Wasn't there a similar headline about "Israel" being about to withdraw from Gaza just some months ago? And then it just didn't happen?

Website doesn't load, could you copypaste the text for me?

Worse! Even Disney is endorsing those tunnels now!

🎵 Dig a tunnel, 🎵

🎵 dig, dig a tunnel, 🎵

🎵 when you're done, you dig a bigger tunnel 🎵

Honestly- OK, and? Who cares about a random settler being alive or not? (Not trying to be rude, I do appreciate your updates, I'm just failing to see the relevance of this particular one.)

Have been away from Lemmygrad for a month (life was stressful), did anything noteworthy happen in the meanwhile?

Anyway, I'm back!

I'm not reading through that entire article (which is just Twitter discourse in article form), but honestly, that question itself seems badly posed.

Obviously, socialists aren't going to introduce a policy like "No more bananas" or "We must have bananas at any costs". In a country where bananas don't grow, availability of bananas will depend on desire to import bananas, and another country being willing to sell you bananas. I vaguely remember something about bananas being rare in the GDR because there were few friendly countries that grew bananas (though that might have been an anti-communist source, or plain made up, I don't know, but it doesn't sound too unrealistic). Availability of bananas will depend on the circumstances you're building socialism under.

From that article:

Although he does not identify as a “degrowther,” Harris rejects the “pro-growth” left’s suggestion that the American consumer’s preferences are sacrosanct.

I have no idea what this discourse is, but this line bothers me so much. Imagine caring about "American consumer's preferences". This is so stupid. If socialism ever somehow manages to take power in the USA, they really must work on changing societal attitude. US society, its values, its ways of thought reflect the worst that capitalism and imperialism have to offer. Socialism cannot succeed if these ways of thought go unaddressed. And whatever bullshit led to "I am consoomer and I am owed banana" is one of the things that have to go.

The most important question facing the American left today.

If true, that says much more about the state of the American left than it does about the importance of the question.

Yep lol, I was about to make a post calling them out for it

You might be amused to know that someone with a different username also just reported your post for the same

Not sure what they seek to gain by reporting a post like to the explicitly communist moderators on the explicitly communist websites, but liberals aren't exactly the smartest 🤷

It's not even just the politics/news discussion. I remember lemmy.ml being a pleasant site to discuss non-political topics (mostly nerd stuff, but still), despite the presence of obnoxious liberals. Now that it's overrun by redditors, it's... much lower quality? Or just plainly annoying? Or maybe it's just that I know that it all is being posted by obnoxious westerners? I can't quite put into words what exactly is bothering me, but it definitely is. I usually browse by local now instead of by all.