It's why it's really funny that there's a decent amount of libs trying to pretend that Lemmy (either .ml or as a whole) is this super "tankie" thing when they're really the opposite

Like, if the rest of the Lemmy universe was "tankie" we wouldn't need Lemmygrad in the first place

Welp, just blocked another person I thought was cool over on Mastodon because they were boosting concern trolling about "Israeli civilians"

Just a reminder that if you're a western "leftist" and you're suddenly against Palestine now that they're fighting back, you're literally less radical than a lot of libs lol

"Wait, it's all Palestine?"

Always has been

Probably not worth bothering with this one, they seem like an ancap lol

Like, they literally post in a "capitalist questions and discussions" community to make posts praising free market capitalism and complaining about the evils of government intervention (any government intervention)

"Bad faith" coming from the person who comes to our community to insult us despite knowing nothing about our positions 😂

The idea that it was only Ukraine who suffered from those famines is one of those ideas that just genuinely confuses me, like, how does one even get there? How much info do you have to go out of your way to avoid in order to not know that other parts of the USSR were affected by it too?

Then again, I suppose if your "info" is entirely sourced from literal Nazi propaganda, then it's not all that surprising

Also I wish Omni-Man was like Stalin instead of a space fascist lol

Also, a lot of people seem to think that being a kid means that you just play videogames or whatever all day

Other people have commented on the more important points, so I'm gonna add to this one

The biggest reason a lot of kids do nothing but "stay home and play video games all day" is because they literally have nothing better to do, the car-dependent suburbs that are very common in North America (which are often considered "great places to raise children") leave kids with an inability to do anything (such as hang out with friends or go to public places) without their parents driving them around, so if their parents won't/can't do that then there's nothing really else to do than just stay home, so the kids can't have any real "freedom" until they become old enough to drive

As well, kids often aren't even allowed to be given any level of independence these days, with things as simple as "a kid being outside on their own" (even just within their family's property, if the neighbors are being narcs) being something that can be reported to the police and the parents potentially losing custody over

It's okay though, we're totally not a dystopian police state, right? /s

I think this video has good info on this

Lol the dronies are all over this post I see

God I'm so sick of anarchists directly comparing Marxists to Nazis while pushing literal Nazi propagana themselves when they shit on the USSR

And then they call us a "cult" when they literally operate on an ideology of vibes and aesthetics

Oh, and can't forget how they spend more time attacking communists than they do attacking capitalism, fucking CIA "leftists"

Yep! I was there when they were exposed for that, it was even other admins who were revealed to be sockpuppets lol, and when exposed they admitted which accounts were sockpuppets, including a large number of accounts not even suspected to be such

Can't forget that they used those alts to vote in the site's "democratic" polls for admin decisions too, since the site originally had the policy of user-driven direct democracy for major admin decisions (which they quietly dropped after the sockpuppets were exposed lmao)

During my time on that site, I was harassed by a decent number of accounts for being an ML (including them successfully voting to remove me as mod from the damn ML sub for making an ML post lol) and it was surprisingly refreshing to find out that literally all of them were just that one admin's sockpuppets lmaoooo

Only thing I miss from that site was its custom CSS feature, that was implemented pretty well, and a theme I made for it was good enough that the admin kept using it for a while even after they drove me away lol

That's because it is, there's also an aspect of transphobia to it because they're usually rebranding of "trap" memes, for which the point was always to fetishize trans women's bodies while denying us our gender identity and rights (this is especially obvious when certain characters used in said memes are literally trans women in canon)

complains about "racist jokes" about white people

The moment I saw that someone (and that "someone" being db0 who already blocks us on their own instance lol) was working on a "better alternative" to The Bad Space (a blocklist that's been getting a lot of negative attention on Mastodon/etc. for being really bad lol) that it would go exactly like this

It's based on Silverblue instead of Workstation and has very different features, such as Waydroid set up out of the box, they also have a Steam Deck variant that more closely matches the SteamOS experience

Glad someone's saying it, big agree, the current obsession with "femboys" is literally the same shit with a different name, it's even using the exact same anime/game characters that people were calling "traps" a few years ago

(Edit: before someone complains, obviously I'm not against the existence of femboys, I'm against people spreading the same harmful "trap" memes wordswapped to "femboy", and how people still use it to describe characters who aren't even boys and are often closer to trans women or nonbinary)

It's because you literally said "Chinesium knockoffs don't matter amirite" when the context isn't some shitty Arduino clone on Aliexpress, it's a new 7nm chip in a flagship phone from Huawei that they developed themselves

Participating in the global chip market isn't the purpose of this new chip either, the only reason it's causing "tension" with the US is because China isn't "supposed" to be able to have chips at that level because of the sanctions, when China is perfectly capable of just developing their own

Had one once, worst piece of furniture I ever owned, I can't believe these pieces of shit exist and are so common

I have a gf already, so goodbye England 😂

Thank you, the arguments going on in that thread were unbearable to read lol

It's just been a few days and I've already seen so many pig poop balls in the comments lmao

It's weird to say, but it feels a lot more like "home" now lol even though I was never in the Chapo subreddits, I guess because people from there did often come to GenZedong