Hospitals should unionize and sue the the ever-loving shit out of insurance companies for lost time. Not like our neoliberal politicians are going to do anything about it.
Schmoo
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You've given me a lot to think about but I do want to clarify my personal views a bit. I'm not anti-Marxist, I don't believe authoritarianism is inherent to marxism, just that those tendencies are present. From my perspective authoritarian communism is to my right, so I don't see it as left-punching, but I think the left-right metaphor is reaching the limits of its' usefulness here.
Vladimir Lenin referring to "left-wing" communism as an infantile disorder is more in the ballpark of what I mean when I refer to authoritarian communism.
"left" anti-leftism
I mean, that sounds like your referring to anarchists criticizing authoritarian communism, which is certainly not something slrpnk admins and mods would have any interest in "cleaning up" given they are anarchists themselves. If you meant liberals then I did say that we tolerate them there, at least on the memes community. We believe in outreach.
I think an issue with Solarpunk is that ultimately it's an aesthetic, not an actual strain of Socialism or anything, so it's easy to coopt
That's fair. Solarpunk is primarily an artistic movement, so it is vulnerable to co-optation in the same way that any artistic movement is. IMO socialists are in desperate need of a strong modern artistic movement and if we don't want it to be co-opted we should be embracing it.
Again, typically blocking Hexbear and Grad is a negative when it comes to the ideas held by the userbase of an instance in my personal experience.
Perhaps it was an overreaction, I can't say for sure because I think most of that drama played out before I joined lemmy. I have also never personally experienced right-wing anti-leftism on slrpnk.net so I might assume that we have cleaned that up.
Tolerance is not an absolute rule, but a social contract. Members of a tolerant society agree to tolerate others so long as others do the same. When someone violates the contract by being intolerant they cannot then proceed to hide behind that same contract for protection.
At some point a judgement has to be made about what is tolerant and what is not, and that is a judgement we make collectively as upholders of the social contract.
The base was so soft and porous that I couldn't cut it properly (dull knife). The head is fairly dense though and solid white.
I think the guy's heart is in the right place though, I think he just hasn't done the legwork yet on studying how modern socialist states are moving on lgbt issues and why they're doing so.
If the guy needs to study political movements in foreign countries in order to acknowledge LGBTQ rights then his heart is not in the right place. His head may have been in the right place if he's sympathetic to socialism but his heart is clearly holding his head back.
instances that block Hexbear or Grad tend to be home to the most right-wing individuals on Lemmy.
Don't take this as a hard rule. My instance blocks hexbear and we're a bunch of anarchists, we just saw the inter-instance drama and don't want all that noise. Our memes community is often a target of derision for lemmy.world liberals. We tolerate liberals there but we absolutely don't tolerate right-wingers.
Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds. This is just typical liberal progression.
Also very reactionary of him to be bent out of shape over the whole "biological men competing in women's sports" thing. Wonder what he thinks of the fact he shares that opinion with fascists?
They both seemed to be trying to appeal to undecided "independents" who are actually just lite conservatives. I think Vance performed slightly worse but still benefitted more because he was better able to appeal to that demo and Walz humanized him instead of staying on the attack.
I dislike most Star Wars media and thoroughly enjoyed Andor. Andor is very much unlike most other Star Wars media and that's probably why a lot of Star Wars' core audience disliked it. To each their own.
It seemed completely pointless and dull.
I get the opposite impression. To me Andor is one of the few pieces of media produced within the Star Wars' IP to actually have a point at all instead of just being a series of flashy action scenes and nostalgia bait.
Pantheon.
Really thoughtful and smart sci-fi animation. Don't want to spoil it so I'll be vague, it has the most realistic depiction of modern tech and how people interact with it than any other show I've seen. Really great commentary on big tech corporations and even a bit of geopolitics. Super ambitious yet it somehow pulls it off.
There is also a scene that still gives me nightmares (not even joking, I still dream about that shit) which is more than any horror movies or shows have done for me. Anyone who has watched it knows exactly what scene I'm talking about.