Facepalm

Your friend who is wrong 100% of the time.

Solution, I block all lemmy.ml communities I see in my feed.

We all belong to each other; now kiss.

I assume this is a parody. You can’t really be a communist who opposes rojavan independence right‽

When it comes to Taiwan, it's my understanding that the indigenous Taiwanese would like both the mainlanders who established Taiwan and the PRC to fuck off and let them have their island back.

But I do support the Taiwanese government's annexation of West China. Then they can move the capital to Beijing.

The irony is delicious.

So, your criticism of lemmy.ml is a two year old post you found on Twitter that has nothing to do with Lemmy.

POV: you actually listened when that guy told everyone on Lemmy.ml to move to Lemmygrad a few years back

POV: posts harassing .ml stay up while post criticizing .world get removed.

• South Ossetia belongs to Georgia
• Transnistria belongs to Moldova
• Karelia belongs to Finland
• St Petersburg belongs to Sweden
• Outer Manchuria belongs to the Manchu people
• Southern Siberia belongs to Mongolia

I'll admit that having an account on the .ml instance was a little jarring at first. I had another account on a youtubers instance he graciously opened, but I was getting connectivity issues constantly so chose .ml because of it's size and before knowing all the controversy.

My first negative experience was like [email protected], I commented in a post making a winnie/xi joke which was removed and it was the first and only mod action against me (that I know of) so I was a little miffed. For like a day I contemplated deleting this account to move to another instance, then I actually read my comment and looked at the post and realized I was the one being childish.

Since then, I've had actual conversations with people regardless if they align with my political views or not. I now focus on making sure my comments have substantive meaning (when it's about domestic/foreign politics) that actually engages the conversation or adds to the discussion. Regardless of it's content, it's been quite nice for all the hateful and joke comments to be less. A lot of cringelords on here don't want that though, it's like Reddit all over again in that aspect. If any of them actually had a substantive critique or could openly debate then they would quickly realize what comments are inappropriate and a mod might second guess banning someone who looks like they're breaking instance rules.

I live in the U.S. South so it's extremely relevant for me at this time. I'm surrounded by the right wing, bathed into it everytime I go outside or flip on the radio. It's such a weird disconnect that people can recognize the GOP as a cult, indoctrination at birth, supported by a horrible education system and a defunct family dynamic that excludes anyone stepping out of line. Yet, there's non-stop calls for violence against them in general and a constant tightening of the RED VS BLUE in the form of quips and rhetoric making it harder to have any actual conversations with the individuals. Regardless, I'm just grateful for the conversations I see with actual information on policies and discussions of the merits without the need to name call or belittle each other.

Every day is opposite day when you're stupid!

How does it work? How can country belong to country? Do citizens of one belong to citizens of another? Slavery in Europe in 21st century?

Someone clearly forgot to take meds.