Capitalism is so normalized it’s like the air we don’t realize we’re breathing. You get lefty instances pointing out how freaking insane it is especially with global warming, and libs lose their minds

may I offer you this trophy for excellence in commentary: 🏆

I’ve been called a tankie but I never diss anyone, I like to engage in dialogue. Heck I majored in philosophy so it’s kind of my jam. It’s a pity to punch left though, especially when we’re soo buried in right wing media and thought these days.

Yeah I don’t understand why lemmy.world would defederate from that instance. They like anti war, anti colonialism, pro human rights pro LGBTQ and yes SOCIALIST

We’re inundated with right wing propaganda and there is so little left wing information out there that punching down on this tiny thought group seems, I dunno, to say we’d prefer the ‘offical’ take on everything

Its called “enshitification” and it exists everywhere. Subscription model everything. Maximize profit at user experience everywhere. Destroy Twitter with a pay to post model. Look at google search results lately. No actual results just a bunch of paid garbage. And don’t get me started on pay to win video games lol

It’s the profit motive. It’s the capitalism. At least we’ve got Lemmy and federated media!

Everyone

China authoritarian!!

(America: greatest prison population on earth per Capita, UK: total surveillance apparatus)

Yeah well you know it is important we embrace new technology etc

I installed Gentoo on my dad’s PC in 2006

It was a mistake

But I stand by Linux. It’s in our corporate firewalls, it’s in my steam deck and it will will because it’s made of LOVE

I like this because it’s post reddit no antenna

Because thanks to the federated setup we get exposed to a wider range of ideas. There are people who are actually socialist or communist and support countries like Cuba and see what China is trying to do with communism there and offer different perspectives. Western media is flooded with anti China propaganda because the capitalists just can’t compete with a state run economy. So the word ‘tankie’ is what capitalists or liberals use to shut down Marxist dialogue over these countries. It’s basically used the way MAGA idiots use ‘woke’. The meaning is ambiguous and the point is to stop ‘bad ideas’ from being discussed.