The fediverse has a very high percentage of users who are FOSS zealots. These people would rather drink rancid gnu piss from Richard Stallman's sweaty jock strap than deal with commercialized software. After you've been around them long enough (1996 in my case) you learn to tune them out.
The "Blue Wins" District Map is objectively worse than the "Red Wins" Distract Map as it has no politically opposed Districts, effectively silencing 40% of the Precincts. The "Red Wins" Distract Map is certainly skewed but is superior because it doesn't silence its opposition.
In short what that picture is calling "Good" represents the same dissent silencing behavior that people are rightly mad at Conservatives about. "Fair Representation", as presented in the article, looks a lot more like "Red Wins" and almost nothing like "Blue Wins".
For one, Hexbear made it perfectly clear they expect their users to abide by the rules of the instances they visit and not cause trouble.
The users at Hexbear made it perfectly clear in the discussions about federation that they weren't going to respect that request and were openly encouraging each other to brigade other instances. They seem to have quite a number of participants who were really looking forward to being able to "bully the libs" and a quick scan showed several comments about sending offensive DMs to users of other instances. I was also able to find multiple HB users who openly admitted to already being banned multiple times from beehaw for trollish community breaking behavior.
The idea that BH users would have been well behaved is wishful thinking as they've already shown the Fediverse how they behave. Their instance Admins and Users are also not shy with how they are approaching Federation. They very specifically want the freedom to participate in other instances without those instances being able to engage them. Put together they want the freedom to "own the libs" all across the Fediverse without having those same libs show up in their carefully crafted safe space. They want to eat their cake and have it too.
To be clear I don't agree with how Lemmy.World handled the blocking of Hexbear. I would strongly have preferred community engagement on the issue prior to the block but looking at the Troll Army being formed at HB I can't necessarily fault the admins of LW either. Dealing with ideologically motivated extremists is a lot of work that no one wants to do.
Prescribing, manufacturing, sale, and use. The Government is watching and analyzing literally every link in the chain from the drug precursors to the patient.
Maybe, but my doctor and pharmacy both blame the DEA meddling for all the difficulties.
Sure, because that's what they can see and what is relevant to them. They have no insight into the manufacturers allotment of production, what that production schedule is, or how much of their production allotment they've already used. What you're seeing in this article is "behind the scenes" look at just how deeply the US Government is involved in Healthcare.
Quite a large number of Republicans, including Trump himself, spend decades trying to ram Yucca mountain through. It faced heavy resistance from both the Clinton and Obama Administrations, the State of Nevada, and myriad of environmental organizations. Trying to blame it on "Conservatives" is pretty ridiculous.
As for what France does, as I mentioned, the US has not developed or built that tech because there is ultimately no profit in it and the US is unwilling to spend tax money on it.
First Ford, then Carter stopped commercial re-processing in the United States. Reagan brought it back. G. H. W. Bush then put the brakes on it but stopped short of an outright ban. Clinton stepped on the brakes even harder but again stopped shy of a full ban and when Bush Jr came into office he started a slow process of bringing it back. That's as far as this CRS Report goes although there may be an updated one somewhere out there.
Still, the US has spent money on it and was doing so at least as recently as 2008. It appears the biggest worry we have is proliferation of nuclear material, not profit or cost.
Which is the rule of lemmy.world that protects NATO as a bastion of Western European freedom?
There isn't one and there's plenty of anti-NATO / anti-western / anti-capitalist sentiment here on lemmy.world.
Are political discussions beyond centrism banned on lemmy.world?
Obviously not, we're still federated with lemmygrad and lemmy.ml.
Feel free to do what you feel is best for yourself but I think this situation with hexbear is being blown way out of proportion, mostly by people who seem to have a vested interest in that instance being able to participate here but not the other way around.
why should people be prevented from questioning it?
They aren't and they aren't even being prevented from doing it on this very instance. There's pleny of anti-western and anti-capitalist sentiment in here, particularly from lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml. My take away on this is that the Admins are defederating from hexbear due to their stated plan to propagandize the shit out of every instance in the fediverse. Who wants to deal with a coordinated army of tankies coming from another instance?
Lemmy dot world’s decision is disappointing because they seemed open and neutral politically.
Bah. There's plenty of users in here from Lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.ml, and other leftists instances. It's quite clear that the lemmy.world is pretty darn open ideologically. Hexbear is getting ban hammered because they've made it very clear that they aim to misbehave.
Absolutely mindblowing that this instance ever pretended it was going to play nicely with socialists.
There's folks from lemmygrad.ml and lemmy.ml all over in here which is empirical proof that lemmy.world will "play nice" with Socialists. They'll even play nice with Communists. What they're objecting too is the Tankie Army assembling over at hexbear and their stated intention of propagandizing every instance in the fediverse.
If you don't like it that's cool. Spin up an account on another instance and go on with your day. This isn't your instance and no one here owes you anything.
The brave Comrades at lemmygrad.ml are blocking about as many instances as lemmy.world and lemmy.ml itself isn't much different.
So apparently it's just fine for Left based instances to de-federate from others but it's a real problem when people de-federate from them? Explain that shit to me.
That's more spin than a washing machine! I'd say they're defederating as they don't want to battle an Army of Tankies all day every day because it's exhausting. It's like trying to handle the zealot Trumpers / MAGAts. They show up literally everywhere, argue using nonsense and bullshit, and won't stop until they are banned or get bored.
If it was truly because of "opinions you disagree with" then it would have already happened to lemmy.ml.
lmao you can absolutely be against NATO and not be hollering and hooting for Russia.
Sure, I don't think anyone is really arguing against that. However when you're against NATO right now when most, if not all, of its members are currently helping Ukraine against Russia and you are coming from an over-the-top Communist instance like hexbear it looks like nothing more than Tankies being Tankies.
He should have listened when Liz Cheney, and more importantly her father, said he wouldn't be allowed near the Presidency again.