Yep.

It’s really just theater, both uphold the interests of capital.

Oh duh, should’ve realized!

Pretty sure both parties are genocidal imperialists.

One party?

Centrism, as in what? The center of the Statesian political parties? Then yes, considering both parties are right-wing. The center of two arbitrary points? Depends on the points. “Centrism” is inherently an irrational way to describe political views, being in the center of two points adds no value. If someone says we should kill everyone with glasses, and someone else says we shouldn’t, we shouldn’t kill half of the people with glasses. What centrism does in practice is give people cover to obfuscate their actual views, it isn’t a position by itself.

I use it for finding audiobooks and documentaries.

My favorite part so far was Noam Chomsky telling Epstein that “Venezuela isn’t real socialism,” lmao.

Chomsky’s always been terrible.

The biggest issue is that non-violent protest doesn’t really change anything. They can be useful for organizations to practice and develop logistics and mobilization, but not as a direct method of change. Lady Izdihar made a great graphic on the Leninist theory of revolution:

This is how we need to organize for actual change. Non-violent protest is helpful in practicing revolution, but not in achieving change itself.

Join a party like PSL, and be ready for violence. Pacifism is handcuffing yourself and handing the gun to your captor. That’s not to say that protest should only be violent or adventurist in nature, of course, but we should prepare and be ready for revolution, and that starts by studying strategy and tactics, training in firearms, first-aid, logistics, etc, and organizing in working class parties.

If you’re preparing for revolution in the US Empire, then it makes the most sense to buy common calibres and weapons that are commonly used and found. This makes them easier to learn and repair, service, etc. A 9mm pistol and AR-15 in 5.56 with a light and a red dot sight are plenty.

Popularity at the cost of ads, algorithms, and corpo censorship isn’t something I am willing to trade. Though I don’t use Mastodon or Bluesky, I just use Lemmy.

I agree, when I say it’s necessary I mean the fact that it’s private compels it to act that way. I’m pro-FOSS.

Fair point, but I do think this is a necessary consequence of Bluesky being private. The major differences between the two platforms stem from private vs. FOSS.

Yep, Mastodon is better as a consequence

Bluesky is private, Mastodon is FOSS. Both are federated.

Depends more on the community and the instance than the platform itself.

The US Empire, in Marxist analysis, is the international dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, supported by its vassals like Canada, Australia, western Europe, Japan, the ROK, etc. As the US Empire decays, world imperialism weakens, and the ability for socialism to rise gains.

I see lots of non-Statesian content too, mostly from the communists. Lemmy.world tends to be Statesian centric, but is far from communist.

The strong presence of communists is very normal, actually, though I don’t know what you mean by “American-coded.” Lemmy was created and is developed by communists, and communists in general are atttracted to FOSS tools and platforms.

This seems more like orientalism than an actual thing. The US is set up that way because it values capitalists above all else as a capitalist country, and this system puts them above the law.