A little stale, but I just remembered it
Apparently, bringing up China being authoritarian is now "bigotry". Makes sense now all those comments from .ml users that most people banned from .ml are for bigotry.
"Bigotry" = Anything negative about China or Russia now
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Apparently, bringing up China being authoritarian is now "bigotry".
No way!
Oh wait, it's on Lemmy.ml, yeah, carry on then! /s :-P
BPR if you were aware of the instance and its reputation. PTB otherwise. Getting a ban from ML for this sort of thing is a something of a right of passage I think lol.
You know the crazy thing? They'll follow you around for months afterwards as well.
I gotta say, it's really gracious of the mod to only ban you for 3 months. Usually it's a perma-ban.
I'm just of the opinion that every government in the world is a pile of trash working on hundreds of years old systems built on old technology. They all lie and do horrible things to and in the name of their citizens, who all mostly want to be left alone and have a decent life. Anyone who spends their time Staning for a government is wasting their time, imho.
Also, we're literally just experiencing the same process that happened with the invention of the printing press. Once enough printing presses existed, and a significant number of people who previously did not have a "voice" suddenly had one, there was a long period where nobody really knew what to believe among the competing new ideas where there had previously been nothing. It will take a generation for us to figure out the internet. McLuhan was right, we jump right into new communications mediums without studying them or their impact on societies.
/im14andthisisdeep
100% The whole point of us, as a species, putting together a representative government is for protection and support. Be it healthcare or "roving bands of outlaws"
Nearly every government currently in existence fails at that
Hell, even monarchistic governments existed for some type of "protection and support." We so need new ideas, both capitalism and communism are old, dead ideas that have valuable aspects that should evolve. But that's just what capitalists and communists hate, is evolving. Communists already seem to think Marx figured out "the solution" even though Marx thought a true Marxist society would need to be in perpetual revolution within itself, because there is no end to history.
If we are not taking the old ideas and improving on them, what the hell are we doing other than stagnating? I think that's the real issue, stagnation of ideas, a lack of social imagination for anything better. In the same way capitalists can see an apocalyptic end of the world but they can't imagine that post-world existing without capitalism, it seems the die-hard communists similarly can't imagine a future without communism.
50% YDI / 50% PTB
YDI, as these comments were obviously bad faith trolling with the sole purpose of starting flame war. None of the comments in the screenshot can be considered a valuable contribution to the discussion in the technology community.
PTB, for made up "bigotry" as a reason for the ban. If they had banned you for trolling, it would have been 100% YDI.
PTB
There is no authoritarianism in Ba Sing Sei