it is.

yeah, I live in the southern hemisphere and even now it’s close to 30 degrees where I live lol
i really like the aesthetic but it’s pretty close to impossible for me to dress like this :(

will I get access to my saved posts and comments?

Honestly this comment is kind of shitty as I am very tired, so yeah. Some of what I say may seem a bit reactionary but I ask that you read the entire comment in good faith and try to educate me if you disagree.

I really enjoyed the first half of the video, but the second half kinda dropped the ball. Maybe NonCompete’s position as a professional content creator somewhat clouds his vision and gives him a more optimistic perspective on social media.

He kind of brushes aside “cancel culture” criticism by arguing it’s just powerful people being scared that they are finely being held accountable, which isn’t entirely wrong but it’s also not very materialist. There are working class people being fired and persecuted for making shitty jokes on social media. Obviously these people need to be educated and need to change their behaviour, but publicly humiliating someone and then possibly making them face the effects of extreme poverty is very likely only further radicalizing them and their sympathizers. It’s mostly performative politics that targets individuals instead of looking to change the system which produces this types of behaviours. This is very clearly observed when people go fishing for half a decade old posts that non-black celebrities made when they were teens, where they post a non-racist meme with the n-word in it. It’s obvious that this isn’t aiming to be anything other than a purity test and virtue signalling about being “in” the liberal progressive club.
Just as he mentioned privatized information and the lack of formal censorship as legitimizing a propaganda network, “cancel culture” also ends up playing the same role when it comes to the silencing of non-mainstream voices. It’s now as if an organization is giving in to popular demand, instead of an organization giving in to corporate or state interests. As an example of this we have the blacklisting of Colin Kaepernick, which was sometimes paddled as the NFL giving in to their conservative demographic, instead of being about the franchise owners’ personal opinions and interests.

And now I get to my main point: it doesn’t make that much of a difference if individuals have their voices amplified if they just reproduce a different brand of the establishment’s ideology. The dominant ideology in mainstream social media sites is nothing other than neoliberal identitarianism, which, while better than conservatism or outright fascism, still upholds the status quo.
He mentions that the internet has made it so marginalized voices can never be entirely removed and, yeah, he’s right on this one. It’d be suicide for a company to try to pull it off. But do notice how he only mentions identities. Identities don’t challenge the ruling class, they just exist. Political movements do challenge the status quo and are being censored, which I don’t even need to elaborate on because most of us came here after being purged from Reddit. This will only get worse as the new Cold War deepens and communism/marxism-leninism is further conflated with hate speech because of alleged PRC human rights violations.

Of course social media is a major breakthrough for organizing and political discussion, especially with an ever increasing number of non-profit and decentralized platforms popping up, but it is irrelevant if people are still indoctrinated by the hegemonic ideology and aren’t politically educated. This is where we come in. There’s a lot of work to be done and being content and incentivising liberal performative politics will only lead us further off-track.

i got banned a while ago because I corrected someone on a comment the brazilian economy minister made. IIRC I just said his comment wasn’t as bad as portrayed and that marxist-leninists should strive to be factual as reality is own our side, so there’s no need to strawman or exaggerate what’s happening. never said he or the current administration were good or anything of the sort.

got banned for being a fascist sympathizer when a couple of clicks on my profile would’ve shown that’s not the case lmao

it should’ve been a wake-up call when non-ML meme subs were better at radicalizing people than /r/communism, but i guess they’d rather keep their little “academic” club.
though the sub really is a good learning index for people who are already MLs, i’ll give it that.

I don’t really have anything to add on the Nintendo showcase, but I was wondering this as well, so thank you for making this post.

it’s honestly so weird that americans feel like they can call out other countries for cult of personalities when the founding fathers are a thing. even the term itself is so fucking weird as a foreigner.

i really like the “God-given unalienable rights” the US was founded upon, like… owning slaves and shit

i think adding too many subs right now should be avoided, if there are too many subs and not enough people it’d split the userbase and could kill the site tbh.

just need more people in here.

I wholeheartedly agree with this.
Bernie, while a socdem, has showcased how bourgeois elections can be used to strengthen and diffuse leftist thought. he wasn’t even ML but he’s definitely been a huge factor in a bunch of MLs radicalizations because they kept going beyond Sanders. whether the candidate is actually elected is irrelevant, just use the campaign as a platform.

i can’t believe Lemmy already has a better image hosting service than reddit lmao

this is the content i’ve missed since the sub was banned. brings a tear to my eye.

honestly it’s very concerning when even milquetoast socdems are seen as a threat to imperialism and national capital. the US is increasingly forcing Latin America towards fascism and who fucking knows how that will go.

the pink tide seemed to be a break from that tradition, but it’s now abundantly clear that Latin America only has three options: a) revolution; b) neoliberalism; c) fascism;
very cool

tbh this is only natural after the liberals created the narrative that the only reason Trump won was bc of some bullshit “russian bots” instead of the very real contradictions present in american society and the hopelessness that the Obama administration gave people, when the first black president who spouted a “hope” and “change” rhetoric made no systemic changes to how the american state operates.

Reddit is one of the 20 most popular sites in the world according to Alexa Rank.
yeah, a lot of commenters are petty borugeois, but a whole lot of people browse the site, so it’s important that we are there to disseminate our viewpoints and ideas.

salve, camarada!

I’ve recently joined the party’s student/youth movement and I’m very excited to be a part of building communism. :)

if anything this means we can’t leave reddit. we have to compete for hearts and minds, we can’t just make our own little club here and forget where the masses are. lemmy is cool for memes that got banned from reddit and stuff, but we can’t simply abandon the mainstream social media platforms.

posting is part of agitprop now, we can never stop posting. we will never stop posting.