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COVID still exists and still impacts people with the vaccine. Government mandates have been lifted, but masking is the correct decision, at minimum in large public gatherings.

I don’t disagree with your concern, but given that options are essentially PieFed, Reddit, or Lemmy (with a tiny bit on mbin), Lemmy is the best of the bunch.

As for the “troika,” I’m aware that Lemmy.world is the biggest instance and that several others that are active are aligned, but on PieFed it’s far more skewed at the moment.

Fair. A fun recent one was EmoPunker’s post about me, where they cut off the conclusion: they had claimed Pol Pot defenders were “genuine socialists,” presumably out of fear of looking bad to their fellow social fascists.

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I’m aware. As far as I know, Dessalines does not share those views at all, nor do the other contributors to Lemmy. Rimu is the lead developer of PieFed, and the largest PieFed instances are generally ones that align more closely with Lemmy.world style views, ie anti-communism and liberal Zionism.

I’m not certain about Melroy, so I can’t say, but Lemmy itself does not have those views, nor does every instance (in fact, most do not).

Posting to MoG would be worse, at least yptb is occasionally pretty useful, and MoG is run by a zionist.

Yep, great example!

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I don’t have any dirt on Melroy, no, but I’d say just use Lemmy. For all of Nutomic’s personal faults, unlike PieFed they don’t make it to the code, and you can spin up or join an instance entirely unaffiliated with Nutomic if you wish. Most Lemmy.ml users find Nutomic’s views deplorable too, most of us are communists.

The ba’athists were nationalists with some degree of social programs, but was not socialist in name nor practice. A bit of a deep dive, Blowback’s first season does a pretty good intro of it.

Aww, thank you, that’s sweet of you to say!

Thank you! I try to foster an environment where we can all engage in collective education dialectically, from a Marxist-Leninist perspective!

The biggest issue is that non-violent protest doesn’t really change anything. They can be useful for organizations to practice and develop logistics and mobilization, but not as a direct method of change. Lady Izdihar made a great graphic on the Leninist theory of revolution:

This is how we need to organize for actual change. Non-violent protest is helpful in practicing revolution, but not in achieving change itself.

Maybe, maybe not. The DNC has been funding ICE about the same as the GOP, and Harris was running on an anti-immigrant campaign to the right of Biden. Moreover, however, the global south would still be imperialized, Palestine would still be the target of genocide, and austerity would continue to be enforced domestically. Late-stage imperialism is the driver.

Nutomic’s transphobia and downplay of COVID are deplorable, but Rimu isn’t merely opinionated on memes and shitposts. Rimu is a rabid anti-communist, with deeply racist views justified internally by said anti-communism:

And justifying it with articles from far-right think-tanks like the McCain Institute:

These views are disgusting, and being an anti-communist is what leads Rimu to accept them more readily. Further, equating slur filters to things like PieFed’s social credit score system is apples to oranges, and defaults against communist instances that unsuspecting new admins wouldn’t think to check just further displays Rimu’s clear ideological opposition to Lemmy on the basis of Lemmy having a lot of communists.

The US Empire is currently using its millitary to plunder the world, and protect the imperial core from retribution from the global south. It needs to die, ideally by being overthrown from within.

It’s important to contextualize that the concessions of the FDR period were a response to better working conditions in the soviet union. This was a calculated move not to help workers, but protect capital.