Hexbear disabled downvoting because it was being used by transphobes to bully trans users. They'd wait for a trans user to post and then pile on with downvotes so that their comments would always begin in the negative.
lemmy.world can't even be bothered to ban transphobes.
Did you have an opinion on the killings in the Donbas from 2014-2022? People getting locked in a union hall that was set on fire? The promotion of neo-Nazis to "handle" the ethnic Russians there?
Or did you only begin caring about Ukrainian lives when it was 24/7 on Western media, acting like Russia's invasion had no background, like Minsk II never existed, etc?
A follow-up: have you opposed the US-backed Saudi genocide in Yemen with the same ferocity? That one doesn't get as much play in the media, but a child dies there every minute or so due to the US-backed blockade, preventing basics like food from getting to the population.
Some conspiracies are real, and are some of the most harmful things on the planet. They're both evil and banal, and they look like petrochemical consortia trying out some new PR firms or Victoria Nuland casually talking about who should be put in political leadership in Ukraine post-Euromaidan.
The people who are best-informed get pretty invested in opposing those harms and wonder why (some) others are so viciously opposed to learning about them.
Let me tell you about how calling a Chinese guy a yellow bear is the funniest thing ever and definitely not an unconsciously racist thought-terminating cliché.
Is the Russian propaganda in the room with us right now?
Don't forget our militant labor anarchists as well, they also did a ton of work building up unions in the west.
The welfare state was a response to the militant labor movement that had already won most of those concessions for their own members and were threatening to do a lot more. This dovetailed with a need to counter the very real welfare state pioneeted by the Soviets decades earlier.
An easy place to begin informing yourself is to read up on FDR and where his motivations for The New Deal came from, and who he wanted to defang.
The authority of the working class and intolersnce for Nazis, sure.
Re: human rights, inclusiveness, and social security: bullshit. Not even on the same planet at those who bring skepticism towards hegemonic propaganda narratives, and particularly from a socialist perspective, i.e. the preemptively banned instance.
I for one think John Brown did nothing wrong. Would you please clarify your stance on defending slaveowners' right to life, as was the Reddit admins' reasoning?
Lemmy was created by and continues to be maintained by communists.
Liberal instances try to recreate their echo chambers and continue to cry about it.
This is why all political discussion is banned at lemmy.world. In fact, there is only one community on lemmy.world and it's about playing checkers (but without saying "king me" because kings are political).