I’m startled by the specific shout-out to the instance i’m on, since:
I didn’t think midwest.social was particularly big and,
having grown up around a lot of liberal and extreme reactionary politics, I would not have expected there to be a lot of overlap between the midwest and an ML community
I am happy to be experiencing a little discomfort by all the “new” ideology, as I am well aware of the limited social and political bubble that is constructed around me. Specific political stances aside, I can say I do feel right at home with the somewhat irreverent tone of the comrades here. Hopefully midwest.social and lemmy/kbin at large can adopt the emoji implementation you have here so I can join the fun.
The Midwest has something of a history of leftists. A bunch of German socialists moved out to Ohio in the mid 19th century. Minnesota is the only state where the Democrats operate as an affiliate, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, who tend to be better than the national level Democrats.
And the Midwest has a lot of promising (for the U.S.) leftist history, and there are echos of that even today. The MN Democratic Party is actually the Democratic Farmer Labor Party, and their governor just passed a bunch of legitimately good stuff. Pretty sure DSA is very prominent in Chicago politics as well.
In addition to the discomfort here, we are a very varied group. We have some set of rules, but the opinions expressed are all over the field, that includes ongoing news events, but also older things.
Those kind of differences are completely good and acceptable in a social space in which we try to create a community in which differences can remain. If we would act differently we would lose quite a bit of diversity and quite a few users that often are representing voices and perspectives that you don’t hear often in the west/imperial core outside of marginalized groups.
Think how various groups come together for anti fascist actions, there you will have a ton of groups with ideological differences, and how sometimes we celebrate afterwards together.
Hexbears can correct me if I’m incorrect but, my understanding is that the instance is not necessarily M-L but more “leftist and anti-capitalist unity” (M-L, anarchists, etc.).
Glad to hear it. Not that the sectarianism is happening but that it is being stomped out. Keeping othering from happening is vital for both successful social change and preventing repeats of past tragedies.
I’m startled by the specific shout-out to the instance i’m on, since:
I am happy to be experiencing a little discomfort by all the “new” ideology, as I am well aware of the limited social and political bubble that is constructed around me. Specific political stances aside, I can say I do feel right at home with the somewhat irreverent tone of the comrades here. Hopefully midwest.social and lemmy/kbin at large can adopt the emoji implementation you have here so I can join the fun.
The Midwest has something of a history of leftists. A bunch of German socialists moved out to Ohio in the mid 19th century. Minnesota is the only state where the Democrats operate as an affiliate, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, who tend to be better than the national level Democrats.
Lots of other stuff too
The emojis are the best part
And the Midwest has a lot of promising (for the U.S.) leftist history, and there are echos of that even today. The MN Democratic Party is actually the Democratic Farmer Labor Party, and their governor just passed a bunch of legitimately good stuff. Pretty sure DSA is very prominent in Chicago politics as well.
In addition to the discomfort here, we are a very varied group. We have some set of rules, but the opinions expressed are all over the field, that includes ongoing news events, but also older things.
Those kind of differences are completely good and acceptable in a social space in which we try to create a community in which differences can remain. If we would act differently we would lose quite a bit of diversity and quite a few users that often are representing voices and perspectives that you don’t hear often in the west/imperial core outside of marginalized groups.
Think how various groups come together for anti fascist actions, there you will have a ton of groups with ideological differences, and how sometimes we celebrate afterwards together.
I for one am happy to have you here :)
No bans for shitposting so far
Only once was a post of mine deleted, because I was horny for Tulsi Gabbert.
A well deserved deletion by the Volcel enforcers.
Hexbears can correct me if I’m incorrect but, my understanding is that the instance is not necessarily M-L but more “leftist and anti-capitalist unity” (M-L, anarchists, etc.).
Hexbear is explicitly left unity, but by tendency it’s mostly Marxist-Leninists. People still cop bans for sectarianism towards anarchists
Glad to hear it. Not that the sectarianism is happening but that it is being stomped out. Keeping othering from happening is vital for both successful social change and preventing repeats of past tragedies.