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a gang of drunken hooligans

I'm stealing this phrase, thanks.

My main issue with that article on ProleWiki lies in its first paragraph:

Authoritarianism is an idealist and loosely defined concept that is often used by liberals (liberalism being the ideology of capitalism) to demonize both past and present socialist states and dismiss any argument in support of these states.

In the very beginning of the article, ProleWIki equated liberalism with capitalism (they are very different), and also claimed them that liberals have "demonized" socialist states with this term. There is no denying that some liberals have demonized socialist states, but I would argue that this term was used properly in that context.

Have you ever noticed the most prominent difference between socialist governments and the governments of the rest of the world? In most socialist countries, you aren't really allowed to publicly criticize the government. Ever noticed how much criticisms of the USA, the UK, France, or really any liberal country floats around the Internet? If you speak Chinese, I kindly ask you to go check out Weibo (Chinese Twitter), try posting something remotely critical of President Xi and watch your post get removed. Or try sending a message to a Chinese citizen with Weixin (Chinese Whatsapp), talk about the protest banner that someone hung on Sitong bridge in Beijing 11 months ago and see how your account gets disabled.

As you can see, the Chinese government exerts a lot more power on censoring Internet speech than the liberal countries do. I am not qualified to say whether the "western" countries are authoritarian, but in comparison, those socialist states really do enforce a lot more rules. Socialist states really are more authoritarian in comparison. It is more than fitting to call them authoritarian.

[that's like saying] “you’re biased, so why should I believe you?” [in a debate]

Now that I think about it, I realize that that was indeed not a good argument. But that was also what another Hexbear user said to dismiss the Wikipedia article just a few parent comments above. They basically said "Wikipedia is biased, so why should I believe Wikipedia?"

BTW sorry for the late reply. I was kind of busy.

Oh well, I guess I should not have claimed that you chose to like ProleWiki more because you just like it. Now, how about I explain why I don't trust ProleWiki on "Authoritarianism" because of its bias?

If you look at ProleWiki's main page, it literally says that it is a communist (Marxist-Leninist) project. It leans towards Marxism-Leninism, which IMO makes its defense of those Marxist-Leninist socialist states heavily biased and unreliable.

Good. Actually I was also banned for saying that Xi the Pooh isn't racist.

I don't get why some think that the US or Ukraine started the war. They did not. Russia started it. Why would any country attack another country 28 times its size?

They do. See https://lemmygrad.ml and see how almost every post has some downvotes. IMO this does make the posting culture there better.

Can we not assume that every question asked on Lemmy is hostile? I don't see what's wrong with that comment. Besides, I don't think @[email protected] is pro-hexbear anyway.

Why does this comment have 10 downvotes? Seems like a genuine, well-intentioned question to me.

So eloquently and precisely did you sum up my experience with them that I am starting to suspect you are me.

Heck I think Lemmygrad is more tolerable than Hexbear, by a lot.

Sh.itjust.works has already defederated from Hexbear? That quick? No announcement whatsoever?

Btw, lemm.ee is federated with Hexbear.