Just blocked lemmy.ml from my Lemmy account, and I swear to god it’s one of the best things I’ve ever done on this platform. My homepage feels actually clean now.

For the past few months I’d been seeing a lot of tankie posting and pretty much far-left propaganda on my feed. It got tiring enough that I finally checked my blocked-user list, and realized pretty much everyone I’d blocked was from lemmy.ml. So I just blocked the whole instance instead.

Saying this as someone who considers themselves a leftist: I used to think Lemmy itself was an echo chamber. Turns out lemmy.ml was the problem the entire time. Probably the reason I tolerated it for so long is that I agreed with a lot of what they posted, but like an oversaturated meme, I’d had enough. Browsing the platform was starting to feel way too tiring instead of fun, which defeats the point of being here in the first place.

The breaking point was seeing some dude post a “meme” implying North Korea and China are basically communist utopias and that the West sucks. I mean, the West does suck, but come on - you’re saying North Korea is the ideal the West should strive for? What the hell…

      • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        5 hours ago

        I’ll try to define anything one might struggle with then, I guess.

        1. Authoritarian - to hold a monopoly on authority, ie the political legitimacy to the use of force

        2. Ruling class - that class which owns the commanding heights of the economy and controls the state

        3. The state - the special administrative body for managing the affairs of the ruling class

        4. Owning class - that class which gains their means of subsistence through ownership

        5. Working class - that class which gains their means of subsistence through labor.

        6. Tankies - those who defend socialist states

        7. Bourgeoisie - those who own capital and employ it to profit off of the labor of others

        8. Hegemony - the dominance of a given subject

        9. Neoimperialism - the current, highly financialized system propogated worldwide whereby the more developed capitalist countries profit dramatically off of exploiting lesser developed countries

        10. Finance capital - the monopolist merging of bank and industrial capital