If I was in a room with Hitler and Marx and I had a gun with two bullets, I’d shoot Marx twice.
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HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 2 days agoI like hearing socialist and communist viewpoints to pop my American echo chamber bubble. When all I hear in Florida is how communists crave the destruction of the US and the death of all its people and anyone who disagrees is labeled a communist, you’re not going to have an educated stance on the matter.
I started my Fediverse journey excited to read their federated posts. I think it was signing up for Lemmy that I was forced to read more Marx than I’d read before, not to mention recently (re-)reading Animal Farm, and now I have more compassion for Marxists than I did before.
I’m gradually learning .ml doesn’t federate with others to give a voice to Marxist(-Leninists) who want to interact with others civilly.
I once dared to mention liberals tend to agree soviet bloc housing was one of the things the USSR did right. I was dogpiled and eventually labeled a troll and banned for a while.
I once dared to say I didn’t realize Xinnie the Pooh memes could be racist. I was dogpiled and eventually accused of being orientalist and a fascist and banned for a while.
Now any time I bump into an .ml, they check my mod log on .ml and go on a rant about how I’m a racist and a fascist, stating they have no need to read why I was accused of that because they’re sure their mods/admins are above reproach. I certainly can’t disprove an accusation that requires no evidence - no one can.
I figure either they’re a community of people pretending to be Marxist-Leninist to make people have a bad opinion of Marxist-Leninists…
…or (Fediverse) Marxist-Leninists are yet another group of humans who employ bad faith tactics to attack anyone who isn’t them for funsies.
So they earn quite a bit of hate from the rest of the Fediverse and weaken most people’s opinions of Marxist-Leninists; they’ve certainly eroded mine.
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 2 days ago
marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Yeah, anti-communists tend to love hitler, you don’t have to repeat yourself so much.
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 1 day ago
All Hitler-lovers hate communism, but not all communism-haters love Hitler.
marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Yeah you can definitely do the physical act of saying that you love nazi propaganda while disavowing hitler. It doesn’t make your position logical nor does it make you seem like less of a nazi.
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s…
-checks community rules for personal attacks, finds Rule 1 requiring ‘be respectful’-
…not a well-formed stance.
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 2 days ago
If i were in a room with both of them I’d shoot one (either) in the gut and then shoot myself so thag I wouldn’t have to suffer through being around the other.
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Marx is definitely not as bad as Hitler. What are you two on about?
ComradeMiao@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I have never heard this called racist. If they are claiming that merely because the cartoon bear is yellow then I would say they are more racist for making such a comparison…
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s the short version, yes. Here’s what’s left of the full discussion:
lemmy.world/post/48906428/24557933
Unfortunately they nuked the thread, potentially to obscure the evidence. I can’t even tell exactly where the discussion was because of that, but that was the thread.
The TL;DR of it:
Everyone there was dog-piling someone for posting a Xinnie the Pooh meme for being racist.
I asked how that could be racist. (many downvotes)
I got dogpiled by a bunch of people who explained that because Winnie the Pooh’s skin is yellow, it’s occidentalist (a word I learned that day) - some going so far as to say any criticism of China, the CCP, or Xi Xinping is rooted in racism. I explained why I didn’t think any of that is automatically racist, but agreed it could be depending on intent.
Thread nuked and banned.