if i elect an average right wing conservative (which is redundant) and they go on to do bad things, which is practically guaranteed, I would not feel better.

i couldn’t do that.

but what happens if you vote for someone and they end up winning?

i think this is pretty hard to draw a direct comparison. first, a few mods/admins deciding to ban is not the same as hundreds of individuals voting. even if half of them are bots (no one games lemmy votes, though, do they?), that’s still a far cry from someone stepping in and actually silencing a user.

second, while i think you’re right about the nature of western societal control, i don’t think there is any conspiracy to enact that on .world. maybe i’m naive though.

i’m open to the possibility that you’re right, but my experience is that criticism of the cia or zionism is tolerated to a much greater degree on .world than criticism of china or soviet russia is tolerated on .ml.

can you point to specific instance-wide bannings for talking shit on us foreign policy or zionism?

most of the things i want to send around my network in archives are already compressed binary files, so i just tar everything.

you can’t prove this.

the green candidate speaks out against russia. they’re not a puppet.

being wrong doesn’t make you a fascist. siding with fascist does though.

i never said everyone is fascist.

one of us is dodging facts, but its not me: i know what words mean.

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we are all human but we still have a word for it. you don’t seem to have a good grap of the concept of language.

Interesting you ignored the question of how that word could have meaning if it describes all countries

if all countries implemented direct democracy, does direct democracy lose its meaning?

If you’re willing to pretend different things are the same,

this is so vague it probably doesn’t even mean anything.

Goodbye

god i hope this means you found the block button

if you’re willing to vote for joe biden, knowing his policies up to this point, then you are willing to vote for fascism.

a modern nation state with a mechanized military is absolutely indistinguishable from fascism.

they will do whatever it takes to maintain the power of the state to field that military, so they will do whatever it takes to maintain the power of the state. everything else, the trappings of law and order, the facade of democratic control, the illusion of economic freedom, they will only exist so far as they are necessary to maintain state power.

under pax americana, our mutual defense treaties have relieved many states of the necessity of fielding their own military to the extent necessary to defend their state, but the mutual defense treaties make them absolutely complicit in the fascism of the states capable of defending them. in particular, the usa, but any other military power as well.

opposing the creep of outspoken politically fascist movements to seize the reigns of these technocratically fascist states is secondary, in my consideration, to the dismantling of the technocratic fascist states.

it seems that you are content to tolerate the fascist state so long as someone you can’t identify as politically fascist controls it. i am not.

oh, they are both definitely fascist.

they didn’t say they’re the same.