They're afraid of the same thing all these right wing nuts are afraid of: someone else being in power.
It turns out that when you base your entire political and economical landscape on abusing and suppressing the cultural "out" groups, becoming one of those groups is scary.
Why are we defending a publication that makes money via advertising and subscriptions for failing to have an effective editor? This isn't someone posting nonsense in a comments section; the author is apparently a "senior writer" for Salon. Why should we stop attempting to hold supposed professionals accountable for being professional? I get that the world hasn't exactly been great at professionalism lately, but letting our standards slip isn't going to fix that.
Can we not increase the visibility of someone this disturbed?
I understood the purpose of this community to be to catalog and pick apart the poorly constructed hypocrisies of the tankies that plague this platform, and, sure, find solidarity in having some laughs at their expense while we do it. This guy's posts are just sad and hateful. Deleting his posts/banning his accounts just to screenshot the things he says, repost them and make fun of him really seems to defeat the purpose of deleting them to begin with. There's no argument to deconstruct, and no misrepresented opinion to catalogue. They're just a sad human spreading vitriol instead of getting the social/emotional help they desperately need.
I feel like, as a community, we should make an effort to simply ban and move on from people like this.
And why are anti-authoritarians accidentally attracting the company of supposed anti-lefists? Imagine accidentally admitting in the subtext of your post that your understanding of leftism is that it's inherently authoritarian.
Honestly, the one unifying factor across all of the .ml defense squad is that they seem to have no idea what the words they're using actually mean. They love making posts that sound fancy, but are truthfully vapid, and often meaningless. Or, in cases like this, completely miss the denoted meanings of their arguments.
The username you've chosen this time is especially disturbed. Please seek help. Disagree as you might with our collective politics, calling for someone specifically to kill themselves is fucked up. You should feel bad, and if you don't, you should be wondering why.
Let's be clear: giving Tiananmen Square a juvenile nickname is a propaganda strategy to make people who disagree with him feel equally stupid and juvenile. Davel's entire spiel is, top to bottom, hypocrisy, as he'll happily weaponize whatever propaganda techniques he can use while mocking others for falling for it, completely oblivious that his body is 72% Kool-Aid at this point.
The irony of his rant about uncomfortable truths will likely be forever lost on him.
My first take when glancing at this was to mentally read it as a political compass meme, which left Dessalines placing his position in the "Authoritarian Right" category.
I know that wasn't the conscious intention here, but it's a fun little Freudian slip.
As long as we're on the topic:
It translates to "the ends justifies the means." Gamefreak, what the fuck?
Fascinating. I'm embarrassingly uneducated on South American politics, though I've taught a few EAL learners from there. I appreciate the quick history lesson, genuinely.
To be fair, this is largely why I discredit the left-right paradigm of politics. The graph adding authoritarian vs libertarian helps a bit, but it's just too complex of a set of ideals to break into simple binaries.
The .ml crew are genuinely leftists. They believe in the value of socialized systems and collective empowerment as opposed to individual merit. The problem is that they're also authoritarian nutjobs who actively cover up and/or support the wholesale murder of out groups.
Yes, there's a decent argument that this isn't true leftism, or a true belief in collective empowerment and the like, but that's kind my point. Politics are too complicated for simplistic binaries. They carry a number of beliefs that are decidedly left, while simultaneously sharing far more beliefs than they're willing to admit with the batshit insane nationalists that they claim to detest. They defend authoritarianism at every turn, while simultaneously speaking down to those they perceive as fascist. And not all of it - emphasis on "all", as a good portion of it is - is as hypocritical as we'd like to believe. Our simplified political binaries just do a bad job of discussing complex ideologies.
Mindfulness is about having an active brain. It's about training your brain to be active about the things that matter now, not the things that mattered yesterday or the things that matter in the future. A constantly thinking brain isn't necessarily an active one, which is what the meme attempts to point out in a satirical way. Mindfulness meditation attempts to teach the brain to curb aimless, vapid thoughts in favor of one's that deal with the here and now.
It's hard to define the feeling of coming down from a good meditation. It's like the world is clearer and more vibrant, and you feel refreshed in a similiar way to having a genuinely restful sleep. More than anything, though, it's good for anxiety. Taking a moment to put your worries into perspective does a number on those worries taking over your day-to-day.
Apparently "nationalism is bad" is an uncivil take. Unless there's another reason someone would ban this comment... 🤔
Yog might be one of the worst of them, too. He's been posting on the Canada community a lot ever since we've started butting heads with China, only to share anti-government propaganda.
There's an irony in how much I dislike the current Federal government only being trumped by how much I dislike shills for authoritarian nations trying to manipulate public discourse. Often he'll post an article with a conclusion I fundamentally agree with, but either get there through extremely cherry-picked arguments, or use the conclusions of the articles to start into his personal argument into batshit-crazy takes.
I've taken to down voting him and moving on. It feels bad, but I am too busy to spend time and energy refuting his absurdity with the necessary nuance of "yes, the government is bad, half of what you said is true, the other half isn't and here's why." I just do not have the amount of time to be the level of terminally online that would be necessary to deal with someone like him properly.
I wish .ca would just defederate with .ml and be done with it.