I think it’s awful…

that there aren’t more jokes.

And meaner ones.

Also I can sling shit way harder and faster. I’d just get banned, and nutomic and Dessalines don’t need that headache! :D

I appreciate the advice, but I have gotten the same talk from Muad before. This is me being patient and not slinging shit!

I’m specifically trying to get to the meat of the argument without wasting a lot of time effort-posting primary source essays no one will read.

I think it’s worthwhile to show the disparity between the liberal worship of polite debate and their actual actions.

Nope. I don’t care whether they’re communist or not, they’re apologists for authoritarians. The communism thing is just an excuse they dress that up in.

You said previously:

Be mindlessly propagandistic “communist.” The countries they fawn over aren’t even particularly communist, they’re just authoritarian.

I was challenging your implied assertion that LG isn’t communist, or that currently existing socialist countries aren’t communist.

(For clarity, I’m using the terms “socialist”, “communist” and “Marxist-leninist” mostly interchangeably. That tends to be the practice in ML spaces, I’m happy to expand on that if it’s helpful).

It doesn’t seem like you’ve got the knowledge base to argue whether or not a country like China or the DPRK is or isn’t socialist. If you want to argue that they’re bad because they’re authoritarian, that’s fine by me.

Can you help me understand what you mean by “authoritarian” and how it doesn’t apply to Western/liberal democracies?

It’s my understanding that every state uses authority to force some level of compliance at some expense to personal freedom (i.e. giving me a ticket for making graffiti is authoritarian).

I don’t agree that every state’s use of authority is a bad thing.

I even feel myself more active and engaged here, on Reddit I’m in lurking mode most of the time.

That’s my favorite part. It feels like there’s more interaction with people here.

It’s not sealioning to respond to someone who’s engaging me by questioning their arguments.

and repeating “you’ve chosen to engage with me” while this is very obviously the other way around.

Facedeer started the conversation, while loudly proclaiming that he doesn’t want to. What’s wrong with pointing out that he’s the one engaging?

FaceDeer’s issue is about LemmyGrad and not communism,

Homie admits that he doesn’t know anything about communism, but says his issue is with how Lemmygrad is not communist. Their issue is with ML communism.

Hey comfy, I understand what you’re getting at but I think I’m ok with it. I’m only returning an insult after it’s been thrown at me, and I think it’s clear that I’m working hard to be nice here. I’m no yogthos, and I have a hard time with stuff like this.

I’m not basing my statement off of any experience with Marxism-leninism.

As you don’t have any experience with Marxism-leninism, why do you feel comfortable saying “the countries they fawn over aren’t even particularly communist”?

SWCC is clearly communist, based on Marxism-leninism.

I don’t care what you learned in 7th grade history. The communists are right. Krause and Nomad seem to share plenty of primary sources in that thread. I don’t care about changing your mind, so I won’t rehash that thread here.

I don’t particularly care about the specific political ideologies on display.

This is a lie. You’ve chosen to engage with me about communism, from an anticommunist perspective. You don’t think you’re political, because your politics are ingrained into your very being.

I’m not speaking about you specifically, I have no idea who you are. I’m talking about lemmygrad in general.

Generally, when you describe a group it’s understood that you’re describing members of that group. As a Lemmygrad user, you’ve called me “mindless” and “propagandized” (with no provocation or context). This is rude. You’ve also chosen to engage with me while taking part in a strange farce about how you wouldn’t choose to engage with me.

It’s not that lemmygrad.ml is simply “communist.”.

I thought I was pretty clear when I first asked: what is your experience with Marxism-leninism that you feel comfortable making this statement?

Hi facedeer, you understand that one of the Lemmy.ml instance rules is not being insulting, right?

I don’t appreciate being called mindlessly propagandized out of the blue, especially by someone who’s certainly heavily propagandized.

The countries they fawn over aren’t even particularly communist, they’re just authoritarian.

Can you help me understand your level of knowledge about Marxism-leninism that you feel comfortable correcting me?

It’s just tiresome and pointless engaging with them.

You engaging me makes this a lie. You started barking first.

wow what did lemmygrad.ml do?

Be communist.

It’s worth mentioning that most of the instances lemmygrad blocks are empty instances that a spammer was using, not populated instances our admins have a disagreement with.

We’ve got a few (or maybe just 1) folks that pop up with super vile NSFL stuff every couple months. They make new accounts wherever.

The only instances I think they’ve proactively blocked were wolfballs and exploding heads.

The book Quotations of Mao Tse-Tung.

It can’t be good for your teeth.

It’s not the first big wave, and it won’t be the last! :) I always think it’s a bit funny when fresh users spend a lot of time requesting new features - give yourself some time to settle in!

It can be a bit frustrating in the 'grad with new Lemmy users not understanding at first that communists exist here. It’s a learning experience for everyone, though! I can probably use the practice in being more patient.

Onwards and upwards!

I’m gonna guess it doesn’t move the plot forward

Mine’s been working for a while now. Do you have the latest version from the Play store or fdroid? I think there’s been a couple updates in the last few weeks.