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[–] [email protected] 109 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the dude trying not to shit

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My curiosity is piqued, mind giving a link?

[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Marxists supporting Putin and his war

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A dude asking how to remove a cock ring on the lemmy.world support page

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Post was removed before we knew.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I mean, I'm guessing he got it off before he realised it was stuck.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Beans. Lots and lots of beans.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

God I’m glad that’s over.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (15 children)

The other day, I saw an A-list Hollywood actress going around Lemmy shitposting and promoting her latest movie on Lemmy.

She's obviously very talented and very hot and deserves to finally get an Oscar this year, but I would say it's pretty bizzare.

Also she's now the top mod of [email protected] for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know, come to think of it, how do we know you're the real Spider-man and not some imposter?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Didn't Spiderverse cover this?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait is this some sort of joke I'm not privy to? That's not actually Margot Robbie right? I can never tell what's real on the internet nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Of course I am, why would Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie go on the Internet to lie to you? Because she thinks messing with a bunch of tech people on a niche forum is hilarious?

That would be pretty bizarre.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Self referencing meme accounts were something I hoped we'd be leaving behind on Reddit.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Leftists claiming Stalin was right wing.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago

I'd take them over the ones that think Stalin was a good guy any day tbh

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Leftists who think, if I don't subscribe to their narrow, personal definition of leftism, I must be an epistemically evil conservative maniac with no middle ground whatsoever.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's an oversimplified anarchist talking point against authoritarianism and the state. It's noting the similarities between conservative talking points and auth-left socialist rhetoric. Basically, almost everything you criticize about capitalism can be applied to the state. And defenses for the state from auth-left socialists sounds an awful lot like right wing talking points in defense of capitalism/imperialism/insertotherismhere. Not to mention, the USSR was pretty socially conservative and that's a big mark against them imo. Liberatory politics should liberate people, after all

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I can sort of see where they’re coming from, if they’re equating authoritarianism to conservatism and libertarianism to liberalism. But in reality, Stalin was a left wing authoritarian.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

If we look at the rhetoric, the soviet state was certainly left wing, but the main policy was state capitalism. To my mind, state capitalism is not a right wing (favors private control of industry) nor a left wing (favors worker control of industry) policy.

This is definitely a case where pure left/right dichotomy doesn't serve to accurately describe the situation on the ground.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Makes me wonder why we even still have wings. Nobody can seem to define them adequately.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TIL this is actually a thing and I'm not just an idiot speaking out of my ass (this time).

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

They probably mistook right wing for auth

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

The guy who designed the Debian logo showed up

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Also usernames that are just emojis. That's just so odd. I'm not even sure how to think of their username in terms of pronouncing it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I pronounce it as "that guy with the emojis as a username"

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

lemmy.world blocking access to some of their biggest communities.

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