You are on a site maintained and developed by communists, so there are a lot of us here. We all have biases, of course, and I’d argue that presenting an anti-western, pro-communist bias on some of the most unjustly demonized figures in the world both today and historically is exactly what OP asked for.

As for the bit on “authoritarianism,” communists support the use of the state in protecting socialism and uplifting the well-being of the vast majority of society. This is often framed as “authoritarian” by western countries, stripping property owners of their spoils and focusing on collectivized production and distribition, but we communists would argue that this creates a freer society overall.

Marx was called an “authoritarian” in his time as well, yet his work has helped lead to the liberation of billions of people. The communists who gave their blood, sweat, and tears to gain the power to feed, house, and clothe the people are the ones actually fighting for freedom, even if the west calls them authoritarian.

I think that boxes them in a bit more, being very queer and protective of queer users is related to being leftists. They are also heavily vegan, which is also informed by politics. I think everyone that’s pro-queer rights, and is a part of the queer community, kind of has to be engaged in politics as a matter of survival. Queer instances have to take anti-bigotry stances, which includes exclusion of the right-wing.

I do understand what you mean better now, though.

Fair!

I think Hexbear.net counts as a trans instance, it has one of if not the most active trans-specific communities on Lemmy in general and around half the userbase is queer at minimum, according to polling.

I wish I began studying Marxism-Leninism earlier. Would’ve been pretty helpful.

Yep! Also why I enjoy browsing Grad and Hex more than Lemmy.ml, to be honest.

I agree with focused instances over reddit clones. My favorite instances are specialized, and have their own focus, which leads to a more engaging discussion format. Hexbear.net, Lemmygrad.ml, Mander.xyz, dbzer0, slrpnk.net, pawb.social, etc. are all examples of this. The games community on, say, Hexbear.net is going to be different from Lenmy.world’s, and that’s a good thing. Federation allows others to participate in “flavored” versions of comms, and creates a sort of virtual township structure that’s pretty nice while still having an active enough userbase.

This was a poll of Lemmy.ca, not all of Lemmy, and I don’t think politics were polled. Politics would vary quite a lot depending on instance, same with nationality.

Kinda!

The liberal idea is that supply and demand meet at price, and they try to obfuscate value by wrapping it up into supply. However, Marxist economics provides a more grounded and coherent answer, that value is the real center and that fluctuations in supply and demand merely bring price above or below value. Value is best represented as the socially necessary labor time to produce a commodity, and is what forms the basis of price.

I agree with the sentiment, but I’d tone down the ableism.

Lemmy.world is trying to replicate Reddit, though, in culture. It took off during the API thing, rather than a subreddit banning like r/TheDeprogram or r/Chapotraphouse, r/GenZedong, etc.

Amazing.

I have never used SA against you. I’ve said that telling users to suck your dick draws on the history of SA going back thousands of years in order to be hurtful as an insult (alongside misogny and homophobia), not that either of us has committed SA.

No? Never said that.

No need.

I have never once tried to use SA against anyone.

I don’t think it’s a good idea to mock SA. There’s no ego involved, I haven’t been a victim of SA, and it’s incredibly rude to those who have been victims to treat it like an insult to be flung at people you don’t like.

This might come as a surprise, but I’m not glued to Lemmy.

I don’t have personal experience with SA, nor am I homophobic. I’m pansexual myself. It isn’t at all a false equivalence to say that there’s a real difference in insult between telling someone to give you a haircut and telling someone to suck your dick. They are both services, but the latter draws stigma from historical sexism and homophobia. Using dicksucking as an insult affirms that history of bigotry, when in reality we should be fighting the negative stigma surrounding sexuality from women and gay men.

Okay?

As I explained to you elsewhere:

The only reason dicksucking is usable as a pejorative is to draw on historic sexism and homophobia, and telling someone to suck your dick draws on that social trauma. Telling someone to give you a haircut, for example, is still a service but doesn’t have that social trauma to make it a pejorative, and thus it doesn’t hit like one.

It’s basically drawing on SA to be used as an insult. If you don’t think telling someone to suck your dick is drawing on historic bigotry towards groups that traditionally do that, then I’d like to know why you think it works as an insult.