Yeah as a leftist sometimes it’s hard for me to understand where people are coming from on both sides. It seems like people always fail to take a step back and realize that whatever their favorite government is doing can be wrong and is never a true representative of their ideology. (Some) Americans slobber over the flag and join the military just to get fucked over by the US government acting in its own geopolitical interest and manufacturing their consent, and then on the other hand tankies out here try to act like authoritarianism and genocide are both made up and justified if it’s done under a communist government because they can’t fathom that a democratic alternative like market socialism could work and think the commoners are too stupid and brainwashed to work for political change.
Luckily I didn’t see too many people on Reddit unironically supporting US intervention (except r/Conservative and r/neoliberal lol) but the situation with the Lemmy leadership is super concerning. Fortunately the nature of Lemmy, FOSS and the activity pub standard means the software could be forked and adopted quickly by the federated admins, so it’s not a huge problem. Still not a good start for this platform imo
I completely agree with you on the first :) which is why I’ve started going by humanist rather than leftist. I ultimately care about people and want to have a system where they have all the needs met, however we can achieve it without harming others or the environment.
I get that ideas thought out by Marx or Adam Smith seem really cool (I think they’re cool too) but people don’t need to think of these as basically religions and defend all of it or try to practice all of it to the letter of the text. These are there how people thought things worked conceived by really smart people, but still people. We have to constantly mix and match, improve and question theories to make progress.
As for Lemmy, it makes me slightly sad because the devs seem like really kind people in their interactions who grew dissatisfied with the system they were brought up with and decided to go in the polar opposite direction, to the opposite extreme. I’m hoping that once we see the community grow beyond the original membership numbers of lemmy.ml+lemmygrad (10k+7k at worst), it will be less of an echo chamber.
Yeah as a leftist sometimes it’s hard for me to understand where people are coming from on both sides. It seems like people always fail to take a step back and realize that whatever their favorite government is doing can be wrong and is never a true representative of their ideology. (Some) Americans slobber over the flag and join the military just to get fucked over by the US government acting in its own geopolitical interest and manufacturing their consent, and then on the other hand tankies out here try to act like authoritarianism and genocide are both made up and justified if it’s done under a communist government because they can’t fathom that a democratic alternative like market socialism could work and think the commoners are too stupid and brainwashed to work for political change.
Luckily I didn’t see too many people on Reddit unironically supporting US intervention (except r/Conservative and r/neoliberal lol) but the situation with the Lemmy leadership is super concerning. Fortunately the nature of Lemmy, FOSS and the activity pub standard means the software could be forked and adopted quickly by the federated admins, so it’s not a huge problem. Still not a good start for this platform imo
I completely agree with you on the first :) which is why I’ve started going by humanist rather than leftist. I ultimately care about people and want to have a system where they have all the needs met, however we can achieve it without harming others or the environment.
I get that ideas thought out by Marx or Adam Smith seem really cool (I think they’re cool too) but people don’t need to think of these as basically religions and defend all of it or try to practice all of it to the letter of the text. These are there how people thought things worked conceived by really smart people, but still people. We have to constantly mix and match, improve and question theories to make progress.
As for Lemmy, it makes me slightly sad because the devs seem like really kind people in their interactions who grew dissatisfied with the system they were brought up with and decided to go in the polar opposite direction, to the opposite extreme. I’m hoping that once we see the community grow beyond the original membership numbers of lemmy.ml+lemmygrad (10k+7k at worst), it will be less of an echo chamber.