CarlMarks

It sounds like you get the dumb joke that is my username. Congratulations! With that in mind, perhaps you’d like to take a third try at answering a simple and relevant question?

Have you read Karl Marx’s books? Which is your favorite?

Excuse me, officer. I’d like you to arrest this person for JESTING in my thread.

You said yes but didn’t answer my question! You’ve read my books? Which is your favorite?

Hope they do it with the exact same energy: pedantic and cowardly.

This is why all political discussion is banned at lemmy.world. In fact, there is only one community on lemmy.world and it’s about playing checkers (but without saying “king me” because kings are political).

Hexbear disabled downvoting because it was being used by transphobes to bully trans users. They’d wait for a trans user to post and then pile on with downvotes so that their comments would always begin in the negative.

lemmy.world can’t even be bothered to ban transphobes.

Did you have an opinion on the killings in the Donbas from 2014-2022? People getting locked in a union hall that was set on fire? The promotion of neo-Nazis to “handle” the ethnic Russians there?

Or did you only begin caring about Ukrainian lives when it was 24/7 on Western media, acting like Russia’s invasion had no background, like Minsk II never existed, etc?

A follow-up: have you opposed the US-backed Saudi genocide in Yemen with the same ferocity? That one doesn’t get as much play in the media, but a child dies there every minute or so due to the US-backed blockade, preventing basics like food from getting to the population.

Some conspiracies are real, and are some of the most harmful things on the planet. They’re both evil and banal, and they look like petrochemical consortia trying out some new PR firms or Victoria Nuland casually talking about who should be put in political leadership in Ukraine post-Euromaidan.

The people who are best-informed get pretty invested in opposing those harms and wonder why (some) others are so viciously opposed to learning about them.

Let me tell you about how calling a Chinese guy a yellow bear is the funniest thing ever and definitely not an unconsciously racist thought-terminating cliché.

Is the Russian propaganda in the room with us right now?