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…
Pops to comrade Cowbee out there in the posting trenches calmly educating the libs
His patience and willingness to converse is inspiring. I don’t think I could take it.
Saying this as someone who considers themselves a leftist
You’re right about the capitalism bad part, but comunism good isn’t generally a leftist talking point.
A great part main of mainstream leftists don’t recognize communism as a better system than capitalism - it’s the the reason social democrats are the majority of leftists in europe and the americas
Fuck us 100+million CPC members, the Indian ML’s, the Indian and Philipino Maoists, etc. I guess.
“White supremacy is the black hole at the center of liberal thought: not directly observable, but made apparent by how all of their other ideas orbit around it.”
“White supremacy is the black hole at the center of liberal thought: not directly observable, but made apparent by how all of their other ideas orbit around it.”
Banger
Yeah, wish I could take credit.
White supremacy is the black hole at the center of liberal thought: not directly observable, but made apparent by how all of their other ideas orbit around it.
Where’s this from?
I saw it on hexbear a while ago. But I don’t know who originally said it.
I actually think one of us hexbears came up with it?
thought this when i was 17
Is very likely that they are 17.
Emphasis on “considers themselves”
I know what that looks like.
I’m as left as they cum, but after I’ve nutted I can drop the facade and go back to being a reactionary
The amount of downvotes i received in a thread maxing out at below +150 votes makes me even more sure about lemmy.ml’s substantial FSB involvement.
No updoots for me? Must be a foreign intelligence op!
only the fsb is capable of something as nefarious as downvoting someone’s dogshit opinions on an obscure internet forum
Those damned scheming Asiatics!
‘Echo chamber’ just means community I don’t like. Like how ‘authoritarian’ means rules I don’t like and ‘terrorist’ means violence I don’t like
recently it has seemed “terrorist” can also mean “brown person with views i don’t like”
Even more recently is seemed “terrorist” can also mean “brown person”
Wait! I remember that have been the thing since forever. Wasn’t that how they treated Native American?
Pretty much, they’d use any indigenous resistance as cause to take their genocide further
Bro lives in Brazil, that makes me unhealthy pissed off.
USA trying to intervene multiple times this year in the elections and this mother fucker succdem lulista do caralho is preoccupied with tankies defending China/Russia and promoting communism.
The real problem that brazil faces nowdays is that tankies in a niche english internet forum keep china posting
Internet brain rot
I used to think Lemmy itself was an echo chamber. Turns out lemmy.ml was the problem the entire time.
Absolutely no self awareness. Claims to hate echo chambers, wants to block spaces with different views in order to form an echo chamber.
They’re almost at 700 comments, almost entirely from those arguing for the echo chamber…
Swap lemmy.ml with lemmy dot world and shit just works and this actually becomes good advice.
Wait you dont want to see the opinion of 100s of
redditorslemmitors about how the west has its flaws but you must still full support them against the eastern hordes?I like how all of them left Reddit to turn this leftist Reddit alternative into Reddit again.
They’re complaining louder these days but it seems like the lefty instances are the ones growing the most. Dialectics and whatnot.
There’s at least one user saying use mwog as a source for why ml bad.
EDIT: oh, meanwhile on grad. my bad
Mmmwog, wa duwa dog
wa du wog, wa duwa dog
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Pretty sure the post they’re saying is this one https://lemmy.ml/post/50962606.
Which I don’t see where is implying that is a utopia, I don’t know if these people know what words means but I can’t see how anything different than 0 suicide rate can be called utopia.
Ye olde “Criticizing the West is fine, but suggesting countries outside of the West might be doing a better job on some things is beyond the pale.”
People have to lie about what we actually say in order to get people to agree with them, because a peek behind the curtains reveals they are the unreasonable ones. All it does is drive people away from liberalism.
It’s maddening propaganda because what it doesn’t tell you is that the only reason the suicide rate is lower (it isn’t) is because if you commit suicide they will kill everyone in your family for 6 generations (the number of the beast). It’s just exhausting need to constantly debunk this stuff in my social media home.
cant wait for the sequels
“Block DBzero if lemmy feels tirening.”
“Block blahaj if lemmy feels tirening.”
“Block lemmy if lemmy feels tirening.”
“Create your own echo chamber one instance at a time!”
No those will get instant removed because it goes against world’s view/mods will get reports
Give it time, world admins said db0 was organizing sending death threads to one of their admins
Yeah that’s fair. Although also happen in the post comments (people saying to get off db0)
isn’t that the prequel?
u know, the tesseract guy or whatever
“I thought it was an echo chamber, so I blocked one of the perspectives” is amazing thought process
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
Saying this as someone who considers themselves a leftist
Many such cases
“It is what it is” moderates are the tiring part of Lemmy for me.
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.
Funny, I feel the same except it’s lemmy.world that I blocked
