Every side has propaganda. This is good propaganda.

In all of life there is a balance.

Idk how the wiki works, but has an invite system been considered? With logs, ofc, to keep a registry of who was invited by whom.

If being compassionate about our comrades means I'm a crackpot, then so be it. I'm with OP on this one.

Nonono, not freedom to be oppressed. It's the freedom TO oppress! The freedom of oppression. That's how they see things. They don't like being oppressed as well, but they don't care about that so long as they're not the ones drawing the short end of the stick. Even if they knew of better ways to live, they still prefer the stick to be there, in a rigged way, so they can not only practice their freedom to oppress others, but prevent you from taking this freedom away from them.

However, bootlickers are different, because they have no power. So they are also oppressed. But the bootlicker, he wants to be oppressed because if nobody were there to be oppressed, in the rare occasion he finds himself with power, he will have nobody to freely oppress with it! So he will try to convince others that suffering is good actually. He needs others to suffer with him, otherwise he would be a fool, suffering alone and with no hope of ever becoming the oppressor.

I don't know that all of them think this way, but this would be the only way for it to make sense. Of course, they won't give the game away. They will try to rope you in with them.

Freedom, to oppress.

Is this to scale? That middle class looks bigger than it should be, I think.

Post Marxist quotes over an image of Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush. But like, make it agreeable. In my experience right wing people will agree with leftists on most issues if you never actually say it's a leftist position.

Another idea, make them believe corporations are Marxist and so should be abolished. :)

The same way being a mechanical engineer relates to political leaning, I'd assume.

I don't think it does. It also doesn't mean they are not intelligent. It just means they spent a long time studying their trade, which is commendable.

But if you want to understand politics, you need to do like the rest of us and study politics. You can't look at a bucket and then say you understand the river.

Fully agree. I'd like to add, knowledge requires learning. And learning requires work, no matter how intelligent we are (or think we are).

I'm a programmer as well, but being good at your job does not mean your political ideas are better as a consequence. It just means you have the capacity for it, not that it's being used.

Also, programmers are paid better, so I'd imagine they would believe we live in a meritocracy and tend to ignore those below them (they don't know they exist).

I'm sure it's not just programmers who have this issue.

Now I'm sad. The Earth gave us so much, and look at how it's been treated. Instead of sustainable growth, we have parasitic growth. Instead of community, we've been given heartless individualism. Money has corrupted so many facets of our life...

The ideological leaning of the developers means nothing on a federated network. What you care about is knowing the ideology of who runs your instance.

You can just as easily fall into a right wing echo chamber by joining the wrong instance. And one that censors any kind of pro Russia or pro China sentiment, which is equally bad, in my opinion.

Propaganda can come from both sides. Just keep your eyes open.