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So many machines, yet I'm working more hours than my ancestors.

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"How dare you not fall for misinformation!"

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All they need now is to promise VR and self driving cars, and they'll have a hype-tech bingo.

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Dr. King was killed so people could put words in his mouth.

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ew fox

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Hello welcome to the internet, having the collective maturity of an 8 year old boy since 1998.

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Can confirm. Every girl wants the D ino Crisis for Playstation

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Take me I'm yours!

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Glad I went with Bomb Rush Cyberfunk over this.

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Once you figure out how to play it, Super Godzilla is actually pretty fun. It's also interesting there is a lost Heisei era film plot built into the script of this game.

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I hear his son runs a burger joint, to his father's dismay.

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Delightfully Plutonic Seymour!

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This has been a thing in Japan even before the population crisis. This has been a thing in other Asian countries besides Japan! What's next? "Japan's economy is so bad, they're using paper for their doors!" Japan's population and economic problems are apparent. Why does CNN feel it needs to mislead in order to punctuate it?

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Just did it. literally the first result was for notepad ++

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Seriously though, did Youtube recommend us all that video?

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It's almost as if many countries within Eastern Europe and Asia have generational trauma associated with acts of violence, oppression, and genocide connected to those symbols.

I've never understood the obsession with Soviet iconography within communist spaces, especially when there are plenty of communists that acknowledge that the Soviet Union never actually lived up to the ideals of communism, and acknowledge the acts of imperialism and genocide committed by their regime.

The swastika and other ancient symbols are banned for similar reasons in many countries for their association with fascists, and most people seem to be on board with it. But when countries that were directly harmed by communist regimes start to ban soviet iconography, there is suddenly a double standard and a lack of understanding.

I think modern communists who sincerely believe in social justice need to divorce themselves from these symbols of oppression. There are plenty of symbols of solidarity, unity, and workers empowerment that could be used that don't have the same level of taint. I'm a fan of the big dipper myself.

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If following the Marxist definition, I don't think the end goal of communism is inherently a bad thing. The issue comes from the means of achieving it, and the issue with Marxist-Leninism and Maoism is its tendency towards purity, conformity, compulsory adherence and authoritarianism.

I think you are right in the sense that because China calls itself communist, people are quick to defend it despite the fact that it's current political economic system seems to resemble authoritarian capitalism moreso than even Maoism. Then again, North Korea seperated itself from its communist label decades ago, and Russia isn't even the same political regime it was during the Soviet era, and a lot of self proclaimed communists still jump to their defense.

I can understand being critical of or even hostile to the United States and other first world capitalist nations, but the enemy of your enemy isn't always your friend. Otherwise Imperial Japan would've been based as fuck even though it raped and enslaved people under the guise of "antiimperialism" and "east Asian co-prosperity."

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I have seen my fair share of tankies here, so there definitely is a presence of them here. But I also do think a lot of the complaints come from people who assume any leftist user or post is also a "tankie."

Like I do see a lot of leftist memes posted to [email protected], which might be where a lot of the complaints are coming from. Likewise there has been a lot of drama with hexbear federating with a lot of communities that were previously shielded from them.

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This site is in the process of fighting its own culture war. You have the hardcore communists, anarchists and tankies who were here the longest, and the meme page is on one of their original domains (the ml in lemmy.ml is supposed to stand for marxist-leninist ). And then you have the twitter and reddit refugees who in general lean more center left, liberal, or libertarian. ml was the domain that was advertise the most to people on reddit, and world was where people were directed to once ml's sign ups were limited.

[email protected] is kinda going throught the gaybar effect with the influx of redditors. Like sometimes when a gaybar gets popular, it attracts non-queer customers, who tell their friends, who invite their friends, to the point the original queer customer base gets crowded out. I imagine that's what the marxist-leninist community base is feeling now that a lot of former redditors call their instance home, and their meme page is the defacto meme community of lemmy.

