lemmy.world had difficulty handling new account registration when I tried moving from Reddit in June 2023, so I tried to find/join other instances. People said “it doesn’t matter which instance you join.”
Oh it definitely mattered.
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I made the mistake of joining .ml 4 years ago, because I didn’t know. Then moved to world and now I’m here.
deleted by creator
allegedly, actually functional instance blocking is shipping in Lemmy soon.
Too late, piefed took the crown already. I don’t want to be associated with assholes like Dessalines.
this thing’s adorable, what is that
It is by artist “sherchle”. I don’t think it is from a tv show or anything like that. Oh and the car is from pui pui Molcar. I thought you meant the turtle
pui pui Molcar
i want these
Are these dipshits still a problem around here? Since I joined, I’ve blocked hundreds of communities, instances, and users. I don’t see them anymore
The ML admins are the developers and maintainers of Lemmy codebase and hosts of Join Lemmy. I have a feeling it’s gonna be real hard to get rid of them.
The solution is piefed
You saying the enlightened centrists are planning a fascist counter revolution?
The irony of naming an instance .world and then forcing western hegemonial culture on it. Just like in the real world.
I can’t hardly understand what you’re saying with all of that dictator cock in your mouth.
I have the suspicion, that you are indeed actually unable to understand. I‘m so sorry. But you seem to know what a cock is, nice! Guess that‘s something, you go!
you’re definitely a .world user
I agree that the West looks at the world with a western lens and that is ignorant. But why are you calling liberals fascist?
I didn‘t call anyone fascist directly, but rather described what they are doing in reality as fascist — in a facetious way, sure, but nonetheless the truth®.
IMO, enlightened centrists are not equal to liberals, as that kind of category describes people that reject any kind of extreme position, while also laying claim on what is and what isn‘t the right thing to do or think and where these borders are to be drawn, all while being unable to break through their own biases and misconceptions … and always (!) end up personally attacking their opponent or argue against strawmen.
Autocratic extremists in their own right. Destructive overall and enablers of fascist thought and therefore enablers of fascist realities.
Here, in this very thread, we have folks, that are very likely economically oppressed themselves, but also refuse to actually educate themselves or can‘t stand to get educated by people that genuinely try to improve society. They rather ridicule the people, that use words like „capitalism“ or „imperialism“, as if those words weren‘t real things that shape the world we all live in, trying to „win“ in the name of their perspective, while also ignoring half the equation.
Or that guy that downright wants to „nuke all leftist communities“. But surely, no fascists in sight.
You’ve got me wondering what the photo is in the original comic
Let me just save everyone a click:
Is the old guy a real person?
Looks like a dozen possible old white guys.
the link above has the answer:
On November 3rd, 2017, Facebook [1] user cartoonfartcat posted a four-panel webcomic of a man deciding not to have sex with a woman after noticing a picture of Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban on her dresser. As the man walks away outside, former Prime Minster Thaksin Shinawatra watches the man from his window.[2] The comic is a political cartoon about the Thai Political Crisis.[3] The post (shown below) received more than 1,700 shares, 400 comments and 10,000 reactions in a little over a month.
As the man walks away outside, former Prime Minster Thaksin Shinawatra watches the man from his window.
Never trust an AI summary.
Look at the window in the top-right of the bottom-right panel, he really is there
I missed it at first too lol
I don’t see it, these two look nothing alike.
I disagree with this, I feel like people tend to rewrite history in their brains, especially with this one, since it has the 2023 date.
e.g. https://web.archive.org/web/20230624100232/lemmy.ml/c/worldnews
Looks like lemmy.ml was a relatively normal place for a while before hexbear tried to refederate with the fediverse, that was a torrent of diarrhea, yes, but they quieted down a while after. The major turning point was when hamas attacked Israel on Oct 7th that year and everything Israel has done ever since. Then that infighting took over and destroyed any rational discourse in lemmy.ml.
I’ve seen this happen with subreddits too also with the Gaza topic. It is the best way to nuke any lefty community.
Eh… it was never normal. There was always tons of unhinged propaganda on there. But for a few months the influx of activity was apparently too much for the power tripping mods to handle and one could debate and have conversations about the facts. Eventually though they caught up and started banning everyone and now it’s the absolute shit show you see today.
I caught my first ban from a .ml community just the other day.
They were cheering because Niger’s military dictatorship seized control of a gold mine that had been operated by an Australian mining firm.
They framed it as “noble natives throwing off a foreign oppressor” when the reality is a local oppressor is just moving in for a larger cut of the money.
They were stanning so hard for the dictatorship, to the point of outright lying and claiming that the dictator was a “duly elected representative democracy”.
Fuck no, it isn’t. Niger, and the Sahel states, are full-on military dictatorships. They’re making a big show out of kicking out foreign businesses (which are already withdrawing due to the sanctions), and mostly kicking out or just killing foreign journalists.
Niger is actually hiring foreign mercenary groups, including the remnants of the Wagner Group. The Neo-Nazis who were mad that Russia was sending them into a meat grinder in Ukraine, so they tried a coup, that failed miserably.
Anyway, my account was banned, and my comments erased, Well, some of them. mostly the ones where I pointed out that the people will never see a dime of the gold mine’s output, because dictators tend to spend on themselves first and foremost.
As opposed to cheering on installing al-Nursa in Syria and the Taliban in Afghanistan? The people of the Sahel actually support their government, God forbid Niger wealth go to their own people instead of Western billionaires.
Niger’s wealth is not going to the people. That’s the whole point here. The wealth is going straight to the dictator.
As to the people supporting their dictators… You do realize they’re killing the people who don’t, right?
The three dictators of the Sahel states are all murdering their own citizens, if those citizens speak up against the dictator.
When General Tiani seized power there were months of protests and the harsh suppression of protests. And that’s just the capital. Tiani has basically abandoned the rest of the country to Jihadists, and mercenaries who have been given carte blanche to do whatever they want so long as they kill Jihadists.
But that’s just what the people want, right? Instead of an elected government. Right?
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Great rebuttal, you really convinced me! I’m ready for my tent in the work camp, comrade, lead the way!
We see our own worlds collapsing, have had numerous verified leaks of times our governments and media knowingly and willfully lied to us. Nothing is going to convince anyone with this reactionary repetition of our own propaganda. Debeers and diamonds may be history, Western appropriation of others ’ resources under brutal conditions aren’t. But sure, “brutal military dictatorships,” because they’re not the regimes we installed.
