FlorianSimon

"AI" is what put Google into trouble to begin with... Sure, let's double-down on the shittiness, I don't see how anything could go wrong.

I know what the outcomes look like when the "left" represses the right and everybody else, including themselves. And your failure to see how undesirable those outcomes may be to leftists around the world is precisely the beef we have against Lemmygrad, Nazbear and tankies in general. You do not represent us, and we'll never be allies. Even worse, you guys actively sabotage leftism by keeping red-scare era scarecrows alive. I'm glad you're such an insignificant minority that we can contain, to be quite frank. The tankie problem used to be way worse on Lemmy less than a year ago.

I know my local revolutionnary/communist party, despite being leninist, is fiercely anti-Stalin, for instance. The fixation on defending totalitarianism is frankly bizarre.

The key difference is cars are a strictly superior version of horses. Horses do need fuel, they're slow, maintenance is time-intensive/expensive, can't take you as far...

Wireless earbuds' superiority is not so clear-cut. There are pros and cons for both, and I hate that some execs are trying to force me to buy their overpriced garbage.

I wouldn't mind wireless earbuds if it wasn't for the rare earth minerals they require for their battery, if planned obsolescence wasn't a core "feature", and if I had a choice to keep using the cheap wired headphones I've used for years before they started enshittifying phones.

By using the kind of the repression they used on the public, they proved they were no better than the capitalists they despise so much.

Someone that actually cares about left-wing politics cares a lot more about the outcomes than which faction comes ahead. Politics aren't a game of Risk. Actions have consequences, and humanity as a whole loses when innocents get killed by brainwashed idiots.

If stalinist Russia is what utopia is supposed to be, I'm not interested, thank you.

I acknowledge that. But what "struggle" means is not an unimportant detail. And I disagree with the Stalinist approach viscerally, and it isn't in accordance with leftist values by any stretch of the imagination.

That's precisely the extent of my criticism. Understanding stalinism instead of just demonizing it is a good thing, if only to avoid repeating the same mistakes. But the end doesn't justify the means. Apologism is not OK.

It's OK to take a stance against power abuses, and vital to denounce them if you consider yourself a leftist.

The problem is the violence of the totalitarian regimes you defend harms innocents too, which is why serious communists shouldn't advocate for that kind of power abuse any more than they should advocate for Western imperialism. It's not that hard.

Yeah I get to do that, because that's what happened factually, sorry. No amount of whataboutism will change that. I don't care about Western imperialists, fuck them too.

And you guys won't reach any mainstream audience to spread your bile. Sorry!

You guys can't help yourselves. Anyone interested can read the Nazbear slip-ups in this thread. You don't even to do any hardcore research.

It is, because they tried federating and they were denied access.

No, because substituting one imperialism with another one you like more means you never understood any leftist theory to begin with.