savoy @ savoy @lemmygrad.ml

communist (PSL ☭) unix nerd who likes to unplug

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I've seen far too many people pasting those raddle links as "proof" that lemmy is bad and to fear the scary tankies, yet they never compare anything to how reddit operates or the fact that lemmy is FOSS.

It goes hand-in-hand with a post-revolution socialist society. Proprietary software is essentially private property, which would be eradicated in a worker's state. It would most likely not be a first priority for the new state as there are more pressing matters - for the US for example, the dismantling of the military and the closing down of all international bases - but it would be inevitable with socialism.

That a Slide for Lemmy is being worked on is incredible. It's the only Reddit app I've used for years after moving away from Sync for something FOSS; it's honestly perfect. I've been using Infinity for Reddit recently as Slide development halting has made it so it's really starting to feel long in the tooth (although I don't care for new Reddit features that Infinity supports).

The absolute hypocrisy of sh.itjust.works banning lemmygrad, a communist instance dedicated to the working people of the world and the antithesis of fascism, yet allowing the potential for fascists to find a community on their server.

Focusing on it is definitely unhealthy; you let that resentment build and you're down a path of pessimism and a view that the working class cannot be saved. We just have to remember that there are reasons why people flock to things like mutual aid and uphold them as exemplary actions: it's personal, (relatively) easy to accomplish compared to base-building, and given it's limited scope satisfying to see you do something that directly helps a handful of those most stricken by capitalist hegemony.

Trying to work with them can be frustrating, but unless they're actively hostile towards communists or deviations that counter the true needs of the working class, let them be. Use your energy to do what you know is right: organizing & agitating for socialism in a communist party.

Plus their sidebar gives away what kind of people they are.

We currently have a Mastodon account you can follow for major updates: @beehaw at fosstodon.org.

From what I've gathered on Mastodon, a lot of instances have blocked fosstodon.org for being full of libertarian techbro takes. It's always a waste of time interacting with them. Plus I'd rather not lemmygrad be a shitposters instance, leave that to the chapos on hexbear.

helix is incredible, completely replaced neovim for me. Granted I never used many plugins outside of language servers, so it was fairly easy to not worry about a lack of features.

This is really the only general video game community I followed on reddit given how young/toxic a lot of the other subs would be, so I'm glad for the community growing here on lemmy!

Raddle is the distillation of the anarchist into the most concentrated form of brain-wormed online anarkiddie that spews the most toxic, vile, and backwards bullshit seen in any realm of "leftism".

Thank fuck they're contained in their echo chamber.

This is what I've been using for a few days: https://github.com/soundjester/lemmy_monkey

And we're the ones who want to exist in self-affirming spaces? Liberals can't see the hypocrisy of decrying the far-right yet acting exactly like them.

The issue with communist discussion online is that many, more so the very online ones, place themselves in direct opposition of what liberals bring up, which in this case is that Zelensky is some "freedom fighter" while Putin is evil and genocidal. The liberal thinking is clearly wrong as Putin is not either of those, but the internet doesn't always leave space for discussion and education; liberals refuse to see anything else and parrot what the capitalists tell them. Paired with internet culture of dunking on them, it's easy for the very online to counteract it with what you're describing as it's a bigger pushback and more inflammatory.

The line should not be "critical support of Putin" but of focusing the argument on the point that the US and especially NATO. Debating whether Putin is good or bad isn't a good use of time: he's a product of the material conditions of Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union and the continued push by NATO on surrounding Russia in an attempt to choke them politically and economically. Otherwise it's a mud-slinging fight of Zelensky vs Putin.

You bring this up, but it's clear that many still try to lump Putin into the category of anti-imperialist leaders like Assad (to whom critical support makes more sense on anti-imperialist lines). It just shows how important it is to have professional & organized Marxist-Leninist parties that abide by democratic centralism. You have your party line and all members push and follow it, despite whatever internal discussion may be had.

PSL has a Nashville branch! You can contact them through the main web form and choose Nashville, or potentially directly through their email

This is what makes our group different from the white anarchist — besides he views his group as already free. Now he’s striving for freedom of his individual self. This is the big difference. We’re not fighting for freedom of our individual selves, we’re fighting for a group freedom.

This is the clearest description on the fundamental core of anarchism; Huey put it perfectly. It just shows that anarchists have more in common foundationally with libertarians than actual socialists. Anarchists are individualists, and as such, see any fight towards the collective liberation of society at odds with their line of thinking. It's also why anarchism is predominantly seen as a Western phenomena; individualism is central to capitalism, and especially the US (i.e. "rugged individualists"), so in ther mind they attempt to consolidate the two forms of thinking: they want to keep the benefits of being the privileged of the world in the center of imperialism and keep in line with its alienated and individualist nature, but twist what liberation would mean for the working class into an edgy ideology of "no gods, no masters".

Anarchism or Socialism really hones in on that point as well.

The point is that Marxism and anarchism are built up on entirely different principles, in spite of the fact that both come into the arena of the struggle under the flag of socialism. The cornerstone of anarchism is the individual, whose emancipation, according to its tenets, is the principal condition for the emancipation of the masses, the collective body. According to the tenets of anarchism, the emancipation of the masses is impossible until the individual is emancipated. Accordingly, its slogan is: “Everything for the individual.” The cornerstone of Marxism, however, is the masses, whose emancipation, according to its tenets, is the principal condition for the emancipation of the individual. That is to say, according to the tenets of Marxism, the emancipation of the individual is impossible until the masses are emancipated. Accordingly, its slogan is: “Everything for the masses.”

Clearly, we have here two principles, one negating the other, and not merely disagreements on tactics.

I doubt they're considered obscure, just a bunch of indie bands, but some of my top listened to artists of the past few years have been these:

• Pom Pom Squad
• illuminati hotties
• Cheekface
• Beach Bunny
• VIAL
• Wet Leg

Pure gold, a consolidation of every opinion spouted by online leftists

No to lawns! Yes to native plants!

Liberals have gone from romanticizing British colonialism to decrying it, but have moved their affection to other European colonizers

Even more reason to use Linux now 😎

The only one that I know of so far is !horror@lemmy.ml