• Paltamachine@lemmygrad.ml
    7·
    7 hours ago

    Okay, I suspect the CIA is in France stirring up the protests to funnel capital to the United States.

    My intention isn’t to dismiss the protests, but I’m worried that the initial anger won’t translate into concrete demands that lead to a real movement. At the moment, despite the red flags seen in the media, I am quite skeptical of the outcome of these protests.

    Furthermore, I believe a relatively easy way to identify those people is by the One Piece flag.

    spoiler

  • jlamotta@lemmygrad.ml
    10·
    1 day ago

    Finally got the Reddit axe for saying “pissrael”. I had already been banned before but now all my new accounts are banned even before I do anything. Pretty upset about it.

  • TabularTuxedo@lemmygrad.ml
    14·
    2 days ago

    traoré-peel

    Tried to make that xi-peel emoji but with Traoré and Sankara. It’s kind of hard to get the effect of peeling paper.

  • RedPartisan@lemmygrad.ml
    11·
    23 hours ago

    Well, just got banned from the book server I loved over discussing communism. I know, not a great idea (possibly the worst idea) but they had a political channel and it wasn’t explicitly against the rules, and I informed them numerous times early on that I would stop if I was warned.

    I certainly learned my lesson.

    Edit: I also asked what was and wasn’t allowed and they informed me that anything was allowed so long as I was respectful about it.

    Edit 2: It was a Discord server. I bet you could tell already but I still felt the need to clarify that.

    • La Dame d'Azur@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      7·
      20 hours ago

      Let me guess: it was something to do with Stalin, gulags. the Holodomor, Mao, Tiananmen Square, Stasi or anything of that caliber?

      Every place is cool with discussing communism so long as it’s conveniently only theoretical and nothing actually historical because the 10,000 lies dumped on every actually existing socialist state with an utter refusal to consider those well-funded narratives are wrong.

      • RedPartisan@lemmygrad.ml
        7·
        18 hours ago

        tl;dr It was Mao.

        We went back and forth about Chinese revolution for a short bit and they asked if it was worth all the people who died from starvation and the executions of educated people. I said the second part didn’t even happen (I’m pretty sure this is what did me in), I probably should’ve looked into it and tried to debunk it properly but it just looks so wrong on it’s face. Why would the Chinese even do that? Why would anyone do that (Pol Pot did because he was a crazy person but besides)? Given that the barefoot doctors program existed they clearly didn’t mass murder doctors, what the hell even is this claim?

        • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
          7·
          17 hours ago

          I’m sorry that happened to you. Strategically speaking, maybe it would have worked better to hunt down a source on it and post that? But at the same time, it sounds like they were trigger happy about finding an excuse to ban you anyway.

          In my experience, communism or not, few places on the internet are actually moderated with any kind of fairness or consistency of standards. Lemmygrad is one of the few places I’ve seen where I mostly agree with the decisions made and think they are genuinely trying to be principled about it. And I don’t say that to kiss ass, it’s just sadly true how rare it is in my experience. Much of the time, even in my liberal days on the internet, my experience is that moderators either act based on the letter of their law and ignore the spirit of it. Or they act basically on what they feel like doing in the moment and then (maybe) cite a rule after the fact to try to justify it.

          • RedPartisan@lemmygrad.ml
            2·
            7 hours ago

            Thank you. I don’t know if it would’ve helped in this specific case, but you are right comrade. I should do more reading and gather my sources properly if I end up doing something like this again.

  • KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml
    14·
    2 days ago

    So I was in a lecture and there were some guys in front of me. They looked back at my fanny pack which has a communist sticker on it, and grinned to themselves about it. I made eye contact with them. You could tell they were looking down on me. I don’t know why they couldn’t be normal about it and just disagree without making themselves feel superior. It triggered my self esteem issues a lot and I wish I said something.

    • acute_kernel_panic@lemmygrad.ml
      2·
      9 hours ago

      I hate them smug people so much. But you gotta keep your cool, else you only feel worse. I speak from experience. I fear saying something wouldn’t have done any good.

    • demeritum@lemmygrad.ml
      2·
      18 hours ago

      Was it the libertarian debate-loving type? Because that’s who usually gets all smirky about Le AKSHUALLY gommunism rewards the lazy. Or claiming that “inheriting my grandpa‘s wealth is my own hard labor.” - god that one tested my entire spirit.

    • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
      9·
      2 days ago

      Practice your “we will not apologize for the terror” and “I am thinking about you going on Tito’s one way coal mine tour” face.

    • pronounced ɱɐɢ @lemmygrad.ml
      7·
      2 days ago

      What I’ve gotten from some peers, other than puzzlement, is at times what I think is malevolent curiosity, oughtright dismissal, or being made fun of (like this one blond shitlib of the overachiever type I know).

      I think the best way to deal with these types of people is to shoot them down, one way or another. Dismiss them, bore them to death, or make them embaressed that they even thought of doing what they did.

      But that’s what we want to do, and sometimes we can’t. For now it’s best not to let them get to you, so that you can hopefully get back at them.