I just realised, I can’t post anything on lemmy.ml

So, I checked https://lemmy.ml/modlog, there’s a new moderator.

All posts and comments talking about China, Jinping, Russia, and Putin have been deleted and users banned

  • TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t know, claiming parts of other counties as their own on official maps seems pretty imperialist to me. I also don’t know what your definition of totalitarian is if you believe the US is totalitarian. I’ve heard claims of authoritarianism before, but claims of totalitarianism make even less sense. It seems like an effort to render a word meaningless by misusing it.

    America is imperialist, as is China, Russia, and every other major world power. It’s just what large states tend to do. I suspect MLs view imperialism only through the lens of capitalism, when imperialism far predates capitalism. Capitalist imperialism is only one form of an empire projecting its power.

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      1 year ago

      The US is a totalitarian state with full mind control over everyone where you can’t even entertain ideas that don’t fit into your ultra right wing neoliberal overton window.

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        1 year ago

        I don’t know, I’ve met plenty of American tankies, anarchists, socialists, and communists. This is some real “reject the evidence of your eyes and ears” level shit. I can’t twist reality into enough of a pretzel to make this viewpoint have any validity. It’s laughable.

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          1 year ago

          American communists are not in any sort of political power and are destroyed when they do anything. There is no American left. You all live under a totalitarian system and you are so blinded by liberalism you can’t even recognize the total and complete social control you can never escape from.

          Want to know how I know the US is a prison? Ask literally any American why they don’t move to another country.