You responded to a FANTASTIC explanation of the difference by splitting hairs on what by your definition qualifies as a class.

A fantastic explanation? It literally isn’t an explanation, it’s a comparison of two statements. Which is fine, and so is the critique of those statements to examine their perceived contradictions.

From the perspective of the CPC and Marxist-Leninist theory, their ruling party represents the working class, just like our ruling parties represent the owner class of CEOs. [wikipedia page: DotP] Obviously that’s a contested claim which not even all Marxists will agree with, but it’s far from splitting hairs. It’s the basic foundation of the comparison, the implicit claim that one is a working class act and the other is not.

The authorization of CEO execution sounds like a good thing. People are clearly singing for it, so why not make it policy?

Tigers are female lions.

It’s treading new ground, assassinations of non-politician US citizens usually aren’t this popular so it contradicts many assumptions made when deciding rules. A site like reddit has to please its advertisers and investors, so they will ultimately side with the rich owning class, but may not want to risk banning huge parts of their userbase.

censored

A very vague term on its own. Censoring what? The communist instances (e.g. lemmygrad) will ban racism and xenophobia to an extent that many people don’t even understand how what they said was interpreted as xenophobic, but will let you post “I want to torture every billionaire in the world” and post footage of the assassination with no problem, while liberalist instances who allow more general liberty are often more scared to host endorsement of violence (e.g. lemmy.world).

All completely “free speech” platforms inevitably become safe havens for people unable to hold conversations (as in, medically delusional), ad spam, neo-Nazis, and child abusers who get kicked from every other forum. So you really need to be more specific when talking about what you consider censorship and what you consider common sense.

Seriously, the whole definitions of ‘socialism’ and ‘communism’ is a context-dependent hell with over a century of baggage. It’s hard not to find definition errors in online arguments. In the time of Marx’s original writings the two terms were often treated interchangeably as synonyms, while others consider them mutually exclusive stages of development, while other people stretch the word socialism into anything from Bernie Sanders (a supporter of social capitalism and private property, who Marxists wouldn’t even consider to be socialist) and I’ve even seen some odd fellow claiming anything funded by taxes is socialism… a politically useless definition but unfortunately one many people recognise.

Then you get the whole confusion of “-ist” and “-ism”. In one context, “communism” can mean a society with a communist mode of production (“money is abolished under communism”, “we’re trying to achieve communism”), while other times “communism” can mean "the political movement aiming to achieve a society with a communist mode of production", and then the word “communist” can describe a person or group subscribing to that movement. Similar with “socialism”/“socialist”. So, common vague questions like “is china socialist?” can be, sincerely, read different ways by different people - they obviously haven’t achieved a [fully] socialist mode of production so many will say no (they still ultimately have capitalist economic structures, whether state dominated or not), but they’re also evidently a communist state and therefore also a socialist state since it’s run by a Communist Party that believes in and attempts a transition towards a socialist mode of production, so many will say yes (in the same way that I call myself a socialist, they call the state of China socialist - neither exists in a socialist mode of production but both subscribe to a socialist school of thought).

When you begin to see the different schools of thought (especially anarcho-communist vs. Marxist-Leninist schools), and know how some might have different interpretations of similar concepts, it can help clear up some of the confusion and apparent contradictions.

(Don’t be worried if any of this was confusing, I intentionally picked some of the most confusing cases for dramatic effect! It gets much easier with a little experience.)

Their account is on lemmy.world so I’m not sure how it would be treated. We, however, are not.

* ahem *

Rhetoric: down with the bourgeoisie, eat the rich, sodomize the land-owners, impale all people who have more than 25 reál in their pocket, literally murder all human beings regardless of their political beliefs.

Antz was released the same year so it’s less a sequel and more a competitor. As for economic class oppression themes, it goes even further.

It is not. It’s a scene from A Bug’s Life.

I don’t think Lemmy is the right place for sharing the anti-semetic Happy Merchant caricature.

what crazy new one AI could dream up but at a level that would require it to actually think and not regurgitate some LLM data it scraped.

A LLM wouldn’t be useful but I wonder how far this can be done without AI (machine learning) technology, just programmatically like with protein folding simulations.

It’s fan art of the show’s characters. (Incidentally, many shows have official comic adaptations anyway)

That makes sense, because they’re characters from the show.

Ever considered it might lead people to the wrong person?

Not sure who these ‘people’ are, or how the given image could possibly do that, but considering that obstruction of this investigation is cool and productive I fail to see the problem.

Forget.

About.

Him.

hahaha

NO.

They are a hero. They deserve celebration, commemoration and to hold a clear place in the minds of citizens, like the myth of Robin Hood once did. Remember him.

What harmful information does that famous video frame shown supply, and who is it being supplied to?

Yes. All hail Cowbee.

Tell us more about their union.

Quick notes for those who only know of Lemmy after the reddit API fiasco: from what I understand, reddit’s banning of /r/chapotraphouse in mid-2020 is how Hexbear came to be (biggest instance prior to API drama, albeit unfederated at the time due to major software divergence) and the banning of /r/genzedong, /r/genzhao and /r/genzhukov in March 2022 brought a large exodus of users onto lemmygrad.ml, making it the most popular federated instance until the reddit API changes.

As in, why here and not reddit? I drifted away from posting on reddit about 5 - 8 years ago. I was icky over their ads and tracking and it was just a time sink I didn’t need back then, but I would still use alternate frontends (the current equivalent would be libreddit) to lurk while on the train trip to work and back.

I forget whether I found lemmy from /r/piracy exploring bunker options (raddle and lemmy) or if it was through FOSS, but I liked its potential and have been here posting here since 2022.