MindTraveller

joined 2 years ago
[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago

Can I have an apology for the misgendering please? I'm not cis or a guy, and having a problem with stalinists doesn't mean I'm lying about who I am. These guys make apology for Stalin's ban on homosexuality and think the bourgeoisie are "pushing transgenderism"

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The way I see it, genocide is exclusively advocated by fascistic authoritarians, and fascistic authoritarians are extreme right wing, so being against genocide is a left (of fascism) wing viewpoint. Directions are all relative, there is no political center. But on each issue there are sides in different directions. There's left wing and right wing in regards to capitalism, left wing and right wing in regards to gender, and left wing and right wing in regards to genocide. On the issue of genocide I'm on the same side as 90% of the world, and tankies are over on the other side with Nazis, Taliban, and JK Rowling. Those are the left and right sides, respectively.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago

A lot of trans people have Nutomic blocked because he's a transphobe, but the begging banner doesn't respect blocks

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago (3 children)

You could be fully into communism and think genocide is a stellar way to advance your goals

Not really. Communism is stateless, and I just can't see genocide being possible without a state apparatus to back it up. When power is truly in the hands of the people, the people have a moral compass that tells them no to such atrocities. The fact that responsibility was/is so concentrated in the hands of evil men that they could perpetrate genocides is part of why China and the USSR are/were not communist. State socialist at best, state capitalist at worst, and also probably most accurate.

Lenin [...] were very very left

Valid point.

Stalin were very very left

Lies.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I love the leftist parts of Lemmy, and it's a miracle such a left wing platform was built by a team of radical centrists. The banner they use to harass trans people is right in line with the right-wing half of their views, however.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago

The way Lemmy and the Fediverse is set up, you can use the infrastructure without any real association with its founders.

Except for them bypassing blocks by trans people who don't want to be harassed by these transphobic ogres

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago

Thanks, I sent in a registration

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago (4 children)

If you're going to assume my pronouns, could you assume some cooler ones? He/him are so boring and cisgender, I'd rather be misgendered with style

 

Barely enough time in the day to develop new features? Quit using your "full time job" to post genocide denial and Stalin apologism.

I can't remember the last time Lemmy added a new feature that actually benefits admins or users. The Piefed devs are constantly coming out with new features, maybe it's because they don't waste the whole day banning people for left wing political views like saying genocide is bad.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago

Which mod is queerphobic? Can I see the evidence?

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Users cannot vote in a community that has banned them. If the mod wants to restrict voting only to people who vote in good faith, that's their prerogative. It's probably a good idea, it prevents downvote spam from bots and the like. When you have a community that has very different values from /all, maybe kicking the /all people who vote against the sub's values out is good. Voting is participation.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago

Cause over the last few weeks, a bunch of debates over moderation drama have been full of people attacking vegans over the cat taurine debate. That drama is over and it reached a consensus resolution between the mods and admins. If they've made an executive judgement that the moderation drama is no longer relevant and baits carnists into breaking rule 5, then removing that debate is a valid application of rule 5.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Nah, I want war. I want the rest of the world to go to war with the US. They've got a Nazi problem. We beat the Nazis in 1945 and we might need to beat them again in 2045.

 
 
 

The community c/libertyhub@lemmy.blahaj.zone states in the sidebar it's a community for leftists and post leftists, but if you actually look at the posts the mods are making, it's almost nothing but trolling and telling people not to vote in the general election.

This rhetoric is especially dangerous to trans people, who this instance is supposed to be a safe space for, and West Bank Palestinians. If the USA elects a fascist president, there is guaranteed to be multiple genocides of society's most vulnerable groups, in addition to what the US is already doing in Gaza.

The mods on Liberty Hub openly troll their users and ban people for advocating left wing or harm reducing positions. The only action that is allowed on the sub is advocating political inaction in the face of genocide, taking a centrist position with regards to open fascism.

This community has absolutely no place on Blahaj Zone and should be removed by the admins.

 
 

Alright, just started watching Steven Universe. I'm 4 episodes in. That poor boy. All he wants is to be part of a family, and all three of the crystal gems are horrible mentors. Pearl likes to think of herself as responsible, but she cannot relate to Steven and is utterly failing to provide a system of structure that he can understand. Amethyst gets along with him, but she acts like she's the same age as him and can't provide him any of the guidance a kid needs. And Garnet is barely even trying. Greg is the best mentor figure Steven has in his life, and he's homeless with no future. At least he's actually taught Steven to have a positive outlook, but he's still not parent material.

That poor boy is getting wrapped up in big ideas of how he's going to save the day and have the perfect family, because the reality of his life is unbearable. I saw this show on the TV a few times when I was a kid and it bummed me out, but now that I'm a grownup I can see how traumatised that boy is and how badly he needs a responsible parental figure who can relate to him. All of the adults in his life suck! Watching this show is miserable, because I'm watching a kid who desperately needs a family be failed by the family he has.

I like traditionally grimdark settings like Warhammer 40k, but watching Steven Universe gives me the same feeling I imagine non-grimdark-fans must feel seeing a setting like 40k. Overbearing, unrelenting misery. It all sucks and it isn't getting better. On occasion 40k describes the life of civilians in that setting, how oppressed and abused they are by the fascist governments they live under. The fun of seeing evil soldiers who chose a life of violence killing each other fades away. Suddenly, we're seeing the perspective of the innocent. Their suffering. It's depressing and heartbreaking in the same way SU is.

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