xe8 3y ago • 71%
That just sounds like Malthusian / eco-fascist lines of thought.
xe8 3y ago • 0%
To follow up on that video, I think this one is worth a watch: https://youtu.be/cz9ICFDk8Js
Just a quick video for intermediate listening / reading comprehension. I find his accent and pace pretty comfortable to follow.
I just stumbled upon this YouTube channel which seems quite good.
This is a good resource. If you click ‘Search’ you can look up characters by radical.
This place is full of weird and wonderful art. I recommend just randomly clicking through some videos.
I haven’t read a lot of these sources myself yet, but the first one at least by the Communist Party of India is worth a read.
> In the summer of 2017, in the Toronto neighbourhood of Parkdale, over 300 tenants living across 12 apartment buildings went on rent strike to protest a wave of rent increases that would have displaced members of their community. Through months of organizing and a series of escalating actions, working-class people took on the biggest corporate landlord in their neighbourhood… and won. In an age where gentrification is rapidly transforming the nature and demographics of working-class neighbourhoods in cities across the world, pushing out poorer tenants, people on fixed incomes, immigrant communities and other long-term residents, the story of the Parkdale rent strike offers an important and practical lesson on how we can organize with our neighbours to fight back.
xe8 4y ago • 100%
That seems fine. I’m just thinking it’s best to do so with some substantial analysis / critique.
If you just start a thread with the title of “Am I allowed to criticize tankism in this forum?” and saying nothing else, it’s just going to come off as inflammatory trolling without substance. You’re not going to convince anyone that way.
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xe8 4y ago • 100%
What’s “tankism”? There’s just been a statement about the political ideologies of devs / mods on Lemmy.
If you just want to share a spicy meme there are other communities like /c/completeanarchy and /c/dankleft.
Seems appropriate at this point that here you should at least put some effort into your critique and at least define if you’re talking about Marxism, ML, MLM, or some other ideology.
xe8 4y ago • 100%
Federated social media platforms may always be smaller than the for-profit platforms which use all kinds of tricks to turn people into commodities: tracking users, using targeted advertising, having psychologists on the development team to “gamify” everything, incentivizing people to turn themselves into “content creators” and “influencers”, create and exploit addictive behaviour by having infinite scrolling pages and adjusting content based on “engagement” data.
So Lemmy won’t make you rich - but I think you’re ok with that.
xe8 4y ago • 100%
It’s not so much being “run” by tankies, as it is being developed. So that should be respected. And it’s being built in a way that seems in line with anarchist principles, which allows for federation. If there’s a problem another instance could easily be created. If you don’t like it, take direct action and spin up a server.
Right now I think this instance is fine. It’s much better than a place like Reddit which is full of libs, or other sites full of nazis - and all run for profit with targeted advertising and tracking.
I also think it’s good to at least engage with each other. Even if you consider yourself an anarchist, it’s still good to read theory from other schools of thought, and at least take on board some of the tankie criticisms. You might also change some minds along the way.
Anyway, there’s a lot to be done in unionizing our workplaces, building mutual aid networks, spreading propaganda, building software, etc. etc. So this topic is probably a bit of a dead end.
xe8 4y ago • 100%
You go somewhere else. There are plenty of other communities for you to defend dictators in.
xe8 4y ago • 100%
I would love to see the best comic you’ve seen. Really. Show me.
xe8 4y ago • 0%
Not Safe For Brands? I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Ridiculous.
Does Lemmy have any kind of protection against stuff like vote manipulation from bot accounts?