Just blocked lemmy.ml from my Lemmy account, and I swear to god it's one of the best things I've ever done on this platform. My homepage feels actually clean now.

For the past few months I'd been seeing a lot of tankie posting and pretty much far-left propaganda on my feed. It got tiring enough that I finally checked my blocked-user list, and realized pretty much everyone I'd blocked was from lemmy.ml. So I just blocked the whole instance instead.

Saying this as someone who considers themselves a leftist: I used to think Lemmy itself was an echo chamber. Turns out lemmy.ml was the problem the entire time. Probably the reason I tolerated it for so long is that I agreed with a lot of what they posted, but like an oversaturated meme, I'd had enough. Browsing the platform was starting to feel way too tiring instead of fun, which defeats the point of being here in the first place.

The breaking point was seeing some dude post a "meme" implying North Korea and China are basically communist utopias and that the West sucks. I mean, the West does suck, but come on - you're saying North Korea is the ideal the West should strive for? What the hell...

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[–] BrickEater@lemmy.world -5 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Lmao "far left propaganda" what's that? Everyone should be fed and housed, equal rights?

[–] richardisaguy@lemmy.world 15 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (3 children)

I can list you a few talkpoints that repeat

China and russia are good places to live in and are better to be than the west because they're "comunist"
Russian isn't the agressor in the russo-ukranian war and ukrainians are nazis
Capitalism bad and comunism good posts dropped in comunitires dedicated to comedy but with no punchlines at all
Just about everything i don't agree with is US imperialism
Nato bad

It's quite distinct from actual leftist talkpoints, like equal housing, equal rights, and universal public servives from everyone - they don't seem to care about any of that

[–] gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 hours ago

If they're defending Russia (a fascist state), then the term you're looking for is fascist propaganda, not "leftist" propaganda.

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

because they aren't political leftists. they are authoritarians who pretend to be leftists so they can claim they are populists.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world -2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

None of that is far left you numpty.

The only thing remotely leftist in what you said is capitalism bad. Which we have ample evidence for how and why unregulated/deregulated capitalism is bad for anyone that doesnt own a personal yacht

[–] richardisaguy@lemmy.world -3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

You're right about the capitalism bad part, but comunism good isn't generally a leftist talking point.

Well, if these aren't far left, they sure aren't leftist because i haven't ever seen anybody in the left repeat these points.

Somebody else in this thread suggested this idea as well, that perhaps their points shoudn't be though of as leftist or far-leftist, but as something else...

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago

comunism good isn't generally a leftist talking point

The biggest leftwing party in the world is the Communist Party of China. I have a feeling they would say that communism is good.

[–] belastend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

"Stalin was a good man and should have killed more people. The DPRK is a glorious state."

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 0 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I feel really conflicted about whether to upvote this comment or not...

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