• prole
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    2011 months ago

    communist propaganda

    It’s like you know that these are words, and they’re words that you’ve seen people put together in the past, but you have no idea what they mean.

    Where is anyone talking about communism? Where is the propaganda? What the fuck are you even talking about??

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      11 months ago

      Where is anyone talking about communism?

      Lemmygrad.ml, I assume? I dunno if it’s “propaganda,” though, mainly because I haven’t really seen much from that instance. It isn’t defederated or anything; it just apparently isn’t popular enough to show up in Active/Hot/Top.

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        I see a lot of communism good/capitalism bad meme content in lemmy.ml in general. Now I’m really not against communism and I absolutely see the negative effects of western society’s brand of unregulated late stage capitalism, but political meme content in general is just entirely devoid of all nuance to the point where people are seriously dropping silly statements like “capitalism is the sole contributor to climate change”, as if if you could turn off capitalism climate change would just stop lol. It’s straight up propaganda.

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          That and conveniently ignoring any negatives involving China/Russia.

          There are a few users on Lemmy.ml who I see all over the place. Half their posts will just be funny “lol capitalism sucks, amirite?” memes and the other half will be “Look at how China is ushering the world into a golden age of social and economic progress” or “When will the west acknowledge Ukraine’s Nazi problem?”

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            511 months ago

            Agreed, seems like “capitalism” has become analogous with “greed”, which I mean, they sort of go hand in hand, but that doesn’t mean greed doesn’t exist without capitalism.

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              I think people also conflate social democracy with socialism, and/or communism.

              And communism with Stalins dictatorship (and Xi etc etc).

              The ideas behind the ideologies are all interesting but only democracy have proven “not horribly killing a large part of the population and a large part of the neighbour population” like all the time

              So for me anyways, it’s full democracy, then tack on socialism (for example).

              I think the discussion about democracy is also largely non present, I mean how fun is it if other people just decide what they want and you can like object every X Years?

              We got democracy 0.1 let’s move forward!

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              it’s kind of like how USSR/Russia was seen bad because of communism, and now since 1991 they are not communist so they are the good guys.

              It is the same freaking country, they just embraced fascism over communism in the last 3 decades.

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      111 months ago

      People are confusing pro-china and pro-russia users as “pro-communists” even though they don’t ever mention communism and only comment things that benefit the dictators running these two governments.

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          111 months ago

          Is there a way to keep the Lemmy homepage set to my subscriptions rather than the default for the instance? I have to manually change it to the subscribed tab every time I open Lemmy

          • Scew
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            111 months ago

            Alternatively, if you like it to be set to your subscriptions and sorted by ‘Hot’ just set those settings up and then create a bookmark and it will always take you back to the page with current content and your selected settings.

      • prole
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        211 months ago

        Yes, I understand how lemmy works… I meant in these comments specifically. Otherwise the comment was a complete non-sequitor.

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          Huh? The comment I replied to is about disinfo and hate in online media, Lemmy is online media. I was making a joke about the content I see regularly, and clearly it landed perfectly.