keegomatic

keegomatic , 9 months ago to risa in Tiny Data isn't real. Tiny Data can't hurt you.

Collar.

keegomatic , 9 months ago to technology in AI Lie: Machines Don’t Learn Like Humans (And Don’t Have the Right To)

So is your comment. And mine. What do you think our brains do? Magic?

edit: This may sound inflammatory but I mean no offense

keegomatic , 9 months ago to programmer_humor in Markdown everywhere

I’m vaguely aware of Org-mode but only as an alternative to Markdown. Last time I looked into it, though (years ago), Markdown seemed like a much better option for me for various reasons. Do you have a good argument for why Org-mode is a better choice for common use cases than the relatively universal GitHub-flavored Markdown?

keegomatic , 10 months ago to technology in The end of the Googleverse

I’ve been using Kagi. It works well. I like it. Costs money, but that’s a positive in my book.

keegomatic , 10 months ago to noncredibledefense in Know your genocide apologists

Who!?

keegomatic , 10 months ago to asklemmy in What do you call Marshmallow in your native language?

This one I can really get behind

keegomatic , 10 months ago to noncredibledefense in Know your genocide apologists

You can repeat yourself all you want, but unless you can make an actual argument you kinda just look like an idiot

keegomatic , 10 months ago to noncredibledefense in Know your genocide apologists

I’m not even a communist, but I have, actually, and you clearly haven’t. Doesn’t take much to understand the philosophy.

keegomatic , 10 months ago to noncredibledefense in Know your genocide apologists

USSR

Yeah, this is precisely the kind of state I was talking about. Thanks for confirming. I’ve explained twice in responses to you, and you haven’t actually addressed my points, so maybe you don’t understand what I’m saying.

The whole premise of Marxism and variations is to remove individual rights and freedoms

If you think Marxism-Leninism actually represents what Marx laid out as communism, you are mistaken. Marxism-Leninism was just Stalin-branded autocratic socialism—Marx had no say in the name. Neither did Lenin, for that matter, unless I’m forgetting my history. This, again, is precisely what I was talking about.

It doesn’t matter how you spin it

I think you should go back and read my original comment and see that the whole point was to unravel the actual spin in this image. No matter how you spin it, this meme places an unwarranted amount of blame on Western leftists while describing each label inaccurately and with a traditionally right-wing slant.

keegomatic , 10 months ago to noncredibledefense in Know your genocide apologists

That’s interesting, which country? I’d be willing to bet that the government does not actually describe itself as communist, but instead as a Marxist-Leninist socialist government, because even they know that what they do is not communism.

I’m willing to bet that because most (if not all) “communist” states in the world actually describe themselves as socialist, not communist, following Marxism-Leninism or some variation thereof. As far as I know, all of them do. So, which one are you from?

keegomatic , 10 months ago to noncredibledefense in Know your genocide apologists

So, not interested in discussing?

keegomatic , 10 months ago to noncredibledefense in Know your genocide apologists

Sorry, would you please point out which statements in my comment you feel are opinion and not fact?

keegomatic , 10 months ago to noncredibledefense in Know your genocide apologists

Of course I’m biased. Everyone is. But am I wrong? My accusation was not that OP is biased, but that the meme itself was trying to secretly promote a right-wing narrative. I understand if you don’t trust me as a biased observer, but you can still read my points and decide whether they are factually correct or not.

If you think I’ve made an error, feel free to respond with a correction. I’m not here to flame anyone, just to point out that I see a vehicle for disinformation. I respect many philosophies on both the left and the right, even if I disagree with them, but regardless of “sides” everyone deserves to make informed decisions arrived at by their own reasoning. When you are manipulated without your knowledge, your ability to reason properly is taken away from you.

keegomatic , 10 months ago to noncredibledefense in Know your genocide apologists

If you have not studied communism, and your main contact with communism is tankies on Lemmy and “communist” dictatorships in history, then I understand why you would think that.

But communists by and large are not tankies, and do not wish for states like the USSR, China, or North Korea. Those people typically identify as Marxist-Leninists (promoted mainly by Stalin after Lenin died), and yep they’re authoritarian, and they’re loud. And, despite the name, Marx himself would disapprove of this ideology for a number of reasons.

Read even just the first paragraph of the Wikipedia articles on ”Communism” and “Communist society.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism

A communist society would entail the absence of private property and social classes, and ultimately money and the state (or nation state).

Communists want no state; it is effectively a type of anarchist or radically democratic ideology, where the citizens all equally share power through common ownership of industry… the very opposite of authoritarianism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_society

A communist society is characterized by common ownership of the means of production with free access to the articles of consumption and is classless, stateless, and moneyless, implying the end of the exploitation of labour.

The term communist society should be distinguished from the Western concept of the communist state, the latter referring to a state ruled by a party which professes a variation of Marxism–Leninism.

Communism is not an authoritarian philosophy. If you go talk to people in real life who identify as communists, you will tend to find communists as described in these articles. If you look on lemmy.ml, however, you’ll find lots of Marxist-Leninists (tankies) because that’s who the instance was made by… but that’s not really representative of communism as a whole, and many communists find that philosophy repulsive.

keegomatic , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to noncredibledefense in Know your genocide apologists

I can understand your viewpoint, but I don’t agree with it. I think you’re missing the signs that this was written to promote a right-wing narrative about leftists.

You say you think it’s written by a “well-meaning liberal perspective,” but none of the things you mention point to it being a liberal’s perspective, except for the implication that you are a well-meaning liberal and thus you identify with it. Coming from a liberal who interacts with mostly liberal people, and who has been friends with people on the left and right and talked philosophy with both: A, B, and E are just not written from the normal perspective of a left-leaning person.

By your explanation, you clearly understand the C and D roles best, which are the right-wing descriptions. Could it be that you are projecting a liberal perspective on something that is clearly a right-wing narrative because you are used to seeing this narrative, despite identifying as a liberal now?