Rhinos might actually have far better eyesight than we used to think. I wish I had a source for you but I was told this by a friend in zoology

Miisha?

The cock smoking a cigarette is a nice touch. Why is burning the filter though lol?

No worries lol, just couldn’t resist the opportunity there ❤️

Edit: by disagreeing you might even call it… a red flag

This was the first comment I saw and I cannot adequately express the immediate dissapointment i felt

My red flag

Yes, 100%. Look into cybersyn and what it was able to accomplish with its highly limited means. Technology since 1991 alone has progressed massively and would be a far more effective tool for organizing a economy that meets peoples needs than the soviets ever had access to. They took a 90% feudal society to fucking space in 40ish years and they largely did it on paper.

To be clear though. Planned economies already exist and function quite well on these systems. They just aren’t working in your interest. Verticle integration is a planned economy. Corporations organize their planned economies quite well and the work already done could be applied far more effectively to provide for people. It’s just not what those systems are for under capitalism.

It’s funny you use these terms because neither are used by the youths anymore. They’ve moved on to new things already.

My fault

I just gotta drink more coffee haha

It isn’t used as a homophobic slur and it wasn’t my point that it is or that you were using it that way. The point was that the mod percieved you as engaging in common rhetoric that IS homophobic. It wasn’t about the word itself, or even you as an individual. You were banned because of where the type of argument you were using comes from and to preserve the specific social milieu desired by the creators of that community. Yes, it is overzealous, but it is also their prerogative. I do wish they were more explicit about it however.

I’ll do my best to explain their perspective as someone who mostly shares it. Since 2016 there have been a lot of memes and commentary from liberal Americans insinuating that putin and trump are in a homosexual relationship. This is largely seen by the left (various kinds of anarchists and communists) as homophobic because it wields sexuality as a rhetorical weapon. Yes, trump and putin are homophobic and I can see how calling them gay would be funny because it might get under their skin but we shouldn’t contribute to the culture of calling people gay to hurt them.

This got a lot worse when liberals decided republicans were “Russian assets”. Depicting trump as the servile sexual partner of putin became popular as a more specific form of humiliation. Not only does it imply trump is serving the “evil foreigner” but it also, again, uses sexuality and violations of heteronormative gender roles as a point of insult. This is homophobic.

The mod saw your use of meatpuppet as engaging with this rhetoric as it implies subservience and, to a small extent, sexuality (because of the meat part).

The argument that you intended all of this is admittedly loose but latestagecapitalism@lemmy.world has very sensitive moderation. This is primarily because it is an explicitly leftist community that critiques capitalism and the role of liberals within capitalism on a majority liberal server. They run into a lot of people who do not fit in the ideological framework of the community and ban those people in order to preserve the culture of that community.

Is it power trippy? Yeah, a bit. The goal is to get you to disengage so you won’t be a nuisance.

Baconator and Son of Baconator

That’s kinda why we advocate for destroying the system instead of lesser eviling our way into barbarism

Specifically, the peasants had more bargaining power for better conditions because the absolute decrease in their number made each of them more valuable to the ruling class as individuals. There was an increase in peasant revolts and concessions to the peasantry following the black death partly for this reason.

Wish I was getting my back broken frfr

Idk the details but my french history professor said the student protests were also in solidarity with pro-palestinian strikes/protests among industrial unions. Can’t expand on it but she speaks french so she would have more information.

My god, the evil foreigners have opinions on our politics! Who gives a fuck where they’re from. You got banned for being a nuisance.

You also forgot the first rule of a united front, it has to be explicitly anti-fascist. Democrats are not anti-fascist, anti-fascists do not support fascist states like Israel. A united front has hard red lines that cannot be crossed DESPITE its ideological hodgepodge. You are only part of the united front so long as you do not cross those lines.

It’s still bs though, pneumonic plague is a non-issue epidemic wise. Plague experts are unanimous that this poses 0 threat of spreading beyond its small local region at worst. The bigger story is the lab safety failures that led to a researcher dying of it.