UM, PJ, JL. First three users I noticed making me have a negative experience on the threadiverse. Pretty much in that order.

Which I’m realizing now in my head I imagine them as the three straight white dudes of this experience

One of the first people I ever blocked and someone I’ve been side-eyeing ever since he switched from lemmy to piefed. He’s generally been doing a better job, but this is definitely inline with original recipe PJ.

Marxist-Leninist are the most active IRL leftists. i know this to be true because they’re always saying that. i find this to be odd given that all the IRL leftists i’ve ever known are anarchists or Trotskyists. the MLs i only ever meet online tell me this is because all the leftists i’ve ever known have been feds. i’ve always found this odd, too, since the only ML i ever knew in real life was an IRS agent who turned Trotskyist after her brother was killed by a soviet agent. the MLs i only ever meet online tell me this is because i’m a fed. i find this odd, too, since so many of my friends are in hiding, in jail, or out on bail awaiting trial and i’m powerless to use any of my fed connections to do anything about this. i wish i knew what we were ivestigating. until i find out i suppose i’ll keep working to build a better world where i am however i can

can we please stop relitigating 2024 all over lemmy right new? everyone’s being just as inneffective and useless rn 2026 as they were two years ago. if you’re actually interested in doing something about all this awfulness get out into the streets, go to mutual aid projects, train with community defense groupsg and actually do something useful. this is like the 5th fucking thing i’ve seen on lemmy, from either side of what action should have been taken 2 years ago (ie: vote for Kamala, don’t vote for Kamala) and i’m fucking sick of it.

just like i didn’t encounter anyone with lemmy’s “vote 3rd party, it’s the only way forward” political stances out in the real world, i’m not encountering anyone who’s still thinking this hard about a day 2 years ago who’s actually doing anything to address these problems

The cuyahoga was only just declared safe to swim in last year. the bill that led to its eventual cleaning was passed in 1972. it was probably at its absolute nastiest in September of 1972.

thank god for mathematitians

also the 1970s weren’t some magical time for living a naturalist/naturist life. in the northern empires, lead based paint and lead based fuels were in common use. in the global south, genocidal dictators carried out brutal violence to impress whichever northern empire they were affiliated with.

the fact that she wants to revisit the 1970s speaks to a great degree of access to privilege within capitalism, white supremacy, and even the patriarchy despite her presented gender.

Not claiming all socialist spaces are anarchist spaces. Just claiming that a socialist space on an anarchist instance shouldn’t really be a surprise, and claiming they’re unimaginably far apart from each other is a little odd

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_anarchism

Socialism is only far as fuck from anarchism if you don’t know anything about anarchism

this is just differing definitions of “cop”

and on some level it’s important for good opsec that things that don’t require opsec be done with good opsec

if your whole phone is encrypted this likely doesn’t apply to you so long as you have a strong passpharse (6 characters or more) and a good data shredding policy (shred after 5 wrong guesses)

however, that is not most people

as far as i know signal uses Google’s notification service and if you want it to not you need to use Molly

there’s a lot of things under fascism that shouldn’t be needed

here on lemmy we interpret obvious sarcasm as sincerity

it was also the de facto national anthem through the late 1800s

instead they had us read books written by a socialist who thought it was so obvious that communism was a good idea that we would need warnings against authoritarianism masquerading as communism. and the interpretation they gave us was “see! communism is bad!”

i don’t know how anyone can read 1984 and not realize that the message is that a centralized authority is the problem

absolutely. you need to own the infrastructure of the network

when authoritarians fight, the people lose

ITT: people posting on the internet about something they found out about from the internet saying that an authoritarian regime shutting down the internet because the people under that regime were using it to coordinate resistance efforts is not so bad

sorry, i’d take y’all a lot more seriously if you were having that conversation over ham radio