What is up with recent surge of libs? Before a few months there was that one downvoter every once in a while which was solved, now every there is at least one random lib in comments every few days, it's like that for about 3 months.
Even if I think that Sankara's 'never stop explaining' should be used frequently, I still think that we should always just respond with a random shitpost or reaction image to such comments. What do y'all think?
Why are you lot so obsessed with reddit? Have ever considered that the way people speak on reddit is just the way people talk in general? Reddit did not invent linguistic trope. I digress.
"It's interesting that you criticize communism, yet everything you own is made in China (often by a subsidiary of some state-owned corporation). If you like capitalism so much, who don't you buy US-made only? -- or if you can't, start your own company in your wonderful free market?"
That line has lost me at least one friendship.
I kept trying to read this to the tune of Slow Motion and couldn't figure out why it wasn't working for an embarrassingly long time
I think they just began to notice the 'Grad. Remember - we are very much a minority in the fecal ocean that is the internet. For thirty years the anti-communist, pro-US propaganda went unchallenged, and it's already been pervasive as hell for decades before that. We are surrounded on all sides, comrades
I had an inactive account since Reddit banned MoreTankieChapo, the API debacle and the release of Sync for Lemmy got me here. Sync is ok but I'm waiting for Boost which should release soon and will likely attract even more fence sitters.
Yeah, you can already pre-register on Google playstore to have it installed automatically as soon as it releases
I prefer the comments to the phantom downvoters. You can get some good dunks in on the former and there's the chance someone stumbles across it and actually thinks for a few seconds. As far as how to respond to them, I don't really want to dictate that. I think there is a place for a reasonable and rational response, a plus for dunks, and a place for pig memes.
I usually migrate from one to the next; I will engage in good faith at least to begin with. Doesn't mean I think everyone should do the same if they don't want to.
You wouldn't care about downvotes. They're as meaningless here as they were on Reddit. Off course most people don't agree with you. You knew that anyway.
On Reddit, you could be restricted from posting on subreddits if you don't have enough karma. I want to encourage Lemmy to not adopt this feature because I enjoy being able to be honest and not worry about being downvoted to oblivion for mentioning anything from a Marxist perspective, especially where Russophobic libs are abundant in the fediverse.
First comment on the 'Grad. Feels good. I like this place, let's keep it safe from the libs.
I think they should be free to lurk and we should direct content to radicalize them. Maybe one or two of them will actually develop some class consciousness.
I still think that we should always just respond with a random shitpost
I would say that depends, but since most of the liberals that are entering here are clearly trolling, I think that you are right.
It could be US government actors. They would only need to have a handful of people on the job doing fedposting and they would be very visible on Lemmy compared to other platforms because of the small userbase
Also the constant dedication to downvoting seems like the behaviour of someone who is paid to do it. Otherwise why would you do that, normal people would get bored right? I don't go and actively seek out online communities I disagree with to downvote their posts. That would be such a pathetic way to spend my time
Normal people would, but there are libs out there who genuinely believe downvoting or trolling communists on Lemmy is some brave stand against totalitarianism. I don't think we need to assume any of them are getting paid. The West produces a surplus of terminally online people who want to attack communists without feds having to lift a finger (other than to dismantle education, ensuring more "patriots" attacking communists online).
oh i don't know, there are plenty of people in the world that have weird fixations and nothing better to do
After getting banned for rancid, homophobic, sexist, and downright bizarre views, they spent the next few months operating a hate campaign in which created dozens of accounts and then spammed users, mods, and admins with deranged rants, death threats, doxxing threats, and the most inane, bizarre, and psychotic messages you can think of.
I actually think it's propaganda farms. You don't want Mastodon or Lemmy or the fediverse becoming socialist as the US government. And unlike Meta and Reddit where they can control the platform through centralized control, the only way to control the fediverse is through farms. It's not that expensive.
I think they meant "as the US government, you don't want the fediverse becoming socialist"
my brain doesn't work well anymore, that still took me a few reads to understand, thanks
I love it though otherwise commies commenting on commie post is boring...
make posts with the answers to deprograming common lib takes and then give the link. if someone is being a little shit, then you don’t have to be nice
“Why don’t more people agree with my shitty takes, it’s not fair!”
You should post this on the instances who defederated because they can't stand to hear any viewpoints left of Margaret Thatcher
I'm just gonna pre-emptively smoke your pack before your redditor shit gets purged
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We've never defederated from anyone, but several liberal crybabies couldn't handle us disagreeing with them and defederated with us, who's being unfair here, moron?
Oh shit, sorry, I was drunk and thought I was on hexbear. That's my bad. Oopsie
Actually i find a lot of people who arent pre-poisoned by anticommunist propaganda to agree with my takes...the issue isnt normal people, its smug redditors who have been smoking anticommunist propaganda directly from fascists and the cia/fbi for the entirety of their political consciousness
