What does it express?

The AI one looks neat, but it lacks expression.

Now that she’s over here, she tells outlandish stories about America to overly credulous libs, such as the time she was robbed and beaten by a black woman in Chicago, and then everyone gathered around her and called her “racist nazi” for calling the police.

It’s Yeonmi Park, who fled North Korea and now makes money telling outlandish stories to overly credulous libs.

Such as that North Koreans have to pull trains from town to town, and that she saw children eating rats and rats eating children.

Is a free pdf available?

Kamala Harris running a damn near flawless campaign, with just a month 1/2 of campaigning.

There’s a few major flaws:

Trying to out-flank republicans on the right with immigration and crime; instead of counter-messaging that republican claims of migrant crime are false and migrants commit less crime than average, and crime as a whole is declining, her campaign promotes how tough she is on crime. This is essentially campaigning for the republicans. The people who are terrified of immigrants and criminals are voting republican.

Trying to out-flank republicans on the right in foreign policy. Harris can promise rivers of Muslim, North Korean, and Russian blood, and the people who want that will still vote republican. Talking about how lethal the US military will be and how hostile the US will be to other countries decreases turnout. War is not popular. Trump’s campaign is already hitting Harris on supporting the genocide in Palestine.

Joe Biden dosent use drones anymore

Huh. Wonder what that US reaper drone was doing over Yemen.

it’s actively hiding an instance as if it doesn’t exist

For the purpose of directing new users, who tend to just pick the largest instance, sure. But if you and they are both federated, there’s no difference in the content.

So what do they do when the next instance gets “too big” for their liking? Hide it, along side LW? And the next?

Correct, because this increases the reliability of the average lemmy user’s experience as one point of failure affects fewer users.

alienating 41% of their active user base

Why would distributing users to smaller instances alienate Lemmy.world users?

If anything, distributing the load results in a better user experience, since the last Reddit exodus was taking down .world every few hours.

Someone that actually cares about left-wing politics cares a lot more about the outcomes

Yes, that’s why I recommended The Jakarta Method, it details exactly what the outcome looks like when the left doesn’t repress the right and instead lets the sabotage and organize. It’s really an important book because you can see echos of the methods in South Korea under the dictatorship, Taiwan during the white terror, Pinochet’s Chile, Uruguay even before the '73 coup, etc.

they proved they were no better than the capitalists they despise so much.

If you believe this, you do not know the scale and details of capitalist repression.

utopia

Literally no Marxist would call any AES project Utopian, except as a pejorative.

Here’s a pamphlet differentiating Utopian and Scientific Socialism It’s not an easy read due to being from 1880.

The OP meme is mocking the Taliban for their lack of money. The Taliban don’t have money because the US stole the Afghan government’s funds and imposed sanctions.

The result of this has been the worst famine in the world during the period between shortly after the withdrawal and shortly after Oct 7. OP believes that this is liberating for afghan women because they think the Taliban need money to oppress women or something.

Anyone in Guantanamo is not a credible source when it comes to things the US wants to believe. See WMDs in Iraq.

why would they leave their homeland secretly?

What do you mean secretly? Chinese people don’t have to sneak out of China.

I can’t recommend any books on development of terrorism in Xinjiang if you want to know more, maybe ask in /c/History.

Before the Americans left, the Afghan people lived in terror of the Taliban, Kabul and its warlords, and the Americans.

Today they live in terror of just the Taliban (OK, the Taliban and starvation).

the end doesn’t justify the means

Suppression of the right was necessary, however the relative freedom given to locals to carry it out resulted in people using it to settle old scores or non-ideological people to advance politically within the party. While dekulization enabled them, those actions were orthogonal (and actually hindered) the aims of dekulization.

Whether that can be considered justification or apologia isn’t constructive IMO. Personally though, I just consider it an error in the way it was carried out.

Similar issues (and resulting sentiments) are observed in the wake of Mao giving villages the freedom to set up their own courts and try landlords and others.

It’s […] vital to denounce them if you consider yourself a leftist.

We had that struggle back when Kruschev sent the tanks into Hungary and every western leftist org was falling over each other to denounce the USSR. Meanwhile nazis were being put in charge of police forces in South America to do crimes against humanity against indigenous and communist elements and hundreds of thousands were being massacred in South Korea.

Turns out the tankies were right. Denouncing the enemies of the state you live in just serves to carry water for imperialism.

Nobody is advocating power abuse. One of the books I try to get people to read, Life and Terror in Stalin’s Russia contextualizes the scale of and how such abuses occurred in a much more useful criticism than “communism bad Stalin evil, that’s why you can’t ever do anything about rightists organizing against the state”.

A good accompaniment to illustrate what it looks like and what the consequences are when the left fails to take appropriate action once in power is The Jakarta Method

The vital context is wielding state power against internal threats. Which literally every state must do to continue to exist. It’s not whataboutism to point out that the state you currently live in is currently doing far worse, for far worse reasons in a context where your criticism can only be used for anticommunism.

Would you say it’s constructive for an Israeli to be critical of gay rights in Palestine? Of course not, because divorced of context, it only carries water for imperialism

You don’t get to call directing state power against the petite bourgeoisie a brutal police regime when your government is supporting the most brutal dictatorships in Africa, whose violence is directed at the working class.

And then what happened?

People nominated instances here and when/if people had concerns, there’d be a megathread discussing/voting on defederation.

Q: Why did hexbear brigade the fediverse? A: Certainly for the lulz. /s

What?

That wouldn’t be thematically consistent with their years of telling others what they’d like to hear for their entertainment.

What?

There was never formal consensus in that leadership repeatedly denied the vote, favoring a granular, instance-by-instance approach.

Here’s the vote that approved the granular instance-by-instance approach

An organized, grassroots movement that employed questionable means to force the wisest decision upon leadership and everyone else.

Are you describing the consensus building and struggle sessions as “forcing the wisest decision on everyone”?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Zenz

Most of the claims of genocide originate with him just making shit up. It’s bizarre how many news articles either cite him directly or various groups that he’s headed.

Internally reach consensus to segregate themselves, then brigade the fediverse whole with content that allowed the majority to believe it was their choice.

Hexbear was the only lemmy for 4 years, over that time their code base diverged, it took a few months to make federation possible again. There was never a consensus on whether HB should be segregated, a lot of users opposed federation over concerns about harassment or just valuing one of the few leftist communities. The end result was slow federation, with users suggesting specific instances to federate with, and instances getting defederated if the admins failed to take adequate action against transphobes/chasers.

hexbear community is well aware that the majority is better off not yet knowing what they believe

Half this thread is hexbears and others telling people exactly what they believe about random topics. If you doubt that, Hexbear has 4 years of history and a search function. You can even find the struggle sessions where they came to the conclusions I mentioned previously.

Many expected such actions as it was an obvious moral and ethical imperative that lacked internal leadership support.

What are you talking about?