I don't have any one political view I make my own and follow no one
how do you get to the age of being a grown, functional adult and still believe this
political education is down the shitter
this is the kind of guy who looks you dead in the eyes and describes himself as a "lone wolf" without a hint of irony
Political education in the US is designed to churn out peoole who unironically say shit like that and simultaneously believe that they are radical and unique from everyone else saying the sane thing
That's not unique to amerika. Its a Liberalism thing. kkkanadians are no better.
I know some canadian leftishists and their nationalism is very strange compared to their professed beliefs.m
When I was a very young adult, I believed that for a bit. The idea thay the truth lies between two extremes was reinforced for me regularly growing up. I "heard 'both' sides" because I falsely believed they both had a kernel of truth. I felt incredibly smug about being immune to the things others fell for
how do you get to the age of being a grown, functional adult and still believe this
This is just the smug centrist line these people say, when in reality they agree with 99% of the fascist online discourse and think "the left" are the big enemy.
What's the point? How would you go about bringing your very specific form of governance to fruition?
I think they meant that they do not follow any one political ideology or worldview. Which I guess is fine, as long as they still have reasonable responses to the issues they see around them.
but how do you follow no one
like I get what you're saying and I'm just being a bit coy here but if you follow no one you would have to go out of your way to tailor your thoughts to be contrarian compared to great thinkers of the past and present
it's just a bad way to look at your own ideology even if you do genuinely process a lot of this information independently. all of humanity's greatest work is a collaborative effort improving what came before. if you're ignoring what came before, you're just leaving holes in your ideology to be exploited.
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It just means that they have no idea what they're talking about, don't know any of the ideologies in any detail and can not place their own politics appropriately.
99.9% chance this person falls into one of the ideologies extremely clearly but they're simply not politically active or educated enough to know.
Absolutely. The "best" you'll get from people like this is knowing what policies democrats and republicans claim to support, and they think some are good and others are bad. Although even then a lot of the time it's shit like "I'm pro life but I don't want to impose that on other people." or "I'm pro education."
Please rewrite the following in Maoist Standard English: "Death to the United States of America"
I review these. The 
of them respond with “No.”, which technically is a complete sentence in Engel’s text.
How many people just copy pasted the footnote about the Chartists? Or hell, just typed a number?
no, no, i'm not a maoist, i just happened to reach the same conclusion as maoism from first principles reasoning, as an independent free thinker
I'm just a hard working country boy, which is why I believe we should let the workers run the factories instead of the bosses.
As a teenage lib on acid I actually stumbled across a crude understanding of the principle of contradiction but then had no idea what to do with it for years
That's so funny and based lmao, they just give them this random looking link but when you click you get this big THE PRINCIPLES OF COMMUNISM popping off taking half of your screen like some kind of screamer for libs 🤣🤣
OH GOD I'M ON A WATCHLISTThe comments on the .world post read like an advert for .ml. "They banned me for being a piece of shit, and tried to have slurs blocked in the source."
The devs come off extremely based in that github thread the poster linked. "Fork it if you don't like it" as if "Lemmy_but_with_slurs" is going to overtake the original version.
Despite the devs' well known communist leanings, I'm 99% sure that the requirement is there just to prove that the applicant actually read the registration directions and is not a bot.
i know, but the domain was chosen for a reason.
I thought Mali took all their domains back tho?
They did, but they only nuked suspected spam sites, since the .ml domain was packed with those. Technically they could still revoke lemmy.ml at any time for any reason but if they didn't do it in the initial wave I'm not sure why they would now.
Non "commies" dont spend all day thinking of either lenin nor marx and are unlikely to make that connection.
Lemmy.ml advertised it's self as a foss/dev community during the reddit exodus last year which is why i signed up for it.
god, i wish, instead i think about ice cream, tea, and guitar tones all day.
seems it's still in line with foss principles though, though i've been very vocal about my disdain for open source nerds for not knowing how to make a program people can figure out without having used anything else first.
@dessalines@hexbear.net or @dessalines@lemmy.ml
@nutomic@hexbear.net @nutomic@lemmy.ml
If you're here, please put a question about "was General Dessalines' decision to kill off the remnants of French slaver class in Haiti a genocide or not, regardless of whether you agree or not with the action?"
Then we'll hear of them kkkrakkas complain about white genocide, when they search up that based purge... lmao
To their white surprise, the Haitians would kill thousands of slave owners and define a new term of the era, named 'Haitianism'...
I don't have any one political view I make my own and follow no one
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Made an ask Chapo about this the other day and was told although the devs are communists, ml is for Maldives and the domain was given away for free at the time.
Marxist-Leninist was definitely a conscious choice though.
they should really change their "about" page from [shit communists like] to [shit communists like (scary)]
I really don't understand why lemmy.ml's instance description no longer has "leftist" in it as it once had. That probably would have prevented a lot of the confusion. (and probably would have somewhat preserved the "culture" of the instance even after the reddit flood)
There are a lot of American liberals there who think that being centre-right is actually "leftist" so I think it's related to that. It isn't really a leftist instance anymore and hasn't been since the big reddit exodus, so that's probably why.
It's funny that hexbear and grad both talk about lemmy.ml as though its turned into reddit, meanwhile the .worlders all talk about it like it's Bolshevik Central, all because the devs maintain their stance on not being orientalist and most westerners cannot conceive of a critique of a non-western country that isn't couched in at least a little bit of racism.
I think the mods on lemmy.ml are fairly active at combating casual racism and ableism eliminating freezepeach, so I could see why the .worlders hate it so much.
.worlders are just so god damn attached to their winnie teh pooh posting from reddit that they can't conceive of a society that disallows it without it being jorge orwal
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I really don't understand why lemmy.ml's instance description no longer has "leftist" in it as it once had.
Some communists have taken to not calling themselves "left" anymore because they see it as synonymous with "liberal" and a barrier to reaching republican voters who automatically switch off the moment they get a whiff of anything left due to programming. The intent being to shift away from left/right altogether because in american politics it's synonymous with culture war when when communists say left we mean it in economic contexts.
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