I was going to answer “in the Internet Hole”, which was also my college nickname

Tinder has let you filter by height for a while, haven’t they? Or is that just Bumble/Hinge?

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How is this not /c/fakenews

There is a double filter, but it’s on the part of German law, not feddit mods.

In Germany, it is legal to say “Hamas is just as evil as the Nazis and has the same goals and aims”. It is illegal to say the same thing but with “Israel” or “Zionism” instead of “Hamas”.

Death to Germany

Organize and educate yourself. Develop an understanding of Marxist Historical Materialism, especially by reading Lenin and Mao.

The first thing to understand is that there is nothing valuable you can do as an individual to advance Communism. Communism is not an Individualist ideology. The first step is to find or build a local group of like-minded individuals. Once you’ve done that, you can ask, “What should we do?”. There is no substitute for meeting real people in real rooms in real life.

Fuck French Toast, marry Waffles, kill pancakes

Someone was just talking about this on Hexbear earlier. I think I might give it a shot

There are plenty of governments that do that. Cuba, China, Vietnam, Korea, the late Soviet Union.

While Stalinist ultraleft economic policies were not so generous to small businesses, the new Chinese model (which has been adopted by most Socialist states, bar Korea, which hews still to the failed Stalinist model) focuses on nationalization of heavy industry (steel, aggregate, resource extraction, refinery) while allowing consumer goods and small-scale retail to remain in the hands of business owners.

The reason this doesn’t happen in the West or its neocolonies is that it hampers the wealth and resource extraction of the international finance capital class.

It is difficult for me to imagine what “personal liberty” is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment.

The last three I think are especially important - many people don’t really understand how political national flags can be and that they never really just represent a people/region/language in a completely unbiased way.

If the Democrats wanted me to vote for their candidate they should have picked one that didn’t suck balls

The disappointing answer is that it’s going to be very similar to how things are now, just with fewer rights and more repression around the edges. Almost all of Project 2025’s policies are things that this nation has used in the past or is using today to a lesser degree - voter suppression, rollback of labor rights and civil liberties. The rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer, but that was happening long before Trump.

Proteins don’t necessarily just mean meats etc. Most vegetables and grains have protein in them that is contributing towards your daily requirements.

No offense intended to OP, but anyone who thinks the world works this way is hopelessly naive about the system we live in.

When it comes down to it, the reason all of these issues exist comes down to Capitalism (Imperialism, Neoliberalism, Fascism, NIMBYism, w/e flavor you want).

Good public transit is a great example because there are so many reasons we don’t have it and all of them come down to Capitalism.

• the failure of our Healthcare system for the poor, unhoused, and uninsured means that severely mentally ill people make public transit feel unsafe. Ditto for criminalization of addiction and high poverty in general.

• The American government’s reliance on the Petrodollar to control world trade promotes oil-based transportation options, especially inefficient ones that take more oil (since the goal is increased consumption, not efficiency).

• A general lack of tenant’s rights and a tendency for local governments to favor landholders and and business owners over working-class renters (who tend to be more transient and are less likely to buy out local politicians) means that more attention is given to individualized transport (car infrastructure) and less to transport methods more suited to higher density. Not to mention the fear the petite bourgeoisie have towards poor people, who might potentially use public transport to invade their walled gardens.

There are so many reasons even on top of these. They all come down to Capitalism; and, no, to the Liberals of Lemmy, I don’t mean markets. Markets can do a lot of good when it comes to making efficient public transport, when managed correctly. The issue is the power that those with money (and not just the billionaires; the petty millionaires who own a couple strip malls is just as bad when it comes to opposition towards public transport) exert over our lives and governments.

Those probably aren’t hairs you’ve eaten; long hairs tend to just fall into your shirt/pants and are worked up into your butt as you walk around for the day.

No. I think it’s fine, but not a real alternative to Capitalism. It seems like the sort of thing developed by an anticapitalist who accepts the Capitalist framing of history (“Capitalism is just when you trade things or have money”).

I would classify this sort of thing as Ultra-Leftist - a movement seeking to skip the necessary steps in the development of Capitalism into Socialism and Socialism into Communism by just “doing Communism” at the local community level and saying “Well if everyone just did it, we’d be living in a Communist Utopia!”

There is no skipping the steps. The abolition of work is the final step, not the first.

Well, one other thing is that instances will only fetch content from communities that at least one instance member is subscribed to. Every instance will have a slightly different selection of content because of what communities the existing members have subscribed to (and larger instances will typically have a broader selection of content, because they have more users).

The only important thing, really, is that the instance you choose doesn’t defederate with other instances for political reasons (except being literal Nazi instances). I find that lemm.ee users have a good mix of political expression ranging from Marxists to Moderate Conservatives. An account there, on lemmy.zip, or lemmy.ml is probably your best bet.