The amount of “both sides” is gross tbh.

Only like 3.5% of the world’s population lives in the US. So if you happen to live in a country that has been negatively affected by US foreign policy in the last 50 years and don’t much care what happens to people inside the US right now, or what labels and pins they put on their jackets, yeah there is little difference between red and blue. Like if you ignore what ideological they profess to and simply look at their actions on other countries.

Empathy can be “disabled” though certain ideology or religion. Saying such radical things like “no difference” is an attempt help people snap out of this “sociopathic trance”. Or at worst an attempt to mock or scold you for defending an imperialist regime that has caused countless deaths and immense suffering over the last 7 decades.

Obviously this is futile. And lemmy is much more pleasurable when blocking such people.

they are more or less the same side of coins as conservatives, they even whine and post the same way.

well put. and every Marxist-Leninist I’ve met irl has been cool, these pricks are either misrepresenting the entire movement or doing it in the worst, most alienating, factually challenged kind of way.

if the opinion is annoying and doesnt provide constructive conversations, opinions almost one-sided anyways and holds bias, i always block them if they become annoying.

I’m new here and did not realize that, at first, I was only seeing .ml. I was so uncomfortable with the Russian/Chinese propaganda I created an account and ended up switching to this community mainly by accident. Glad to see my discomfort was justified.

If they can’t outright censor it (such as if it’s off-instance) then mass downvoting is all they have left to try and control the narrative.

With genocide apologist defederated, another comnunity will surely take its place. A community that’s purpose is not to poison your mind.

I just instance blocked them, good riddance. Too bad I do occasionally have to see posts from their users on other instances.

you can instance block, just foundout by going to SETTINGS>BLOCKS> scroll down all the way to the instance option and block them there.

Nutomic also said that trans identity was western propaganda and has doubled down on that statement several times.

Also nutomic is a transphobe

https://lemmy.ml/post/18761554

Which is reason enough to not give them any money in my book

If we all stop donating to Lemmy just because the devs are being tankies, how will Lemmy survive?

I don’t want to go back to the bot-ridden reddit with its elon-simping CEO.

I could donate directly to him since he doesn’t do as much moderation over there

I’m in the modlog a lot so I can confirm that that is true, however, like @fiddlesticks@lemmy.dbzer0.com mentioned, he shares a transphobic flavor of their mindset sooo yea

but also mentioned that donations for development go towards server costs for .ml. Hell no.

LMAO “Donate directly to me and you won’t have to worry about it! Butttt it’ll still go to the exact thing you’re opposed to.”

@nutomic@lemmy.ml said I could donate directly to him since he doesn’t do as much moderation over there

Having observed a few different types of small team dynamics in my time, my speculation from a distance is that nutomic is the sensible one who does the bulk of the actual work, and dessalines is the other one.

He kind of has my sympathy and I do like Lemmy as software and it is clearly a good thing, but at the same time, at this point in the world if someone on your team is working to silence anyone who talks about Russia in unflattering terms, you can go fuck yourself as far as I am concerned. I am happy their instance is failing and I hope it keeps on failing until they stop doing legwork for murder, tyranny, rape, and torture. Honestly, “I wish my internet place had more users and people didn’t make fun of me so much” is a pretty mild negative consequence to experience from that.

but also mentioned that donations for development go towards server costs for .ml. Hell no.

Having taken donations for similar shit before: isn’t that illegal if they aren’t open about it? Had I done that with my donated money I’d have been sued out my fucking ass

Nutomic is .ml, not doing much moderation is an excuse probably because he has underlings to do it for him.

Glavset must be tightening its belt.

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Cutting off funding because of political differences is stupid. Would you rather this go down the same path as Reddit?

What app so you use to browse lemmy and how do I block .ml?

Active Operators will block know counter propaganda operatives since they know it is a futile exercise.

they were never posting/arguing in good faith, ml and hexbear are insular echo chambers. the amount of posts i accidentally entered in ml and hexbear were all badfaith arguments. i pointed out sg1 in some propaganda discussion, and they called it to “liberal propaganda”