There’s not a lot that can be done if they’re unwilling to learn.

You could try to explain the lies colonialists told, and the systems of oppression they built. You could try to show them the direct results of colonialism, like the famines, the reservations, etc. But if they’re closed off from accepting that colonialism was an evil system, perpetrated by white supremacists, you won’t be able to fix their issue.

Anarchists will really try to rip us apart for being “authoritarian”, but when you ask them how their system would deal with crimes, upholding socialism, or maintaining any semblance of order, their responses are almost always far more extreme than ours.

Genuinely had an Anarchist call me an “evil person” and a “future baby killer” for saying that I’m ML. Then when I asked them about their proposed methods for preventing counter-revolution, they described a system where anyone can murder anyone else if the victim was suspected of wanting to act against the revolution. No trial, no investigation, just the word of the murderer.

Edit to add another thought to; “their responses are almost always far more extreme than ours.”

If it’s not more extreme, it’s lax to the point of being nothing. So the poles are either a system of total chaos, or substanceless idealism.

this comment not having downvotes means the people downvoting probably didn’t even open the post. If they read it they used the preview.

That’s what you call bad faith engagement.

liberals mad

Every time I hear about AES cops, it’s about how nice and actually helpful they are.

That says a lot about who and what is being ‘served and protected’ in capitalist countries, it’s definitely not the people.

average US liberal: “I’d hate to live in an authoritarian police state like Russia”

also average US liberal: “Though it is bad that the police are militarized and have constant access to everything we do at all times without the need for a warrant, we’re not in a police state”

the TLDR version; in WWII the Americans would look at bombers that returned to base after doing flight missions, and decided based on their damage where to add armour to future bombers. I.E. they looked at surviving planes to decide how to better protect planes, instead of looking at crashed ones.

This time on: Loser can’t use google, claims community is alienating users.

I simply do not know.

It looks like you have to be an instance admin.

From what I gather, instance admins file endorsements & censorships on other instances, listing their reasons.

It’s nice that it’s democratized, but it’s not nice that one person can put you on the censor list.

for people who care, our endorsement to censor ratio is 3/1

I went ahead and looked into it a little closer.

We’re still on their whitelist, which could honestly be an accident. But if it’s not, then it makes the second part of my findings more annoying.

We were added to the “censored” category because one instance listed us as being “redfash”. We banned a person registered to this instance for “liberalism” a short while ago. Meaning, very likely, they retaliated by listing us as redfash on Fediseer.

such a fuckin reddit moment.

when they sent me the DM, I replied “good for you” and simply moved on with my morning.

because like, did they seriously think anyone cares at all that they defeded from us?

edit:: after investigation, it was an automated message, and wasn’t informing me of defederation. Still annoying though.

telling a white “socialist” about Che’s ideals and tactics made them look at me in disgust, and later I saw that they posted on social media that they threw out all of their “commie merch”.

These people are posers and nothing else, they will back the whites in the revolution.

white western leftists will literally be like “yes I’m a socialist… I just hate everything that socialism has done in the world and I’ll gladly defend anti-communist efforts when they don’t directly effect me”

anytime someone says “I used to be a communist” then defends capitalism, 9 times out of 10 they were a larper who never actually read substantive theory and was just angry at certain aspects of the capitalist system… which their privileges overcame, thus pushing them back to the right without ever actually learning anything.

This person claims to’ve “woke[n] up … [to] look at the facts” but really they turned on MSNBC and turned off their brain.

Even if that’s the case (it isn’t always) it’s a lot better to have a local boot than a foreign one.

Africans deserve to be governed by Africans, not politicians who turn their country over to imperialists for profit. It’s much better to critically support coups in the imperialized world when they’re done by local interests than it is to make blanket statements and deny local voices their self-determination.

I hate Orwell, but man was right about the doublespeak thing.

western MSM will say “democracy” when they’re talking about western leaning dictatorships, and “dictatorship” when they’re talking about non-western democracies.

The only “democracy” in French West Africa is what has been built by its local inhabitants, not what the white man has forced upon them. Full solidarity with the coups, freedom comes from the barrel of a gun.

This is what colonialist culture & no political education will do to an MFer

Bro, you’re on a Marxist-Leninist instance.

None of us believe the revolution will happen overnight. We believe in building the revolution through raising class-conscienceness. We understand that what needs to happen takes time, and we understand that sometimes it’s a Sisyphusian struggle. It’s not “no compromise, no discussion” as you stated, we understand the need for discussion. Talk to any principled communist, you’ll get an honest discussion. But you also have to understand that there’s absolutely no room for compromise if that compromise means counter-revolutionaries can prevent actual change from happening. If you’ve heard the adage “give an inch, take a mile”, that applies in the instance of building a brighter future.

If we let racists have a say, they’ll prevent measures to repair racial relations. If we let sexists have a say, they’ll prevent measures for gender equality. If we let supporters of the current socio-economic system have a say, they’ll prevent the transition to a better system. This isn’t just conjecture, these are things that we’ve learned from previous revolutions, and from our efforts towards creating new revolutions. Marxism-Leninism is a scientific ideology, we observe the world, explain it, then learn from it. We have learned that we can’t compromise, or detractors will take everything away from the revolution that they can.

Further, we understand that the revolution will, very likely, come in the form of social upheaval and civil war. No successful revolution has come into being without bloodshed. We know we can’t just vote socialism into being. When the revolution eventually comes, it will be solidified by the deaths of many of our fellow countryfolk. This isn’t something we take pride in, this isn’t something we wish for. But it’s something we deeply understand.

You have tried to make a point, without understanding that this is something that we’re already fully aware of. History says it, our theory says it, our forums say it. You’re reminding us of something we’ve all read and discussed many times.