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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

A number of reasons. Just like you claim a Communist party almost destroyed your country, Capitalist parties destroy and are destroying many countries as well. The existence of bad Communist parties does not itself mean Communism is structurally a bad thing, as pursuit of a Stateless, Classless, Moneyless society is a noble goal for humanity.

I think it's fair to say that decentralization is a good check against Authoritarianism, and as such, this should be extended to the workplace, not just government.

As far as why Lemmy leans left, the founder is a Communist, and principles of decentralization and federation tend to appeal far more to leftists, while Capitalist-inclined individuals have Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Heads up, this guy is a troll. His sole, self declared purpose is to be an asshole and pick fights. Not worth engaging

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don’t believe you. This sounds like the sort of thing a person could say to poison the well against someone else, unless someone demands proof.

So where is this statement of purpose?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Also, some of his other greatest hits include denying that the holocaust was so bad because "not all the jews died", outright claiming that "Fossil fuels are recyclable" in a single sentence comment in a debate about why he thinks evs are bullshit, and laying out an explicit violent fantasy about magdumping into a theoretical person who might strike him for any reason.

One of his most recent comments just says, "violence has never not worked"

Do go read some of his exchanges for yourself and determine if I'm just poisoning the well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was born into this world for no other reason than to be intolerant towards self righteous idiots like yourself who do more harm than good with their naive infantile worldview.

Also if you pulled your head out of your ass, you'd notice I've been pretty tolerant of your stupidity, but it can only go so far. I'm not trying to sound less shitty either, I simply added more to my reply, the reasons as to why that you made up in your head aren't my problem to deal with.

In the end, people like you end up full fascist psychopaths who kill people they don't like because that's better than allowing people to say things you don't like.

The self righteous part in question that he's born to be against, is literally just claiming to be tolerant. Not bludgeoning people with tolerance, not using tolerance as a weapon to silence people as he claims. Just labeling oneself "tolerant", and the general idea of tolerance. He also spent several comments doubling down. Maybe go read the exchange and see for yourself?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s not so much the existence of bad communism that indicates communism is a structurally bad thing, quite so much as the utter lack of good communism that indicates communism is a structurally bad thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's certainly enough to form a hypothesis, but far, far from proof against it. There aren't any "good" developing countries either.