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I was hoping to be able to interact with this community and learn and share, but my initial responses have suggested this is sadly an echo chamber, and any contrasting views are not tolerated. I would have appreciated explanations and suggestions but having experienced nothing but lazy downvotes and little discourse I suggest this community is doing communism a great disservice. Shame. I will be blocking this community and will begin to suggest others avoid it for the above reasons.

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[–] anicius@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 1 year ago

I don't know why you expected this community to endorse fascist slogans. Reconsider your revisionist stance.

[–] CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My honest reaction:

I just downvoted your comment.

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[–] simply_surprise@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly one of my favorite copypastas

[–] Shinhoshi@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s kind of nice that Lemmy doesn’t have karma though

[–] simply_surprise@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago

True! I like have up/downvotes, but there's no need for there to be karma that keeps it all recorded.

[–] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 1 year ago

Fair enough 👍 have a gday mate

[–] AlbigensianGhoul@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 1 year ago
  1. defend the usage of a Nazi slogan
  2. refuse to elaborate
  3. leave

You will be desperately missed, please don't go!

[–] aidnic@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 1 year ago

We don't grieve your loss.

[–] bobs_guns@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 year ago

good luck out there

[–] BlueMagaChud@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 year ago

hey there champ, maybe look slightly to the right:

Rules for /c/communism

Rules that visitors must follow to participate. May be used as reasons to report or ban.

No non-marxists

This subreddit is here to facilitate discussion between marxists.

There are other communities aimed at helping along new communists. This community isn’t here to convert naysayers to marxism.

[–] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 year ago

I had to look up your comment history, as I take the echo chamber accusation seriously. Wow. I'm amazed you weren't banned. You waited a whole 12 minutes after asking for sources before posting this. If you'd waited 46 minutes, you would have seen the wikipedia text copy/pasted for you.