Political Memes

Totally get you, though:

sociological theory on the importance of non-material conditions and postmodernist critiques of structured narratives within the soft sciences.

Maslow's heirarchy usually holds up to the former. But for the latter? It is a realm rife with grift. Even the best intentions can end up warped or being co-opted. So that's probably where the contention comes from especially if you start with an aggressive posture.

yeah I think generally the reasoning around it being a racial insult is that winnie the pooh is yellow

Dictators tend to be psychopaths. I wonder if we can call psychopaths a race.

I got banned from one of the .ml communities in my first week here for simply saying I didn't believe in any particular form of government.

Like, that's all I said. I told them socialism, capitalism, communism - I think we need a mix, not a selection. And they were like BANNED. I didn't swear, nor was a disrespectful - I simply dissented, and their CCP brains exploded from my audacity.

This was way back when most of us came over on the FuckSpezflower.

I am so relieved to hear those bans aren’t uncommon.

I’m new from Reddit (where I was similarly banned for questioning questionable news sources in relatively niche subs), and I was so sure this was a set up that fostered a bit more conversation and etiquette, like waayyy forever ago. So I was pretty upset when I got eviscerated for trying to argue a coherent point there in favor of using media literacy tools in order to help evaluating sources for bias and funding.

I, too, am quite suspicious, given those mods and associated power posters on lemmy.ml, that there is a coordinated propaganda campaign there. Or, there are some turbo-nerd-tankies that regurgitate it at the speed of light of their own volition.