So I get you are making a distributed reddit alternative. I read that most of you are left politically. You also view reddit as right politically. Which is interesting because I view reddit as left politically in fact extreme left but not as extreme as you are here. Given that reddit has purged many right people and those people have now attempted to also make reddit alternatives like ruqqus, saidit, .win, I get from their perspective they want more freedom which is to basically not have their speech deleted. Then on the left there seems an obsession to silence anyone or thing they don’t like, which I feel I am running that risk just typing this. So if lemmy feels reddit is not left enough as in the words of your comrade nutomic “reddit is far right”, to which i completely disagree but lets play with it, if reddit is not left enough I take it you mean it is not deleting and censoring enough? To which if lemmy is being created as a solution to that then I think the point of lemmy is to allow and enable even more censorship? I have to say if this is the point of lemmy that is both scary and stupid, scary that people think more censorship is in fact needed and stupid in that people would think more censorship is in fact needed, no well I just wanted to type that but stupid in that they need to make a new platform to enable more censorship, like wow.
I don’t know both the nazi and commies had gulags. There is too many similarities to me but I guess much of it stems from authoritarianism. I should probably read more on it because if Trump is setting off red flags as a Hitler we have a problem.
Like throwing children seeking asylum (which isn’t illegal immigration by the way) in concentration camps and possibly permanently separating them from their families? Or employing unmarked police officers to arrest peaceful protesters? That’s pretty damn authoritarian.
Authoritarianism is not inherent in either socialist or communist ideologies, and it’s a result of the need to organize a militant organization to overthrow an existing regime as well as to be able to hold power afterwards. I very much recommend reading that book if you’d like to know more about the rise of Trump because there are many parallels with the rise of fascists in both Germany and Italy in the 30s.
Thanks I will try read it. Authoritarianism does to me seem a big problem
Authoritarianism is very prevalent in capitalist societies. US is a good example, where you see a huge militant police force whose primary function is to protect the ruling oligarchy and their property from the rest of the population. US keeps around 20% of the world’s prison population while its overall population only accounts for around 4%. It’s hard to think of a better measure for authoritarianism than the percentage of the population a regime keeps imprisoned. The brutal suppression of the public uprising by the police is also very much something you’d expect to see in an authoritarian state.