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[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 103 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Hilarious considering they are reddit refugees explicitly because of capitalism and the insatisble greed it stokes.

Honestly, if I was a capitalism defender, I'd go to Threads to be monetized by Zuck, but since I know zuck is a capitalist I know any niceties provided today will be pay/ad walled if the platform becomes popular the next time Zuck wants to stoke his quarterly growth/metastasis estimates.

There is no safe harbor to be had putting your faith in capitalists, only exploitation in the name of sociopathic, unquenchable greed. It's never enough, and when the chips are down and you participate, it will be taken out of your ass sooner or later.

It would be lovely if the capitalism cheerleaders could learn this through experience, but they never seem to, even after getting their ass kicked by it. Unless you hold significant capital (if you have to ask how much you need, you are not), you are not a capitalist, you are the capitalist's livestock.

[–] Creyapnilla@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

Ant's eye view: I'm here because my app stopped working 😂

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This has less to do with liking capitalism than it does with self-avowed communists on the internet being insufferable.

[–] socsa@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly. I legitimately long for an actual leftist space which isn't just edgy anti-western brain rot. I want to actually discuss theory and praxis and statecraft with people who can actually acknowledge that obsessive Chinese autocracy should be condemned as harshly as western imperialism. Unfortunately, my experience on Lemmy has once again demonstrated that this is impossible.

[–] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It might help your case if you’re more specific about such “praxis” and what you mean by “obsessive Chinese autocracy”

[–] socsa@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You know, a place where people don't unironically talk about shooting social democrats who won't swear fealty to Stalin. Or who can acknowledge that China's nearly complete lack of public trials is alarming.

I feel like these should be super low bars, yet...

[–] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not informed enough to respond. I personally haven't seen discussion of this on Lemmygrad.

[–] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That discussion isn't actually allowed there

[–] socsa@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ah, I guess that's why nobody ever talks about China's objectively terrifying legal system on lemmygrad. I appreciate the clarification.

[–] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can search their instance to see how they teach to deny and misdirect to something else. Or use capitalist apologia ("the system has raised people out of poverty").

Communists who speak against totalitarianism get banned. They're visible on the instance modlog.

[–] Kayel@aussie.zone 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh no, the open source community who worked together to create a great ecosystem for free and fto the benefit of all, in the face of data greedy capitalists are commies!

Save me from these sexy FOSS anticapitalists

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Again, not the point.