Like it’s only so long until a user there posts a dumbass “Kick Tankies out of Lemmy” meme to try and start shit to get us defedded and hexbears take the bait immediately and pile on to tell them what a dumbass they are.
Like as dumb as the “death to NATO” being compared to “death to the people of NATO” stuff was, blahaj and hexbear are the largest queer instances and I quite like taking part in it and their trans communities, idk it’s kinda nice to interact with people who don’t have the same kind of hexbear brainrot where I see the words “pumpkin spice”, “Maoist cult”, “Soyfacing PMC radlib” or “rock stacking” and immediately start to go :sus: mentally, it feels refreshing to be able to talk to an incredibly queer positive community that doesn’t have the same kind of internet poisoning as all of us. And it seems kind of assholy that some of the users here just don’t give a shit and want to post and dunk until we get defedded by every instance, this isn’t like lemmy.ca where they were all dicks that none of us liked anyway and were complaining about us doing hate speech against fucking landlords or lemm.ee where almost every time time a user from there pops their head into our threads here they say something racist or transphobic. iirc blahaj.zone was actually the second most requested instance to federate with in the pre federation discussions due to how good of a queer space it was.
Like their first defed thread was a complete embarrassment because there were a load of users there that actually had positive opinions towards us and then they saw the shitshow happening once from the post reaching active and changed to be way against us which tbh, fair enough.
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statements from the head mod Ada:
and rightly so.
fuck authoritarianism, fuck hierarchies and fuck commie cops
no gods, no masters. the only way forward.
right, so let’s go build the material conditions for this to be possible!
let’s call this process hmmm socialism, or something
I didn’t see the original comment, but I agree with general anarchist sentiment and even I know that we won’t be able to jump right to it from capitalism. I view it more as an ideal longterm goal, and we are of course going to need to have a stable socialist society first to get there. That’s why any communist willing to work with anarchists is a comrade of mine!
As an anarchist, my qualms with state socialism are simply I can’t imagine them ever dismantling and giving power back to the people. That being said, I do think heavily centralized governments like China’s are essentially infinitely more likely to not destroy the Earth’s biosphere or plunge a region into forever wars for a few cents worth of profit, so they definitely seem like a much MUCH lesser evil.
The point of a dictatorship of the proletariat is that power is already in the hands of the people by means of a centralized democracy. There is no point in Lenin where he says “and then the Good King abnegates the throne,” because a government organ having unilateral power over the people was something he specifically rejected.
Ok, so define it first. Bonus points if you don’t consult the state department.
The UK is currently run by an unelected, unopposed dictatorial tyrant with no mandate. Just something to think about while you try and invent a definition.
How do you intend to organise?
I don’t see the People’s Police running protestors over or shooting minorities on the regular.
let’s have a look at your wonderful communist china
social credit system and total surveillance. One wrong word and you’re boned.
the people’s police? You mean like Tianenmen Square?
And what about your wonderful communist utopia of Russia? Raping ukrainian children?
You know there are actually people living in China, including foreigners, and you can ask them about the “social credit score” right? And they all say they’ve never heard of it. On Baidu they actually joke about it because westerners think it actually exists. You can even ask them any other question about China you want! You don’t have to limit yourself to one topic!
OP explicitly said
You don’t get the bonus points. In fact, you get points deducted.
My home country literally has a higher level of CCTV cameras per person than any other country in the world, closely followed by the US and then Australia. America has the highest police funding per capita in the world, far outstripping the UK in second place. The snowden leaks revealed that the NSA uses it’s ability to track people and read their messages and look at anything saved on their computers for NSA agents to stalk their crushes at all hours, find nudes they’d taken on their phone, see if they were flirting with other people and had an internal culture of showing the nudes (i.e. ones saved on the victims phone and not willingly shared with the NSA creep) of the people they were stalking (and were looking at without their knowledge, let alone consent) to other people in the office, they even had an informal term for this called ‘lovetapping’ iirc. If you live in a five eyes country, then every bit of information your native intelligence agency has on you is shared with all of the other nations in the agreement.