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Remember, it's against the TOS to condone violence. So let's all discuss giving billionaires bunnies
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this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2024
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just pointing out that this type of censorship goes hand in hand with attempting to defed/disaggregate .world from the more left wing lemmies.
Should I be moving my account to
mlor other, then?If you want the best of both worlds, Midwest has access to both, though I do have to block quite a few .world comms because I can’t stand the users’ ~~irrational hatred of~~ obsession with dunking on leftists (edit: and pearl clutching).
Yikes! I’m a leftie myself and I haven’t been on this platform enough to notice. Definitely moving.
Lemmy.ml is good if you want access to close to everything on the Leftist side of Lemmy. If I were you, though, I would browse the main Leftist instances like Hexbear, Grad, lemmy.ml, etc locally and pick which one has a good local and good all feed.
ml still has access to hexbear/grad and .world so it's my preferred instance just so I don't need to account switch just to browse the different perspectives
Alright sold, thanks
Edit: oops wrong comment.
My canary in the coal mine was seeing world defederate from the biggest piracy community on lemmy. Noped out right there.
Way too pro-establishment for me
I assume you mean the ML and Hexbears, who are dedicated to the fall of the west at any cost, including lives.
So, I can understand how people wouldn’t want to be federated with that sort of parlor pink bullshit.
Hadn't heard that euphemism before, but it seems a weird accusation to levvy when the existing western order is already built on a huge mountain of lives, costing more and more each year.
If anything it's "leftists" rejecting (and censoring discussion in support of) the idea that violence at some level is going to be necessary who are the ones who would be the "parlor pink"
typical projection by neolibs dedicated to the maintenance of "the west" at any cost, including lives.
I don’t want anyone to die. And I don’t think the civilians of a country should have to pay the price for the brainwashing done by their corrupt government. Practically every major country does this. The people aren’t to blame.
There ARE people who should suffer, and they are the ruling class and the billionaires. Yet everyone loves to blame the little guys because they’ve been told to. Even you.
I wonder if that's true?