Just ask them to point to a successful communist country.
Last I heard Vietnam was one and doing good, but that’s it.
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Hot Take: I honestly don't know if I'm right or not about this, but it feels like it's a generational thing, and not just a Lemmy thing.
Capitalism IS bad. You want solutions? Stop thinking any of them are going to involve capitalism.
If you need a limb removed because it threatens the whole body, we just remove the limb; we don’t try to save the limb at the expense of the body. Capitalism is the limb that needs to be removed.
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Like I get it, we all know capitalism is bad
Perhaps it’s you who isn’t bringing the nuance
I actually find the conversations on Lemmy to be a lot more educated and in depth than the ones I've seen on Reddit or Twitter over the years. Sure, you still get a couple raving idiots chime in to accuse you of crimes against humanity occasionally, but it's not worth fretting over.
I'm really trying to see the point that it's not about right or wrong it's about DEPTH.
My discussion on smaller topics shouldn't get taken over by bigger scale until it's just useless, empty rhetoric.
Did we just have a different post on this topic a couple days ago? I can dig up my reply from the last thread but basically Lemmy and the fediverse is similarly bad for political discourse as the other social platforms because of the (semi)anonymous of social media and the fact we don't really have the mental bandwidth needed to devote time to have nuanced conversations with strangers.
It's a shame that this discussion so frequently centers around the political discussions, but this has definitely seeped into the broader discourse. Short, low-effort comments with no actual content are nearly always at the top. The only solution I can see is to create some heavily moderated spaces where low-effort comments will not fly, but we've seen time and time again that lemmy users are more anti-moderation than most.
There are heavily moderated spaces, but they seem dedicated to banning anyone who dissents rather than culling low quality posts.
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Yeah. It's a moderately popular forum. You need to find a small community or instance to get nuance because places trend towards echo chambers after a certain size