The gladio scandals were in the early nineties.

The fact that we haven’t been able to mobilize more than a handful of people since then despite the increasing pressures of late stage capitalism is squarely on us.

But sure, keep sitting on your ass waiting for daddy Lenin to ride in on a T-34 to save your ass instead of doing something about it.

Edit: I see your edit. That merits a more substantial response, which I’m not able to give right now. But the meat is that the concessions stopped happening because they were never afraid of us. They were afraid of the Soviet Union. We need to make sure they are afraid of the combined power of the international working class. That takes work.

Which is a long way of saying, I agree more than I disagree.

There you go with your external locus of responsibility! Heaven forbid you fight for something.

I’m sorry but this talk really drives me up the wall.

Left populism has a lot to offer. I’m from a Western European country where the actual communist party, hammer and sickle and all, managed to get 30% of the vote in living memory. Capitalism hasn’t gotten any better since then, but no one on our side is putting up anything that even looks like a fight. In fact, it’s like we pride ourselves on losing, or worse, not even trying.

Fight, you fucking embarrassments. Fight!

Also losing elections. We’re good at that.

Big tech vecht tegen big content.

Ik: 🍿

If a community isn’t safe for trans people, it’s not safe for anyone. The mob just hasn’t gotten around to abuse you yet.

And they are going to comply because they are all former cops and boot lickers.

IDK why hydrogen just hasn’t captured any mind share. Seems like a great technology.

It’s great science but it’s hard technology.

It almost requires extremely high pressure or cryogenic storage and it diffuses through everything.

Big Amy’s Baking Company vibes.

And then some AI generated memorabilia for the low low price of $199+S&H!

That’s over half a slander damages award right there!

Agreed. Unfortunately, Lemmy has both design choices and cultural issues that make running heavily moderated communities essentially impossible.

There’s no victim here. Just a guy with “feelings”.

The issue is that these spaces are often prime trolling grounds, and you end up having the same discussions over and over until the honest posters move on and only trolls are left.

I’ve certainly seen my share of crappy behavior (up and including sexual assault unfortunately) in supposedly liberal and leftist spaces.

I don’t compare because I don’t hang out with conservatives , but every instance is one too many.

I want to be treated fairly and based on how I act, and yet I don’t get that.

You are being treated based on how act. You act like a spoiled toddler that thinks he’s owed some consideration by strangers.

I feel you man, I know people that grew up in environments like that, and if you are not temperamentally suited for them they will chew you up.

I found it got a lot better when I moved out on my own and could choose who I spent time and who I did not. But not everyone can do that when they need the most.

I know what they type. They are responsible for that at least, aren’t they?

There certainly is a hateful piece of shit in this thread, but it’s not me.

But I’m sure if you just keep externalizing instead of working on yourself, things will magically fix themselves for you!

No, I honestly do not. I do my level best to treat everyone as a person and when I mess up I apologize and try and do better. That works pretty well.

If you are treated like you are inherently bad, you may be not as good as you think you are.

Edit: nice edit man. Totally not what an angry toddler would do.