Last week his board had him removed as CEO and his pay slashed
...and that is what happens to CEOs who try to do "the right thing." And cops who try to do "the right thing." And politicians who try to do "the right thing."
It's a system that selects for the people we naively call "bad apples" and root out the ones that are willing to do "the right thing" - and that means we don't really have to worry about targeting the wrong ones, do we?
Problem is the tankies aren't staying there. One of them has even managed to infiltrate the db0 leftymemes mod team... despite it's claims of being "free of the “ML” influence of instances like lemmy.ml and lemmygrad."
On the one hand I find it hard to blame somebody for skipping out on war - especially if we're talking about someone who will most definitely be press-ganged into being the unwilling cannon-fodder.
On the other, we're still talking about leaving your fellow working-class people in the lurch - it doesn't matter that it's the politicians who cause it... the people you leave behind will be paying the price for it.
I suppose I can only speak for myself - if the US does a regime-change here (as the Biden-regime was threatening to do), I couldn't be able to bring myself to leave. The people living in this country deserves my loyalty first and foremost - and that trumps any and all amount of abstract politics.
Okay, you're not wrong... so I'll modify my statement and say that Lemmy is about as democratic as social media gets at this stage - which, I'll concede, isn't saying much.
This is making me despondent - well, more despondent than usual.
Yes, Lemmy is pretty democratic - there is literally a "create community" button right at the top, see?
I guess what you mean is that Lemmy doesn't do "liberal democracy" (which is just a whole lot of liberalism and very little democracy) - but democracy has never been about electoralist spectacles.
Bilash: "Those Bolsheviks are up to no good! We need to find out what they're planning!
Makhno: "Quickly! Bring me a dress, makeup and some high heels!
Bilash: "???"