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…
I won’t block anyone even if their straight up assholes because even a broken clock is right twice a day and I actually have learned some information that was true from them.
That being said though the ones who say North Korea is a utopia and USA is fighting a proxy war with Russia through Ukraine (true) but that Russia giving drones and military equipment to Iran isn’t the same thing and that isn’t a proxy war or that Mao was some sort hero of the people (I could definitely go on from here) those people are idiots and its very easy to look up anything they say and see that its complete bullshit.
I’m still not gonna block them. Hit them with an “Ok” and move on with your day. As soon as you pull out the graphs or cite multiple sources they will just ban you so there’s no point in fucking with them. Until they post on here from North Korea and prove us all wrong, you can easily disregard any of the bullshit they say.
That said the ONE person I have ever blocked on Lemmy was someone who posted a cartoon picture of a little kids butt on the self hosted community. I still don’t understand what that was about and I not only blocked them but reported them for that too. But other than child stuff, I probably won’t ever block anyone even if they’re complete assholes.
Literally no one has ever said this. Lazy strawman.
Hey bud, what are these?
https://lemmy.zip/post/67679872
https://lemmy.zip/post/66807069
https://lemmy.zip/post/65520813
Verbatim “one of these is a cancer that needs cut out and the other is the DPRK”
This is one example.
This is why people don’t like you guys, you’re not honest with yourselves or others.
Granted I was being a little hyperbolic but this person has actually said that North Korea is one of the best countries on earth and that everything we hear and say about it is a lie.
I notice they never post from “best Korea” though. Hmmm
Edit: Awww, did I hurt your feelings by proving you wrong that now you have to post under other comments of mine telling me to go back to reddit? That’s cute sweetheart. It sucks to be in a place you can’t silence people and ban them on huh?
Literally none of those say that NK is a utopia. Once again, you’re just being unambiguously dishonest.
Aka lying.
“Yes I was lying before but actually [more lies]”
Why do you reddit dorks talk like wannabe anime villains?
You missed the part about where he said it was one of the greatest countries on earth? What is a utopia? A utopia is an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or near-perfect qualities for its residents
Would being “one of the best countries on earth” not be saying its utopia like. Sure they didn’t say the exact phrase utopia they did say that North Korea is one of the best countries in the world though.
Is that dishonest? Or are you just not capable of understanding things you don’t like?
You’re an idiot who is incapable of admitting when they are wrong. And this is how all of you are over there.
Also I don’t use reddit and haven’t in over 8 years.
So no, he didn’t call it a utopia, you’re just trying to torture the definitions of words to retroactively justify your objective lie.
I’m capable of not lying about things I don’t like
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Then you should probably stop talking like a caricature of an insufferable Reddit loser.
You have a lot of free time.