subversive_dev

Special exclusive health benefits for billionaires when they breathe the vacuum, I’ve heard.

Yes they mean don’t break the law for your boss because the second anyone starts asking questions they will be extremely happy to have a scapegoat.

Instead, insist that the request be put in writing

We…uhhh… suspect Russian involvement

Well, being on .ml myself I would probably have the worst visibility on that but when I have seen people actually look at the mod log, it generally doesn’t agree with the posters claimed rationale for the ban

From your description, that certainly sounds like an uncontroversial take, I would love to see the actual post though… Commonly people’s summaries of posts that got them banned differ quite drastically from the actual post

Fair enough

I can’t speak for the other Lefties on here but I’m a Western citizen and former proud Liberal persuaded by arguments on this very website

I think we may be ideologically aligned, but this sort of comment does the opposite of persuade

Removed by mod

Can you show me an example of a well-reasoned and well-sourced criticism of China that triggered moderation action?

One side of the lefty versus lib divide is continuously agitating for defederation and downvoting every opinion they don’t agree with. One side disabled downvotes. Care to guess which is which?

Sigh… Speaking only for myself, I am anti-Imperialist and pro-labor. I’m against the total dominion of the ruling class over all aspects of life in “The West”. I’m against a propaganda apparatus that deceives us into thinking servitude and misery is freedom. I’m against inventing atrocities supposedly committed by adversary states. I’m against thinking that reactionary thought can be defeated without state intervention. If that is pro shit then I am pro shit.

Have you ever considered that perhaps I once believed exactly as you did but then exposure to media outside of ruling class control here on lemmy “radicalized” me?

Try praising a US adversary state or mentioning the century of US imperialism and war crimes

Not believing the US propaganda apparatus is thoughtcrime

…says the one-man-band running the linuxsucks comm…

Modlog might be the best thing about Lemmy. Kinda answers OP’s question

If you don’t want to hear about billionaires, I invite you to try… billionaire controlled media! You will find they are scarcely mentioned at all, except to glorify the accomplishments of individual billionaires, with no consideration of class structure or generational privilege

Now I’m definitely on your side by temperament but my understanding is that they do this to try and build social bonding. (They don’t have the capacity or inclination to bond by infodumping about their special interest(s))

Just imagine, being stuck in small talk for as many as 5 minutes!

People would rather burn the world down than add lifetime annotations SMH