Soon after I joined Lemmy a few years ago, I searched for communities based on my interests and subscribed to the ones with the highest numbers of users to ensure they are active. Sometimes I joined multiple, but then saw that some people post the same thing to more than one, cluttering my feed, so I left the smaller ones.
It’s only after my community ban from !games@hexbear.net for disagreeing about Ukraine that I was told about MeanwhileOnGrad, learning exactly what “the tankie triad” means and why big Lemmy instances have defederated from those. Lemmy.ml, where the ML probably stands for Marxist-Leninist, seems to have been defederated by fewer, possibly because it’s run by the creator of Lemmy, Dessalines. Nevertheless, there is evidence of Dessalines holding the same authoritarian communist views as the rest.
Recently, there were two posts on !privacy@lemmy.ml about Signal, but then in both cases, admin davel (who is known on MoG for seeing CIA’s hand in running Ukraine, among other things) and Dessalines linked (1, 2, 3) the same article by Dessalines, which not only argues Signal could be a CIA honeypot (as if it matters when proper e2ee is used), but also manages to shoehorn China even into that, claiming its government “prefers autonomy”. This sort of portrayal of totalitarianism as sovereignty is the reason I unsubscribed from the community. As it has been said by others, ML is not a neutral instance but a means of pushing authoritarian views onto unsuspecting users.
Edit: Made the post title clearer.
People who do illegal things should be punished according to the law regardless of whether they’re a billionaire or not, and since the law doesn’t allow us to throw people like Trump in prison for harming millions of americans so he and his pedophile buddies can feel more powerful, then it needs to be amended.
You think Russia is communist? God damn I thought America had shitty education, but we at least learned about the fall of the USSR (though the 90s was framed as a warm time of reopening, not the greatest drop in life expectancy outside of war and famine in the 20th century)
Russia has infinitely less influence on American elections than our own billionaires.
Mate you said political censorship and oppression is good that has nothing to do with justice.
I do think russians are communists yes are you disagreeing with that? You the russian communist?
Fuck you are stupid here let me have a go at being as dumb as you:
IF YOU POLITICALLY OPPRESSED PUTIN NONE OF US WOULD BE IN THIS MESS IN THE FIRST FUCKING PLACE AND THERE WOULD BE NO THINKING OF TRUMP FULL FUCKING STOP, CUNT
figured out where I am from yet?
Nobody care where you’re from. All i know is here some asshole want to remigrate my family in the name of the white race. And these bunch of cunts never do their dirty deeds themselves, they just vote so the cops do it. So they’re marching next thursday and i’ll bé there with a crowbar.
Fuck you
So… You are going to go fight political oppression? But I thought you adored political censorship and oppression?
Is your entire political philosophy just “I want to be the bad guy”?
Justice is defined by the state and our own moral principles. Oppression and censorship of those who wish to do me and others harm is good, so is punching nazis, how is this even a question?
??? Why do you think we call it Russia instead of The USSR ever since 1991? What exactly do you think happened in the 90s?
You can’t just call everyone you don’t like Russian lmao.
Correct, if we hadn’t supported his election, the communists would have won after Yeltsin, and a communist Russia wouldn’t create the conditions for people like Putin to get elected.
Not the guy who accused you of being American but Australia?
That is facism not justice.
??? Wanna make some sense?
You idiot you implied you were russian. Are you not are you just that stupid that you accidentally implied you were russian? All while assuming where I was from. Do you just call everyone who disagrees with you american?
Fascism is when you punch nazis lmao.
In 1991, Yeltsin broke up the USSR and switched the economy over to capitalism, and shot the soviet congress building with a tank. This resulted in famines as Russia went from living standards similar to the west to bad enough Putin was considered a lesser evil.
I said that we (america) were responsible for Putin’s election, because he was considered a lesser threat than the communists getting elected.
Different guy called you American.
Crazy right it’s almost as if common sayings like “two wrongs don’t make a right” or “eye for an eye the whole world goes blind” are hinting at something.
Truly don’t give a shit about russian history right now it’s not relevant to the point at hand.
And yea I got a little confused there. My bad.
So lets get back on track: political censorship and oppression are wrong they always will be. Your justifications are irrelevant.
“genocidees deserved it because it the role were reversed they’d be genocided. How dare those warsaw guetto animals resort to terrorisme against the lawful nazi administration”