Pretty much the only other time I have seen any transphobia on Lemmy is from a .ml user who called someone a chaser for saying they were married to a femboy. These people don’t actually care about LGBT issues - they are just trolls who use it as a cudgel when it is convenient.

People are naive if they think the .ml admins and devs don’t intend to keep their thumb on the Lemmy scale. More instances need to take this threat seriously and defederate from .ml, and possibly even fork the Lemmy repos for when the devs inevitably decide they want to start building quiet exploits into the code. There are serious cyber security implications here that people are sleeping on

My bans from lemmy.ml have all come from literally arguing that there are a solid 150 years worth of academic ideas building on Marx and that taking Marxist orthodoxy as the exclusive socialist dogma in that context is simply ignorant.

I am starting to think that they hate revisionist socialists more than actual capitalists, because it seeks to deny them the thing they really want, which is a justification for violence and totalitarianism.

This feels like a futurecanoe bit

Tucker Carlson might not be the brightest man on the planet, but I think even he’s smart enough to know running for president would ruin his grift.

This comment made me reflexively call my chiropractor

I am the exact opposite. I can conk out in a widebody jet but the domestic jets just feel too claustrophobic. I do tend to doze off here and there but on international flights I can get several hours at a time. The free booze helps as well.

Then you start snoring and people wake you up anyway.

Alcohol and Benadryl. Its worth noting that I never feel like I’ve slept. To me it feels like I am just hovering on the edge of sleep the entire time, but my wife says I do sleep for a solid hour or two at a time.

Keychain? Like what they used before touch screen locks?

Well my entire point was that they express ideologically shallow positions which are not internally consistent.

Thinking Lenin is punk rock is exactly the phase I’m imagining.

Or is it because they think they are being clever and think that they can get away with it as long as they are yelling loudly enough about how much it disgusts them.

No autocracy is when rule of law. Wake up sheeple.

Lemmy: please do no use the term “Chinese shills” as this is sinophobic.

Also Lemmy:

Irrelevant talking point is when peer reviewed meta analysis.

It’s funny because I will literally offer essays critical of liberalism alongside my critiques of their bizarre version of socialism, and they’ll call me the brainwashed one while turning themselves in circles to make sure they never have to agree any token criticism of China or the USSR, no matter how trivial it might be.

“Oh the US has secret trials (it doesn’t) which is bad, but applying the exact same standard to China (which has closed trials by default) is just eurocentrism.”

They are legitimately just shameless propagandists. This user in particular.

Most of these people are legitimately teenagers going through an edgy little anarchist phase. You don’t have to talk to them for very long before you realize they have basically zero knowledge of political science, philosophy, or history beyond the handful of socialist pamphlets they’ve read. Most of them can’t even be bothered to read Jacobin because the fan service isn’t gratuitous enough.

It’s an obvious troll, but this is how lemmy.ml protects tankies and gives them special status. In the same thread they are clutching pearls about “constructive conversation.”

I will proudly wear a badge in support of social justice.

Lol, they don’t even have the identity right. This is legitimately just a random person they are attacking.