• Marin_Rider@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    eh, reddit leans left but there’s a good chunk of far right extremists that have infiltrated a lot of subs especially politics ones and turned them to shit.

    lemmy leans left but instead of the extreme right we have lots of extreme left and tankies,namely from 2 particular instances.

    both kinds of extremists never make any sense, are complete snowflakes, and live in some sort of weird alternate reality where in some cases I can’t even tell of they are extreme left or right, they both trend towards extreme levels of authoritarian dick sucking

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      both kinds of extremists never make any sense, are complete snowflakes, and live in some sort of weird alternate reality where in some cases I can’t even tell of they are extreme left or right, they both trend towards extreme levels of authoritarian dick sucking

      this weird alt reality we inhabits portal is found by reading books, engaging with reality and talking to people outside the first world

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        You have a bullet in the chamber and Putin in front of you.

        What do you do?

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        And to that commenter’s point I can’t tell which side you’re on, although “authoritarian dick sucking” seems to have prompted you to self-identify.

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            When I overthrow your government and slaughter striking workers for cheap fruit, that’s just the rules-based international order. When those same people organize to protect themsevles from my endless fuckery, that’s authoritarianism.

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          Lol its on you if you cant tell someone is on the “extreme left” when they said their views are formed by reading and talking to people not from the first world.

          That just means you, yes you, lack the political knowledge to identify people even when they identify the most basic foundations of their views right in front of you lol.

          You think extreme right wingers are talking to the global south and reading theory? Lmfao.

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            But the thing is that they aren’t formed by reading, unless you mean USSR propaganda pamphlets.

            The straight up denial that Russia or China could do anything wrong is what gets me, same with the claim that Communism is in itself viable.

            Communism is a fairy tale, just like the Free Market, for the exact same reason.

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              My user name is literally based on Thomas Sankara lol, but ok nice strawman im sure the person you just invented in your head is scary.

              I also have a degree in sociology and read up to date sociological studies, I’ve read most of Lenin, Mao, Stalin, Marx and I’ve read most of what Sankara, Fred Hampton, Angella Davis and Claudia Jones have to say for one.

              What have you read?

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      Reddit leans “acceptable” left, which is basically what the yanks allow.

      Reddit’s highest concentration of users from 2015 was a US military base

      It creates an environment where you can call out billionaires/gun nuts/anti vaxxers/homophobes/Saudis/etc and get upvotes, but it won’t let you create an actual opposition to the problem.

      Like, surely you have heard about atrocities committed by Saudi Arabia or Israel or other US allies? They get maybe half a day on r/all, compared to any demonstrably less deadly event in Iran/China/Russia that hangs in news subreddits for weeks? Even if it isn’t a left wing bias, it’s definitely a right wing bias.

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        1 year ago

        Reddit has a left wing bias, but also an American bias

        It is mainly just Americans talking to other Americans about American things, without even acknowledging any other country exists, or when they do it is grouped together like “other countries”