You can keep attacking my literacy with no cause if it makes you feel better, but I think I touched a nerve by identifying your beliefs and rejecting them.

Speaking of reading, here’s some you should probably do:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

The term ‘violent authoritarian communism’ is an oxymoron and did not ever exist

Ah okay, then this discussion is over. Sorry to hear you’ve been brainwashed, but I doubt I can fix it today.

At a guess, you’re probably one of those “No True Communism” types that believes when communism is hijacked by violent authoritarians it doesn’t count.

That or you think the Holodomor, Stalin’s Great Purge, and The Great Leap Forward were just myths.

I don’t really care to find out which.

I don’t know if this is a reading comprehension issue, a logic issue, or you’re just arguing in bad faith but I’m growing tired of your game.

Sure, the simplest explanation is that if you think Stalin was unelected or had unlimited power, or that Mao was a dictator for whom everyone contemporary to him unquestioningly followed, you fell for nazi propaganda.

And I said none of that nor do I believe any of it, so is it safe to say you’re having a big fat juicy straw-man with the rest of your comment and I can skip it?

Is it also safe to say the implied attack on me that I love either that or Hitler is a pretty ridiculous way to enter this thread?

Yeah you can definitely do the physical act of saying that you love nazi propaganda while disavowing hitler.

… the fuck?

This some kinda silly obvious and intentional straw-man or are you going to follow it up with some kind of explanation?

All Hitler-lovers hate communism, but not all communism-haters love Hitler.

Depending on definition, you could say I “hate communism” (I hate violent authoritarian communism e.g. Leninism, Stalinism, and Maoism, but not Marxism), and I definitely hate Hitler.

Marx is definitely not as bad as Hitler. What are you two on about?

That’s…

-checks community rules for personal attacks, finds Rule 1 requiring ‘be respectful’-

…not a well-formed stance.

That’s the short version, yes. Here’s what’s left of the full discussion:

https://lemmy.world/post/48906428/24557933

Unfortunately they nuked the thread, potentially to obscure the evidence. I can’t even tell exactly where the discussion was because of that, but that was the thread.

I was wrong, the thread wasn’t nuked; I can’t see it because since then I’ve blocked most of the participants for reasons not directly related to that thread (they are some of the bigger bad faith participants in that community/instance).

The TL;DR of it:

Everyone there was dog-piling someone for posting a Xinnie the Pooh meme for being racist.

I asked how that could be racist. (many downvotes)

I got dogpiled by a bunch of people who explained that because Winnie the Pooh’s skin is yellow, it’s occidentalist (a word I learned that day) - some going so far as to say any criticism of China, the CCP, or Xi Xinping is rooted in racism. I explained why I didn’t think any of that is automatically racist, but agreed it could be depending on intent. They said “being anti-communist and being racist tend to have much overlap.” They did some poking and prodding and assuming as far as why I’m anti-CCP, and then the thread devolved into Uighur genocide denial.

They then removed all my comments and banned me.

I like hearing socialist and communist viewpoints to pop my American echo chamber bubble. When all I hear in Florida is how communists crave the destruction of the US and the death of all its people and anyone who disagrees is labeled a communist, you’re not going to have an educated stance on the matter.

I started my Fediverse journey excited to read their federated posts. I think it was signing up for Lemmy that I was forced to read more Marx than I’d read before, not to mention recently (re-)reading Animal Farm, and now I have more compassion for Marxists than I did before.

I’m gradually learning .ml doesn’t federate with others to give a voice to Marxist(-Leninists) who want to interact with others civilly.

I once dared to mention liberals tend to agree soviet bloc housing was one of the things the USSR did right. I was dogpiled and eventually labeled a troll and banned for a while.

I once dared to say I didn’t realize Xinnie the Pooh memes could be racist. I was dogpiled and eventually accused of being orientalist and a fascist and banned for a while.

Now any time I bump into an .ml, they check my mod log on .ml and go on a rant about how I’m a racist and a fascist, stating they have no need to read why I was accused of that because they’re sure their mods/admins are above reproach. I certainly can’t disprove an accusation that requires no evidence - no one can.

I figure either they’re a community of people pretending to be Marxist-Leninist to make people have a bad opinion of Marxist-Leninists…

…or (Fediverse) Marxist-Leninists are yet another group of humans who employ bad faith tactics to attack anyone who isn’t them for funsies.

So they earn quite a bit of hate from the rest of the Fediverse and weaken most people’s opinions of Marxist-Leninists; they’ve certainly eroded mine.

I forgot the subreddit but you can go there and admins just hand out access to 2-3 people at a time.

/r/redditrequest

This is the Halloween anarchists crave.

Trite meme that ends your otherwise solid comment aside, I suspect I personally would get involved if I knew or suspected criminal wrongdoing from a federal agent, but most cops (like most anyone else) would much rather have a paycheck at the end of the week than feel good about their moral compass.

But I was fired for refusing illegal orders years before ICE started blatantly breaking the law, so my “if I was in those shoes, I would totally do the dangerous but morally correct thing” is almost as worthless as if you said it.

Much like in Eichmann in Jerusalem, even those who actively and knowingly participate in evil deeds are more concerned with getting promoted than stopping to think about the morality of it all.

[banal response with no reasoning to match yours]

The US police hasn’t really been a slave-catching service since the days of chattel slavery, but it’s possible you have bona fide slave-catchers in your area if you’re not in the US. Why haven’t you done anything about that?

Agree with the first, but I’m not an anarchist so I can’t agree with the latter two.

But it sounds like you’ve conceded the point that fatigue is a very real part of the job, so even if we never hear from moldy_rice I’m glad you acknowledged it.

https://www.joinlapd.com/qualifications

Sorry if you were fantasizing that you’d get to shoot dogs if you joined, but that doesn’t seem to be what they’re looking for.

Yeah, it’s a shame you haven’t reformed them.

Torturing animals in childhood is a sign that someone is more likely to become be a […] cop.

Source?

1. Are you saying that’s a good thing, a bad thing, or just stating it?

2. Do law enforcement agencies in your area have similar restrictions?