Just blocked lemmy.ml from my Lemmy account, and I swear to god it’s one of the best things I’ve ever done on this platform. My homepage feels actually clean now.
For the past few months I’d been seeing a lot of tankie posting and pretty much far-left propaganda on my feed. It got tiring enough that I finally checked my blocked-user list, and realized pretty much everyone I’d blocked was from lemmy.ml. So I just blocked the whole instance instead.
Saying this as someone who considers themselves a leftist: I used to think Lemmy itself was an echo chamber. Turns out lemmy.ml was the problem the entire time. Probably the reason I tolerated it for so long is that I agreed with a lot of what they posted, but like an oversaturated meme, I’d had enough. Browsing the platform was starting to feel way too tiring instead of fun, which defeats the point of being here in the first place.
The breaking point was seeing some dude post a “meme” implying North Korea and China are basically communist utopias and that the West sucks. I mean, the West does suck, but come on - you’re saying North Korea is the ideal the West should strive for? What the hell…
I know it’s a thousand times beside the point, but it annoys me how people there are saying “ml calls NK and China utopias!” and when asked for proof, they link to people saying those places are better than the US and/or, on the whole, “good/progressive/whatever” and when someone points this out they go “Yes, exactly, that is calling them utopias”.
I’ll be the first to say people can have fanciful positive ideas about both states, but that’s not what is being said there.
One of the biggest trolls and anti ml accounts in the place is in there just flat out saying bush was progressive and left wing people make me more conservative while arguing it’s everyone else who’s not seeing reality
I appreciate our anticommunist comrade making Cowbee’s job easier.
I genuinely wonder how many are comrades trying to spoil the reactionary line for me, haha. It would make my job easier if people just pushed a communist line
They uncritically believe China and North Korea are complete dystopias and so the only reason someone could possibly disagree with them is if they uncritically believe they’re complete utopias.
But also tankies lack nuance
Tankies are the only ones that have nuance. Hence “You don’t believe they’re dystopias? You must believe they’re utopias then!”
Yeah, was being sarcastic but it got me thinking of how to encapsulate it. I think that liberals are constantly mistaking their fetishism for pragmatism and our pragmatism for fetishism