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Late Stage Capitalism
A place for for news, discussion, memes, and links criticizing capitalism and advancing viewpoints that challenge liberal capitalist ideology. That means any support for any liberal capitalist political party (like the Democrats) is strictly prohibited.
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4 No imperialism, conservatism, reactionism or Zionism, lessor evil rhetoric. Dismissing 3rd party votes or 'wasted votes on 3rd party' is lessor evil rhetoric.
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Apparently not allowed to have an opinion here due to a one-way application of rule 4 "lessor evil" rhetoric. So enjoy your uninformed circle-jerk in a joke sub that can't stand up to the simplest of criticisms. You win, congratulations on posting an opinon that is explicitly protected by your mods.
"waaah waaaah you have to hear my clichés about why you have to vote for genociders waaah waaaah"
You could also just formulate what youre saying in a civil manner and not have the issue. Civility is not just about tone, but content and action as well.
If you can't actually engage with the actual critique and facts of the matter, then why would one want to hear what you have to say?
Finally mods applying rules unevenly is something that happens everywhere, stop being pissy because you felt like it happened to you now. When I interact with something on lemmy world and people behave like shit, its me who gets moderated for responding in kind. It sucks, but Im not gonna pretend its something unique to your group.
Now I will say in this instance the rules havent been applied unevenly, youre just a pissbaby.
I did engage, with facts. My comment was removed because harm reduction is a contraversial topic in this community.
Per the interpretation of rule 4 by the mods, this is a manufactured echo chamber for 2024 non-voters to jack off about how great they are for not voting for a "genocider". Fine. You all can have your safe space, and I won't bring in basic facts like "if trump didn't win the election because we all voted for someone else then we wouldn't be dealing with 99% of the bullshit we've got today". I get that you all want a fantasy space where people are free to post their protected opinion with uniform agreement enforced by the moderators, you have a right to that. However, you should consider how weak those positions are when people are banned from examining them and poking at the (fairly large and obvious) holes. You know what I'd call a set of unsupported fantasies enforced by authoritarians and banned from basic examination that is detached from the actual results it produces? Religion.
As far as I can see you did not do that to my comment. Did you respond to the wrong comment?
Call it what you want, but just be aware your favorite comm is as much of an echo chamber. The difference is that the people here exist within the same cultural hegemony you do, so they hear plenty of what you say every day. They, unlike you, are not in an echo chamber, since they hear your bs all the time. You have to seek it out.
I think I see the confusion. What youre presenting here is an opinion, not a fact. And it is an unfalsifiable opinion. Looking at policies and the history of the party and the candidate, I cannot agree.
So I would again point you towards the previous thing I wrote about people hearing your clichés all the time. Id then add to that with a reassurance nobody is missing on anything if your "poking holes" is just more of you aggressively spewing text about how you think Kamala would be better. I think you would get further in these spaces if you:
Seems like an odd definition of religion that excluded quite a few spiritualistic practices.
I would again point you towards the thing I said before: Its like that everywhere, you just dont notice it elsewhere because you rarely spout heterodox opinions. You are now in one of the few online spaces where the western cultural hegemony isn't the absolute baseline, and so you find yourself as part of the outgroup. Most users here will have similar stories to tell you of whatever comm you think does it well.
I think you also need to get a better understanding of authoritarian, because calling a modaction "authoritarian" is very funny.
No. I had a comment removed earlier that would have been basically what I would have sent back to you, but it was removed per a biased application of rule 4, no "Lessor Evil" rhetoric. I'm not going to type it all up again just have it removed. You're welcome to find some repository of old comments and read it if it is available.
Edit: also the irony of complaining about my civility (without citation) and calling me a whiny pissbaby in the same comment is rich.
You can just find comments in the modlog. I just found yours. It had a bunch "facts" (opinions), some unsubstantiated claims, some statements that were straight up untrue, and finally it was just a disingenuous reductive statement that failed to engage with the other.
It was also a statement that diminished Democrats involvement in many of the things you take issue with. I assume that was the reasoning for having it removed. That or just it being regular trite unsubstantiated text with the regular trite rhetorical tricks that everyone sees through.
Cite them.
Im heading to bed now (yes I am studying abroad, spooooky!) so I'll get you tomorrow, but the foreign prison thing? We've had foreign death prisons for ages - Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, we could go on. Then there's the long list of CIA blacksites.
What are you trying to imply here?