John

man that rise against song is depressing af…

So you fled one billionaire-owned political echo chamber for an open-source lefty platform only to realize you actually just miss cat pics and woodworking tutorials.

Boring and disgusting? Sounds like you just don’t agree with lefty politics.

Ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew … goddamn EWWWWWW

Me: provides evidence from the CIA itself, directly related to the topic on hand

Another user: provides evidence that many/most ex-soviet citizens actually preferred Socialism vs the Shock Capitalism they experienced. (Read Shock Doctrine and Blackshirts and Reds)

You: nuh uhh! My great grandparents told me a story once!

How to summon the .ml warrior with this one simple step.

Yes indeed. I fight against misinformation and for human rights. I support and march alongside strikers. I confront Proud Boys and other fascists. I resist against ICE. I fight for LGBTQ+ and BIPOC rights. I am active in mutual aid in my community. I’ve helped put Progressives and Socialists in elected office. I’m organizing my community against fascism and capitalism that ruins our lives.

You? Well … what have you accomplished lately?

That we’ve actually still have accounts of those who witnessed and experienced it first hand.

Yes of course. And there’s Cubans in Miami who denounce Cuba. Nevermind that these people are all ex-land owners, factory owners, and capitalists who exploited the working class for their own benefit. Castro was kind enough to exile them instead of what Mao did.

Myth: Communism Killed 100 Million+ People

Debunked:

Death tolls often include WWII casualties, famines, and natural disasters, misattributed to communism.

Capitalist atrocities (Native American genocide, transatlantic slavery) dwarf these numbers.

Sources like the “Black Book of Communism” are ideologically biased and widely discredited.

Myth: “Communist countries have no food!”

Busted:

Famines (e.g., USSR 1921) were caused by war/sanctions, not socialism.

Socialist states often had better nutrition than capitalist peers (e.g., Cuba’s food security vs. US food deserts).

Capitalist countries waste 40% of food while millions starve.

A good book to read is Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism by Kristen Ghodsee. So yea, read some books. Or rely on anecdotes 2 generations removed lol

Blocking you, I have no desire to continue this thread.

Essentially, “He was bad, but not THAT bad, that’s just western propaganda”

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80-00810A006000360009-0.pdf

“Even in Stalin’s time, there was collective leadership. The Western idea of a dictator within the communist setup is exaggerated.”.

“tankies” though, amirite?

the list of excuses goes on.

A much more convenient excuse is that the USA is telling the truth about USSR while simultaneously executing millions of communists in South America, Africa, and Asia and lying about pretty much everything regarding anti-capitalism over the past century.

We’re taking red back.

Why would I change instances because people are misinformed about MLs?

There’s plenty of rude people here are you kidding? People are rude to me just because I’m on lemmy.ml lmfao…

Ahh yes, the 20-year experiment that the entire platform was built off of 😄

Less than 24 hours if I remember.

I would argue, based on my perception of people who use and abuse those platforms, as well as data to suggest and confirm the above descriptors, that yes it is so wrong lol

I mean, you’re free to eat mcdonalds all you want, but let’s not pretend it’s a healthy choice in any way you measure it

People don’t want an addicting, toxic, alienating, depressing, billionaire-owned platform.

They want a addicting, toxic, alienating, depressing, non-billionaire-owned platform … Apparently.

I was on matapacos for a year. It just felt … dead. I moved to mastodon.social and I feel fine there as an ML.

I felt the same about lemmygrad. I’d rather have a little bit more popular instance than finding one that specifically caters to my tendency. Overall the fediverse is still lefty af.

I just deleted my account from 2015. Fuck em.

“Due to budget cuts and the outlook on bond markets, we have decided to downsize resources by 900.” - google, probably

cough Join SRA cough

I have never once seen this in a controlled range environment.

Digg fucking sucks. It’s just worse reddit with AI bullshit.

Just a brief skim of this and I’m already so lost lol. Thanks for the link though, I’ll have a more detailed read through later.

Hi, I’m john, I use brave. I’m a socialist and I fight for lgbtq and workers rights. I fight against the fascist regime.

Now you’ve met somebody personally who isn’t maga and racist who uses brave.