Well, one other thing is that instances will only fetch content from communities that at least one instance member is subscribed to. Every instance will have a slightly different selection of content because of what communities the existing members have subscribed to (and larger instances will typically have a broader selection of content, because they have more users).

The only important thing, really, is that the instance you choose doesn’t defederate with other instances for political reasons (except being literal Nazi instances). I find that lemm.ee users have a good mix of political expression ranging from Marxists to Moderate Conservatives. An account there, on lemmy.zip, or lemmy.ml is probably your best bet.

It’s done exactly so they can call anyone protesting against Fascism a terrorist.

I’ve seen Zionists do the same thing by claiming that pro-Palestine protestors are taking marching orders from an “BDS Movement”.

Oh okay, so option 3 is a win/win

Raising tariffs to incentivize domestic production helps create jobs at the expense of corporate profit. From a Nationalist perspective, it’s a good thing.

Now, there’s a lot of ways Trump could fuck this up of course, and worst being a spiraling cost of chips because of an unrestrained monopoly or oligopoly of tariff-free chip production in the U.S. - like we see with EV manufacturers in the U.S. refusing to build affordable economy EVs because it’s simply more profitable if they only make luxury vehicles while the tariffs protect the market from cheap foreign EVs.

This also erodes trust in America’s support for free markets - free markets benefit nations with economic dominance, and the fact that America is being forced to rely on tariffs is evidence that American economic dominance is crumbling.

I think it’s because most of those personal stories were attention-grabbing fakes and there’s fewer incentives to do that on Lemmy

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The People’s Republic of China has never committed a genocide. Taiwan is part of China. China has one of the most peaceful foreign policies of any major power, and has only ever fought wars to defend it’s own borders or support it’s allies. It is more Democratic than any nation in the West, especially the United States.

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So is the part of the U.S. Greenland is laid over here

Yes, but where did you see the mangled toddlers? Bam, tictok.

They should have been like other social media services and suppressed evidence of Western crimes against humanity.

The accusations may or may not be legitimate, but they’re rich coming from the United States of all countries.

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Many men, in the same age range, could also make a quick buck off OnlyFans.

You just have to be comfortable with the idea that it’s still going to be mostly men jacking off to pictures of your butthole.

Godefroy

To analyze things from a pseudo-Marxist dialectical framework, I think that everyone appreciates art that caters to their tastes and is sometimes annoyed when presented with art that does not.

But like with race, gender, class, etc., the difference is that one party is - or, at least, was - hegemonic within the space.

I don’t really believe that these sorts of anti-woke gamers are different in character or disposition than others within the space, and rhetoric that portrays them as ravening, crazy idiots has ableist tendencies (not to be a scold - I think that sort of thing is fine while “dunking”, but should be avoided in serious critique).

Ultimately, because of their hegemonic position in society they are unable to accept that the cause of the Enshittification of gaming is Capitalism, not solely “Wokeness”.

There is a massive gap in communication between China and the Western world that I think a lot of very “Internationalist” Marxists would like to pretend does not exist. If you are a non-Chinese leftist in America (and often even if you are Chinese), your idea of the priorities of the CPC and the general attitudes of the Chinese public and the problems they face is incredibly vague.

To word it another way: we have almost as good of an idea of how things stand in France or Germany or the U.K. as we do the United States; and those who are paying attention have a good grasp on even Cuba and Venezuela and Mexico and such. But with China, we are still solidly in the “Sovietologist” era of information.

Western Marxist-Leninists of the late 80s/early 90s operated on the assumption that China’s liberal reforms meant that it was abandoning Socialism in favor of Social Democracy. China’s return to stronger Socialist reforms over the past decade or so has shown that this was in fact a gambit and that it has paid off, but it is difficult to say for sure whether this was always their trajectory, how much Parenti and his contemporaries knew, and the internal currents of Party.

Thank you for calling me out and keeping me honest; I think we’re basically on the same wavelength

I mopped the fucking floor at the Nation of Islam’s local meeting hall