Fedigrow

Supposedly the reasoning is that whatever you do that is less than total overthrow of the entire system is not good enough. So strikes are "not good enough". This ofc ignores how totally overthrowing the government is also not good enough - see e.g. how Putin is managing "communist" Russia, or Whinnie the Pooh bear is managing "communist" China. Communism has never been managed to be implemented successfully irl. Yet somehow the tankies kNoW bEtTeR than literally everyone else world-wide about how things should be done? (Or else they are, however unwittingly, part of the disinformation campaign designed to further advance the Russian and/or Chinese agendas? indeed it is eery how both the Alt-Right and Alt-Left messages point to overthrowing the USA and UK and other governments, almost like that's the real goal all along, and whatever means to achieve that are simply convenient tools to use?)

Despite the lack of success of communism irl, people still advocate for murdering CEOs, as if that would somehow solve... anything? For one thing it's the system that is broken, and for another, the current level of technology is very much not on the side of isolated lone wolves who want to overthrow things. Moreover, the people I see espousing such ideas can't even seem to articulate a cohesive argument, much less a convincing one, i.e. they are full of shit and their ideas don't hold weight, and just bc they make the claim that they should have total freedom to speak their minds (which is ironic, considering how little "freedom" places such as Lemmy.ml offers its userbase), does not make it so. TLDR: liars often lie, perhaps first and most notably to themselves.

And even if they were going to actually do something - what makes it okay to discuss such a thing on the clear open web? On an instance that isn't theirs? And in a community that they don't bother to put in effort to moderate? And given how very often done from mere hours to days old accounts, even so much as contribute to at all? Like people were putting down Lemmy.World admins and mods for placing a brief (~24 hour iirc) hiatus on discussion of the very controversial and charged topic of jury nullification, which they (rightly imho) worried could have actual legal repercussions for instances in the USA. I mean, if you want to make your own instance, or your own community, then go ahead, but otherwise what right does someone have to complain about how some other admin/mod decides to do their business? Modding is a hard job, and people take it far too much for granted how much EFFORT is put into such by so many people across the Fediverse.

When people refuse to acknowledge the latter, that's when I know that they are not clear thinking people: totally ignoring the long- or even short-term ramifications of an action (like, what if the current mod were to be forcibly removed: what comes next, when so few are willing to do the task in the first place?!) is merely one sign among many that everything else that they say is similarly likely to be totally false.

Which doesn't make them subhuman or whatever, but does, to me, mean that they should not be in charge. So don't let them sway you, if they lack any convincing evidence to back up even the smallest portion of whatever it is that they are trying to say. Not everyone is equally likely to be correct on the Fediverse. Not even if similar things are said from one hundred accounts. What makes something correct vs. not lies in its agreement with actual reality, period.