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I got Stalinist begging when I opened lemmy.ca today (infosec.pub)

submitted 6 days ago by MindTraveller@lemmy.ca to c/main@lemmy.ca

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Barely enough time in the day to develop new features? Quit using your "full time job" to post genocide denial and Stalin apologism.

I can't remember the last time Lemmy added a new feature that actually benefits admins or users. The Piefed devs are constantly coming out with new features, maybe it's because they don't waste the whole day banning people for left wing political views like saying genocide is bad.

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 20 points 5 days ago (2 children)

No need to get upset over it, dismiss the banner and move on.

When Wikipedia asks you for donations every year do you get all pissy and call the staff volunteering their time with various stances and opinions useless folk that don't bring new features to it? When a food bank you donated to sends a thank you and asks if you can donate more, do you suggest their work is worthless?

Go ahead and use, support and recommend Piefed if it's better for you, sure. Block nutomic, dessalines or all of lemmy.ml if you don't like their opinions or moderation policy, absolutely. But IMO, throwing shade and disrespect towards the people that built the software that Piefed was born out of is uncalled for. The way Lemmy and the Fediverse is set up, you can use the infrastructure without any real association with its founders.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 8 points 5 days ago

Pretty much aligned, I'm also surprised why OP doesn't use piefed.ca as it's right there

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 days ago

The way Lemmy and the Fediverse is set up, you can use the infrastructure without any real association with its founders.

Except for them bypassing blocks by trans people who don't want to be harassed by these transphobic ogres

[–] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Maybe you should try https://piefed.ca/

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

Thanks, I sent in a registration

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 9 points 6 days ago

I was about to post this

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 7 points 5 days ago

I stopped my recurring donation to Lemmy and replaced it with one for piefed a couple months ago.

[–] getoffthatchronic@lemdro.id 0 points 2 days ago

Wah wah wah an open source developer asked me for money! I'm a victim! Everyone give me attention! Wah wah wah!

[–] slykethephoxenix@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 days ago

Click the X on the top right.

[–] brianpeiris@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

left wing political views like saying genocide is bad.

what the fuck?

[–] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

If you want the backstory to that line, here's the short version:
The Lemmy developers are the admin of Lemmy.ml
The .ml is for Marxist-Leninist. Basically, they are known for being tankies.
You can be banned from .ml communities for saying things against China or the USSR, including acknowledging things like the Holodomor or the treatment of Uyghur people.

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca -1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Or Cuba! I couldn’t even tell my mundane story about my time in Cuba when I stayed at a resort there. It was so weird.

[–] twopi@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What was your stay like, if you don't mind sharing?

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

At the risk of being banned here sure:

It was okay. If you like sun, beaches, pools, and watered down booze it’s fantastic. Very cheap. We flew down and had a week at a resort for $1500 CAD in total for two people. The food options were horrible. Not much protein available except for what seemed like spam and ultra processed bologna slices and weird tasting fluorescent orange cheese.

Rooms and amenities were pretty good, restaurants all basically served the same meal - a bit of pork or chicken with some veggies and plated decently.

They had fish that they had just caught but it was fishy as hell and not properly refrigerated. They slathered Mikes Red Hot sauce all over it before serving but that didn’t save it. The food was really the worst part about Cuba. You could tell the country had basically nothing and felt bad that they were giving away what they had to people. Often the snack bars ran out of tuna sandwiches so your only protein source was cheese.

The people were super friendly and not afraid to talk about life on the island (even politics and the riots/protests during Covid). My bus driver told us all about how things were handled during COVID and how people with American credit cards were given access to fancy things like ice cream and chicken but everyone else who didn’t were stuck with bananas, beans, sweet potato, and pumpkin from the government stores - which was a contributing factor in the riots and protests (among all sorts of other things).

The 2021 riots and any mention of them got me banned on other instances and I received some nasty DMs and personal insults so I expect more from this comment but I don’t care. The people that send these comments and feel the need to suppress this shit or claim I’m just making it up haven’t ever left their American state so their opinions and words are worthless.

[–] twopi@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Thank you for the take. I saw the bologna slice sandwitches in a YouTube video before but didn't know what to make of them because I never went.

Don't know too much of the riots except they happened and that there are pro and anti government sides.

How does the food situation compare to other islands?

Do other islands import food? Did you get why Cuba doesn't have a variety of food? No imports or can't grow in Cuba?

Would like to know why the food situation is like that. They have a large island so don't know why it's like that.

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I’d say the food situation is the worst without a doubt compared to other islands in the Caribbean. Jamaica had phenomenal food when we visited last year in March. Every meal felt like a 5 star resto.

Cuba had butter packets imported from Poland. I suspect a lot of their food is imported. There is lots of land in Cuba but according to my bus driver, something like 95% of the land is controlled by the government and farmers who work that land are paid by the government.

I was told that everyone gets paid the same regardless of job so there isn’t much demand in being a farmer, which accounts for farm and food shortages despite having more than enough land for it.

I do know that as we were driving, we’d drive past these huge fields of grass. Nothing there but huge mowed fields. There would be guys with weed wackers mowing the fields. Felt like a waste of time and energy considering they weren’t parks where people would hang out. Very well-kept but for absolutely no reason.

