Lemmy is populated by far left Americans who were banned from Reddit for extremism. Strict ideological conformity is required or you’ll get actual death threats. Don’t go there unless you want violent communist revolution and hate discussing interesting ideas.
Sorry, have to lock post since it’s attracting off-topic debate and personal attacks that break the rules.
I have more of a feeling most people here are Deutsch. But then again, that’s probably an American speaking.
Also: In the last two years I didn’t get a single death threat on Lemmy. On Reddit I sometimes got one a week. Almost always Nazis or cops wanting to fight me on the street, or SA me or something else they love to fantasise over. And then there was that one Indian guy who didn’t like me calling him out on his Islamophobia.
Sooooooooooo I have to assume that part with the death threats is made up.
Yeah, I think that part’s just projection.
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Why do they think communism is far left?
Because it is? If private ownership of everything is the capitalist goal, aka far right, then people owning everything is obviously its exact opposite, aka far left.
We’re currently somewhere in the middle, leaning towards right. Some places further than others.
That’s only one part of it. Right to protest, for example, is considered leftist, but it doesn’t exist in communism. It’s not black and white, but if I had to describe communism as left or right, definitely right due to social freedoms. I’m glad I’m not obligated to take a pregnancy test before getting a job and I don’t think that counts as a leftist idea at all.
Correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t think communism says anything about a right to protest. You’re thinking of authoritarianism which is a different category.
I know, that’s why I said it’s not all black and white. authoritarianism happens when a small group of people hold a lot of power, which can happen regardless of economic system, but it is tied to extremism and no extreme is good. We only got the right to protest after the fall of communism.
We only got the right to protest after the fall of communism.
Who got what where when now?
they haven’t read enough theory yet
Don’t go there unless you want violent communist revolution
I mean, it doesn’t have to be violent but beggars can’t be choosers.
If it isn’t going to be violent what do you intend to do with all the fascists and counter revolutionaries? Putting them in prisons will require violence. You gonna just leave them out there doing their thing?
Tbf they are the ones that force it to be violent, our side would be happy with a peaceful revolution and to end violence forever. Only the fascists get off on the violent parts
“The very concept of “revolutionary violence” is somewhat falsely cast, since most of the violence comes from those who attempt to prevent reform, not from those struggling for reform. By focusing on the violent rebellions of the downtrodden, we overlook the much greater repressive force and violence utilized by the ruling oligarchs to maintain the status quo, including armed attacks against peaceful demonstrations, mass arrests, torture, destruction of opposition organizations, suppression of dissident publications, death squad assassinations, the extermination of whole villages, and the like.”
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Also violence got us civil rights and the 5 day work week
There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.
- Mark Twain
As a Dane myself, whenever I see someone claiming to be Danish with takes like this, I feel like investigating, and what a curious account indeed. The account is a little over 5 weeks old, yet they’ve posted so incredibly much I doubt that’s their first account. They wrote in Danish a total of 6 times and it doesn’t look machine translated, so I believe they’re from Denmark, but I also found a post stating they “moved to Denmark”, not sure where from though, but they post all over the place, like /r/ukpolitics, /r/norway, /r/newzealand, /r/auckland, /r/australia, /r/jordanpeterson, /r/conservative and /r/republican to mention parts of the spectrum.
Interesting person indeed, clearly right wing, but why would they move to Denmark of all places?… so, Russian troll factory account
I think you underestimate how good AI translations are.
They are pretty much always worse than human translations and 99% of human translations already suck.
Thank you for investigating
Maybe he was hired to work on an oil platform or something, you never know.
Just a Canadian here. Threatening 'murica for being …'murica. fuck em. I hope they hate it.
I haven’t been banned from Reddit.
I want Lemmy to succeed because I want to interact more with people who are not from the U.S., and I don’t want to use platforms from the people who were sitting behind him on inauguration day.
Since Elon feels that he can interfere in Reddit and since Reddit seems open to letting that happen, that’s a good sign to me that I should limit my use of Reddit and should use alternatives instead. Lemmy seems to be the most Reddit-like of those alternative platforms, so here I am.
Thank you for being with us
This.
Hear hear
I’m:
- Not American
- Not far-left (certainly heaps far away from “right” tho)
- Not banned from Reddit
Guess I’m not here, the more ya know
We can be not here together.
I may be far left, but i’m sure i’m not American!
What about those of us who are just average leftists in other countries but far left by American standards?
You probably don’t count.
Lemmy had a mix of Marxists, full on Authoritarians who claim to be communists (tankies, Maoists, Stalinilists, many Leninists), Anarchists (ie. Libertarian Socialists), and a bunch of more centrist liberals (ie. social democrats, progressives, welfare capitalists).
I’m pretty sure the person is ranting about the first three groups, in particular probably the tankies as they tend to be the least polite and most self righteous.
Nah, OP on Reddit has a bunch of posts in alt-right subs (KiA, Asmongold, JordonPeterson), their definition of far left is not going to be remotely serious.
Oh never mind then.
But yeah even a mainstream european leftist might feel out of place in certain corners of lemmy.
Hahhaha same.
That’s funny, I deleted my Reddit account after I’d gotten sick of it.
Not clear to me whether it’s saying the death threats come from lemmy or from reddit.
That’s a half truth, I’ve only been banned 6 times from reddit and 3 times from Lemmy, and never for extremism. And all my death threats were deserved.
Average hexbear user
It’s funny that the commentator is danish.
i wish lol
