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Don't buy your treats, ~~steal~~ expropriate them. Problem solved.

It is kind of wild to me that anyone would think that blocking someone = making it so they can't see you. To my knowledge, that is never how it worked. It's not how it worked on old school forums and boards, it's not how it worked on reddit, it's not how it ever worked on hexbear or lemmy in general. Maybe it's how it worked on twitter and that's why there are apparently some people who are confused about it, but I don't know, I never used twitter or clones like bluesky.

No, when person A blocks person B, all that results in is that person A will no longer see anything that person B posts. Person B is essentially unaffected. When you block someone, you are applying a filter to what you see, not to what they see. So you are correct about how it works, but I would not call this an oversight in lemmy, it's simply always what it has meant to block someone. And it makes sense to me that it works this way because one user should not be able to dictate what another user is allowed to see of what is publicly posted, but a user should absolutely be able to choose what they themselves want to see - which is consistent with how blocking someone does work and should work.

That is the correct reading of it, yes. But I think at least most of the comments so far recognize this? And most of them so far seem to be in agreement with the artist of the cartoon that it is an absurd double standard, the only one that seems to be an obvious exception is the one who was shocked that it was getting upvotes. But I may be seeing a different set of comments than what you are because of how federation works, so like I am blissfully unaware of comments made by .world users for example.

Unironically, one possible point of confusion may be the label of "TV" which is a little old school, where a more general "media" or something might work better this day and age.

It is pretty ridiculous to paint Ukraine as being at a similar disadvantage against Russia as Palestine is against the entity since unlike the Palestinians, the nazi Ukrainians also have tanks and are backed by the combined economic efforts and technology of virtually all western governments, whereas those same western governments virtually all back the entity against Palestinians. So the above is a rather significant false parity.

I'm sure that's what you mean by this being "bullshit" ... right?

Can you go into more detail on this? I'm not saying it isn't true, but links would be appreciated. A quick search only turned up news about banning the antinatalist sub (exceedingly rare reddit W).

You're right, they're not the same, they each play a different role in achieving the same end goal which is reinforcing and reproducing ruling class hegemony. The two parties aren't the same in the same way that the two cops in the "good cop/bad cop" ruse aren't the same but still serve the same shared ultimate purpose.

And as usual, those newsmega "doomers" are asking perfectly valid questions, and also as usual the newsmega pollyannas can't provide good materialist answers.

Yet when any of this is pointed out in the newsmega you are labeled an idealist doooooomer who needs to be purged from the clique. Or at least that was the case a few weeks ago when I stopped trying to sift the good analysis (of which there was still plenty) from the non-materialist masturbatory "trust the plan, never question it" spam every other post. I'm assuming there hasn't been any improvement since then?

You mean the archive link that OP posted in the body isn't working for you? How so? It's working fine for me.

I fully agree that this country is fucking cooked, but let's be accurate with the numbers here.

70% of Republican voters is only like 8% of the total US population, not 50%. See @trabpukcip@hexbear.net's comment here. I'm taking his word for it on the number of registered republicans and the total population is 342 million. 27 million is about 7.9% of 342 million.

So that 70% of Republican voters is a good bit less than even a tenth of the country, not half.

I wasn't even talking about Venezuela, I was referring to the trend around here to shutdown any critique of the the most optimistic stance as "doomer ultraleftists" so your comment isn't actually addressing anything I said.

The tactic is one of retreat and loss, but the strategy might still be sound

There is a difference between "the strategy may be sound," which I wholeheartedly agree with, and "the strategy IS sound, period," which is naive but even that is still different than "the strategy IS sound, that is for sure the strategy that they're using, and if you don't see it that way you're a doomer ultraleftist who needs to stfu," which is what I see way too often around here, and what my comment was actually referring to.

Coming on here and saying "Venezuela has ceded all political and economic power to the US and is basically a vassal now run by compradors" is not the type of open minded and thoughtful question you are purporting. You are straight up making things up

I'm making things up? lol, not only did I not say any of that, I'm not even talking about Venezuela. I am talking about the entire trend of screeching "doooooooooomer!" every time someone is justifiably worried about something that happened or has any concern about a choice made by a member of the resistance. It's not just about Venezuela, it happened with the ceasefire, it happens literally anytime anyone questions the most optimistic possible interpretation of how the struggle against imperialism and the Great Satan is unfolding. There is a cohort of commenters here, you included apparently, constantly using the smug emoji and insulting comrades as "ultras" (without even knowing what that means), whenever someone disagrees with the Iranian/Venezuelan/X-anti-Imperialist-group's leadership can do no wrong and always makes the right moves mode of "analysis."

providing no sources for the claims while acting like everyone else providing actual reasoning and sources for their perspectives are just towing the line.

What "claims" do you want me to source? Just do a search of the news comm for the term "ultra" and sort by new. Go look at any interaction you've had with InexplicableLunch or how about this one with @Leegh@hexbear.net vs others in the Rose-colored-glasses "dissent is doomer" brigade. I commented then as well, one of the many times I was exasperated by the insulting language and behavior so inappropriately used against comrades making valid points, but one of the few times I spoke up about it.

As far as Venezuela, I don't know all the details and I never claimed otherwise. But what I do see, including from everything I've read here (from "doomers" and the panglossian posse alike) is that under Maduro there was hard opposition to the US and imperialism. Now since the fascist's kidnapping of Maduro, Venezuela is opening up in significant ways which is deeply concerning to me, meanwhile Delcy Rodriguez is tweeting her sympathies and well wishes to all the fascists at the Correspondent's Dinner. On the surface all of this looks very bad, and if you want to make a materialist argument that it's not, and it's all part of the anti-imperialist plan then fine, do that. If you do, it's hard to make out when every other sentence is filled with this petty jeering at the "doomers" who are in general if not in every specific case, making much more rational and genuinely materialist arguments.