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...

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

What expansion?

The latest new members of NATO after many years have applied because Russia invaded ukraine, a non-NATO country.

If there weren't countries invading other ones, no one would need to join NATO, as it is a defensive alliance.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

NATO is as defensive as the IDF is. It's a gang of imperialist countries protecting each other from the imperial boomerang, and will constantly invent new enemies to justify its own existence.

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world -1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Yeah. A defensive alliance is totally the same as a military that is currently committing a genocide for the purpose of territorial expansion.

And Russia is totally an invented enemy that is not currently in a war with the purpose of territorial expansion.

Oh wait, what is actually similar to the IDF is Russia! Who would have thought?

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 points 48 minutes ago

NATO countries aid and assist with genocide. The purpose of NATO is to defend the collective interests of the world's imperialist countries from anti-colonial and socialist backlash

Russia's territorial expansion was provoked by the endless encirclement and expansion of NATO, with the refusal of Russian admission to NATO to protect it. When imperialist countries encircle you and refuse to let you join so as to protect yourself, it's only reasonable to expect that one day said encircled country will lash out. The entire war was preventable even up to 2022.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

What expansion?

Russia says that they were promised no Nato expansion in Eastern Europe like there was a commitment to no Nato troops in East Germany.

If there weren’t countries invading other ones, no one would need to join NATO, as it is a defensive alliance.

How can countries protect themselves if they are attacked by Nato or Nato countries?

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world -1 points 12 hours ago

They can defend themselves the same way as if any other country attacked them.

NATO doesn't protect you if you start an offensive war. It only protects you if you've been attacked first.

There's no better example than the epstein-US-Iran war. Trump keeps whining that his "NATO allies" are not helping him. Iran right now can attack the US as much as it can, since the US started the war for no fucking reason.

Some individual countries that are part of NATO have helped the US, but that was independently of NATO.