I came across a post requesting to remove Nutomic from the Lemmy devs due to a comment he made here. In it, he suggests that the ruling class promotes both LGBTQ+ rights and transphobia as a means to create division among the working class. I’m curious to hear your thoughts on this perspective. Do you agree or disagree with his viewpoint? What other topics do you believe are used to divide the working class? Let’s discuss!

  • PhilipTheBucket@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I didn’t hear about this “mistake” but I agree it’s problematic and hope my instance eventually moves to piefed. Though I haven’t tried it so I don’t know how well I’ll like it.

    https://lemmy.world/post/32838609

    It was interesting.

    On the other hand, I do feel like the ideology of the standard corporate media platforms is about as bad as the tankies and we don’t flip out about that. Makes me wonder about double standards here.

    Yeah, pretty much. I realized that my Israel analogy wasn’t even completely on point. It would be more along the lines of someone writing the software who was all cool with Palantir and ICE, and constantly spoke highly of them. That’s about the level that I put the Russian government on (which of course isn’t to excuse any of the horror of what the US government is currently trying to do; if anything, it goes the other way and throws into relief the horror that Russia has already been for decades now that has been normalized at this point.) And, of course, all our existing corporate social media is okay with Palantir and ICE, they just have more sense than to talk out loud about it.

    • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
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      2 days ago

      Yeah they are generally quieter. But we all know where they stand. However, I find it much more difficult to sever myself from them since everyone uses them.