Supporting Palestine: violent.
Supporting Ukraine: violent.
Suggesting Lemmy: believe or not, violent too
this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2025
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For profit media is state controlled. The state being the corporations.
It is just galling to me that some massive rich dweebs interpreted all of my favorite dystopian cyberpunk as a blueprint
Violent content is against Reddit rules. So why is the content not being removed and the poster banned?
I ve gotten banned for reporting violent content, and also for inciting violence the same month, the ban for reports was something very stupid like harassing mods, person I reported was just straight up advocating for violence, while me advocating for violence was "I dont think h1b visas help americans, college grads are already struggling to get relevant jobs, one thing I agree with some conservatives on" (in the conservative sub, funny enough most of them were against it day 1, by day 2 they were all for it on that sub, think trump had also said his support by then)
Because when a trap kills the rats you do not punish the bait in the rat trap.
It still drives engagement. Same for the subs that have been flooded with AI stories and bot responses. It can be marketed as engagement to advertisers.
Ah so violent content is banned unless it’s making Reddit cash. Then it’s fine.
I reckon it's more that they need to be 'seen' to be doing something about it, but will nonetheless take the engagement as long as it doesn't cause a stir. I mean they had jailbait and watchpeopledie as large subreddits for ages... until they started getting flack for it.
"Violent" needs scare quotes, because it's obviously subjective and ripe for abuse.
As long as you don't censor us, which a decentralized Lemmy can't do in comparison to Reddit.
The government is way more worrying though.
Hard to imagine that it was only a few years ago(, before E.Musk bought Twitter,) that we were denying the influence of governments on social media censorship, and said that "private companies aren't censoring, because they're not the government, if you don't like this platform just change/leave". It has changed and now we've quickly accepted that states should enforce (more )laws all over the/our internet. And many don't see that our fact-checking is unilaterally biased, etc.
Someone from programming.dev may have heard of the declaration of the independence of cyberspace , among others.
Let me be absolutely clear.
The opinions and concerns about "censorship", and just about everything else, from "Whatabout-NATO/'Murica?" apologists and fellators for the CCP, Xi Jingping, Mao, Vladimir Putin, the USSR, Stalin, the DPRK, Che Guevara, Castro, Islamo-totalitarians, drug cartels, and <insertMurderousAuthoritarianTyrantsHere> are worth less than Marx and Engels' flaming dickcheese.
They can all pleasure themselves in their own puckered accelerationist bungholes with their Molotov-sippy-cups that they can barely lift out of their premium-outdoor-brand backpacks.
No matter who's "side" they claim to be on, never trust anyone who says, "I/We are in charge, forever." Especially, the angsty edgelords at lemmy.ml.
What they said is that the proletariat is in charge forever, not capitalists/bourgeois/'the wealthiest' anymore.
You can trust our capitalist-owned medias on whether they succeeded or not.
To only give one example that's not known, you've never heard of their imperative mandates, only about their fake elections that seemed worthless(, see #25 here)
Not only can our capitalists buy medias, but they can also directly give money to candidates they like, and we'll sanction/invade the countries that don't vote for the right person, our system isn't a model, if only because it needs so many lies to be sustained.
Capitalist-owned countries from the global South think that they should imitate our model to be wealthy, when it's that model that perpetuates neo-colonialism.
The problem is that the u.s.s.r., the People's Republic of China, and other socialist states, were too attacked by foreign actors to establish a direct democracy, so it was only direct in some cooperatives, and Lenin stated that reactionaries were powerful enough to justify having a strong state.
It's not in the communist "d.n.a." though, on the contrary since 'the final state of socialism'/communism is a stateless society.
The gulags only existed in a period of crisis when they endured wars after wars until WW2, but we abundantly talked about it when they were already closed. If repression and control of the population was as pronounced as we say they wouldn't have been dislocated, just ask a chinese person about their social credit score or other lies if you ever meet one.
Et cetera...
And islamists/muslims/theocrats are the best, no distinction between the spiritual and temporal, i won't trust a faithless civilization or faithless people, even if most of them are great people.
Also, i honestly don't really mind if we(sterners) end up with "anarcho"-capitalism, feudalism, or whatever, diversity is good, as long as (people live there willingly and )we don't prevent other countries from choosing another path, which can be done, we could at least try to conceive a system which would made wars(, and covert actions, sanctions, ...,) completely impossible.
Thanks for the reply though, ++
Apparently, I wasn't clear enough.
Personal liberty, freedom of thought/inquiry, and self-determination are assailed by many threats: the theocrats, nihilists, corporatists, fascists, and so-called "collectivists". They all claim to be the true authoritative “voice of the people”, but let's discuss the authoritarian "leftists", A.K.A. “tankies” (i.e., apologists for Lenin, Stalin, Mao, the CCP, the DPRK, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Xi Jingping, etc.).
They are obvious threats to a free, egalitarian, and open society, are just as violently authoritarian as their religious, corporatist, and fascist competitors, and should be treated with the contempt, distrust, and ridicule they deserve. Beware of their cult(s). Understand what they really are; power over everything and everyone, forever, is what they seek. They want you either as a true believer (a willing pawn) or dead, just like all of the other supposedly benevolent dictators who promised utopias throughout history.
They claim to speak and fight for the proletariat, promising a new utopia, never before seen, once their revolution executes the last “class-traitor”. In practice, once they’re finished with “seizing the means of production”, they’ll never relinquish control and become the new ruling class.
They’ll assume the mantle of an enlightened elite post-revolutionary administration to guide the proletariat to their promised utopia of “each according to their ability, to each according to their need”. In practice, "the party leadership needs the most, because they’re obviously the most able” in reorganizing the economic and political structure of society. The utopia of the “dictatorship of the proletariat” will never exist, only the dictatorship of the “revolutionary party”. Repression and execution await those who question their claims and decisions. These supposed champions of labor are really harbingers of death - of the mind and the body politic.
They’re akin to the pigs in Orwell's Animal Farm, the loudest voices in the revolution, usurpers of a righteous cause, but a bit “more equal” than everyone else after the farmer is done away with. Fortunately, the pigs, like the farmer, got their comeuppance in the end of the story. And like pigs, these self-styled champions of labor will squeal when they don't get their way.
Accusations that could be thrown at the center(, if you keep in mind that we're downplaying our authoritarianism/manipulation/control for ourselves and allied countries, but are over-estimating or even inventing it for countries we dislike).
For now there's not a lot of internal dissent but it's already too much for them, so their reaction would probably increase with it.
And i.d.k. if you're an american, but you only have two political parties and it already seems too much. And this criticism of populism as if it was a bad thing, ...
Direct democracy then.
Reddit is now Fascist media. They will suppress talk of armed resistance, if (god forbid) it comes to that.
Lol people use that website
Ahhhhhh
Baby sad
Is there hope for digg’s rebirth?
"Hope" read as "won't some corporation save us?!"
Yeah actually old Reddit founder and another similar dude buying it and refreshing it soon, apparently.