Yeah I love the demands for revolutionary violence from people who have never been in a fight, let alone killed someone. Simply expressing that killing people, because I think I am right, is a last resort, got a bunch of .ml people on my case. I straight asked if they had killed anyone, or been in a situation where violence directed towards them put their life at risk. They all (like 5 people nothing crazy) said no, yet insisted they were up to the task, and knew they would be fine because it was necessary.

Big “if I was there when that mass shooter showed up, the shooter would have been the only dead” energy.

So basically chinese disorderly conduct

I don’t praise my leaders though

But if harris just as nazi what is the issue?

Yes, and growth is sustained by striking a balance of quality and quantity in terms of the human population. If this balance becomes out of whack you will decline into what they refer to as “malthusian stagnation”. So the population does need to grow in order to sustain economic growth, along with the quality of the individuals that make up the population. What they refer to as “economic darwinism” beings to truly take place as a population has the extra resources to put more into children than parent, creating generational progress. Post industrial economic darwinism gets a buffer, so-to-speak, due to the increased per capita productivity introduced by technology. However this is also not infinite, and so, at some point this will plateau, and the population will need to begin rising again to spur growth. We are likely in the midst of this plateauing.

For a really bad summary? Capitalism requires economic growth, business, industry, etc. must increase output, therefore the consumer base must increase, and so it goes with the true labor underclass. For a real explanation check the link below to a PDF file of a dissertation on the subject.

https://scholars.unh.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1462&context=dissertation

Many are concerned. Capitalism requires a growing population. It is just they seem to believe force is the way to go.

Gotta love when foreigners try to correct you on your language

A lot of places that are “full of tankies” actually have more people not like that in them. However, the moderation is another story. So while you may not get that feeling from the general user base, that is because it is often the mods people are talking about. Unless it’s like hexbear, which were brigading and shit.

Just more evidence to push towards “they are targeting places as fringe as lemmy now” conclusion in our previous conversation.

I read a report on how a lot of tiny fora, and other sites with comment functions, were getting barraged with russian bot traffic. They use web scrapers to pick up on sites that have comment functions, of any kind, and that tells the bot network to start automated posting there. Often it is so strong they effectively DDOS a lot of these personally run places. However, this account doesn’t feel like that. This leads me to believe one of the possibilities I previously suggested. It is a mod, it is someone with mental illness that, for whatever reason, was having a moment of clarity that one time, or even lemmy is being targeted. If it is targeted, that makes me think that russian prop-pushing organizations have so thoroughly saturated the internet, they now have to seek fringe spaces online, in order to keep quotas, or something like that, up.

Yeah that is strange, in a suspicious way. Is it the prop-pushing account of a mod? Is there some sort of actual move to infiltrate things as small as lemmy? Did they take their meds that day?

You should be able to express your anti-imperialist sentiment as well. If someone asks about an alternative, and you suggest something other than world, and tell them it is better because they aren’t loaded with closeted nazis, you should be able to. It is a very low level comment in regards to how rude/disruptive it is. I could understand if they were going all over the place just doing that. That is not what is happening.

If you are that sensitive you should lock your place, and add people via invite, as you see them posting things you like. You should then have your rules expressed about this stuff. If you have an open door system, you should be able to tolerate critical comments that are middling rude.

By your system of etiquette, you should be not arguing this, as you are on a space specifically to discuss over authoritarian mods in places like .ml, etc. in a snarky, sarcastic, satirizing, etc. way. This is not the place to defend the behavior. However you are good to criticize the opinions/posts here, as long as you don’t do something stupid like make threat. That is how it should be.

Quit putting words into other people’s mouths. The post is right there, they did not say that. They said you could go to another instance that doesn’t have the baggage of tankie authoritarianism. If you can’t accept middling criticism, make your shit private, get off publicly accessed media.

And for that they banned OP, just proving his statement correct.

No dissent on the grad!

Unsurprising, but a blatant example of them not allowing criticism. I mean, people expect it from them, but it is something to link to when one claims they don’t do this.

It is, or at least i used to be, common practice to give strong stimulant drugs to pilots to keep them up for very long flight orders.

I mean, the reason the US is having such a huge issue with eggs is because they basically put all their eggs in one basket. What I mean by this, is the reason bird flu affects the US much more than Canada, and Europe, is that they limit egg producing facilities to around 10k-30k hens, after that the industrial farm needs to build another, separated, facility for the hens beyond their regulated number. US industrial farms often have over 1mm in a single, massive, structure. This means that not only are they more vulnerable to getting it at all, but it facilitates rapid spreading. China, and other places, also have similar issues with bird flu, as the US, due to similar production practices.

The west managed a massive decline in population growth without such draconian policies, and the west was popping out 6-10 babies on the regular till very recently. Also, the reason people were starving, and struggled to find work, wasn’t because the proletariat was doing something wrong, it was because the elites horribly mismanaged the country’s agriculture, despite the prols, who are supposed to be the dictators, telling the elite exactly why they didn’t do things that way, and that this would destroy their crops. They couldn’t keep up with the pace of jobs requirements because they forced a broad move to urbanized industrialization, then poorly planned that transition, and it took over 20 years to course correct, because they refused admit they didn’t know what they were doing. A broad re-planning of this only came after Mao died, which lead to the arrest of the “Gang of Four”, and a following liberalization of access to information, allowance of academic freedoms, and restructuring of schemes to move workers to an industrial economy.

What makes you think these people haven’t already heard every argument against their behavior, and stick to it anyway? This is generally the case. When tankies say stuff like this they are regularly argued with, their logic challenged, their “facts” challenged. If it happens on their turf they remove comments, and ban people, if it doesn’t they just argue until the other person realizes they are, effectively, talking to a rock, or until the tankie tires, or hits a wall they can’t make an argument to get past, and they stop. You see the same names, over and over. They are evangelicals for authoritarian communism, and campist, blind, support for anything, as long as it is in opposition to western countries. The most blatant acts of imperialism are currently being executed by russia, yet they claim these are self defense, diplomatic measures, acts of desperate necessity, anything other than admitting they are just exercising imperial hard power, and trying to annex as much of neighboring countries as they can.