@dessalines@lemmy.ml @nutomic@lemmy.ml this is a good idea for the users over there to share

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Yeah. Free speech absolutism does not attract a good crowd, and once you attract that crowd you will not attract any other crowd because the content output they produce is repellant to any normal person.

This is extremely well written. Anyone that supports and wants to see this platform thrive should share this in response to the people spreading nonsense with the goal of seeing it fail and upholding the corporate status quo.

I wonder if this came about because of internal conflict in the mod team. I've received zero threats from reddit to reopen and mod some subs that are larger than antiwork.

If IP address sharing via hotlinked images, embedded content, etc were breaking GDPR I think the entire internet is breaking it. If I visit a blog, and then click an embedded video or image on that page, then my IP has been shared to someone else while visiting that page. This occurs on the vast majority of the internet.

EDIT: It wouldn't just be EU-hosted lemmy instances either. GDPR applies to servers outside of EU jurisdiction whenever they're serving residents of the EU.

God this is so boring mate. It didn't. Nobody likes Russia. Russia is a capitalist shit hole. The only takes that the left has which is used to claim we support Russia is that the war was caused by nato and that pouring weapons into does nothing to save any lives, on the contrary it just enriches the billionaires to the military industrial complex and vastly increases the number of deaths on both sides.

China on the other hand we have some nuanced takes on but because you all know absolutely nothing about it and behave like they're animals incapable of independent thought and self-governance discussing anything with you ends up a case of bashing our heads against a wall because you don't have real conversations about it. You don't listen and don't learn anything. You don't even say the name of the party correctly (it's cpc not ccp). If I told you 95% of Chinese citizens are happy with and support their government you'd claim I'm wrong and when I provide evidence for that you'd claim it's only because of propaganda/information control and when I provide evidence that it's not because of that you'd find some new deflection or topic to divert to. So what's the point?

On the offchance you actually want that nuanced discussion we can have it but you need to start behaving more academic and stop talking like a terminally online reddit teenager. Come on.

What's your opinion of Nelson Mandela? The man wrote a book(although a revision of another book) called "How to be a good communist" and the very first line of that book is:

A Communist is a member of the Communist Party who understands and accepts the theory and practice of Marxism-Leninism as explained by Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin , and who subjects himself to the discipline of the Party. (See notes 1, 2, 3 & 4)

The shouting came before the self identifying.

Saying tankie is tongue-in-cheek, or simply to upset the people that scream it constantly. I'm a marxist-leninist, formerly an anarchist. I would still be an anarchist if climate change weren't putting a time limit on the need to get something done too. I decided that I could not sit by knowing hundreds of millions of people were going to die in 30 years (closer now tbh but it was a few years ago that I moved to a leninist toolkit now) while also knowing that anarchism was not equipped to generate the needed revolutions required to save any of those lives. Marxism-leninism and dem-cent parties on the other hand have a proven track record of creating revolution within that kind of timeframe.

I will probably return to anarchism when such timelimits are not in effect. It's just not morally justifiable for me to sit around using a toolkit that's not equipped for the time limit when we know what we know.

nuance

But maybe reply, discuss your position

I'm going to take this point in good faith, even though I disagree with it. The people that scream "tankie" often use the word in exactly the same meaningless way that the people who scream "woke" do, then they claim it has a specific meaning but clearly apply it very very broadly to basically anyone who is a marxist and waves a red flag.

But, since you suggest you're willing to get into nuance. I'm going to throw reel off a few groups, people and countries. Would you mind telling me which ones you consider tankie and evil, vs which ones you consider good?

The Black Panthers

Fred Hampton

Huey Newton

Albert Einstein

Nelson Mandela

Che Guevara

Fidel Castro

Thomas Sankara

Chavez

Cuba

Venezuela

Bolivia

Vietnam

Laos

Nepal

Nicaragua

Angola

Kerala district of India (governed by the Communist Party of India)

It's ok to not know one way or another too btw, I'm just interested in a "tankie" "not tankie" "never heard of them" response on each of them.

Who the fuck downvotes this?

Anyone downvoting this simply because you hate China ultimately do not want peace in Palestine. This is a solid, really good thing. Having the world's largest economic and manufacturing superpower directly involved in and aiming to achieve peace there is a GOOD thing. Stop being such utter losers about it. Start caring about human beings instead of engaging in campism.

One of your issues is probably sorting by Active instead of sorting by Hot. A major difference in the experience on Lemmy is the "Active" sort method being the default.