Fuck the ACP, especially their leadership (I use that term loosely). They practice tailism at best, but their clear connections with the esoteric fascism of LaRouche and Dugin, and personal connections to Gabbard (through that loser Hinkle), makes me think they’re more like what this image shows - fascist infiltrators that are grifting their way into prominence and fooling well-meaning people into funding and legitimizing their petit-bourgeois bullshit.

Not to mention their dismissal of queer and women’s liberation - which are fundamental to any real socialist movement - and their admiration for US ‘revolutionary’ history (specifically 1776 and the 1950s) with no regard for the survivors of the settler-colony’s genocide, slavery, and oppression, all which illuminate just how empty and meaningless their socialist aesthetics really are. These clowns and their ideas can’t disappear fast enough.

Awww, baby’s first analysis! Do the good guys wear the white hats (and the bad guys the black hats) so you know exactly who they are?

Good grief. You presumably have a brain, please try and use it. This is no way to have an adult conversation.

lmao, this whole comment section is hilarious. everyone knows you should only pee and poop in the shower. that way you never have to wash your hands! #WAFFLESTOMP

Most definitely, I didn’t mean to imply that this was itself an instance focused on socialism. Just that it tends to avoid the pitfalls of US-centric Reddit culture in a way I find welcoming and easy to adhere to as it matches my values, which happen to underpin my Marxism. As a (mostly) lurker with limited time, browsing local and reading comments is pretty great for me after a hard day of work.

For context, I naively joined Lemmy.world when making my initial Lemmy account. Moved here within a month or two, lol, cause it was too much like Reddit.

Another thing I like about Lemmy.ml - being a general purpose instance it has a lot going on in terms of topics, and stays federated with instances that I may want to engage with for the purposes of casual conversation or to occasionally discuss politics when I have the time (like today, while recovering from an illness). I appreciate you and all the other admins and community mods here for keeping it this way.

Thank you for this, it’s a breath of fresh air. The rest of Lemmy (minus the explicitly socialist instances) has basically been Reddit-lite ever since June 2023, and it’s getting worse in some ways. I didn’t want to be a part of that even though I was also leaving Reddit at that time (but had been highly disillusioned with the platform and barely posted at that point), and found a good home here. I love it.