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I got Stalinist begging when I opened lemmy.ca today (thelemmy.club)
submitted 9 months ago by 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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[–] -1 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

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.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months 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.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months 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.

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