You’re right, but please be nice.

Anarchists will really try to rip us apart for being “authoritarian”, but when you ask them how their system would deal with crimes, upholding socialism, or maintaining any semblance of order, their responses are almost always far more extreme than ours.

Genuinely had an Anarchist call me an “evil person” and a “future baby killer” for saying that I’m ML. Then when I asked them about their proposed methods for preventing counter-revolution, they described a system where anyone can murder anyone else if the victim was suspected of wanting to act against the revolution. No trial, no investigation, just the word of the murderer.

Edit to add another thought to; “their responses are almost always far more extreme than ours.”

If it’s not more extreme, it’s lax to the point of being nothing. So the poles are either a system of total chaos, or substanceless idealism.

me when a fellow ML says “tankie”;

me when literally anyone else does;

“made them the dominate voice”

bro, tankies made lemmygrad for tankies

once again right-leaning proletariats show that they’re still better than any Western politician.

It’s almost as though the people who actually live and work with certain things know more about it than liberal politicians. I would, of course, prefer if they’d use class consciousness and advocate for a leftwing solution to the green deal. But I can’t really change reality.

trot to fascist pipeline showing itself again

gotta love (sarcasm) that my people tied the political ideology of Zionism in with their faith and ethnicity, so now braindead liberals think they’re the same.

Zionism is as far from the Mitzvah you can get, they’re about as Jewish as American Christians are Catholic. (which is to say, not very much at all)

comrade mouse

publishes a statement with propagandist statements in it

claims their universities pursue the truth

If someone is being harassed on Lemmy, we can figure out who’s doing the downvoting and ban them. Bring the issue up with a site admin.

Personal opinion time, I strongly disagree with removing downvotes on LG because it disenfranchises comrades who lack time or energy for comments.

sure if you disagree with something you should leave a comment explaining why. But the person who’s too burnt out from living under capitalism isn’t going to want to do that, and the person with executive dysfunction who just wanted to scroll for a minute wouldn’t want to either.

In my moderation and in my leisure scrolling, I know what kind of discourse a post is just by looking at the point total. If it’s upvoted well, it’s usually good shit. If it’s downvoted to hell, the poster either needs an explanation or mod action. This also helps the average scroller, if they see a post or a comment has been downvoted a ton, they’re probably not going to pay much attention to it. Also, from a first-person perspective, if you said something and got more downvotes than up, it’s probably time to self-crit. That’s a valuable tool.

TLDR: downvotes are valuable.

Oh look, they’re repackaging Cold War anti-communist propaganda to once again fearmonger against entire groups of people & justify atrocities against them.

It’s hilarious to me when even the most staunchly anti-communist economists have a more rigid understanding of Socialist markets than Maoists do.

Maoists and Trots are literally the same, the only difference is which Socialist superpower they chose to invalidate.

I mean, if you knew who H3 were and didn’t know they had terrible politics, you didn’t know who H3 were.

They have said more than once that they’re pro-Israeli, Hila (if I’m not misremembering) was born there. Ethan is Israeli-American (again, if I’m not misremembering). It’s really not a shock that these two horrible people had horrible takes.

this comment not having downvotes means the people downvoting probably didn’t even open the post. If they read it they used the preview.

That’s what you call bad faith engagement.

liberals mad

is this a rare Vaush W?

I could be misreading, I’ve had an exhausting day, but is Vaush “Nato is a based organization” V supporting Palestinian liberation?

his fanbase is about to fuckin meltdown

Who would have thought that neo-liberals threatened economic instability and resource scarcity in an illegitimate war against Russia and multipolarity, and the groups that disagree with neo-liberalism are willing to listen to Russia’s valid arguments against their neo-liberal countries?

the neos will froth at the mouth for any chance to call anything that doesn’t suit them “Russian propaganda”

Every time I hear about AES cops, it’s about how nice and actually helpful they are.

That says a lot about who and what is being ‘served and protected’ in capitalist countries, it’s definitely not the people.