Thanks, and thanks @ImOnADiet, I had thought they blocked basically all of lemmy and just went their own way.

I thought Beehaw defederated completely from lemmy. Did they not ever do that or did they return at some point?

Lemmy is software, a link aggregator so yes, like reddit. But it’s not centrally hosted. Each instance is hosted separately by its own admins and functions like its own social media site with its users and communities. The various instances are federated which means that users can interact across those instances. Think of it kind of like how you can email anyone whether you have a gmail or yahoo mail account (except instead of emails, it’s public posts like these).

The admins of the lemmy.ml instance also happen to be the developers of the entire software Lemmy and they are Marxists but anyone can use the software because its open-source and host their own instance. Most of the big instances are now filled with users from reddit most of which are libs.

Pretty much all of lemmy outside lemmygrad is a lib space, especially now after the influx of reddit users. Lemmy.ml admins for example are Marxists but the majority of the users are just libs.

“slava peroyam” lmao

Of course. My analysis is nowhere near comprehensive but I just think we don’t know enough yet to really go further without heavy speculation.

They might but at least right now that doesn’t seem like the main trigger for this event.

Maybe there is some US influence but the key factor seems to be the plans by the Russian government and the ministry of defense specifically to nationalize Wagner and include it into the Russian military officially.

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

• Marx, 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

That source is just pure lib speculation and just takes whatever US imperialists say as true with no critical thought. It seems to just be pro-democrat propaganda.

It is federated but you have to access the thread through Lemmygrad. Go through the communities page on Lemmygrad to find the lemmy.ml community and then the post.

I love SLAMMER. This one with the bees attacking a cop is my favorite.

Yeah, hahaha, although I actually never played Hollow Knight but my friend was really into it when I was making my account here. As he was showing me the game, I liked the Mr. Mushroom picture so I just decided to use it here.

While some of the people caught up in those movements may really be clueless, I don’t think that applies to the leaders or actual ideological fascists. At some level they know what they’re saying is bullshit but they continue lying to themselves and everyone else because they’re invested, similar to this also liberal analysis. That’s why you can’t just convert these people away from fascism by providing them with the actual facts and context or debunking their claims.

The situation in this meme is not identical to but it reminded me of a recent article in a local newspaper here. The article said that “the biggest act of treason in my country was the giving away of some territories to Italy during world war 2” while conveniently ignoring the fact that my country was at the time a Nazi puppet state eagerly participating in the holocaust. Many libs were praising the article as anti-fascist and were saying that it might bring some people away from fascism by countering the fash claims about a strong pure nation etc. by showing that past fascist leaders didn’t really care about the countries territories but this misses the point completely by buying into the fascist/liberal idea of a strong pure nation as something inherently good and a goal to strive towards. This cedes far more ground to fascism than it claims to take away.

There’s quite a bit more about his Nazi ties in this article by Losurdo.

Michael Parenti - To Kill a Nation

I haven’t gone through all of it but BadEmpanada has several videos on Argentina’s history. He also has a lot of sources you could look further into.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rndAJTQBET8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mFeQ6gIfgg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeCu8pMHma0

Correct, however, even if we only limit ourselves to Lenin, we can quote his work A Caricature of Marxism and Imperialist Economism (1916) where he gives us general principles to analyze any conflict which again strengthens our position here on Lemmygrad and that of many communist parties (especially in the 3rd world) which give critical support to Russia:

How, then, can we disclose and define the “substance” of a war? War is the continuation of policy. Consequently, we must examine the policy pursued prior to the war, the policy that led to and brought about the war.

For the philistine the important thing is where the armies stand, who is winning at the moment. For the Marxist the important thing is what issues are at stake in this war, during which first one, then the other army may be on top.

The situation today is not the same as it was in World War 1, and we need to adjust our analysis accordingly.

Yep, same here and not just books.

Unfortunately, the situation is largely the same in many countries. Especially the previously socialist European countries that are now in EU/NATO.

I mostly just go to second-hand bookshops where a lot of the good older books can still be found.