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Unveiling the Controversy: Nicholas Kastafados and His Stance on Affordable Housing

2y 10mon ago in chicago@midwest.social from chicagostories4.wordpress.com

Please do not defederate from Hexbear!

2y 10mon ago in main@midwest.social

Lemmy since the reddit collapse

2y 10mon ago in memes@lemmy.ml from lemmy.ml

Where am I brigading other instances????

they highly value gender inclusivity.

It’s pretty much exactly what the right wing does.

I'm sorry WHAT

Please tell me this is a shitpost

LMAOOO WHAT?? I'm just using the term they use for themselves.

I ran into a group of Trotskyists once and it turned out they were absurdly boring and wanted me to grab coffee with them for weeks on end before they'd tell me anything, and they apparently read a metric fuckton of theory. So now I know the word Trotskyist. But I guess that makes me a tankie 🤷

Yes, I understand that Marx and Engels did not have realistic political ideals

Have you read any of Marx? I'm not an ML but if you even glance at Capital you can tell that Marx's whole schtick was using science to come up with realistic political ideals.

Can you define direct action for me? What do you think it is?

I’ve participated in dozens of protests. Protests with political organization can lead to change. Protests without political organization are just yelling at a wall.

Protests !== organizing. Organizing achieves political change. Protest does not. Leftists know how to organize, liberals do not.

What’s the difference between a fascist and an “anarchist” who does everything they can to kneecap the only viable left leaning political party in the US?

Sorry which party is this? Dems are not even a remotely left-leaning party. Joe Biden literally criminalized the rail workers using their legal right to strike.

This is also like a children's picture book-level of understanding of fascism. As if the Dems' policy of 4 more years of the status quo could prevent fascism at all. That has literally never worked as a way to combat fascism.

BUT neither really believe in good faith discussion, it’s mostly trolling and “dunking”.

I do not like tankies but I have absolutely never experienced this, all tankies typically want to do is discuss theory and history to the point that it's exhausting. Have you talked to any Trotskyists??

It’s way more present since Hexbear federated in, every first impression is that it’s an alt-right troll farm.

I literally never got this impression, it's like extraordinarily clear that Hexbear is a leftist instance. From the pronouns in names to the leftist jokes lol.

However, being bombarded with it 24/7 is a great way to make people numb to politics and stop caring.

I have literally never experienced this.

lemmy.world blocked the largest piracy community in all of lemmy

2y 10mon ago in mildlyinfuriating from lemmy.dbzer0.com

Where do they do this? Do you have links? So far what I've seen is they comment on posts that go viral on their instances, as they're allowed to do. I can't say I've had any problems with Hexbear users.

Chicago Air and Water show set to take over lakefront next week

2y 10mon ago in chicago@midwest.social from www.nbcchicago.com

Man Bikes Across Chicago's 77 Community Areas In 1 Day.

2y 10mon ago in chibike@midwest.social from blockclubchicago.org

Chicago Rule

2y 10mon ago in chicago@midwest.social from midwest.social

Chicago Rule

2y 10mon ago in 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone from midwest.social

Driver ran over 5yo child on crosswalk in Albany Park, then hit multiple parked cars.

2y 10mon ago in chibike@midwest.social from www.cbsnews.com

Can I legally eat roadkill in Illinois?

2y 10mon ago in illinois@midwest.social from wgntv.com

Driver ran over 5yo child on crosswalk in Albany Park, then hit multiple parked cars.

2y 10mon ago in chicago@midwest.social from www.cbsnews.com