Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]

Idk… in the instance I am in, there is no downvotes, only upvotes… so if you must show your displeasure as a user of Hexbear… don’t upvote the comment you hate, if not also comment your criticism… (Yeah I can see the downvotes here)

Sometimes, people just downvote like a man thrusting their other…

There’s like 1.2 billion English speakers, including non-native speakers, tho? the OP asks for like 3.5 billion or somethin’… since population globally is 8 billion…

You’re joking, right?

Whatever… at least we know for certain what type of character you are, mocking us like that…

You do know Lemmy.ml’s sacred founder, Dessalines? There’s a political origin story for why he and many other mods created this social network

If you didn’t know beforehand that this was a ‘tankie’ website, I advise you go to lemmy.world, lemm.ee, raddle, beehaw, or even Mastodon if you seem perturbed by this presence… after all, you seem to be a reddit migrant…

Here is a sample of his political ideology

Its become absorbed into that silicon valley surveillance-capitalist machine that commidifies users to sell ads and paid flairs, and propagandizes pro-US interests above all. Software technology being one of the last monopoly exports the US has, it would be naive to think that one of the top 5 most popular social media sites, where so many people around the world get their news, would be anything other than a mouthpiece for the interests of those same US coastal tech firms.

Despite the conservative talking point that big tech is dominated by “leftist propaganda”, it is liberal, and pro-US, not left (leftism referring to the broad category of anti-capitalism). Reddit has banned its share of leftist users and communities, and the reddit admins via announcement posts repeatedly villify the US’s primary foreign-policy enemies as having “bot campaigns”, and “manipulating reddit”, yet the default reddit communities (/r/news, /r/pics, etc), who share a small number of moderators, push a line consistent with US foreign-policy interests. The aptly named /r/copaganda subreddit has exposed the pro-police propaganda that always seems to hit reddit’s front page in the wake of every tragedy involving US police killing the innocent (or showing police kissing puppies, even though US police kill ~ 30 dogs every day, which researchers have called a “noted statistical phenomenon”).

We’ve also seen a rise in anti-China posts that have hit reddit lately, and along with that comes anti-chinese racism, which reddit tacitly encourages. That western countries are seeing a rise in attacks against Asian-Americans, just as some of the perpetrators of several hate-crimes against women were found to be redditors active in mens-rights reddit communities, is not lost on us, and we know where these tech companies really stand when it comes to violence and hate speech. Leftists know that our position on these platforms is tenable at best; we’re currently tolerated, but that will not always be the case.

I mean, yes, but granted, for all I know, I’m supposing that Lemmy was built for open-source software supporters, and I guess alotta ‘civil’ liberals and ‘libertarians’ joined in, due to this cause…

I was thinking there was like a seperation between the M-Leninist mods (eg. Dessalines) and their site’s followers… like church and state…

Wasn’t this damn fediverse made because of this…? It should be obvious…

Does everything in this world have an answer?

Idk why… I was high on my own ego supply…

Alright then, I’ll stop it.

No.

Just to put in liberal terms, we are:

Culturally Progressive (eg. Pro LGBT)

Economically Socialist (eg. Pro-Economic Planning, Pro-Gift Economy, et Pro-Nationalization)

Anti-imperialist and critical supportive of progressive forces on foreign policy (Eg. Pro-Cuba, pro-Vietnam, pro-China, though somewhat conditionally supportive of Russia, in fending off NATO and its Ukrainian proxy)

We are thus also anti-orientalist and also kinda support ‘another kkkrakka down, unlimited genocide on the Global North’ sort of shtick…

We’re tankies, by your definition, but normal leftists, according to other people…

And I say this as a moderate rebel a la White Helmets…

Me zoomer as well, I suppose.

Commoditized bottled water.