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Like, the money not going to lemmy.ml but a cut going to two of their main admins

You realize that it's not some smoke show that they're "two of the main admins" right? That they are the two primary developers and creators of the entire platform and .ml was the initial flagship instance (which they literally directed people away from during the Reddit surge)?

They literally created the platform. They can moderate their instance however they like. That's the point of the platform.

And being "authoritarian" is when you moderate your own server how you see fit, like banning the equivalent of bad faith spamming of My Lai, Tulsa Riot, or the 1985 MOVE Bombing Wikipedia articles and pictures in obvious attempts at anti communism and stirring shit.

It's not like they're putting demands on .world to tone down the liberalism.

^ the non-toxic instance users, everyone

You're concern trolling and wrecking in multiple donations threads created to support the platform and the devs who created it. You can just leave and join one of the alternatives instead. Why wait.

Then jump

Nah

What's your point? Are you banning the entire Internet?

All this stuff is still accessible once the bell rings and before they get to school, just like it was when I was a kid. Kids were still going on YouTube/MySpace/ Facebook and more to share things. This argument doesn't make sense.

You're attributing the issue of algorithms to the medium itself.

A leftist/socialist/communist/Linux echo chamber is always better than a liberal one.

@ me

Remember when we once spoke about how a lot of Redditors are not people we want here and the culture here repulsing some isn't necessarily a bad thing?

Well.

My decisions literally didn't matter because the electoral college and the state I live in. Most states are not swing states

Libertarian and RFK votes would have very likely gone to Trump if those candidates are removed. Your argument literally doesn't sum up to reality. There is no state where leftist parties prevented a Harris win.

Your candidate(s) were bad. Your party hasn't had an actually popular candidate since Obama, who ran on a progressive message but governed as a neoliberal. His actual policies produced both a reaction and disillusionment to your party because they didn't actually offer "hope and change" following Bush and the financial crisis. The man and party didn't officially support even the benign issue of gay marriage until it was overwhelmingly politically expedient.

Oh well there is Bernie, but your party establishment would rather ensure his campaign and those like it are crushed, even as "centrist" campaigns continue to lose. Because your party answers to Capital.

Liberal half measures and means testing policies poison the message and strength of actual leftism. They do not and cannot affect the root causes of real issues because as capitalists parties they do not and cannot attack the institutions of private property and market dogmatism. Their policy failures (Obamacare is literally a Heritage Foundation based subsidy to private insurance) are then used against "leftism" by fascists and conservatives against populations too overworked, propagandized, and poorly educated to see through them. Trump came into power by running against Clinton on NAFTA, a literal neoliberal (e.g. Reaganist/Thatcherist) policy proudly pushed through and supported by Democrats. He had a populist message that appealed to people distrustful of elites both times in a county where the major institutions are becoming less popular by the year. The dog whistles and appeals to evangelicals got the R base, but the rest pushed him over the line. Because people want change and action.

Your party's weakness and ineffectual policies are far more to blame for the rise of fascism in this country than leftists, who have never been in power. That's ignoring that this country has been reactionary since its founding, with Madison himself arguing during the constitutional convention that the purpose of government is to "protect the minority of the opulent from the majority".

Have you ever read or studied actual leftist (i.e. socialist) theory or criticism?

So you think the entirety of "independents" are leftists? You're counting RFK and Libertarian party votes as leftist votes in your calculations?

Also, 312 - 25 (MI + WI) delegates is 287. Trump still wins. Try again.

You and your party clearly didn't learn anything from 2016 and the reaction + disillusionment to the Obama years.