They call out a cluster of traits as being bad. The only sane way to parse their comment is to interpret it as only applying to people who have all those traits. You’re doing something equivalent to demanding someone clarify that they didn’t mean they hated all food when they complained about not liking things that are sweet.
They are targeting a vague group that they claim has these traits. There’s no direct attack on any ideology specifically, nor any instance specifically, so we have to fill in the gaps and see it for what it is: an attack on instances like dbzer0, Lemmy.ml, Lemmygrad.ml, and Hexbear.net, as well as the ideologies of those instances, those generally being anarchism and Marxism-Leninism. Their position is that these are dominating flaws of specific instances, not merely a random type of person with an unspecified level of influence.
Anyone who’s been on Lemmy for more than a month will either recognise exactly the group of users they’re referring to, or themselves be part of the group. You’re right to think they’re attacking a group that you’re part of, as you’re the first person who’d come to most people’s mind if asked to suggest an example of a user with those traits. You’ve also managed to contradict one of your earlier comments in this thread where you claimed the comment was against the entirety of leftist thought, as you’ve correctly deduced that they’re not complaining about anarchist instances like db0 that don’t describe themselves as Marxist-Leninist.
They are complaining about dbzer0, as anarchist instances also advocate for revolution rather than electoralism. That’s the focus of this meme, after all. I also don’t think I’m that well-known, certainly a few people seem to obsess over me but if you asked random users they would likely have no idea who I am. I also disagree that I exemplify the traits described, people tend to attack my character over what I actually say.
🎶 One of those things is not like the others, one of those things just doesn’t belong 🎵
See, this is the sort of shit I was complaining about in my other comments: you conflating diametrically opposite ideologies (anarchists and authoritarians, in this case) and claiming that the whole group of them was being attacked when that just isn’t fucking true.
The central theme among those 4 is an opposition to electoralism as a strategy, and a focus on revolutionary practice. They form the broader “left,” including other instances like Anarchist.Nexus, etc. I am aware that Marxism and anarchism are fundamentally opposed when it comes to the question of communalization vs. collectivization, but Marxists and anarchists do share the central opposition to capitalism and reformism.
They call out a cluster of traits as being bad. The only sane way to parse their comment is to interpret it as only applying to people who have all those traits. You’re doing something equivalent to demanding someone clarify that they didn’t mean they hated all food when they complained about not liking things that are sweet.
They are targeting a vague group that they claim has these traits. There’s no direct attack on any ideology specifically, nor any instance specifically, so we have to fill in the gaps and see it for what it is: an attack on instances like dbzer0, Lemmy.ml, Lemmygrad.ml, and Hexbear.net, as well as the ideologies of those instances, those generally being anarchism and Marxism-Leninism. Their position is that these are dominating flaws of specific instances, not merely a random type of person with an unspecified level of influence.
Anyone who’s been on Lemmy for more than a month will either recognise exactly the group of users they’re referring to, or themselves be part of the group. You’re right to think they’re attacking a group that you’re part of, as you’re the first person who’d come to most people’s mind if asked to suggest an example of a user with those traits. You’ve also managed to contradict one of your earlier comments in this thread where you claimed the comment was against the entirety of leftist thought, as you’ve correctly deduced that they’re not complaining about anarchist instances like db0 that don’t describe themselves as Marxist-Leninist.
They are complaining about dbzer0, as anarchist instances also advocate for revolution rather than electoralism. That’s the focus of this meme, after all. I also don’t think I’m that well-known, certainly a few people seem to obsess over me but if you asked random users they would likely have no idea who I am. I also disagree that I exemplify the traits described, people tend to attack my character over what I actually say.
🎶 One of those things is not like the others, one of those things just doesn’t belong 🎵
See, this is the sort of shit I was complaining about in my other comments: you conflating diametrically opposite ideologies (anarchists and authoritarians, in this case) and claiming that the whole group of them was being attacked when that just isn’t fucking true.
The central theme among those 4 is an opposition to electoralism as a strategy, and a focus on revolutionary practice. They form the broader “left,” including other instances like Anarchist.Nexus, etc. I am aware that Marxism and anarchism are fundamentally opposed when it comes to the question of communalization vs. collectivization, but Marxists and anarchists do share the central opposition to capitalism and reformism.