You're I guess looking at a feed of everything there is with no anchor to the correct side of politics? Try that with ActivityPub and just ingest the entire ecosystem with no home instance or blocklist and you'll get lots of this.
I mean, it is trending/rising stuff that popped up organically. And it is all very much liberal. Run of the mill liberal racism we have all seen before, though it is often not recognized as such becauae it is not presented or reacted to as if it is.
Combine this with the censorship of Palestinians and the people who run and fund the platform and you arrive at my conclusion. If Bluesky gets critical mass it will be even worse than Twitter was before Musk bought it.
But I think you are right that the Bluesky PDS will not refuse to host you for saying things along the lines of "The US should continue to sell all kinds of weapons to Israel", whereas a lot of Mastodon instances might be expected to kick you off for expressing this stubbornly common opinion.
Well yes but my examples are a more naked form of racism beyond the ubiquitous support for imperialism - including their supported settler colonial projects - inherent to liberalism.
But I'm not sure it's quite fair to expect a public service to share exactly the correct Overton window that one has oneself.
I don't have an Overton Window. I have simply described the site as what it is.
That sort of enforcement on Bluesky is meant to be at the level of the custom moderation service/labeler, not at the data storage layer, since users more or less are meant to control that themselves.
I mean they ban accounts so regardless of what they say they are in the business of moderation and censorship.
Multiple posts by this guy, one of the many lanyard wearing faces of liberal fascism. In this case, an actual functionary for terrorist groups, including Daesh.
Given that Russia could always go scorched earth on Ukraine with heavy bombing campaigns like NATO countries do on their targets, they could have made Ukraine "fall" within days if destruction was their aim. We should all be thankful that their approach has been less brutal and barbaric than those of the EU, UK, and US.
We are now seeing small-scale examples of what was always on the table re: the Ukrainian power grid. It could have been gone literally overnight at any point in the last 2+ years.
It has been clear for some time that the RF is resigned to a slow meat grinder for Ukrainian troops, as any real negotiations were taken off the table by Ukraine's real masters in the US and Europe.
The most recent and largest exodus was people protesting their apps going away. Imagine a person for whom site moderation leading to embracing Russophobic snuff films, excusing Nazi tattoos, genocide denial re: Palestine, and general censorship of the left were not reasons to leave but "my apps and app freedoms" moved them.
So yes these are people obstinately fighting over something they just made up but it sounds right to them and matches the vibes of their parasocial bubble. They might literally die if they spoke casually and acknowledged faults.
The deep state is made entirely of state employees and civil servants, exactly. The only distinction made is that the deep state bureaucracy can run its own agendas, even against elected executive leadership. Can you think of any departments or agencies that have exhibited such behavior?
"Israeli" media is constantly censored. Haartez is being newly targeted by censors because they didn't back down on publishing basic facts about "Israeli" forces firing on concertgoers on October 7. These are not unpopular moves. A supermajority of "Israelis", for example, believe media should be censored so as to not show Palestinians in a sympathetic light.
Apartheid ethnostates could never be considered democratic, of course. Though if we think in terms of imperialism, this also indicts virtually every so-called democracy. France's control over several African countries, for example. They don't get to vote for their de facto "president" yet France controls their currency, debts, exports, etc. While not identical to apartheid, the idea of an ethnic supremacist culture ruling over people who had no explicit say in who rules is the status quo for the imperial core.
It's important to not think of Netanyahu as a singular force for evil as if he is somehow separate from "Israeli" society. His unpopularity since October 7 comes not from displeasure over genocide or any other violence done to Palestinians - when that ramps up, his ratings improve - but because the wider "Israeli" public actually wants more blood, more domination, to restore their sense of complete superiority and security.
What is "constitutional" has always been fairly arbitrary. The Supreme Court just does whatever it wants while providing some legal rationalization.
To those replying to this comment: given that the FBI checks were part of McCarthyism to go after political opponents employed by the federal government, how would you feel about having the feds show up on your doorstep to ask you about your questionable recent voting history and political activities because you are, say, a bureaucrat for the Department of Transportation?
Are you doing anything Unamerican, citizen? Do not resist. If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear, right? Hmm, says here you got an abortion a few years ago. The fatherland needs workers, why would you deprive us? And over here it says you attended a pro-terrorism (pro-Palestinian) protest. Blacklisted and flagged for monitoring. Go about your business. Enjoy minimum wage and being unemployed.
The deep state is just the bureaucracy, it spans administrations via careerists and institutions (as in just literally being important in a department). It is not inherently good or bad when decontextualized, but because the US is an empire premised on others' disposession, it tends to mean that disposession is done very effectively regardless of who might technically be in power.
Zionist propaganda coopting judaism does have an impact but this is actually aboit them having unconditional material support from the main global superpower.
That's good because last month they were banning people for doing that