who works X job is a bastard, no matter how much good they do.

          No, I will not run for local elections.

          No, I will not give up Xitter I need it to follow my niche artists despite them having accounts on multiple other platforms including BlueSky.

          No I will not give up Facebook. I need it to poke meemaw and check the marketplace for things I’ll never buy or sell because Craigslist amirite?

          At least all you twats use ETA less than they do on reddit. That bugs me way more than it should.

      • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
        256·
        15 hours ago

        There’s also the part that is into crushing with a tank people who don’t hate the USA more than anything in the universe.

        • CazzoneArrapante@lemm.eeItaliano
          1·
          3 hours ago

          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.

          • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
            1·
            2 hours ago

            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.

                • ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee
                  811·
                  14 hours ago

                  Ah… so let me get this straight. So instead of being poor in a capitalist country, you’d rather be poor in a communist country?

                  Edit: JFC dude. Why are there so many of these types on Lemmy

              • eskimofry@lemmy.world
                43·
                13 hours ago

                Really? Are you really genuinely ignorant or you simply can’t fathom that non-US people not only exist but also lead happier lives?

                • argv minus one@mastodon.sdf.org
                  41·
                  12 hours ago

                  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.

                • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
                  42·
                  13 hours ago

                  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.

          • SSJMarx@lemm.eeEnglish
            22·
            11 hours ago

            Most of the world’s commies actually live in China, strangely enough.

    • boreengreen@lemm.ee
      15·
      14 hours ago

      Linux, reddit bad, socialism and star trek are alright. The bean thing I don’t get. Never am I gonna spend energy learning about it either.

      • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        13 hours ago

        The bean thing I don’t get

        I recall that being a thing on Reddit too for a bit… Just the internet doing its thing. People like random shit - it all gud.

    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
      143·
      16 hours ago

      Bagging Reddit is actually kinda discouraged, more Linux and communism. Or at least screeching about capitalism at every opportunity.

      • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        15 hours ago

        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.

        • NateNate60@lemmy.worldOP
          14·
          15 hours ago

          The socialists are the native inhabitants of this land, the Redditors are the ruthless imperialist colonisers.

          • argv minus one@mastodon.sdf.org
            13·
            12 hours ago

            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.

        • BalooWasWahoo@links.hackliberty.org
          3·
          14 hours ago

          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.

            • BalooWasWahoo@links.hackliberty.org
              3·
              14 hours ago

              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.

              • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
                21·
                13 hours ago

                There’s a lot of those jokes that will hopefully die on the platform. They had well and truly run their course even on Reddit.

          • ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee
            99·
            14 hours ago

            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.

        • the post of tom joad@sh.itjust.works
          106·
          15 hours ago

          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.

          Thanks for that, really <3

          • ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee
            914·
            14 hours ago

            Why not show my comments then lol

            Oh I see you’re a regular poster in USAauthoritarianism. 😂

            Glad you enjoy sniffing my taint. Come back anytime.

            • SSJMarx@lemm.eeEnglish
              44·
              11 hours ago

              If you had read your own sources then you would have posted the article you are quoting from now first. It’s weird that you assume someone will click on every link in your Wikipedia page. A war is not necessarily genocide. I think you have trouble with understanding what genocide is. You are simply grasping at straws. USA is now killing people in Gaza? So anyone who does business with United States is now USAs fault? “Death to America”? You’re calling for death to Americans while at the same time you are crying about genocide. You’re nothing but a clown. Also, you’re from Iowa lmao. Please stop embarrassing yourself.

              So for starters saying “a war is not necessarily a genocide” in response to an example of a genocidal act (America’s continued bombing of Japan after it served no valid military purpose) is genocide apologia.

              Secondly questioning the USA’s role in the ongoing genocide in Gaza when the genocide is being explicitly carried out with American bombs is also genocide apologia.

              Thirdly “Death to America” refers to the American political project, its imperialist ambitions and its global hegemony, not the mass killing of Americans that you seem to think it does, which is why saying “Death to America” is not a call to commit genocide and doesn’t make the person you were arguing with a hypocrite.

              • ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee
                12·
                10 hours ago

                Thanks Marx (nice name lol)

                Your anecdotes are irrelevant. You could have just posted the context, but you didn’t. Wonder why?

                • SSJMarx@lemm.eeEnglish
                  3·
                  10 hours ago

                  I’m a debate pervert but I’m not that dedicated to the bit. Searching your name in the modlog was all I was willing to do.

                  Anyway perhaps if you simply stopped apologizing for genocides, you would no longer be accused of genocide apologia? Just a suggestion.