Stalin was just misunderstood, the tankies assure me of this

lemm.ee has hexbear, and I can feel the admin writhing while he allows them to persist - even after they banned me entire for "capitalist apologia", "Genocide denial" and "Pro-zionist Lib , Get f*cked Ben Hazir !!!" - all of which would classify as the crime of defamation.

But, at the same time, I wouldn't have those bullshit definitions if I didn't face them head on and call them out for their bullshit, using open modlogs where they themselves can't hide.

Yup, Lemm.ee's aversion to defederating in general is why it's my main account.

"Don't call it genocide! He just wants Russian #landback"

I don’t think there is anything critical about their support.

Some of us prefer the Fediverse to look a little less like 4chan and pigs shitting on their own balls, and a little more like literally anything else. It's the same reason why that one alt-right instance was defederated by just about everyone.

Oh, it does. As an admin, my "job" is hard enough with the regular spammers, don't need whole instances dedicated to spamming in my mod queue. Why do I need to make my hobby harder because people want to decide for themselves?

Luckily, this is fediverse and you have options! You can host your own single person instance and federate with everyone. Just be prepared for some child porn federating onto your hard drives.

Defederation is absolutely a valid tool to deal with spam instances. It's less of a valid tool for dealing with voices and opinions you don't like.

Unfortunately, sometimes it can be hard to differentiate between the two.

You can't block entire instances as a user, at least not on Lemmy. You can block all communities (only since very recently) hosted on an instance, but you can't block the community, that is the users, trolling around the wider fediverse.

Agreed. That's why I'm on lemm.ee

Shouldn't have added microstransations to communism.

The woke mob was crying liberal tears about his reasonable solution to the Holodomor crisis, so of course the lefties who run Facebook refuse to let him have his equal say.

Sounds like tankies will love it and Marx would have hated it

He might have written that but it was Lenin who ended all dissent within the CP and put a single person (Lenin) in control. Arguably the situation at the time was so chaotic and dangerous that this was the only way to prevent the collapse of the revolution.

*tenets

Unless you mean someone was paying rent.

Hell yeah. Democratic Confederalism, Proudohnism, Council Communism... there are so many potential systems of anti-authoritarian socialism that have failed to flourish due to circumstance or conspiracy that could make life so much better for so many people.

A lot of what Marx wrote about the two stage revolution was written in direct response to the failure of the Paris Commune. Marx also saw socialism as the inevitable successor to capitalism. But there are socialist traditions that predate his theories and there's nothing to say he was wrong on some things.

Funnily enough, the image most of us have of Caligula is likely very exaggerated.

Most modern commentaries seek to explain Caligula's position, personality and historical context. Many of the outrageous allegations against him are dismissed as misunderstandings, exaggeration, propaganda or malicious fantasy.

Yes, but do we feel as strongly about him as we feel about more recent mass murdering leaders?

Yep. People are the problem. Plain and simple. As the old saying goes, power corrupts.

Taking the USA as an example, since they're the most vocal about capitalism and democracy, the fact that it took them as long as it did to identify that smoking causes cancer and a slew of other ailments because of tobacco group lobbying is the most direct and pure example I can find of how the system is both corrupted by the people who run it, and balanced by the fact that the people still have a say. For years, the dangers of tobacco products, which we have and share as common knowledge, were either obfuscated or downright refuted by those in power to do anything about it. The fact is, tobacco is bad for you. But for years, even doctors would prescribe cigarettes to relieve common ailments...

In current times, I'm certain many of the same type of situation is happening, it will just be years before it's made clear who was falsifying information and trying to deceive the public into believing that things that are actively harming the public, are actually good, or vice versa. IMO, this is happening with the environment right now, global warming and the electrification of most things like vehicles and whatnot. I have my own theories on who is lying and who is telling the truth, and who is ultimately responsible for the rising global mean temperature and destruction of the environment, which I won't get into right now. Simply put, these situations have existed for a very long time and eventually the truth does emerge... At least, it has so far. That speaks to my point that democracy can, at the very least slow down the damage that otherwise could be caused.

It's an interesting phenomenon to watch unfold, again and again. It would seem that the majority does not learn from history and is therefore doomed to repeat it, taking the rest of us along for the ride.

That’s a hard nope.

AI inherits the flaws of the people that program it, and feed it training data.

Further current AI doesn’t understand jack shit, or even think. At a very gross oversimplification, It’s a very complicated decision tree looking at patterns, what it doesn’t about those patterns depends on what it was programmed to do

Please no.

I don't know where in my post you thought I was in support of communism in general beyond the idealistic concept of what it could be. In every way, it is a shit show mainly because of the people that are making the decisions.

In no way am I advocating for communism over capitalism/democracy. I'm just giving an analysis from a fairly neutral viewpoint.

Funny, because data shows almost the exact opposite. Conditions in Ex-Soviet countries were worse for decades after the collapse, and some of them still haven’t returned to pre-collapse levels. The majority of people in the majority of former USSR republics hold positive memories of the Soviet Union, and majorities even believe that life was better when the Union was around.