I imagine it’s a bunch of factors - what I mentioned and the fact that they’re embargoed by the US which makes obtaining goods of any kind exceedingly difficult and costly.

[–] twopi@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

Thank you for the info. Will look more into the stats when I can later.

Wonder why if the government owns 95% they don't cultivate it. I was under the understanding that the government moved farm land out of the government at the end of the Soviet Union.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 days ago

Often the snack bars ran out of tuna sandwiches so your only protein source was cheese.

All plants are made of protein. If you are getting enough calories from plants, you are automatically getting enough protein. Protein deficiency is not a real thing. You are almost certainly suffering from the effects of too much protein, not too little.

[–] Greg@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 days ago

What an I missing?

[–] Luci@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago

The message should have been an opt in for admins.

[–] TomatoPotato69@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Viewing genocide as bad is not a 'left wing' political view... You could be firmly into capitalism and still believe that genocide is bad. You could be fully into communism and think genocide is a stellar way to advance your goals. Socialism is left, in it's many forms, including things like universal healthcare, education, etc. Communism is extreme left. As long as someone believes that more privatisation or a more open market is the way to solve social issues, they are right of centre regardless of whether they think that slaughtering a group of people bad or not, or think that the environment needs to be protected. 'Left' is the economic way in which one goes solving social issues, not just believing genocide is bad or that climate change is an issue to be addressed.

Use healthcare as an easy example: People of many different political viewpoints can agree that healthcare is important to society as a whole. A left wing approach to this would be to create a universal centrally run healthcare system that treats everyone equitably, accepts that some people will use more benefit than they pay, and others will pay more than they use, but overall society will be healthy and everyone pays less in general as a result and lives in a place where people suffer less and are happier. A right wing approach would be to allow private companies to provide healthcare incentivised by the ability to earn a profit, and let them figure out how to deliver that service, maybe the government steps in to try and regulate different industries, provide tax breaks or investments, or otherwise try and coax them to provide a better service or prevent them from being too greedy.

Just simply believing in a social cause does not make one 'left'. It's all about the implementation of the solution that counts. The Democrats in the US are quite right of centre, and the US has spent generations trying to violently overthrow and prevent social governments from forming and spread their propaganda far and wide that anything left of centre is full blown authoritarian communism.

Lenin and Stalin were very very left. But they were filthy butchers who went on a slaughtering spree and did much more harm than just their ideology. Viewing genocide as bad as just a 'left' wing issue completely dilutes what 'left' is. That's how our political parties keep moving right.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You could be fully into communism and think genocide is a stellar way to advance your goals

Not really. Communism is stateless, and I just can't see genocide being possible without a state apparatus to back it up. When power is truly in the hands of the people, the people have a moral compass that tells them no to such atrocities. The fact that responsibility was/is so concentrated in the hands of evil men that they could perpetrate genocides is part of why China and the USSR are/were not communist. State socialist at best, state capitalist at worst, and also probably most accurate.

Lenin [...] were very very left

Valid point.

Stalin were very very left

Lies.

[–] TomatoPotato69@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Fair enough about USSR and China vs Communism, that was a poor example. The point, though, is that social decency doesn't inherently pick sides. Left leaning ideology tends to favour socially progressive viewpoints, because if the goal is to create an equitable society in one form or another, human rights and other social progress tend to also be be values that are important to people with a left-leaning ideology. Some aspects may be more intertwined than others, but the statement that being opposed to genocide is somehow a left wing only viewpoint is absurd. Most people with a left-of-centre viewpoint likely view genocide as bad, but is in no way a viewpoint exclusive held by people left-of-centre. People can be right-of-centre and compassionate, and view genocide as bad, and not be racist. People can hold a variety of different viewpoints, even conflicting viewpoints, at the same time. But being opposed to genocide or harming people is, or at least should be, just be basics of being a decent human and has nothing really to do with political ideology. Perhaps it's 'left' in the context of neoliberalism being the only option and US politics and their severe polarisation as the reference. But in general, it's not really an inherently 'left' viewpoint.

In Canada, many people would consider the Liberals to be right-of-centre, even more so with Carney as PM, and the NDP to be left-of-centre, but yet both can be opposed to genocide. Many Conservatives voters are, also, opposed to genocide despite leaning right in many ways. Being anti-genocide is not, however, a viewpoint commonly held by fascists through history and the present time. But that's generally viewed as extreme right, and in no way centrist or just right-of-centre.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The way I see it, genocide is exclusively advocated by fascistic authoritarians, and fascistic authoritarians are extreme right wing, so being against genocide is a left (of fascism) wing viewpoint. Directions are all relative, there is no political center. But on each issue there are sides in different directions. There's left wing and right wing in regards to capitalism, left wing and right wing in regards to gender, and left wing and right wing in regards to genocide. On the issue of genocide I'm on the same side as 90% of the world, and tankies are over on the other side with Nazis, Taliban, and JK Rowling. Those are the left and right sides, respectively.

[–] TomatoPotato69@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

That's valid. I suppose I would tend to use the terminology that left and right relate only to capitalism, etc, and would use progressive or conservative to refer to non-economic and things that shouldn't be political, like gender or genocide. Lately I'd just use 'shit-person' instead of conservative given... the obvious I assume. But it's good to know that terminology is changing. We can certainly agree that tankies, nazis, rowling, hateful people, and genocide all suck.