Sorry for the short post, I'm not able to make it nice with full context at the moment, but I want to quickly get this announcement out to prevent confusion:

Unfortunately, people are uploading child sexual abuse images on some instances (apparently as a form of attack against Lemmy). I am taking some steps to prevent such content from making it onto lemm.ee servers. As one preventative measure, I am disabling all image uploads on lemm.ee until further notice - this is to ensure that lemm.ee can not be used as gateway to spread CSAM into the network.

It will not possible to upload any new avatars or banners while this limit is in effect.

I'm really sorry for the disruption, it's a necessary trade-off for now until we figure out the way forward.

  • 摆 烂@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    trump

    To be fair, some of the rhetoric you all use makes your political compass difficult to navigate.

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        1 year ago

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      • 摆 烂@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        That video could have easily been 5 minutes. Phweew.

        Say something bad about communism.

        • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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          edit-2
          1 year ago
          off-topic

          About "communism" itself? What is the scope here? Token criticism is meaningless but I will humor you: I dislike the Khmer Rouge.

          I don't care to hear you say something bad about neoliberalism because it's the most prized action by anarcho-bidenists to say "NATO bad" and then agree with NATO about most of its enemies.

          • 摆 烂@lemm.ee
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            1 year ago

            Everyone should be able to point out flaws in a system, as no system is perfect. Not even communism. So, point out the flaws in communism, in plain English.

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      political compass

      Anyone that uses this to navigate politics is themselves politically illiterate.

      • 摆 烂@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Ahhh yes, someone who cannot read between the lines to understand the true meaning. Thank you for this wonderful example.

        • Awoo [she/her]
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          1 year ago

          "I'm scared of having my political illiteracy exposed and dunked on so I only ever write intentionally vague responses." smuglord

          • 摆 烂@lemm.ee
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            1 year ago

            I felt it was pretty understandable. We can have a nice conversation, or we can stop. Up to you.

            • Awoo [she/her]
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              1 year ago

              Say something that isn't vague and useless then.

                • Awoo [she/her]
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                  1 year ago

                  Which ones? There are plenty of rich working class people that I consider comrades. The issue we socialists have isn't income, the issue is class, which is quite different.

                  Your class is determined not by your income but by how you receive your income. A working class person makes their income by selling their labour to a member of the bourgeoisie (capital-owner), whereas a member of the bourgeoisie makes their income by stealing the surplus labour from a member of the working class.

                  There are working class people that can make quite a bit of money. Athletes and actors for example. Although in many cases once people make that kind of money they also become members of the bourgeoisie by investing it in passive income such as landlording or stocks, that is not true of all of them and is very much something that should not be assumed.

                  As for killing the bourgeoisie, I am in favour of simply phasing them out. Although I am not naive enough to think that they will just allow that to happen without trying to kill every last one of us first to prevent it, and believe in the need for us to be prepared for violent action when they do turn to that option. It is not an act that I think should be advocated for by itself, other than with some hefty layers of irony as a means of generally promoting militancy.

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                  • 摆 烂@lemm.ee
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                    1 year ago

                    Do consider a person with $500,000,000 USD to be a comrade?

                    There is a certain level of worth that is unobtainable without being a horrible human.

    • SoloboiNanook [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      Its really not complicated.

      Just communist/anarchist/far more left than normal western discourse with a large amount of cynicism.