Roundcat

Roundcat , 9 months ago to memes in Yesyes, dictatorship bad, west bad, we got it :')

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

Roundcat , 9 months ago to memes in Has anyone tried pitching high speed rail to the 65+ crowd like this before?

Seriously though, did Youtube recommend us all that video?

Roundcat , 9 months ago to memes in Tankies

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.

Roundcat , 9 months ago to meanwhileongrad in Late Stage Capitalism is when Finland bans symbols of communism. 'It's always East Europe against Communist Symbols', 'Banning the communist symbol makes you a nazi.',

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."

Roundcat , 9 months ago to meanwhileongrad in Late Stage Capitalism is when Finland bans symbols of communism. 'It's always East Europe against Communist Symbols', 'Banning the communist symbol makes you a nazi.',

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.

Roundcat , 9 months ago to meanwhileongrad in Tankies talking about banned topics on Chinese social media, "Well liberals call it censorship. I call it filtering"

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.

Roundcat , 9 months ago to memes in Yesyes, dictatorship bad, west bad, we got it :')

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.

Roundcat , 9 months ago to meanwhileongrad in Tankies talking about banned topics on Chinese social media, "Well liberals call it censorship. I call it filtering"

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

Roundcat , 9 months ago to memes in Yesyes, dictatorship bad, west bad, we got it :')

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.

Roundcat , 9 months ago to memes in "gaming is dead"

Well then they wouldn't be here would they.

Roundcat , 9 months ago to memes in Nintendo

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Roundcat , 9 months ago to world in China Is Cracking Down on Cantonese Language Advocacy in Hong Kong

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

Roundcat , 10 months ago to mildlyinteresting in Kit Kat’s coolest flavors aren’t sold in the US. Here’s why

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

Roundcat , 10 months ago to technology in Watch a swarm of drones autonomously track a human through a dense forest

With pleasure.

Roundcat , 10 months ago to memes in Rebel Scum

"Umm ackshully..."
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