A lot of the content on Lemmy.ml that is endorsed by their admins breaks rules 1, 2, 4, and 5.1 of the Lemmy.world terms of service. By staying federated with them, the admins are facilitating this content’s transfer to Lemmy.world’s servers, which is against their own terms of service.
God, I’m just so genuinely happy to see someone use the word, “Tankie,” properly. A shocking number of people on .world seem to think anyone left of Joe Biden is a Tankie.
I just wish more people would identify that too much centralization is the root problem versus pointing the finger at the opposing yet equally centralized political systems. There needs to be a balance between centralization and decentralization yet few understand this. So frustrating.
“USA bad” should be the free space, because anyone with as little as half a rotten brain can identify that it’s true - The US is a shithole. That does preclude conservatives, of course.
Mostly, they are the ones other places can ignore because they aren’t the cultural battleground for the world at large. Not that I’m complaining, since we’re not generally the physical battleground for the world at large.
Mostly, there’s not a good culture of actually facing issues and processing them, anywhere in the world, outside of some spiritual practices. If you’re someone who does do that, though, the US is the place to be.
Not really. I’m not saying melting pots don’t exist elsewhere, nor am I saying that somehow the US matters more because of the ideologies it (barely) holds. I’m just saying that the US is one of the largest melting pots, globally. But the ideas it holds are more important than the nation by far. Those ideas will continue to exist (and find another center) whether or not the US manages to be centered in them - for example, if the US is torn apart in the process of those cultural interactions.
But whether or not you like it - regardless of whether you think it’s arrogant, that’s the way it is, currently. And if that cultural battleground shifts to some other nation, or some other individual nation becomes comparable (there are plenty of ways that could happen), you’ll probably also assert that they overrate their importance. And likely, some of them will, just as plenty of folks in the US do.
Edit: Also note, when I said
Mostly, there’s not a good culture of actually facing issues and processing them, anywhere in the world, outside of some spiritual practices. If you’re someone who does do that, though, the US is the place to be
…that it’s both because this is a cultural battleground, and because the issues manifest here. It’s not exactly a “positive” statement.
Edit: nevermind. I opened it in my browser. I wonder if I have this community or person blocked in Boost for Lemmy.
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You can see on ProleWiki what Lemmygrad.ml’s stances are, in their words, and why. Their article on the Russian Federation backs up what you’ve said, they believe it is extremely reactionary with horrifying treatment of LGBTQ people and is currently ruled by the Nationalist party, but critically support Russia insofar as it opposes Western hedgemony and Imperialism, and no more than that.
Critically, Lemmygrad, Hexbear, and much of Lemmy.ml see Lenin’s definition of Imperialism as the number one obstacle in Socialism’s advance, that is, the state in Capitalism where Imperialist countries export machinery and finances to the third world in order to super-exploit outsider populations for super-profits domestically. This is a necessity within Capitalism to combat the Tendency for the Rate of Profit to Fall. It’s the concept of unequal exchange.
Now, of course you do not have to agree with Lemmygrad or Hexbear or Lemmy.ml, but as someone who regularly sees these posts, there are no delusional posters who somehow think the Russian Federation is still Communist or that Putin is secretly rebuilding the USSR.
ProleWiki: Political line
We are guided by Marxism-Leninism, mainly the works of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Vladimir Lenin. Based on that, ProleWiki upholds the currently developing dictatorships of the proletariat in:
<span style="color:#323232;">Republic of Cuba
</span><span style="color:#323232;">People's Republic of China
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Democratic People's Republic of Korea
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Socialist Republic of Vietnam
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Lao People's Democratic Republic
</span>
Really‽ They hold North Korea in high regard? I can see liking some of what Cuba, China, and Vietnam have done, but NK? I don’t know enough about Laos to comment.
Edit: nevermind. I opened it in my browser. I wonder if I have this community or person blocked in Boost for Lemmy.
you probably did what I did after my first week on Lemee, and just block the .ml instance completely from my feed. it’s absolutely insane and is the prime example of why Federation doesn’t really work great if not all federated servers are subject to the same rules.
.ml will outright let hate, violence and threats stand. But will instance ban anyone who questions their tankies.
I’m quick to ban communities from my feed that are political. I’m just here for the memes and tits - Not to doomscroll or argue about shit I don’t understand.
That’s fair and I hope those communities continue to grow and mature. I do enjoy the good faith discussions that happen here more often than other sites myself.
I feel like no matter what instance I go to I’m probably just going to end up disliking a large chunk of the posters, because I think after 20 years of being raised online, I just fucking hate memes straight up.
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