If your point is that they're pro-CCP, you'll probably get your point across better by calling them "tankies" than "communists." I identify as a communist, but I'd be first in line to say "fuck tankies."
Stalin and Mao were good actually, the CCP has never done a bad thing ever, and Russia should roll over Europe with their invincible tanks, because the west is bad, therefore anyone who disagrees with the west is flawless.
That may be an uncharitable exaggeration, but surprisingly not by very much.
Originally, a "tankie" was a Stalin apologist, but in more modern times, it's come to mean just authoritarian communist. I don't think it's a self-applied term. More a derisive term used by anti-authoritarian leftists.
The anti-authoritarian communists tend to call themsleves anarchists, anarcho-communists, anarcho-syndicalists, left libertarians, etc. And they'd strongly tend not to have anything good to say about Stalin, Mao, or the CCP.
(There are right-wingers who call themselves "anarchists" or "anarcho-capitalists" or "voluntarists" or "minarchists" or "Libertarians" (note the capital "L") or whatever, but they have pretty much nothing to do with the hard-left-wing anarchist movement that they appropriated the terms "anarchist" and "libertarian" from.)
Communism is not eugenics. I also would love to see who specifically you are saying was executed. Just calling someone a journalist doesn't automatically mean they are good people who do good things. Be specific if you're going to make an argument.
Also the devs expressed support for people creating more mainstream liberal instances. That's the reason why there are recommended instances at Join-Lemmy.
This is exactly my point. China is authoritarian and has commited war crimes against people who it doesnt't like. It also arrests journalists as enemies of the state.
I'm not saying the west is completely perfect but China is much worse
Anti-authoritarian communism is a thing. I think mostly the issue folks here in this thread are taking with you is equating communism with authoritarianism. And I don't think anyone in this thread is pro-China or defending censoring content critical of China. Quite the opposite in fact.
This meme, again?!
I do not understand the argument. Are you implying that being communist automatically pins you in the pro CCP?
My country is socialist. My family is socialist. All my friends are socialists. I love socialism.
By following the same logic, does that mean that I am considered a Nazis lover?
What banner? Are you under the impression that communism is some kind of monolith? If you're referring to the soviet union say that, or China, or whoever else you're specifically accusing of mass murder. The term communism refers to hundreds of different political ideologies and many different countries. Many of whom have next to nothing to do with each other.
Yeah. I don't understand this. Lemmy is an open source software and there are many instances to use. Hell, lemmy.ml is even pushing people away from their instance - that doesn't sound like people promoting lemmy to advance their ideology.
Don't agree with the devs' POV, use a different instance. I'm not socialist/communist and I'm perfectly fine using lemmy. I've talked to the devs and they've been nice and polite, and I haven't really encountered any lemmy.ml content trying to poison my mind. Lol. We even stayed on reddit even after fucking jailbait, the Donald, etc. fiasco.
you're saying that as if it's a bad thing! especially as long as they just develop and stay out of pushing certain content, then I couldn't care less. now if they were tankies on the other hand, that I would mind!
Their memes community is now full of post about how it's ok to kill capitalists and other hatefull bullshit and no admin seems to care.
Also their comics community is now just spam of extremly hateful comics from one of the admins.
just a quick thought on up/down votes on the OPs post.
my personal take... just because I think the content of a post is inflammatory or outright wrong, does not mean it deserves an insta-downvote.
every post and thread is a chance to share constructive dialogue. if the thread goes off the rails, I hand out downvotes liberally. If it is actually informative or interesting, I hand out upvotes - even if I disagree with a particular argument.
I have learned to spot idiots much more easily by watching the dialogue of a post develop and participating -- without doing the "it hurt my feelings, downvote!" thing.