Welcome to Lemmy

Never ask a Lemming what kind of leftist they are, or what is the best Linux distro.
- Well, um, whatever kind you use and whatever kind you are, of course.
  
  That's your favorite distro of linux now, but what previous operating system do you come from?
- What kind of leftist are you and what is the best Linux distro?
  
  anarcho-communist, arch
  
  Post-left anarchist, Arch obv
  I don't use Arch but that wasn't the question
  
  Dishonor upon you and your family!
  
  Hanna Montana is the best distro
  
  Socialist, Guix
  
  ancom, devuan
  
  Dictionary Anarchist - BotaOS(the name I give when I recompile a kernel on anything that I am running for more than a few weeks).
  Currently based on Pop.
- Me: a disillusioned Liberal who runs Fedora, because I’m a basic bıtch and I ain’t got time for this shit anymore.
  
  Fedora is the Todd Howard meme of Linux: it just works

marxist-linuxist
- Arch Communist
  
  Gentoo-manist
- Social-Debianist

- I hope they all vote for Democrats though, in places where FPTP voting is still used
  
  Yeahhhh, I hate to break it to you but..........there's a lot of them that do not vote blue especially when it counts.
  
  Btw what's up with all these states up and banning Ranked Choice Voting? Most of them in the past 1-2 years too. I'm not exactly sure of the context, like if there was a bill or a referendum, but with a referendum I would have expected it to say "rejected"/"not adopted", instead of "banned". Definitely seems like RCV needs to be really fought for, and seems like the major parties are afraid of it.
  
  Imagine outing yourself as a genocide voter like that. Feeling brave today aren't ya
- We could put the dems in the same circle with the left if we paid them enough. Have we tried that yet? Everyone empty your pockets on the table here and lets count.
- Ahh yes, the "left party"
  
  I agree we need a third party where leftist policies are allowed to exist
- what if im pro imperialist but anti capitalist?
  
  Fuck you?
  
  Trolls usually vote for Republicans
  
  Then you're neither a leftist nor a Democrat.
  
  Go read a book?
  The idea is that imperialism is a logical consequence of capitalism. Once you finished stealing everybody's money at home you need to open new markets
  
  Like the CCP? At least rhetorically.

Really good film. He nailed his role. So much so it was a little scary how good he was.
- If they hadn't done "east west" instead of some other cardinal directions, it would probably be prophetic
  
  The moment I heard "alliance between California and Texas" I was detached from the movie. That is literally the least likely alliance I could think of
- This scene really got to me, this was the first time I really felt how awful war is
- What’s the film?
  
  Civil War
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_War_(film)
  
  The movie is called Civil War
- Jesse Plemons needs more lead roles. He reminds me of Phillip Seymour Hoffman.

I'm so tired of the labels, I just want things to be better for everyone
- Not this lifetime buddy.
  
  Better could be just one step, it might feel hurceulian but we can start with just the little steps.
- so you're with the no labels party then, Joe Manchins party?
  /s
- Don't worry anytime you have a slightly different opinion they'll force the label on you then insult you for the label they applied.
  By far the worst trait on the left by a mile.

An armed one.

The anti right wing/trump kind.
- You are a leftist.
  I just think the GOP needs to burn.
  We are not the same.
  
  Do you advocate for the status quo? Because that’s what it sounds like
  
  You also once said Palestinians deserved to get genocided.
  Pos
  
  Here in the USA you'll get lumped in with us just the same.
  
  Stop calling them the GOP or Republicans
  They're NAZIS.
  They have Nazi goals, Nazi tactics, Nazi personnel, Nazi legislation, Nazi ideology, Nazi violence.
  They are NAZIS.

I'm the leftist from the Church of the SubGenius.
And Slackware ftw!
- fnord
- I'm one of today's lucky 10,000.
- Scrubs shut up when Slackware users stand up.

Get your finger out of the trigger guard.

A drunk one.
- I feel like your faction is always in complete opposite opinion to the knurd leftists.

Left handed leftist!

Vibe-leftist. Any time I think 'what should I do in this situation?' I ask AI what the opposite of what Elon Musk would do.

yeah I'm a centrist:

truly be like that.
Don't think about dissenting even a bit, you will immediately get a ban from a community you've never been to. Big brother is watching you, comrade 🫡
- Remember how Snowden is still wanted by the U.S. for exposing the NSA and it literally changed nothing other than we now know we’re being spied on and it doesn’t matter because no one in America gives a shit about having rights?
  Cool. So cool. Cool and good. Loving it.
  How do you help a society that refuses to help itself? I don’t feel like we, as a country, deserve anything good at this point.

Anarcho-communist
- Ditto

Syndicalist

The kind that got chucked off reddit for being mean to Trump, Musk and Netanyahu.

/c/ArmedDemocrats

Everyone is welcome to join my Fascist Communist party. The 2 sides end up balancing everything out to a perfect center.
- Don’t think I’d use the words balance or perfect when describing Nasbols
  
  How about final compromise?
- It sounds like what I call Boomerism, where old people live in an alternate reality and are told that their extremely racist and backwards ideals have occurred, but in actuality, the world continues on progressively and environmentally without their actual input, bubble of bigotry, if you will.
- what~~~~why~~~~ is quark ~~having~~ doing ~~an orgasm~~ in your profile picture
  
