Barely anyone uses the word to refer to it's original meaning now, even when it comes to real life. Vast majority of what people would call "larp" isn't even deliberate roleplaying but rather delusions of grandeur or shit nobody cares about

Banger

Imma be real, if you truly think that US are some backwards savages and the rest of the world is any better then maybe you're due for a break from the US-centric news cycles who only report on what's going on in the US. It really warps one's perspective on the current state of the world, xenophobia and bigotry runs everywhere and it's getting worse as profit rates and standard of living drops.

Besides, leftism as a term at first referred to anti-monarchist liberals. It's an insanely large and diverse camp in terms of views, vast majority of whom are pro-capitalist but don't market themselves as such since their focus is reformism and making lives better within capitalism like trans rights or "fair wage". Actual anti-capitalists (i.e. communists aligned with left opposition who are vehemently against commodity form) are insanely rare and often don't even identify themselves as leftists since they have very little in common with left wing of capital.

Most leftists are literally pro-capitalism though, not in the idealized sense of "we want free markets NOW!!" but viewing ideal society as capitalism but with welfare (self-described socialist/DSA/socdem types). No matter how you rename such society, it doesn't change what it's mode of production in reality is.

Lots of leftists can't even define what capitalism is either, which also puts their opposition to capital into question...

Actual fascism

Uhhhh, that'll show them..?

Probably the biggest problem with this is that you need to read an absolute wall of text or watch a YouTube video to actually understand what's going on, something that the target audiences are unlikely to do, not to mention other issues like how ignorable it all is.

Yeah unless there's an actual attack where a bunch of throwaway accounts mass-downvote certain posts, banning a single individual for daring to downvote is wild

It's also my first time seeing that vote-viewing website and it's honestly a bit insane that this quirk is part of Lemmy design ngl

Reminds me of Romania right now where the centrist candidate that won the presidential elections (and tons of people on here celebrated because it wasn't a reactionary right-winger) refused to ban and straight up endorsed legionary and fascist organizations to "fight communism"

Article in Romanian, though using machine translation will get the general idea across

I love it when some shooting or tragedy happens, if it's workers then all they get is one line at best and their lives get abbreviated to a statistic, but when some capitalist dies every news site writes about how great and authentic they were for a couple days.

Though given how this shooting was an example of lone wolf adventurism, it's quite dumb to support it - the CEO will be replaced by an identical cog in the machine like always, a decent part of the public will get alienated thanks to anti-violence culture and media narratives (as seen in articles like there) and the shooter just threw away their life.

Though I won't lie that it doesn't make the day a bit better to see capitalist get gunned down

I can assure you, most of them still don't care.

Even with how shitty conservative elements are, most of the issues they raise are actually correct and often missed by progressive elements, but their proposed solutions or narrative around those issues is pure garbage.

I remember seeing Andrew Tate of all people start talking about how people are living a slave's life, working for others while getting barely enough for subsistence with no real prospects for social mobility, a point that one could pull from Marx. However, the solution that he proposes is a theocracy and return to traditionalism for some reason, which is nonsense.

They're fighting Trump though! I've peeked a couple of times at the Democrat subreddit and it's always "some democrat saying some MEAN one-liner towards Trump during some hearing! #resist".

50 more of those one-liners and Trump will feel soooo bad and quit being a president, which will fix literally everything (great man theory)!

Maybe if you read Lenin you would understand

Bro literally made a dogshit post screeching about anti-electorialists in a community that has a rule against screeching about anti-electorialists, and the post got removed for breaking that rule.

The injustice is insane...!

Nobody asked for one, but I got a pretty good explanation for why this is what why this is happening.

ML's on lemmy are predominantly of the "deprogram" variety (in reference to the deprogram podcast and r/thedeprogram being quite large on reddit), and generally they're a laughing stock given the narratives they parrot that are so de-attached from the material reality and their various mannerisms when it comes to arguing. One of the larger narratives is that the west and western imperialism is horrible (which is true), and that whoever is opposed to it must be a force for good or something, which manifests as uncritical support for China, Russia, Iran even though they're both imperialist bourgeoisie states too.

I see some people claim that they're some paid Russian shills, which is wrong. They do it for free, with a genuine belief because that's what their community says and does.

There were still classes back in the day, serfdom, slavery, guilds that had similar exploitation to wage labor. There was plenty of coercion to get labor done.

Real liberal democracy has never been tried

It's not a stretch, it's outright false to call it communism or socialism, systems which necessitate the abolishment of capitalist mode of production (commodity production, private ownership, markets) and money. China, meanwhile, literally has billionaires, still produces things under capitalist mode of production and the only oddity it has compared to other Capitalist countries is partially nationalized economy (which Mussolini has also done, it's not socialism by itself).

It's just a social democracy.

Instructions unclear, turned into an insufferable Marxist and now I don't have anyone to talk to

It's not just a reddit thing, the internet is filled with gooners