That’s one of the many things my giant filter firewall is there for preventing ((:

(prevents me from being genuine/myself too tho)

That is indeed the beauty, I agree. I like some opinionated software as well (Gnome for example). Opinionated always fits better than generalised stuff IMO. I can disagree with that opinion, but that just means it’s not for me and might be great for others

Fascism develops because capitalism is in decay and/or threatened by socialist movements

Executing the traitorous SPD leadership like Ebert and Noske would be far more effective. Arguably the November revolution would have succeeded and fascism would never have had a chance to foster, bc well, the bourgeoisie would have been liquidated lol

IMO letting the default be default and offering other options is the best. Why? Bc the frontents are inconsistent and may only partially offer features lemmy-ui has or in a different way. Like leave the default bc it’s the thing people are used to but give the freedom of choice having various frontends “natively” on your instance

o7 to our Irish republican socialist comrades

Whoop it up for liberty! After Ireland is free, says the patriot who won’t touch socialism, we will protect all classes, and if you won’t pay your rent you will be evicted same as now. But the evicting party, under command of the sheriff, will wear green uniforms and the Harp without the Crown, and the warrant turning you out on the roadside will be stamped with the arms of the Irish Republic. Now, isn’t that worth fighting for?

- James Connolly

Unfortunately that’s basically the “definition” of anti-semitism here in Germany💀

I think they might have meant a separate partition with it’s own install

A comment I came across like two weeks ago puts it quite well:

I haven’t used piefed myself but I wouldn’t want to switch to it because I feel like it gives more power to downvotes and karma (or “reputation” as they call it):

• Comments with -10 score are collapsed by default.
• People who get downvoted a lot end up with a ‘low reputation’ indicator next to their name. You’ll know it when you see it.
• Upvotes in meme communities do not add to reputation.

Those are three of the twelve points listed as differences to lemmy on their features page.

I also don’t agree with some of the points in their article on “PieFed features for growing healthy communities”.

from: https://sopuli.xyz/comment/17119490
the comments’ thread is also quite interesting

Plus it’s written in Python and has only a few hundred MAUs, so we can only guess how well it scales

EDIT: Regarding Lemmy frontends, I suggest you take a look at how the instance I’m on handles it. They append a single char in front of the url to signify the various frontends

Didn’t Trump promise to “end warmongering and profiteers” and that his legacy will be that of a peacemaker at the national guard conference in 2024 and at his inaugural address respectively?

The USA is now a direct participant in Israels unprovoked attack on Iran

o7

I’d also like to make you aware of another thing, since I see the German and European flag in your username: The EU is a (neo-)colonialist/-imperialist entity.
I get all the “Union of peoples” popularity. I’m all in favour of (con)federations like that. It’s just that I’m categorically opposed to unions of financial capital, which the EU boils down to unfortunately

Or mb I’m just misinterpreting your usage there :/

I’m so sorry for mixing you up, I for some reason didn’t realise ^^’

Thx for clarifying and thank you too for the nice discussion! I enjoyed it as well :)

Btw I love that antifa tux pfp :p

lmaooo, they also accuse the Palestinian resistance of the thing they are practising en masse

https://qudsnen.co/israels-hidden-front-how-israels-military-embeds-itself-among-civilians/

I’d like to bestow upon you the “most based comment of the thread”-award!

I would politely disagree on your categorisation of ideologies, especially with your use of the so called “political compass” as it is an inherently falsifying and misleading “tool”.

Also I’d say that state capitalism and state socialism are distinct and separate things.
But there are a lot of nuances there. And I must admit that I’m not sufficiently informed to explain it correctly. Like I wouldn’t put the NEP and Stalinist era USSR, and the "P"RC today (which is arguably a bourgeois state of a new type and so on) all in the same category.

I’m at this point in my knowledge journey where I know enough to understand most intricacies and nuances on at least a surface lvl, but lack the depth to properly explain it -_-

I’m personally not an ML, but do believe that there is a big divide between most internet "ML"s as seen on Grad, Hexbear and so on, and actual ML IRL. Also, historically, Marxisism-Leninism has been a liberatory ideology in former colonies and the 3rd world in general, you just have to look at movements with Comrade Bishop or Thomas Sankara at the helm, in Grenada and Burkina Faso respecitvely.
Fun fact regarding those two, both were brutally surpressed by imperialist/colonialist powers. Sankara was shot in a coup orchastrated by the French and the USA, tactless as ever, just straight up invaded Grenada…

My stance on inter-leftist (read socialist) interactions can be summed up as follows: Unity in theory is unrealistic, but solidarity in praxis is vital.
You can’t reconsile two fundamentally different (not opposed, mind you!) worldviews (ie. materialism and idealism) and even inside of those two there are laaarge differences, but as long as the goals are the same, I believe there should be pragmatic alliances and solidarity.

