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I don't interact with the various other Lemmy instances very often. I see almost no point in it, it's just reddit. All they post is endless articles from the Atlantic or Wall Street journal. Elon musk this, orange man that, all useless, pointless posting.

Recently, their favorite flavor of slop has been the "Tiananmen square massacre". This has brought out the worst in them. We live rent free in their heads, but especially whenever a socialist government is mentioned. They all come crawling out of their basements, pushing Funko pops and copies of Hogwarts legacy out of the way of their crusty, rainbow light keyboards to claim their knowledge of a Chinese protest is infallible.

My god do they not let up either. Any rebuttal is shut down by these drones. Any mention of "what about the Americans many war crimes?" Activates their inner CIA sleeper agent, and they hit you with "commies are just whataboutism. That's all they have. Well at least we have freedom. At least we aren't committing genocide." All extremely easy to debunk claims.

Don't get me started on isr*el. They sure do love their ethnic cleansing. More so than even the loudest of American Republicans I've ever heard. To them, Gaza is all "terrorists". They should all be killed in their eyes, their only hope of redemption is "non violent protest", aka, just lay down and die. Never in my life have I seen a larger group of far right genocidal freaks than I have on Lemmy world.

It's so ridiculous, it's comical. Say something like "hey this is misinformation" and a thousand replies will hit your inbox, all from dudes that post things like "Hamas needs to be destroyed", "people who don't vote shouldn't complain about anything" and my personal favorite one "Uh actually, I support the maori MPs getting suspended for doing the haka. That stupid dance is disruptive" (Yeah, real comments, not hyperbole)

The Nazis are in our backyard. And they should be bullied back to reddit where they belong.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 21 hours ago

I visited a propaganda subreddit, and now reddit routinely shows me colorized nazi propaganda with zero context. I could hide the sub, and get reddit to appear more left. But it's definitely way to the right of the world libs

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

And like all right wingers they are afraid of right-punching and accordingly left-punch with censorship based on bullshit shibboleths rather than concrete and true criticisms.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I wonder how the admins of .ml feel about the software platform they developed being taken over by Reddit neoliberals who actively despise leftists more than anything else and are aggressively trying to drive .ml users off the fediverse (and succeeding).

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

As I recall they specifically wanted there to be a popular liberal lemmy and their own joinlemmy site directed much of the growth of lemmy.world.

I believe they viewed this as a distasteful but necessary action in order kill the cultural power of reddit. Even if a post-reddit multi-polarity is dominated by liberal sites it will still be preferable to the situation of a singularly dominant liberal site (reddit) that we have now.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

Hopefully they are taking notes on the nature of open source under capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago

No dude we can talk about the American war crimes another time. We're talking specifically about the war crimes of the Soviet Union, a country that no longer exists. Yes I understand we never actually talk about American war crimes but I'm sorry you bringing that up is whataboutism, I don't make the rules.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

whataboutism is effective propaganda to shut down discourse. china only looks bad in a vacuum and their cia brainwashers know this.

i have blocked about 2/3rd of politics comms on lib instances and got banned from the other 3rd because i don't really like US narratives.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

A day or two ago, some lib on .ee was calling Hexbear, .ML, and Lemmygrad the "triad of extremism." Hilarious, really.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

New axis of evil

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

thats like common now, for a while.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They're pretty toxic. When I first came, almost every sub was pro-Palestinian genocide. They've started coming around (Johnny come lately) but have doubled down on Ukraine not Nazis.

If that one dude that constantly masturbates to communism ever comes out of his denial closet, he's going to be one hell of an ally.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They started coming around when Trump came into power, before that, they needed to support it because that was the democrat party line

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

Ah yeah, that makes sense and seems to add up.

Not sure why but replies are slow to federate, since last night.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The posing like they suddenly care about Palestine is actually infuriating. I started using lemmy shortly after oct 7 and gravitated to .ml because it didn't make me feel like I was going to lose my mind reading the comments.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not sure it's posing, but it certainly could be. I think it's because a few of us kept relentlessly countering the hasbara/US narrative. They think they're incredibly clever, but breaking through centuries of multigenerational propaganda is hard.

They readily admit legacy media is lying about a few topics but if it's not touched them personally, they are having trouble breaking through the last layers of pig shit. And in more cases than not, even then. I have a feeling that's going to change, sooner than later. I expect things to get uglier before better.

Eta: I'm developing the preference to seek the refuge of the hard truths of .ml than the outright delusions of the wider Lemmy delusions.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I am a bit cynical, but there's a type of person who always seems to be ready to pick up whatever the current democrat line is. When Biden was in office it was endless excuses, somehow Israel was just this totally independent country and when they weren't acting helpless it was handwringing about terrorism. Biden had no control over any of this but now suddenly when it's Trump on top they're all in opposition. If there's been any introspection it certainly hasn't extended to any other geopolitical narratives either.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

No, you're right, the timing seems right.

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