lemmy.ml is now requiring users to copy a sentence from Engel's "The Principles of Communism" to sign up and the libs are not happy.
I review these. The
of them respond with “No.”, which technically is a complete sentence in Engel’s text.that's something smuglords and hexbears would do lmao
Yeah that’s the Poe’s Law of it 🤷
So did you let them in then? lol
How many people just copy pasted the footnote about the Chartists? Or hell, just typed a number?
no, no, i'm not a maoist, i just happened to reach the same conclusion as maoism from first principles reasoning, as an independent free thinker
This unironically, but ironically
As a teenage lib on acid I actually stumbled across a crude understanding of the principle of contradiction but then had no idea what to do with it for years
That's so funny and based lmao, they just give them this random looking link but when you click you get this big THE PRINCIPLES OF COMMUNISM popping off taking half of your screen like some kind of screamer for libs 🤣🤣
The comments on the .world post read like an advert for .ml. "They banned me for being a piece of shit, and tried to have slurs blocked in the source."
The devs come off extremely based in that github thread the poster linked. "Fork it if you don't like it" as if "Lemmy_but_with_slurs" is going to overtake the original version.
Despite the devs' well known communist leanings, I'm 99% sure that the requirement is there just to prove that the applicant actually read the registration directions and is not a bot.
They could have picked some edgar allen poe or something.
much less cooler tho
That's cruel. Liberals burst into flame upon reading the holy writ
Engel(s)
Biblically accurate Engels
what could the .ml mean?
it is a mystery
It is for the us military
Non "commies" dont spend all day thinking of either lenin nor marx and are unlikely to make that connection.
Lemmy.ml advertised it's self as a foss/dev community during the reddit exodus last year which is why i signed up for it.
I don't have any one political view I make my own and follow no one
I'm a WeedReference420ist with Being Epic and Badass Characteristics
@dessalines@hexbear.net or @dessalines@lemmy.ml
@nutomic@hexbear.net @nutomic@lemmy.ml
If you're here, please put a question about "was General Dessalines' decision to kill off the remnants of French slaver class in Haiti a genocide or not, regardless of whether you agree or not with the action?"
Then we'll hear of them kkkrakkas complain about white genocide, when they search up that based purge... lmao
Dessaltines :kelley:
Well, that's another way of interpreting his name
... not all genocides...
To their white surprise, the Haitians would kill thousands of slave owners and define a new term of the era, named 'Haitianism'...
I was always under the impression that the .ml stood for Marxist-Leninist
No but the admins are definitely Marxist-Leninists, one even uses Castro as a pfp
Made an ask Chapo about this the other day and was told although the devs are communists, ml is for Maldives and the domain was given away for free at the time.
Marxist-Leninist was definitely a conscious choice though.
Maldives is .mv. Mali is .ml.
mfers too lazy to google marxists.org for a copypasta
Dude called himself "THE MASTERMIND" the jokes write themselves
Lol Leftist Shahada
they should really change their "about" page from [shit communists like] to [shit communists like (scary)]
I really don't understand why lemmy.ml's instance description no longer has "leftist" in it as it once had. That probably would have prevented a lot of the confusion. (and probably would have somewhat preserved the "culture" of the instance even after the reddit flood)
There are a lot of American liberals there who think that being centre-right is actually "leftist" so I think it's related to that. It isn't really a leftist instance anymore and hasn't been since the big reddit exodus, so that's probably why.
It's funny that hexbear and grad both talk about lemmy.ml as though its turned into reddit, meanwhile the .worlders all talk about it like it's Bolshevik Central, all because the devs maintain their stance on not being orientalist and most westerners cannot conceive of a critique of a non-western country that isn't couched in at least a little bit of racism.
I really don't understand why lemmy.ml's instance description no longer has "leftist" in it as it once had.
Some communists have taken to not calling themselves "left" anymore because they see it as synonymous with "liberal" and a barrier to reaching republican voters who automatically switch off the moment they get a whiff of anything left due to programming. The intent being to shift away from left/right altogether because in american politics it's synonymous with culture war when when communists say left we mean it in economic contexts.
Based
I should make a alt just for the sign up
As someone who started on lemmy.ml because I wanted a Communist/Leftist instance:
I was wondering if they had introduced some javascript to invigilate people actually retyping a sentence which would be funny. But it literally just says copy/paste. And if you really felt badly about this text you could find a sentence like this one:
No.
And if that's not good enough, well, I guess it's just not the instance for you.
I don’t have any one political view i make my own and follow no one .
A true Boiadeiro
lol, lmao
lol
lmao
somewhat common lemmy.ml w
if you follow no one why are you surprised no one cares
lol based
Bye bitch
i keep being banned by lemmy.ml admins when i get into arguments with tankies.
one day i will stop procrastinating and roll my own instance
lol this was reported as linking a reactionary source (rule 2)
show me the scars the transgender commies gave you
I can understand GenZedong, since they're a pretty tankie instance...
The rest... you should explain for yourself individually...
'Hostile', 'Dm Harrassment', et 'Rule 2' which is NSFW?
Maybe Rule 2 here refers to lemmy.ml's rule 2, rather than the community rule 2. Instance rule 2 is "Be respectful, especially when disagreeing. Everyone should feel welcome here."
Edit: these are the comments made by this user that were removed:
The last one references !comics@lemmy.ml's rule 1 ("be civil").
The antepenultimate comment made in this thread (about a news article about the increasing amount of african students enrolling in russian language classes) references lemmy.ml's rule 1 ("No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.")
The others are about lemmy.ml's rule about respectfulness.
Lol
Thanks for proving once again that libs are incapable of having a rational conversation when at risk of having their world view changed
Helpful, thanks for your cum
fuckin skill issue, lemmy devs banned me for being too much of a based tankie for even them
how do you get to the age of being a grown, functional adult and still believe this
political education is down the shitter
this is the kind of guy who looks you dead in the eyes and describes himself as a "lone wolf" without a hint of irony
Political education in the US is designed to churn out peoole who unironically say shit like that and simultaneously believe that they are radical and unique from everyone else saying the sane thing
That's not unique to amerika. Its a Liberalism thing. kkkanadians are no better.
When I was a very young adult, I believed that for a bit. The idea thay the truth lies between two extremes was reinforced for me regularly growing up. I "heard 'both' sides" because I falsely believed they both had a kernel of truth. I felt incredibly smug about being immune to the things others fell for
Same person is convinced they are 100% impervious to marketing and propaganda.
This is just the smug centrist line these people say, when in reality they agree with 99% of the fascist online discourse and think "the left" are the big enemy.
I don’t know how you can get to this point and manage not to drown in the shower
Based on their spelling and punctuation, they could actually still be a child.
What's the point? How would you go about bringing your very specific form of governance to fruition?
I think they meant that they do not follow any one political ideology or worldview. Which I guess is fine, as long as they still have reasonable responses to the issues they see around them.
but how do you follow no one
like I get what you're saying and I'm just being a bit coy here but if you follow no one you would have to go out of your way to tailor your thoughts to be contrarian compared to great thinkers of the past and present
it's just a bad way to look at your own ideology even if you do genuinely process a lot of this information independently. all of humanity's greatest work is a collaborative effort improving what came before. if you're ignoring what came before, you're just leaving holes in your ideology to be exploited.