The post was https://lemmy.ml/post/27600301 on [email protected]

When opening the link, it popped up something I didn’t even get to see because it created crashed my browser.

I returned to the post and commented "Jesus, the pop-up on that site is brutal " that’s it, that’s the exact quote because I use an app that stores things from specific sources that are typed in

Annnnd banned

For being annoying.

Because the mod didn’t like their link being criticised.

I ain’t even mad, I’m just amazed to see a PTB in the wild like that.

  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
    417·
    5 days ago

    Well, my point is that any system where it depends on some all-powerful person who’s just going to do the right thing is going to fail.

    Rules for good conversation with others are great. Putting one person in omnipotent charge of who gets to talk and having that person also participating in the conversation (and telling that they’re imbued with the justice of the state and they can do no wrong, because they have the power of communism) fails in comically obvious ways.

    Economic justice is great. Putting one central government in omnipotent charge of who gets the money yada yada yada you get the idea.

    • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
      211·
      5 days ago

      You’re just describing a dictatorship. This is an unrelated political system, except insofar as some fools were tricked into thinking that dictatorships would lead to communism.

    • Captainvaqina
      95·
      5 days ago

      You do realize you are exactly describing the current fascist authoritarian regime that is now deliberately and systemically destroying the freedoms of the United States?

      Does that make cadet bonespurs krasnov a communist? His kgb code name does come from the Russian word for “red.”

      • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
        59·
        5 days ago

        Yes, and we’re about to get to see in real time why it is a terrible idea. No Americans on Lemmy have ever lived through a real economic collapse.

        • Schmoo@slrpnk.net
          181·
          5 days ago

          Donald Trump is not a communist, and to even suggest that is absurd. Please at least try to understand what communism means before you apply the label to someone/something.

          • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
            57·
            5 days ago

            I never said Trump was a communist. What I meant to say was that he, the USSR, and lemmy.ml all share one essential feature: “Give me unchecked power and I’ll use it to make everything right for all the people, for I am a wise and benevolent lord. I’m on the people’s team, your team, and everything I do, I do for the people. So you better be on my team too.”

            • Petter1@lemm.ee
              132·
              5 days ago

              Ok, but those are not the communist features of those communities

              One is economic system and the other is political system

              To change economic system fast, a political system in a dictatorship style, is the most efficient but most destructive way.