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Full disclosure, I live in Africa and don't have a dog in this fight. I like proper discourse and it's alright if I and another person disagree on something, what is important is that we communicate and understand where the other is coming from. The ultimate goal is the satiation of needless and avoidable suffering for all minds.

I've only been on Lemmy for a few days but across any sub I've noticed any criticism of China or the CCP is met with immediate downvotes and anything remotely positive of the US or really any western country whatsoever meets a similar fate.

Anything pro-African is mostly neutral but in essence ignored, no upvotes, no downvotes, no comments.

Has anyone else noticed this? Am I completely off base here? And is there anything else here that seemingly gets downvoted automatically. It would be sad to see the fediverse and Lemmy be nothing more than just another echo chamber on the web.

Finally, I am posting this assuming it will also be downvoted to hell based on the title alone and that itself will be some monochrome of truth of the situation here.

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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Have you read theory? Joined a group? Union? Doing any mutual aid? Community garden? Working to form a vanguard? You people are like children. No one expects you to put on a red cape and fly, we do expect you to get off your ass and do SOMETHING.

We are like children.

White Americans have been raised to believe the most preposterous set of lies about ourselves (land of freedom, etc) and the amount of effort to sustain that belief despite all evidence to the contrary is hard to imagine. Effort from the ruling class (eg "god save America" at the baseball game) but also internal efforts from the people themselves - because the collapse of the lie tears your self image apart. This actually started during the George Floyd Black Lives Matter moment but the reaction the other way brings us back to Trump.

People who want real change, and end to imperialism and capitalism feel isolated and hopeless. 1/3 if the country are committed to racism and misogyny. All lot of better off folks just want the illusions of the old normalcy back.

It doesn't help that truly unedited critical voices here get shut down for somehow being responsible for Putin.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fuck all the way off. Your point does not merit more than that as a response. Fuck off.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You are a lazy, fat, petulant child. You are Veronica in Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. You imagine your slavish cowardice will save you.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I am not fat. which negates your entire bullshit here. Eat a dick.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 0 points 1 week ago

Jesus Christ forgive me. This creature understands metaphor, allegory and simile at the level of an amoeba. Lord have mercy.