Business Idiot Supremacy by Ed Zitron h/t @pluralistic
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The Era Of The Business Idiot
Fair warning: this is the longest thing I've written on this newsletter. I do apologize. Soundtrack: EL-P - $4 Vic Listen to my podcast Better Offline. We have merch.Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)
highduc
in reply to AbnormalHumanBeing • • •Guess what lemmy devs are leftists.
If you don't like that you can fuck off right back to reddit.
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lambalicious
in reply to gigachad • • •You can just unblock it temporarily.
Or connect from an account in another instance (or directly from an account in .ml).
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SoftestSapphic
in reply to lambalicious • • •Their issue isn't with the geographic location the server is hosted in
They are talking about the unreconcialable differences between authoritarianists and leftist
.ml excuses dictatorships and genocide for "the cause", despite their cause being the continuation of fascist dictatorships.
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SoftestSapphic
in reply to rumimevlevi • • •You absolutely know it's not the communism that people have a problem with.
It's the authoritarianism, the dick sucking of dictators.
That's why people differentiate between communists and tankies.
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Karu ๐ฒ
in reply to AbnormalHumanBeing • • •I am fucking impressed. Even something as neutral as an announcement of an AMA hosted by a small group of FOSS developers on the flagship instance of the third most popular fedi platform is also overriden by this obsession to turn the fediverse into a turf war.
There is only one side of this massive waste of time of an argument that is obsessed with suppressing differing points of view, and it's not "tankies". There are way too many meta threads where users from 2 or 3 instances act like rabid monkeys slinging shit at everything if so much as someone has casually mentioned Marx in their general direction at some point in history. Even if a thread is not meant to be meta, there is a high % chance that the discussion has devolved into this. Some users really cannot think or discuss anything else. But because they override entire discussions, sometimes blocking them just leaves threads empty (see, for example, the present thread). At this point it's pathetic, and makes me want to stop using Lemmy altogether.
It is also even more frustrating having seen the "lemmy.ml is a tankie instance" campaign be fabricated in real time the exact moment .world defeded grad because, otherwise, how are we going to pretend we are being censored and manipulated by a nebulous communist authority at the point of the 21st century where liberalism has openly turned to fascism across the entire Global North?
Idk, if I were some "red-fash" dictator wannabe making a website, I wouldn't consider it a very good idea to make it open and federated to anyone who wants it no questions asked, and then letting the flagship instance federate with other instances that openly justify US-backed genocides and have included it in their rules that even implying sympathy towards genocided people will get you banned. Oh well, then you will pull some "whatabout" concern trolling involving the Uyghur people that you will literally not mention anywhere else other than to justify this pointless goal.
I'm sorry my comment is not on topic. I don't care particularly about Framasoft other than respecting the work they do. No other comment in this thread, as of the time of writing, is on topic either, as y'all can't stop obsessing about this turf war.
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SoftestSapphic
in reply to Karu ๐ฒ • • •Tankies thinking they own and dominate the fediverse isn't a "turf war"
It's ideological incompatibility with the actual userbase.
Fuck .ml and their dictator worshipping troll farm behavior.
A lot of people would be interested in participating in the AmA, but .ml had to ruin their own instance, so now people don't want to use their space.
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in reply to lambalicious • • •Any instance that is not part of the tankie triad? lemm.ee , lemmy.world, even your's lemmy.sdf.org , I don't mind any of them, and they are not aligned with any specific political ideologies unlike .ml
I didn't think about this, but they're a French company, so maybe they could do it on the French instance? But I don't think it matters much