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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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- All posts must be showerthoughts
- The entire showerthought must be in the title
- No politics
- If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
- A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
- Posts must be original/unique
- Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS
If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.
Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.
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All communities have moderation, depending on the desired results.
-Anarchist instances nuke Nazi and Tankie viewpoints because they consider them authoritarian (see db0 and quokk)
-Tankie instances nuke Nazi and Lib viewpoints because we consider them authoritarian (see hexbear and lemmygrad)
-Lib instances nuke Tankie viewpoints because they consider them authoritarian (see .world)
-Nazi instances nuke Tankie viewpoints because they're nazis (see feddit and piefed)
As a tankie, I take pride that Nazis and Libs nuke my content, and consider it sad that anarchists don't reflect on why anarchist content doesn't get nearly as nuked from mainstream capitalism.
Isn't a tankie an authoritarian communist or am I getting wires crossed here? I thought the term was coined from the 56 stamping out of the Hungarian revolution with tanks by authoritarians.... Not sure that's something I'd be proud of but please correct me if I'm wrong.
Tankie is a left-punching slur against Marxist-Leninists, which I choose to appropriate. We call liberals "libs", not dronies despite them supporting Obama even when he was murdering civilians in the middle east using drones. As for the stomping of the antisemitic pogroms in the post-fascist 1956 Hungary, I refer you to comrade Cowbee since they are a lot more well-versed in the topic than I am.
I'm proud of Marxism-Leninism, the ideology that uplifted a billion people from destitute poverty and colonialism towards industrialization, grantez universal healthcare and free education to the highest level, guarantees jobs and housing to every person, tripled life expectancy where it was allowed to exist, and saved Europe from Nazism.
Can you tell me what nazi viewpoints are promoted on Piefed please? Be specific.
Sure. I can point you to it: I was threatened with physical violence by a nationalist and I got banned for it (the person who threatened me wasn't)
Banned from that specific community, or banned from the instance entirely? Because being banned from the instance, which did happen, was not for that reason.
What do you call someone who allows threats of physical violence to communists. Clue: their kind murdered millions of communists in WW2!
Sorry, do you hold the same accusations to lemmy.zip too, as the user is from that instance? Are they also not nazis by your logic?
Also, are you saying anyone who looks past any threat, or inciendary language or violent rhetoric of any kind to someone who is a communist, no matter the specific context is automatically a nazi?
If the threat of violence from another user directed at me had happened in a .zip instance and I had gotten banned instead of them, I'd be making the same accusation. It happened on piefed, though, no need for hypotheticals.
So you don't apparently expect lemmy.zip to respond to users like that, but you do in piefed.social? What? Because the lemmy.zip user did it on a remote community? Also, how do you know the instance ban and community ban are directly connected?
Also, whether or not you characterise it as a threat (I think it's unsavoury and emotive and violent rhetoric, but not really a threat as such unless you specifically plan to go to Poland or something) - it doesn't automatically make them or someone a nazi.
You can just say "it's not that bad to threaten violence to communists" or "I disagree with piefed being a Nazi-bar instance" instead of playing rhetorical and asking 12 questions per comment, we're gonna move on much faster.
I'm pointing out your double standards when judging instances, and your accusation - even if entirely true, doesn't remotely meet the threshold of being nazi at all.
As the poem goes, "first they came for the communists"
Why did they come for the communists first? And who did?
So anyone who is rude to a communist is automatically a nazi? Is that your genuine position?
And can you tell me why you don't also make these same claims to lemmy.zip?
Being rude = threat of violence?
I'll write it one more time: if an instance bans a communist but not the person threatening said person with violence, it's a Nazi-friendly community
Then this equally applies to lemmy.zip, presumably. But apparently it doesn't.
As I said: Also, whether or not you characterise it as a threat (I think it’s unsavoury and emotive and violent rhetoric, but not really a threat as such unless you specifically plan to go to Poland or something) - it doesn’t automatically make them or someone a nazi.
And you're not answering my question: And can you tell me why you don’t also make these same claims to lemmy.zip since the user is from there?
Disengage
That's up to you, but you've made a bunch of assumptions in everything here.