  Profit

Oh, I'm not a leftist. My perspective is a bit more nuanced and complex than that. I am unburdened by ideology. I am the adult in the room. I am a centrist. 😌
- Haha, eveyone laugh at this centrist. Pick a lane you spinless coward /s
- "I am unburdened by ideology."
  Ahh, you gotta love this line. It's akin to a person here saying they're unburdened by language because they only speak English, 'the default'.
  "Apolitical" people are not neutral or outside of politics, they preserve the status quo. Which, looking around the place, is not a good position. "Centrist" can mean wildly different things in different countries, but it's essentially just conservatism (as in, conserving, avoiding strong changes in either direction) - the center in Nepal^[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Parliament_of_Nepal] ^[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastriya_Swatantra_Party#Ideology] is wildly different to the center in the US because their status quo is different.
- Once a society decides some people need to be denied rights inevitably the monarch takes them all.
- I’m pretty sure you meant to say coward.
- This cant be real.
- Nice bit, lol

The fundamental objective of leftism is the dispersion of sociopolitical power as widely and evenly as possible, with an ideal (neither realized or considered possible) in which each person has no more and no less power than any other.
- The internet is going to ruin leftism just like it did atheism. Bet.
- Finally, yes, someone actually knows the actual definition of the word.
- leftism
  What does this mean? It sounds like you've described utopian egalitarianism, which is certainly not common in all 'left-wing' ideologies.
  
  Considering the right side of the court was aligned with the king and the left side was opposed, its essential to what is leftism.
  Many despots assert left-wing alignment that their rule is democratic no matter how autocratic it actually is, so a lot of confusion has been sewn.

I’m a Democrat.
- That's illegal!
- Why do you hate arabs
- Most of Lemmy: EAT THE RICH!!!
  Me: Idk, liberal democracy with reasonable social safety nets, some wealth anti-accumulation, and a robust education system? We should get there by showing up to city council meetings.
  Most of Lemmy: LINUX!!!!
  Me: but I want a computer where I don't have to troubleshoot the wifi driver every 3 months...
  
  Me: but I want a computer where I don't have to troubleshoot the wifi driver every 3 months...
  That's what we said, "Linux." I haven't had to troubleshoot a driver in like seven years.
  
  I don't have to troubleshoot the wifi driver every 3 months...
  Seriously I haven't seen an actual WiFi issue on Linux for years.
  
  Me: but I want a computer where I don't have to troubleshoot the wifi driver every 3 months...
  So, you have no control over your own decisions?
  
  I think you’re reading the room accurately. Nothing flops here like exposing childish extreme views to reality. If you’re not an extremist for their side, you’re worse than a monster.

Punk removed…. :P

The type that really like logistics, respects anarchists, and wants universal militia.

Yes.

The one that wants to provide universal basic income based on a wealth tax.
I know this is a meme but i fundamentally disagree with what lots of other people call "left politics". I'm against immigration (for purely economic, not for racist reasons!), and i think that "men are the root of all evil" is a false and meaningless statement. It creates unnecessary tension within society and in my opinion provokes a civil war. It's literally that meme:
- I'm against immigration (for purely economic, not for racist reasons!)
  I really hope you are being sarcastic here.
  
  I am not anti-immigration because I prioritize social factors in my country's situation, but that is a real position that people make valid arguments for.
  Immigration is a real economic factor used by the owning class to lower wages. It exploits both local and immigrant workers. Look at Trump voters complaining in the news about how anti-immigration has ruined their workforce - they were exploiting immigrants to save money instead of paying local workers a (...relatively) reasonable wage.
  
  No, i'm sick of being lied to.
  I'm not a nationalist in the sense that i think my country's any better than any other country.
  But I do comprehend the significance of borders. Imagine people had no skin. They couldn't survive. When you go to a restaurant and ask for a glass of apple juice, you wouldn't expect a server of another restaurant to give it to you. Because one server is associated to one restaurant, and not to the other restaurant.
  That has exactly nothing to do with thinking you're superior. It's just a concept to help organize the world. I hope i've made my point clear enough.
- “men are the root of all evil”
  I've never heard this claim, only "money is the root of all evil".
  Patriarchal society is profoundly harmful, but that's not an issue that divides sex or gender - patriarchal culture also directly hurts men. Men aren't immune from its problems simply because patriarchy systematically positions them above others. We can generalize this false-attribution error to other identity conflicts like sexuality, race, ethnicity, appearance, etc., it's easier to notice and then blame the tangible benefactor rather than identify the underlying system and its roots.
  
  The love of money is the root of all evil.
  
  “men are the root of all evil”
  I’ve never heard this claim
  well then i guess it's dependent on your environment and who you spend your time with. i've definitely heard a friend say it just this week, although she said it jokingly.
- I'm against immigration (for purely economic, not for racist reasons!),
  I'm against brown people (for purely cultural, not for racist reasons!)
  ...facepalm so big it became an asspalm
- Yeah I think our socialism should only apply to Germans. Sort of a social nationalism of sort /s

Liberal Left, kinda believe in a free market for non critical infrastructure (critical would be smth like food and housing), but you can't profit from a company and everyone gets the same independent basic income and everything has to be open source
So basically a company is nothing more than a bunch of nerds who are passionate about something and want to make it ASA team, but you can still view and change their Idea and make it bettwr
kinda like the Relation between Arch Linux Staff and community maintainers
Also I have a violence Fetish, that should explain 90% of my deleted posts

only if you go to .ml and hexbear instances. or if you go on politics.
- .ml users love telling people "kys" and actually threaten you with death for not sharing their opinions. Also they will judge you according to your nationality and then deny being racist. At least that was my experience. Although i'm sure it's not all .ml users, just a very radicalized minority.

Leftist unity can only be done within reason, at some point it becomes so watered down that its no longer leftist. Im willing to support and work with anyone who pushes forward workers liberation. However, if someone is willing to backstab their fellow workers by accepting compromise with capitalists then they have no place among any unity alliance.