Now that this community has mods, I think we should come to something approaching a consensus on whether there should be a rule against posting “nice” comics from transphobic and other kinds of bigoted artists. People like Stonetoss and Jago who have a lot of innocent-looking relatable comics, but also post the most mean, bigoted propaganda.

And I’d like to present a third option besides yes and no: one might post comics from bigoted artists after removing the artist credit, if the mods think that’s a good compromise.

  • DarkCloud@lemmy.world
    3·
    22 hours ago

    Lets see, the hard right are the substrate of economic and political inequalities across the board. So when idiot centrists peddle this “it’s not about left or right” crap, they’re really just saying they’re either completely politically, historically, and sociologically uninformed, OR they’re just saying “Yes, I’m a fascist”.

    So which is it with you? Have you just never paid attention to the history of politics and society, or are you just some rightwing douche posing as a centrist?

    • KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      1 day ago

      Actually, as a native American, I have some inkling as to the effects of politics and society with special emphasis on how silencing minority voices does little to foster growth or equity.

      When I say its not about the left or right, what i mean is that its all the same fucking bird shitting all over this beautiful land regardless of which wing youre looking at.

      Silencing opinions that do not agree with the party line is fascist behavior. I know you tankies dont like hearing about how friendly father joe was just as bad if not worse than actual Hitler, but thems the beans. Its historic fact.

      So build your echo chamber and tell yourself its okay because only you have the right way.

      • DarkCloud@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 hours ago

        how friendly father joe was just as bad if not worse than actual Hitler,

        By the way, you’re wrong on this too… Because you live in a rightwing Capitalist/Fascist echo chamber, so sophisticated in cultural manipulation, that you’ve been subtly indoctrinated.

        Stalin was a relatively insulated leader, he was horrible in that he didn’t really care about the conditions of others as long as he was well fed, and drunk.

        Most of the deaths in the USSR were a product of Lysenkoism, rather than ideological Communism. Lysenkoism also spread to China, as Wikipedia states here:

        Lysenko forced farmers to plant seeds very close together since, according to his “law of the life of species”, plants from the same “class” never compete with one another.[45] Lysenko’s ideas and practices contributed to lower agricultural yields in the Soviet Union throughout the late 1930s until his downfall in the mid-1960s.[10] Lysenko’s ideas found influence in China for several years, from the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, through 1956, when a genetics conference in Qingdao spurred the resumption of genetics teaching and research in the country.[12] The Atlantic writer Sam Kean contends that Chinese agricultural methods utilized in the late 1950s were inspired by Lysenko, and contributed to the Great Chinese Famine of 1959 to 1962.[45]

        Trofim Lysenko lied about his results and crop yeilds to stay in place (and well fed) as the Agricultural Minister, as the famine closed in.

        Even if we look at the USSR’s Gulag system, they pale in comparison to Hitler’s extermination camps. Of the 18 million Soviet citizens that went through the Gulag system, only 1.5 million died. The vast majority walked out of Gulags alive. Comparing that to places like Treblinka, Belzec, and Sobiber (Hitler’s 3 major extermination camps), and the horrors of Auschwitz, Mauthausen, or Trawniki… And your statement becomes patently ridiculous to anyone who knows history and has studied these subjects.

        Here’s a primer on Lysenkoism in the form of a podcast if you want to learn in an easy manner:

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t05d8MPzfvs

        …and what I’ve said here in no way endorses Stalin, or Stalinism, or claims he was a great leader. I wrote all of this merely to say how incredibly incorrect the claim you’ve made is. Hitler’s regime was far worse, and as anyone whose seen the 2001 movie Conspiracy which was based on the transcripts of the 1942 Wannsee Conference (where the Holocaust was planned), the deaths under Hitler’s regime were far far more intentional.

      • DarkCloud@lemmy.world
        2·
        18 hours ago

        Okay, so you’re a dumb ass. Observe:

        When I say its not about the left or right, what i mean is that its all the same fucking bird shitting all over this beautiful land regardless of which wing youre looking at.

        Oh yeah, “left and right don’t matter”? So left and right are equally as likely to be environmentalists are they? Dumb ass much?

        Silencing opinions that do not agree with the party line is fascist behavior.

        Oh yeah, “left” and “right” are party names are they? No, they’re not. They’re broad indicators which no party actually accomplishes or lives up to when in power, because to get into power you need to be a corrupt right leaning Capitalist, because that’s the ideology of those who fund campaigns and want to avoid taxes and break democracy/laws.

        You obviously don’t know this, but the current tech bro elite literally want to get rid of democracy because it risks them paying taxes or suffering consequences.

        So build your echo chamber

        What the fuck do you think ruling class Capitalism is? You’re a confused son of a bitch aren’t you? Claiming you want to foster equality and, then accusing others of being tankies just for fucking pointing out the ruling classes lean right at heart because it gives them more room to beat people down.

        Like, what kind of dumb ass thinks both sides are as bad as each other, then complains that the environment isn’t being taken care of? and that we need to foster more equality? OH YEAH, THOSE ARE RIGHTWING GOALS ARE THEY?

        No, they’re NOT. Fascism is Capitalism’s immune system. It’s what money does to protect its interests. Most of the overt pollution and corruption is due to moneyed powers. One “side” has more inclination to go against that.

        The other side has money and a disregard for environmentalism.

        Anyways, thanks for letting us know that you’re a dumb ass. Like I said “both-siders” and “everyone gets a say” type “centrists” are really just endorsing the status quo, and right wing ruling class fascism. You endorse the pollution, corruption, destruction, all of it.