I was resisting doing an "inb4" joke with this or several of his other errors, like not throwing Trotsky in a dungeon.
GarbageShoot
joined 3 years ago
I can't quite tell if this is a parody, the trade union bit makes it seem sincere, but the self-importance to think that lemmy is too left for China to allow is just amazing.
It would get banned immediately
They should just become a ttrpg actual play podcast, they're just parasocial slop-mongers either way
The question then, I suppose, is how many of those leftists are like us and how many are "Compatible Leftists" that are fundamentally non-threatening to liberals. Liberals typically love Chomsky types that let them feel like they engage in radical discourse while fundamentally failing to challenge power.
I certainly have nothing against piracy and, like I said, I think most of the userbase is cool
I think lemmy having libs is beneficial to us, because they are systemically in an uphill position in an instance mainly moderated by communists. The real engine of bad takes are from the "mutuals" we have with lemmy like .world and co. I think strategically the best option is to go after instances that aren't federated with us rather than those that are. I don't think there's any benefit to letting red scare instances fester, and r/cth demonstrated how easy it is to cow rightists.
dbzer0
To be fair, while there's a clique including the owner that is remarkably shitty ("Stalin not giving enough support to the disorganized leftists in Spain is the same as him sending the Red Army to kill them, QED marxism is evil"), the majority of users from this instance are pretty cool.
I know this is beneath refutation and also has already been addressed, but if you look at the actual UN definition of genocide, it doesn't specify a necessary "special intent" like he keeps harping on. Being aware of the consequences to a population and still doing it ("Oh, let's dump industrial waste into this river, who cares if there's a reservation downstream?") is genocide. It's not like homicide where it is distinguished from manslaughter in that regard, which I assume is where he/D got that language from.
A third of this website is twitter screenshots, I think it's just following the rules of the game
I'm looking it up, and I don't see any "Tienanmin Square". Could it be "Tiananmen Square" that you're thinking of? The one protesting government corruption? Where unarmed soldiers were burned alive? Where Christian sickos were trying to get students in the line of fire to create atrocity propaganda? Surely there must be some confusion here!