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.
demanding absolute purity and claiming anything else isnt socialist doesn’t result in socialism.
Pretending that socialism is "when the gubment does stuff" hasn't resulted in socialism, either.
Quite frankly the entire world would become fascist before a single nation
Yes, that's what political elites do when the power and privilege of the class they serve is threatened - and that includes the ones pretending to be "socialist."
We've known this since forever - and your solution to this is to render an enduring political concept so impotent and hollow that it ceases to have any meaning to the very people it is supposed to liberate?
To be kind of honest the only font that could truly represent this regime is Wingdings.