I had a friend in college who I was briefly interested in, she was nice but I found her to be way too conservative for me to really feel comfortable with so in hindsight I'm glad she ended up dating ( and dumping) one of my other friends instead.
They can call Obama a piece of shit as far as I’m concerned.
The issue is the application of a thinly veiled racist caricature though. Call Xi a dictator, piece of shit, whatever, but evidence it and don't rely on racist tropes and I doubt you will catch a ban for it.
I'm aware of where the meme came from, personally I think it's bad taste to be yapping about uyghurs in a thread about the Gaza genocide.
If people were gleefully calling Obama "Tigger" after that, and constantly doing that instead of having a real argument or something to say I think that would start resulting in bans for racism too.
the Winnie the Pooh comments are racist though, it's not hard to have substantive critiques of China without constantly falling back on trying to equate the president with a yellow cartoon animal (or in your case, calling a moderator that). We don't have to get into it, but they almost always hand out temp bans for that. For example yours is already expired.
From my experience as an anarchist user who ended up volunteering to moderate in these spaces, most of the censorship happens when people are either being racist or aggro/sealioning. While users definitely tend to be more positive when it comes to China in places like hexbear than in more heavily pro-west spaces they are still critical of its shortcomings.
Here's a thread criticizing Russia for being a cringe misogynist capitalist oligarchy and lamenting that the progress for women's rights and LGBT rights that happened under communism wasn't preserved. Again it's a positive orientation because they are opposed to the west but also one of deep disappointment in their failures on social issues.
To me at least this type of commentary is a valuable perspective and is also stuff which often gets filtered entirely under the more advertiser-friendly moderation styles.
At the end of the day I value being able to at least hear dissent, I'm surrounded by the mainstream narrative in my daily life already anyways.
Lemmy is my only social media interaction these days, the content has improved, and the communities feel more distinct than they did a year ago. That could just be me getting up to speed though.
It was a nice surprise finding out that the left wing instances on here are actually pretty chill, way more so than on Reddit these days.
To me it's fascinating seeing people in the US try to act like 'democracy' is their highest value when the US and liberal manifestations of 'democracy' are often manifestly antidemocratic. I can see a line of argument from an anarchist angle about the lack of total consensus and tyranny of the majority, but in practice some of the most oppressed groups in China are going to be newly wealthy businesses owners who are unable to translate their wealth into political power -something which would be ultimately antidemocratic, but normal under liberal 'democracy'.
I know it's very difficult but try making an argument that isn't just insulting the other person lmao
How involved do you actually think we are in this conflict??? This comment makes me think I’ve been talking to teenagers tbh. We have 100 troops in that region and that started about a month ago.
I don't own one, but the previous (non wheeled ones) have been around for a while, they're on Amazon with mixed reviews, people on Reddit seem to have been using them too.
This list price for this bigger more performant one seems pretty high though at $100k
Part of the problem is that Democrats made it extremely clear that not doing the genocide was off the table, so the choice is genocide on this timeline and genocide on a slightly faster one. I'm still not clear how Trump could speed this up, short of getting more branches of the US military involved directly in the process, American troops getting the🔻 treatment is probably what it's going to take for Americans to lose their bloodlust.
Either way, that's no choice to be made and plenty of people resented the Democrats for acting like they're opposed to this sort of thing while directly participating in the worst crime of this century so far.
Democrats also demonstrated themselves to be prolific liars (maybe not on par with trump, but close) when it came out that they had been pretending Biden had still been functioning for years, do you think that makes people trust you?
I had a friend in college who I was briefly interested in, she was nice but I found her to be way too conservative for me to really feel comfortable with so in hindsight I'm glad she ended up dating ( and dumping) one of my other friends instead.