Edie

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[–] Edie@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Has it not? Has it not caused the death of 1 million people in Indonesia? Has it not caused 7 million excess deaths due to "shock-therapy" in Russia alone? Has it not caused the brutality, violence and oppression of the "dictatorships" that the CIA installed in Latin America? Has it not caused countless famines? Has it not caused the economic ruin of Africa and Latin America?

[–] Edie@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

What happens if you turn this around?

The precise terminology of the US's political system is unimportant. What is important is that wherever the recipes of [Liberalism] have been tried, the result has been violence, brutality, oppression, famine, economic ruin.

This is all true of course. So what then? Do you also reject Liberalism?

[–] Edie@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago

There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror — that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.

Taken from https://redsails.org/the-two-terrors/

[–] Edie@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Trekkie, star trek. Not tankie.

[–] Edie@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago

Blowing up stuff inside their own borders... And how are they escalating?

[–] Edie@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

I think there is like one party in Folketinget that is even slightly left, Enhedslisten.

[–] Edie@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Technical in what way?

It used to be that there was no limit on how many you could have (just that the display name cannot be more than 80 chars). But then makotech added some code to only take the 2 first pronoun sets that is sent to the server. I asked if this could be reverted, and they (mako/admins) said no.

[–] Edie@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Only two sets. I asked for more but they said no.

[–] Edie@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Ableism? Transphobia? Where mao-aggro-shining

time for some bans it seems.

[–] Edie@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes. .ml isn't an ML instance so far as I understand, the devs and admins are MLs, so its generally leftists, but not specifically ML, that's 'grad.

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