Though as leftist as I personally am and have become in time, I'm not going to call anyone comrade or start using hammer and sickle imagery

For now.... mwahahahahaha!

I mean they think Donald Trump is a liberal FFS. Donald Fucking Trump

I mean, yes. Donald Trump generally supports the free market, individualist ideology of Liberalism, and is extremely pro Capitalism.

Liberalism doesn't mean "left wing" or "center left."

Trump is also a far-right populist, but falls under the umbrella of liberalism.

Lemmy.ml is run by Communists and has a lot of Communists in general (ml itself is a reference to Marxism-Leninism), Communists are going to be sympathetic towards Communists.

Everyone knows Putin invaded Ukraine because he's a dumbass dictator who started to believe his own propaganda. It's the dictator trap. Putin surrounded himself with backstabbing yes men by literally killing anyone who wasn't.

Do you have any evidence of this? Could it be that there were economic factors at play, and rational actors, regardless of morality or immorality? This seems utterly vibe-based and lacks a materialist analysis, so I'd love evidence.

From now until the ethnic cleansing is complete, Israel will call any resistance movement Hamas, regardless of their actual name or beliefs. I'm not sure how to fight that... I don't think anyone really knows beyond screaming the truth everywhere we can.

Hamas isn't the only resistance group in Palestine, there are others such as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The key though is that Israel has been committing settler-colonial genocide for a century, oppressed peoples have a right to use violence against their oppressors, especially when non-violent means have tried and failed, and especially in the face of active genocide.

Equating Hamas to Israel equates resistance to genocide with genocide itself.

Lemmygrad.ml is a "serious" community of Marxist-Leninists, and are Dengists as well (or at least largely sympathetic towards Deng).

Hexbear is Left-Unity, and more of a community focused instance.

The views are largely similar, but the tone and goals of each instance are different.

Speaking of, John Brown was right.

You're linked a direct refutation on "anti-authouritarians" from Engels. Marx and Engels were criticized as "Authoritarian" by Anarchists of their era. Either Marx and Engels were Authoritarian in your eyes and thus not Leftists, or the Authoritarian argument itself is misplaced as a thought-terminating cliche as Engels points out, that avoids grappling with the Marxist theory of the State.

Are you saying that Marx and Engels weren't Leftists?

If liberals could perform correct materialist analysis they wouldn't be liberals any longer.

Cryophillia is just dedicated to racism and ableism, as usual.

Go on, copy Awoo's full quote.

It's been on my mind recently that the global hope of lgbt people is China.

That's gonna sound weird to anyone that thinks China is anti-lgbt, but the reality is that only exists among the old and they're phasing out. China's trajectory for lgbt issues is likely to be positive, because China's trajectory for PEOPLE issues is positive.

The west is in decline, and with it the marginalised groups are being scapegoated as targets to distract the population from their declining conditions. Lgbt issues are likely to deteriorate across the west as the decline continues, as are other issues such as migrants and race.

China will represent a population of 1.4 billion people in ascendancy and with a positive trend towards these issues I believe it's going to eventually become the place with the best conditions along similar lines to Cuba. It will represent the largest block of lgbt people in the world, and the lgbt people of China will become the largest advocate of lgbt conditions elsewhere in the world.

This hasn't happened yet, but the trends are there. It's coming in the longterm.