dunk so hard the admins stepped down

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    I just can’t believe the ee user who tried to deflect a hate killing of a gay man in texas into you see this is why China bad moment.

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      Also citing Russia’s homophobic laws. Yeah, dude, I know Russia is homophobic! That’s one of many reasons why I think they shouldn’t have dissolved the USSR!

      Not to mention that, for all of China’s faults WRT LGBTQ people, I think it’s borderline unheard of for the government to be so out of touch and callous in China that the police would allow a hate crime like this to go down after months of the victim complaining about their neighbors being hateful bigots.

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    Ah, this is really too bad, because I liked being on an instance that was federated with pretty much every other instance because I feel that defederation generally sucks, barring some extreme exceptions (n.b., the so-called “Tankie Triad” :D is not one of those exceptions).

    As far as I know, this will only leave lemmy.sdf.org and lemmy.zip as fully federated instances. :(

    Edit: I forgot to mention lemmy.ml. Also, apparently lemmy.today is also pretty good about not defederating. Lemmy.sdf.org is a bit problematic because it’s not actively maintained.

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    Mao had just said, “uhh the state is an oppressive institution so now we’ll just dismantle everything and y’all can just organize horizontally or whatever.”

    The funny thing is, he kinda did. The result was these roving, undisciplined militias calling themselves Red Guards and holding (actual) struggle sessions and killing each other, and committing a bunch of atrocities.

    I know there were actual historical reasons but I like to imagine that one day Mao somehow got possessed by a redditor and started doing what any “anti-tankie” would say he should do, denouncing the government as having fallen to bourgeois opportunists and calling on the people to rise up in this structureless, “anti-authoritarian” way. But since the outcome was bad, it’s of course, “No, not like that.”

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      Yeah it’s a great example, and there’s a lot of irony in how during this part of history Western Maoism became the main current of the left student movement. The anti-authoritarians have always been very quick to adopt the most idealistic, anti-materialist lines just because it “feels right.”

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      My favorite was Ben Shapiro saying “Mao took away everyone’s guns,” and reactionaries started parroting this, which was the complete opposite of what happened. Mao was like “Here have some guns. I’m not gonna tell you what you should do, but also it’d be a real shame if some landlords tried to collect rent from their tenants.”

      They’ll claim he killed 60 million people, but then not explain how. Hint: revolutionaries went around shooting anyone they didn’t like after communists won the civil war.

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        “I don’t know where political power grows out of, I hope it’s not from the barrel of a gun, I hate those things”

        - Mao

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    I was in that same thread shooting the shit. They didn’t know we shoot to kill!

    Honestly, I was just trying to get banned from their instance so I didn’t have to see their garbage anymore. This is some of the best and funniest news I’ve heard on here in a long while

  • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    “oh, log off. See what that one comrade did when they logged off and touched grass?”

    LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU LOG ON KEEP POSTING MOTHERFUCKERS! DO NOT LURK QUIETLY INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT! RAGEBAIT AGAINST THE DYING OF THE LIGHT!