As long as the mods here allow it, and as long as people keep upvoting, this problem isn't going away, no matter how many complaint memes get posted. The best solution I can think of is boost other meme pages on different instances, maybe with mod teams that are more willing to keep the page apolitical (which is hard to do in general cause everyone's definition of political is different.) kbin has a fairly large meme community that could use some more love, same with [email protected]. Hell, considering most users are from world or shitjustworks, I'm surprise I don't see their local meme pages get more use.

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Considering what is known about lemmy, its creators, and the original instances, it seems to hold up. But regardless of the true meaning of ml, the political leanings of lemmy.ml were very far left before the reddit migration, and I feel that's the reason why you see such an aggressive presence of communist memes on ml's meme page.

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The domain is, but the reason they chose the domain is because it shares the initials of marxist-leninist.

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I think most are, such as jp for Japan, or ca for canada. I'm not a web designer though.

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Never met a pleasant person who used liberal as an insult.

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Or I never see communists here talk about fascists and the far right the same way they talk about liberals or anyone else on or near the left who doesn't quite meet their purity test. Almost as if they prefer the company of nazis.

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Well then they wouldn't be here would they.

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Insulin is now free!

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Not missing much. They all still taste like child slavery.

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What I don't get is what is stopping people from joining a smaller instance more adjusted to their tastes? Like if you join large instance made for the general user, don't be surprised if you see a political opinion or meme you disagree with. world and ml tend to block only the most egregious of instances.

There are plenty of instances that cater to the political and social leanings of people if you really can't stand being outside a bubble, but fediverse isn't simply one site, and you can't bully or complain your way into shaping the culture of lemmy or fediverse in general. That is part of the beauty of this site, and for how many here complained about the homogeneity of reddit, its funny how now the big complaint is people are seeing opinions they don't like.

There are simple solutions to all of that, but it involves being proactive in the users and communities you block, and being selective of the instance(s) you join.

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With pleasure.

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Waiting for lemmygrad to try to convince us how this is a good thing.

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Oh hey lemmygrad user, funny you should mention that...

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"Umm ackshully..."
-Extended Universe nerds

China's new national map has set off a wave of protests. Why? (www.independent.co.uk)

China has upset many countries in the Asia-Pacific region with its release of a new official map that lays claim to most of the South China Sea, as well as to contested parts of India and Russia, and official objections continue to mount. What is the map, and why is it upsetting people so much?...

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Oh you mean like the 19th century, when there were several European powers carving up Africa, Asia, and the Pacific?

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Right. It sound like you are just fine with it as long as its not monopolized. Or at least committed by the right powers.

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    Get off my ship!

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    Absolutely bonkers how a terror organization like LOTT can operate in broad day light and face no legal consequences, let alone any from the public in general.

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    Libs of Tiktok

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    https://imgflip.com/gif/7xh0ji

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    Me: I know, I'll choose..

    Linux community: WRONG!!!

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    Zuck be like

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    What's stopping us from building another? Why aren't there several across the fediverse? Having one de facto just makes it vulnerable to the whims of trolls or a renegade mod.

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    I feel Worf dealing with cultural trauma could be a slice of its own.

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    I just know they are going to attempt the first 24 hour movie in my lifetime.

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    Well looky there. The Georgia yankee tryin t'tell me howta pronounce his alma mader!

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    For advocating for an all inclusive term rather than an acronym that can be chopped to exclude people?

    Yeah fuck me I guess.

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    What about the word queer implies that?

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    I said I understand why people feel the need to include terms that are already covered by the Q in LGBTQ, but overextending the acronym and including symbols and numbers causes confusion, defeats the purpose of the acronym, and makes people who are not included feel left out.

    The whole point of my argument was I think queer should be the go to term cause it covers everyone and leaves nobody out.

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    I have nothing to hide. I'm a dumb irresponsible formerly conservative queer person who is still learning and who says stupid shit all the time, some of it I even come to regret. It's all there for anyone who wants to judge my character. Happy reading. Hopefully your assessment of me is more forgiving than @Hyperi0n.

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