Sorry for the short post, I'm not able to make it nice with full context at the moment, but I want to quickly get this announcement out to prevent confusion:

Unfortunately, people are uploading child sexual abuse images on some instances (apparently as a form of attack against Lemmy). I am taking some steps to prevent such content from making it onto lemm.ee servers. As one preventative measure, I am disabling all image uploads on lemm.ee until further notice - this is to ensure that lemm.ee can not be used as gateway to spread CSAM into the network.

It will not possible to upload any new avatars or banners while this limit is in effect.

I'm really sorry for the disruption, it's a necessary trade-off for now until we figure out the way forward.

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[–] 1 point 3 years ago (3 children)

trump

To be fair, some of the rhetoric you all use makes your political compass difficult to navigate.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago (51 children)

    As I said, the question is welcome no matter how tedious I might personally find it, just like any question asked in good faith.

    Complete aside: polcomp is a bad way of attempting to understand politics. It has no way of understanding Marxism.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    political compass

    Anyone that uses this to navigate politics is themselves politically illiterate.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Ahhh yes, someone who cannot read between the lines to understand the true meaning. Thank you for this wonderful example.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    "I'm scared of having my political illiteracy exposed and dunked on so I only ever write intentionally vague responses." smuglord

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    I felt it was pretty understandable. We can have a nice conversation, or we can stop. Up to you.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Say something that isn't vague and useless then.

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    Which ones? There are plenty of rich working class people that I consider comrades. The issue we socialists have isn't income, the issue is class, which is quite different.

    Your class is determined not by your income but by how you receive your income. A working class person makes their income by selling their labour to a member of the bourgeoisie (capital-owner), whereas a member of the bourgeoisie makes their income by stealing the surplus labour from a member of the working class.

    There are working class people that can make quite a bit of money. Athletes and actors for example. Although in many cases once people make that kind of money they also become members of the bourgeoisie by investing it in passive income such as landlording or stocks, that is not true of all of them and is very much something that should not be assumed.

    As for killing the bourgeoisie, I am in favour of simply phasing them out. Although I am not naive enough to think that they will just allow that to happen without trying to kill every last one of us first to prevent it, and believe in the need for us to be prepared for violent action when they do turn to that option. It is not an act that I think should be advocated for by itself, other than with some hefty layers of irony as a means of generally promoting militancy.

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