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It's a combination of tankies and some more level headed leftists. They do have a decent proportion of OK users and the occasional decent meme, but the frequent genocide denialism and too many tankies have resulted in a lot of blocks and bans.
The "Just Kidding, but maybe not" kind of memes are both common in the tankie group as well in the right-wing group, which makes me thing it's just the same people with different costumes, also known as a reskinned model.
Sounds like political compass shit, left or right, but primarily in the "authoritarian" top half
The political compass has got to be the most bullshit metric, I'm according to the compos a left libertarian. It doesn't account for theory and for people who are marxist and understand that communism has not yet materialised. Anyway just a slight annoyance i have.
The Political Compass doesn't actually mean anything, you cannot simplify political views to a grid, moreover nobody is "authoritarian," people have different views on centralization vs decentralization. For example, Marxists believe in a fully publicy owned, centrally planned economy, whereas Anarchists believe in full horizontalism. I would describe the Marxist system as having more potential for democracy, as you have a unified system and thus your votes and voice covers a broader area, whereas an Anarchist would disagree, most likely.
It's that horseshoe again.
Far left and far right, hand in hand, both reminiscing for a 1950s that never existed. One in Russia and one in America.
"reskinned model", lol, interesting application of the concept. I like.
Horseshoe theory
Authoritarians are authoritarian first. Left or right is an afterthought. No horseshoes required.
That is the base of the horseshoe theory.
Only if you have a juvenile concept of political Spectrum. That only extends across one dimension. Leninists are barely nominally left-wing. In practice most of them are State capitalist and not at all left wing.
In practice social Democrats and even Democratic socialists tend to be more left-leaning than leninists. And don't feel a reactionary need to Slaughter or imprison those that disagree with them regularly. I mean if we are going by the providing social benefit to your chosen class of people qualifies a socialism. Then that would make the Nazis socialist. Which they most definitely we're not.
Why would democratic socialists be less left-leaning than social democrats?
The order was not meant to be significant. And purely just a construct of a stream of consciousness speech to text. Though you aren't wrong.
Yes, the theory comes from the superficial observation that the actions of the nominal extremes look very similar. And when your head is being crushed by the boot of authoritarianism you don't care if it is the right foot, or the left foot wearing it.
At one time there were many concepts of what Socialism is, and at the time nazism was A socialism, of course completely opposite of the concepts that survived.
Hardly. Lennonism still exists. It's highly similar. In fact Lenin and Stalin helped Hitler invaded Poland. And exterminated their own ethnic polish population in Russia. Leninists still defend these actions to this day and hypocritically criticize "the west".
Yes, I agree with you.
I just wanted to add that at the time "socialism" was any answer to the question "how to structure society so its members benefit the most?"
Nazism was such an answer, and it was "eliminate all who don't contribute".
Of course the concept of socialism later evolved and got more strict so that Nazism doesn't count anymore.
The concepts of socialism were pretty nailed down by the 1930's, and anyone back then who was familiar with any of the leading socialist ideas would not call nationalism or an ethno state socialist.
The Nazi's called their party socialist because it was popular with the working classes at the time, but they were not actually socialist in policy whatsoever, it was only ever a branding/optics choice.
Consider at that same time the Spanish Civil War was happening, which involved a huge faction of Anarchists spreading the much older ideas of Kropotkin and Bakunin, and they rightly called the Nazi's Fascist, and absolutely did not consider them a twisted offshoot of socialism.
If you go far enough left, you end up back on the right.
I would argue authoritarian 'leftism' is just a misnamed right wing ideology wearing the sheepskin of socialism, where as Anarchism / Libertarian Socialism is the 'real' far left.
Lol I literally got banned from ml for "horseshoe theory"
I’m sort of new to Lemmy, having only been here a few months, and I started my first account here in world, the one I am commenting with.
What I found is that world has many cool and fun and interesting communities, but for news ( world or USA centered) is really centralist USA based. World has cut off access to many other cool and interesting communities that may have different viewpoints here and there.
I think the few experiences by trolls here from other communities is more of a walled garden thing, and if world has a more inclusive mix this would solve a lot of issues .
Me migrating to another instance still allows me to participate here in world, and I simply ignore what I don’t like here and elsewhere.
Honestly, world has as many issues with gatekeeping and power hungry mods as instances and the only way to get the full lemmy experience is to pick and chose what fits best with oneself
You say be more inclusive of tankies and I say learn about the paradox of tolerance.
It’s not wall to wall tankees , this is only a minority. Which for the non tanker, can be avoided and ignored.
I was talking more of a general problem by deciding what I wanted to censor myself rather than letting others do it for me. Baby and bath water analogy and all that.
And this extends way beyond tankees and piracy.
And since people are talking about hexbear, it does have the best Syrian news coverage
If you call out genocide denialism you get banned. That's enough for me to consider it wall to wall tankies
Yep. If you have nine tankies sitting at a table and a person joins them you have 10 tankies sitting at the table. It works the same as it does for fascists.
It's like saying that there we're good people in Nazi germany. Therefore we should have tolerated Hitler. Why?
insert cutesy pic of young Stalin
Which is the reason I stopped participating in some of world’s news and political communities, but because of a different genocide.
But I certainly did not go running to a community that promoted denial of other crimes. Instead I use the power of lemmy to pick and chose healthy communities.
Each instance has communities which are toxic.
That's true in general.
Indeed I've witnessed Palestine denial on .world, but I'd hardly call it the prevailing sentiment on any mainstream comm there. Each time the comment would be ratioed and loudly disagreed with, which is encouraging.
I will acknowledge that .world mods have some serious pet projects and issues which is very concerning.
It’s something that is sporadically done, by some people based on the phase of the moon or what they feel like; but it’s tolerated by the other mods.
One does not see it much unless it happens to oneself or it’s read about elsewhere. However it certainly has an effect and perhaps is one of the reasons there are cycles of low engagement ( or at least lower than normal). Often people like me who have issues with it just quietly go elsewhere, which I more or less done.
But once I moved away, choosing a non political server as my new home, I was exposed to all the communities world blocks, and it was then I realized I had been censored
I feel the same but ive given up on Lemmy. Probably need to find another platform for more grown up discussions.
Even reddit is far better. Hate to say it but it's true.
Tell us if you find a better alternative.
You won't
Its a people problem, not a platform problem.
I know. But there are different platforms catering to different people, interests etc. I'm part oft some Linux, Free Software, special interest forums. And there definitely are communities with a very different atmosphere... So I wouldn't say it's impossible just because people are people.
I think any large collection of people online are going to have issues similar to here; and while the distributed social networks have a distressing tendency to bunch up and get tribal, it’s better than only one instance, such as Reddit.
That said, I think these can be improved later
Lemmy.ml and Lemm.ee are both more broadly federated than Lemmy.world if you want to combat the US bias of .world.
Yup, that's pretty much spot on. I don't really have a problem with .world myself. I do hear a lot of complaints about admin powertrips, but I've never used .world so I have not experienced this myself.
The problem is that the tankies are running the instance and get off on banning anyone that doesn't toe the line of the party ideology.
Please remember that some people don't know the lingo yet.
New people for example. New people who might come to this thread trying to learn about the different instances.
They've got Google.