Anti-communism in the west has been a cradle-to-grave indoctrination program for nearly 100 years now, affecting everything from schools, media, local and national politics, communications mediums, even religious institutions. Its extremely naive (or disingenous) to pretend to take a centrist stance, yet agree with everything the US empire says about its enemies.
The US empire has over 700+ military bases outside its borders, and has waged wars and coups in nearly every country on the planet.
All other countries combined, have a total of <20 foreign bases.
My ideals are of course embedded into Lemmy in some ways, but overall its a self-hostable social media platform, that can be run in any way the server-runner sees fit. This autonomy is completely up to the server runner, and no one, including me, can dictate how they run it, or what content and discussion they choose to platform. If this weren’t the case, there wouldn’t be so many lemmy servers with different and often conflicting viewpoints. I can encourage that diversity, while at the same time saying what I like on the spaces I have a hand in running.
There’s a reason why projects aiming for widespread adoption do not shout their controversial opinions from the rooftops.
Most companies have PR firms to make sure they don’t make controversial statements that would upset their users and shareholders, and affect their profits. I know some would prefer that developers be opinion-less vanilla automatons, because they see user adoption as more important than anything else. To me, having smaller, more enjoyable, more closely-knit communities (with the window to the greater fediverse) is more important.
If someone is offended by a project lead like myself saying: “Israel is carrying out a genocide against the Palestinian people, and it must be stopped”, then they can use reddit which already supports the opposite viewpoint.
You seem to be completely oblivious to NATO expansionism:
And the atrocities NATO and the US has committed in Europe, Libya, Afghanistan, etc.
Or, to put it another way: socialism has powerful enemies. Those enemies don’t care how you feel about Marx or Makhno or Deleuze or communism in the abstract, they care about your feelings towards FARC, the Naxals, Cuba, North Korea, etc
This point is especially important. I’m in the middle of reading (and recording) Philip Agee - Inside the company, a CIA diary. He was a former CIA case officer who defected and escaped to Cuba. In Ecuador, he ran several of the 15+ operations the CIA was running in that country. These programs included everything from running US-friendly assets in the government, infiltrations of labor unions, control of religious institutions, control of youth orgs (especially catholic and conservative ones), journalists (especially getting them to put out anti-communist agitprop), leftist-org penetration agents, witting and unwitting police captains. They ran both ultra-conservative and social democratic / center-left media and political orgs.
These campaigns destabilized and divided the country, and the CIA was laughing while people on the streets were killing each other.
Their #1 goal: to get the Ecuadorian government to cut ties with Cuba and denounce communism, expel Cuban diplomats, and alienate them from Cuba and the USSR. If any org was even vaguely pro-Cuba, regardless of how left it was, the goal was to either take it over from the inside, or if that proved impossible, then make a new org friendly to US interests.
The US knows that the greatest threat to capitalist-imperialism and its overall power, is the threat of a good example, in the form of nations who reject its dominance. Anti-communism becomes the new witch-hunting campaign to unite all these disparate groups, to act on behalf of US interests.
It must take incredible bravery to agree with a country with over 700 military bases outside its borders.
The sad part is that this is probably safer than using vanilla javascript.
Neither axis nor allies, neither washington nor moscow, neither g7 nor brics, neither israel nor palestine, etc. You’re staying very pure and uncontaminated by the major conflicts of our times.
Even on the fediverse, speaking up about tara reade during the last election cycle, would get you banned from the liberal / correct the record fediverse servers.
#MeToo gets dropped immediately as soon as it exposes US democrats as being part of the same epstein class.
Syncthing was made for this use case.
It is. And many even popular search engine searches will give results from a lemmy instance.
This is probably fine then
We don’t allow genocide apologists here, and don’t care what current xenophobic / racist demonization campaign you liberals are currently on. You’ll blame everyone but yourselves for the problems you’ve created.
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That’s the exact same situation that made Marx say: “First as tragedy, then as farce”.
Europe is stuck in a mid-1800s liberalism loop.
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One of the main problems, is that US liberals have no historical memory of the scale of atrocities committed by their party. Once they learn that history, they unavoidably have to come to terms with the truth that the US is a one-party state, with the democrats playing the controlled opposition wing, and the electoral contest is nothing more than theatre, or a rigged game at a casino where the house always wins.
Even just a cursory glance over the history of some of their recent leaders, like Obama, Biden, or Harris should be enough.
Which eastern anti-communists are you referring to?
Maybe Syngman Rhee?
Maybe Chiang Kai-shek?
Or maybe Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam?