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We have Trump in large part thanks to Clinton and the Democratic establishment following Reagan's lead and embracing neoliberalism and market fundamentalism. Obama continued this trend, with ACA being a literal Heritage Foundation plan and Wall Street being a big early ally. And then with Biden, they ensured nothing "fundamentally changed" after Trump's first term.

With no left/socialist alternative in this country, Trump appealed to both reactionaries and working class electorates looking for someone to shake things up and "drain the swamp", even if misguided.

Democrats are losers and have been my entire adult life. They answer to capital and fight for capital, and thus, will never tackle the root causes of our slide into oligarchy and fascism.

.ml is my preferred instance too because you get the latest updates first, you get access to all the same mainstream PieFed and Lemmy communities, and you get to choose whether to interact with communist communities like Lemmygrad or Hexbear.

I wouldn't recommend it to most people though cause most people can't handle communists. Most would prefer conservatives, even.

And the downside is that certain people will block you or judge you for your instance, even if you were here years before the other instances came to be.

Except that the people who started suggesting to avoid pushing .ml were the Lemmy devs, the instance admins, and that is what this user is referencing. Exactly for the reasons described.

This was back during the surge from Reddit in 2023.

"Most of Lemmy" was made up of communists before then.

Hell, that's a large part of why PieFed was developed

I like when people don't act coy about this being direct motivation so thanks.

The actual comment was:

Piefed is great at putting in new features and making everything pretty. But it’s so opinionated, you’re better off on Reddit, imo.

Which, I'm sorry, is just incredibly mild. The user isn't hurling insults or slurs, calling a user names, etc. Not harassing neither.

It's a disagreement, and yes a comparison to Reddit, but it's very tepid criticism, imo.

Tone policing is good and ok when the user isn't attacking, insulting, or harassing an individual?

This was like the 15th post on my active feed scroll. No coordination necessary

I wonder how much the "Russian running ML" is getting paid to shape the opinions of all 25 people on this platform. Must be making bank

To people who downvote comments like this:

Why?

This has also been a thing on Reddit since subreddits were introduced so I don't really think it's a major obstacle to user retention compared to the amount (or lack) of quality original content and discourse

Subs to comm called "memes of production"

Checks comments

It's liberals all the way down

Most of y'all talking about the US presidential elections but how many of y'all live in swing states? We think third party votes kept MS from going Dem? AL? Hell, did they make CA or NY nearly swing red? Miss me with that. In before someone brings up a state and counts RFK votes like they'd have gone to Kamala.

Third party voting can be strategic and no more a waste than voting blue in a deep red state.

I think it's also clear that you're not going to "reform" capitalism by voting in liberals

I still love and sometimes go back to the old Digg v Reddit war comics