Regarding “democratic socialism”: Virtually any “democratic socialist” party is as I described, especially in the imperial core and virtually everywhere nowadays.
Historically there used to be examples in the imperial periphery like the movement with Salvador Allende at the helm, that actually tried to do good things, but ultimately failed because their idealism was exploited by the CIA…

EDIT: I’d also like to make you aware of another thing: I see the German and European flag i your username. The EU is a (neo-)colonialist/-imperialist entity.
I get all the “Union of peoples” popularity. I’m all in favour to (con)federations like that. It’s just that I’m categorically opposed to unions of financial capital, which the EU boils down to unfortunately

Or mb I’m just misinterpreting your usage there :/ (Edit moved to separate comment, since I mixed up the OP of this thread)

First of all, my apologies, I took you for a social democrat lol.
My main point is, that without the betrayal of the SPD, everything after 1919 would have been different. Arguably even Stalin wouldn’t have had much ground bc there would have been less reason for a “bastion” of “socialism in one country”.
The whole Great Socialist October Revolution was organised around the premise that they would either be joined by already industrialised nations (like e.g. France or Germany), or be doomed…
Imperial Russia was, to put it simply, a semi-feudal backwater.

But I digress.

OFC the ComIntern was unfortunately instrumentalised and largely controlled from Moscow from the late 20s on, but again, the “social fascism” theory is entirely understandable given the historical context, even if it was a strategic mistake.

I would disagree that the KPD was mainly fighting social democrats, but rather the other way around at least since 1919. Also the KPD didn’t use police squads or their paramilitary org to shoot down workers protests. Blutmai was organised by the SPD.

The KPD organised the “Antifaschistische Aktion” btw, which then worked on the principle of “Einheitsfront” ie. a front of the working classes and “just” didn’t participate in the “Eiserne Front”, which was organised as a popular front, ie. included bourgeois elements. Also need I remind you that in the social democratic “Three Arrows”, the 3rd arrows stands for anti-communism?

Regarding Rule 3: Democratic socialism as an ideology, is very similar to social democracy in it’s definition, bc from a leftist POV, by it is neither democratic, nor socialist.
It wants to magically convince the ruling classes to give up their power by using the system put in place by said ruling classes in the first place lol (bourgeois “democracy” is no democracy at all).
Their definition of socialism is also heavily revisionist, nowadays social democracy is basically dead and “democratic socialists” just abuse that label to bring forward social democratic points, that are at least not seeping with neoliberalism. They exist entirely within the bourgeois system of career politicians in service of a “civilised” bourgeois “democracy”. Nowadays “democratic socialism” is pretty much “let’s try and trick the system to form a mixed economy by nationalising key industries”…

Back in Luxemburg’s days, the Mensheviks and (M)SPD were “democratic socialists”.

It is in place bc I didn’t want to deal with arguing with wanna be western “leftists” all the time. Usually it’s just there to kick (rad)libs lol

I would argue that socialism, if implemented properly (ie. without the bureaucracy at the helm) is inherently more democratic than anything capitalist, since it gives the working classes direct ownership, or control over the economy, which is (historically), always more dominant than the political or cultural superstructure.
Especially if direct council democracy is implemented properly (which was historically often sidelined for state socialism to be able to survive in the first place)

Unfortunately many bourgeois “democracies” are full of “temporarily embarrassed millionaires”

I know more than enough about the SPD, thank you. (Please take a look at Rule 3 in the sidebar too)

I would also like to point out that even in Marx’ time they already strayed faaar (Critique of the Gothar Programme).

Since at least 1914 the SPD took it’s mask off, after that, any honest interaction was impossible. The only possible collaboration would have been with them as a bourgeois entity in a popular front.

Just FYI: you are trying to justify one of the worst kind of revisionism out there. And do I need to remind you that: GERMAN FASCISM WOULD HAVE LITERALLY BEEN IMPOSSIBLE IF THE SPD DIDN’T SIDE WITH CAPITALISM (fascism is capitalism in decay) IN 1919?!

Please go read “Order Prevails in Berlin” by Rosa Luxemburg…

(gibts auch auf Deutsch hier)

I will leave you with a quote from said short pamphlet:

“Order prevails in Berlin!” So proclaims the bourgeois press triumphantly, so proclaim Ebert and Noske, and the officers of the “victorious troops,” who are being cheered by the petty-bourgeois mob in Berlin waving handkerchiefs and shouting “Hurrah!”

[…]

The revolutionary struggle is the very antithesis of the parliamentary struggle. In Germany, for four decades we had nothing but parliamentary “victories.” We practically walked from victory to victory. And when faced with the great historical test of August 4, 1914, the result was the devastating political and moral defeat, an outrageous debacle and rot without parallel. To date, revolutions have given us nothing but defeats. Yet these unavoidable defeats pile up guarantee upon guarantee of the future final victory.