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  • Edit 2: I was originally really bothered by the "I still voted" thing due to the Democrats having literally been the vanguard of widespread socially-acceptable COVID denialism, but I read the OOP again (after discussing with JoeByeThen in this thread) and it's really understandable, actually. I think the OOP isn't extremely politically aware, but they are pointing out a real issue here. The left should be the vanguard of pushing back against this, but today it's mostly a small portion of the left while the majority has adopted the liberal position completely on this issue.


    The linked thread is mostly garbage for the simple reason that many of the people in it clearly don't know what "left" means, so it's an eclectic mix of vague but mostly correct critiques of leftist groups and people who are talking about the Democrats (including likely OOP, who defensively assures commenters "they still voted").

    Edit: elsewhere in the thread, OP says "Leftists consider liberals as very non-serious", so it certainly seems like OP is a radlib and not a leftist. As purpleworm pointed out, very suspicious to title the thread "any leftists" instead of "non-masking leftists" or something similar.

  • As far as I can tell, you're not actually saying anything in this comment. What is "exigency and practicality" in this case? What would be the "more competend and rigorous application of constructive critique"?

  • Yes, but they should understand when they're visiting the US that they have to tip because otherwise the workers make almost nothing.

  • Damn, I thought the underscore was a parody account. You're right, it's the official one lmao.

    to the person in charge of it.

  • It's actually one ban. AFAIK when a user from a federated instance is instance banned on Lemmy, it will also automatically display a ban for every community in which they participated, even though they were not manually banned from every community.

    As Saymaz said, this ban was actually by mistake (an admin accidentally clicked the wrong user in the UI and didn't notice until later).

  • They at least subconsciously think being gay is bad, I guess.

  • One protester told VisuNews that they were attending the demonstration "because ICE likes to bend over for Daddy Trump."

    Didn't take long for that to get weird and kind of homophobic, did it?

  • You can tell it's not the official YDSA account (too based).

  • /r/stupidpol

    """""leftists"""""

  • @Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml if you look in the modlog now, you can see the explanation by Alaskaball, it was a misclick on the phone UI when trying to ban a different user.

  • I think this has been a thing for a long time.

  • This is a Trotskyist newspaper, so presumably any information about China can and will be used to write an article like this one.

  • or simply a coping mechanism for the people writing and commissioning them

    I think in this case it's this one.

  • https://massline.org/Dictionary/RE.htm

    Here is a Maoist website using the same definition, with a source from Mao using it in that way. Marx and Engels used it in the same way AFAIK, for example "reactionary socialism".

    I'd appreciate sources for the alternate definition (not sarcastic, I mean this sincerely).

  • Reactionary

    A political position that maintains a conservative response to change, including threats to social institutions and technological advances. Reaction is the reciprocal action to revolutionary movement. Reactionaries clamp down on the differences of the emerging productive forces in society, and attempt to remove those differences, silence them, or segregate them in order to keep the stability of the established order.

    Examples of the political position of reactionaries can be seen throughout history: during the US Revolutionary War, the reactionaries were the ruling British aristocracy, who sought to maintain their feudal government over their American colonies, while the US revolutionaries sought to establish a government to represent the interests of capitalist values and practices. Hundreds of years later in Russia, the tables would turn and capitalists became reactionary while the Socialists are revolutionary.

    https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/r/e.htm

    Reactionaries are the opposite of revolutionaries. It doesn't just mean "reacts to things". The "reaction" here is the reaction against revolutionary movement, not an individual's reaction to new information or events.