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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to have a serious talk about this instance being federated with Lemmygrad, Hexbear, and tankies in general⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t get me wrong, I fully understand that a fascist is not the same thing as a communist. But they’re equally despicable.

  Fascism is inherently anti-democratic, communism isn’t. I know communism is a shorthand for stalinism / maoism and other totalitarian ideologies that use socialist facade (similar to national socialism) but it’s worth to make an effort not to discredit the whole idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to have a serious talk about this instance being federated with Lemmygrad, Hexbear, and tankies in general⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  People half-joke that coming to Fediverse is easy, all you need to do is select a provider like you do with e-mail.

  This omits the part where you have to block dozens of communities because they shill for genocidal regimes and you can’t block them and their users wholesale using instances. You also have to be on a lookout for trolls that coordinate on those instances and use alts from other instances. If you aren’t careful enough your experience might be akin to a conspiracy Facebook group but obviously it’s users fault.

  Mastodon doesn’t have this issue despite using same Activity Pub framework.

  Kbin doesn’t have it.

  It’s Lemmy developers and instances that somehow ended up with staggering amount of tankie trolls, to the extent that exceeds even alt-right trolls on Reddit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to have a serious talk about this instance being federated with Lemmygrad, Hexbear, and tankies in general⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My criticism of that idea is also there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to have a serious talk about this instance being federated with Lemmygrad, Hexbear, and tankies in general⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  But defederating Threads was fine lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to have a serious talk about this instance being federated with Lemmygrad, Hexbear, and tankies in general⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the dishonesty that makes me despise those guys the most. They’re so civil in their shilling for genocidal regimes, eh?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to have a serious talk about this instance being federated with Lemmygrad, Hexbear, and tankies in general⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Modern day tankies are indistinguishable from fascists since they shill for fascist shitholes like Russia and China. I don’t care about intent, everyone can lie about it. You can’t lie about outcomes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do most religious conservatives support capitalist ideology?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re at the extreme bottom there’s little chance to move upwards in capitalism but it’s comforting to have some undesirables who have it even worse than you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do most religious conservatives support capitalist ideology?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Religion is not the goal of conservatives, it’s a tool to preserve hierarchy in the society. Capitalism is another tool that achieves that.

  The people that aren’t wealthy but are conservative benefit from hierarchy enforced by religion. It ensures that they’re not on the bottom of society - that place is intended for undesirables comprised of various minorities.