Generally, classically I’ve understood Socialism to still involve central planning of industry/production.

Socialism is worker control of the means of production, which can take many forms. What it is, most distinctively, is incompatible with capitalism, which is investor control of the means of production.

Whereas most modern socialist democracies tend to heavily regulate industry and enact social welfare programs to minimize the effects of different classes etc.

The most successful socialist parties in the West take the view that the harm of capitalism should be reduced while it still exists; they still believe in the eventual abolition of capitalism.

I always thought they were more traditional socialist democracy?

… what do you think socialism is, exactly?

Like, Germany’s Left parties mostly don’t want to dismantle capitalism but I wouldn’t dismiss all conversation about them and putting people on that Left Right spectrum to be unserious.

Even the SDP is pro-forma still for the abolition of capitalism.

I just got yelled at because I can’t be Left wing unless I want to destroy capitalism? Which feels weird.

That’s a terminology issue that you’re going to run into in any sufficiently political community. ‘Left-wing’ in casual use in the US refers to “everyone except the Republicans and some moderates”, but “left-wing” in any serious political talk refers to anti-capitalism.

I run a few history communities myself

!historyartifacts@lemmy.world to share or admire pieces of the past - swords, armor, jewelry, or pieces of everyday life

!historyporn@lemmy.world for photographs of the past (or film)

!historyillustrations@lemmy.world for drawings and the sort of the past

!historyruins@lemmy.world for photos of old ruins, if you enjoy seeing such things

And a few history meme communities with them

!historymemes@lemmy.world for memes about history of all sorts, no restrictions!

!roughromanmemes@lemmy.world for memes about the GLORIOUS ROMAN EMPIRE

!shermanposting@lemmy.world for posts about the US Civil War and how slaver scum deserved their defeat

More generally, there’s:

!adhd@lemmy.dbzer0.com for memes about ADHD and related disorders. A lot of comorbidity there.

!animearmor@lemm.ee for anime pics of cool weapons and armor

!askhistorians@lemmy.world if you have any questions on random bits of history you’ve been wondering about

!baldurs_gate_3@lemmy.world for the ever-popular video game Baldur’s Gate 3

!dogs@lemmy.world for pics of your own dogs or random dogs you’ve found online. Precious creatures!

!cat@lemmy.world for the same, but for cats

!forgottenweapons@lemmy.world if you like old or obscure firearms

!lotrmemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com for Lord of the Rings memes

!lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world if you want some wholesome posts to take your mind off things or brighten your day.

!militarymoe@ani.social if you like anime girls in uniform

!noncredibledefense@lemmy.world or !noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works for tongue-in-cheek militaria shitposting

!soulslike@lemmy.zip for talk about Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Elden Ring, etc

!wlw_memes@lemmy.world for memes by/about/for girls who love girls

!rpgmemes@ttrpg.network for memes about tabletop RPGs like Dungeons and Dragons

!memes@lemmy.world or !memes@sopuli.xyz for memes in general (not much difference between the communities, just whichever you prefer - or both)

!grimdank@lemmy.world for Warhammer/40K memes or memes about similar tabletop games

!196@lemmy.world for random posts that don’t go anywhere else. Just put ‘rule’ in the title - as the ‘rule’ is that you must post before you leave!

Recommend Lemmy communities, or other Fediverse alternatives (like Mastodon as a replacement for Twitter, the same way Lemmy replaces Reddit)?

They’re squeezing water from a stone here DX

I’m going to continue posting on dbzer0, personally. If it was just the matter of a mistake or a bad take, that would be one thing, but the admin’s behavior clearly indicates an attitude of hostility in his behavior as an admin towards people he considers ‘libs’, which, likewise, appears to be a very broadly applied label.

The admin has every right to trim his community in such a fashion but that necessarily means that some people will not feel welcome. The Fediverse means an individual can choose communities on an instance where they feel welcome, or at least where they don’t feel like the sword of Damocles is hanging above their head. For me, that’s not Midwest.social at this point.

How’s Lemmy.cafe? I believe they defederate the Big 3 Tankie instances. Dunno what their downtime or admins are like.

He caught one of the nursemaids speaking G*rman to the infant and the experiment had to be aborted. RIP

get out of the house,

But the sun is out there. I think I’ll stay where the giant nuclear fusion reactor can’t see me

Gender norms make things so fucking hard XD

Vote early, vote often!

I (straight male) always found it easy to connect with girls, but I was also raised in a very feminist family (despite my mother being nominally conservative).

Dating is a lot of work and vulnerability and an attempt at ‘clicking’ on many more levels than friendship. It definitely wasn’t that I wasn’t interested in dating (I very much was), but ‘Gorl fun AND pretty’ just wasn’t enough to automatically spark my interest in romance. ‘Gorl fun’ meant possible friend; ‘Gorl pretty’ was most girls, because girls pretty.

I got spontaneously voted the most handsome boy in the class when I was in 10th grade though. Always burnished that particular memory on the Altar of Ego.

Oh, it’s definitely satire, making fun of “nice guys” who complain that they’ve been “friendzoned”.

The horror, friendship!

Don’t have to be either to want opposite sex friends who are just friends.

You sound like you put girls in the girlfriend-zone

They’re the same fucking word from different time periods on the treadmill of what is politically correct.

Either both are slurs that shouldn’t be used or both are acceptable.

That’s not how language works, and unless you go around calling Black folk ‘colored’, you understand that in other contexts. What words are acceptable and what connotations they have change with time and usage.

I mean, you were a super flamboyant Renaissance guy with dual wrist blades murdering dozens of mooks per encounter as early as AC2, and by Brotherhood and 3 it only got more overt.

Maybe both are bad?

“Facebook should be under incredibly strict regulation or killed outright” is also a position I’m fond of.