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I feel like I understand communist theory pretty well at a basic level, and I believe in it, but I just don't see what part of it requires belief in an objective world of matter. I don't believe in matter and I'm still a communist. And it seems that in the 21st century most people believe in materialism but not communism. What part of "people should have access to the stuff they need to live" requires believing that such stuff is real? After all, there are nonmaterial industries and they still need communism. Workers in the music industry are producing something that nearly everyone can agree only exists in our heads. And they're still exploited by capital, despite musical instruments being relatively cheap these days, because capital owns the system of distribution networks and access to consumers that is the means of profitability for music. Spotify isn't material, it's a computer program. It's information. It's a thoughtform. Yet it's still a means of production that ought to be seized for the liberation of the musician worker. What does materialism have to do with any of this?

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Correcting a misogynist is more likely to provoke a visible reaction than ignoring problematic speech. If it isn't corrected, it becomes normal.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago

Fun fact: the bottom of the totem pole is the most prestigious place

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago

I'd guess it's because of them there big city liberals with their radical ideas like "basic equality". Of course the Nazi party want to re-educate their kids

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

Light pollution 🤮

[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago

Politics is when minorities demand rights, and the less rights they already have, the more political it is. And if it's a minority I haven't heard of, that's trolling.

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I know an autistic dog. He spends all day staring at the ceiling because he likes the way lights look. He hates being pet, but he loves hiding under a table where someone is sitting. He doesn't understand social norms

[-] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago

They're referring to "narcissist". Which should be banned as a pejorative because it's the name of a mental disability.

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Plus, if you can actually read someone's mind and tell whether they're being genuine, wtf are you doing on Lemmy? You should be on TV as The Amazing Mind Reader, showing off your Professor X powers

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And the less rights the minority currently has, the more political it is.

And when it's a minority I haven't heard of before, that's trolling.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago

Liberals: patting top of "you're a troll" cliche This bad boy can erase so many leftist positions (and neurodivergent experiences)

[-] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago

We stole a balloon!

[-] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago

Trump is the figurehead of the Fourth Reich. Fuck him and everything he stands for.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

I agree. I mean, you don't even want to abolish the neurotypical hivemind of consensus reality. Sounds pretty lib to me

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Missing leg personality disorder is a personality disorder marked by lack of one or more legs. Diagnosis requires at least 5 of the following 9 criteria:

  • Cannot walk
  • Hops around to get from place to place
  • Has a stump at the place where the knee would be
  • Leans on other people a lot
  • Displays a lack of interest in athletic pursuits
  • Obsession with obtaining a prosthetic leg
  • Aversion to travelling
  • Becomes hostile when asked to stand up
  • Cannot drive stick shift

Missing leg personality disorder can be diagnosed only if these symptoms are not considered normal in the patient's native culture. Missing leg personality disorder cannot be diagnosed if prosthetics make the patient ineligible for diagnostic criteria.

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“Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. […] If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there.” ― Gene Roddenberry

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My post got banned for being "wrecker behaviour". I don't know the community here, I joined because people said Hexbear is trans friendly, can someone explain the terminology? Google has other people using the word but nobody explaining it

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When it comes to subreddits, lemmy communities, and lemmy instances, the people enforcing the rules are the same people making the rules. To borrow from legal terminology, the legislative, executive, and judicial branches are the same. Mods and admins are judge, jury, and executioner. This gives them a lot of power and allows biases in the way they enforce the rules to go ignored.

When it comes to the reddit admins, however, and sitewide bans and content removal, the people enforcing the rules are employees. They report to a boss, and have to follow guidelines already established. The content policy has already been written, and changing it is a big deal. If a ban is unjust, it can be appealed using the rules. When biases in the ways the rules are enforced happen, it's easier to undo them. And I'm not saying it's easy, but on Lemmy, it's impossible. You can't even log into your account if you're banned, how are you supposed to appeal?

Reddit as a business has a great deal more power than any fediverse instance's mod teams. But ironically, the low ranking admins have less power to make bad decisions. And that's why I've noticed a consistent pattern that Reddit is better at moderating cases that are legally clear-cut, but emotionally controversial. On Lemmy, admins follow their feelings. On Reddit, people may have a lot of feelings, but the proletariat administration intern has had feelings beaten out of them, and they more often end up following the rules.

The way Reddit operates is soulless and horrible and capitalist, but... soul is where hatred comes from. You're less likely to find that in the workings of an unfeeling machine.

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