Not really dumbing it down so much as framing in accessible language.

The industry is highly monopolized. The cheap stuff is accordingly worse and the okay stuff can set high prices.

Are you sure he really donated it? Did it not go to one of the foundations he and Gates control to push their agendas like school privatization via “charter schools”?

Edit: PS lmao

It is not possible for Warren Buffet to be a nice guy because he is a dragon hoarding wealth while people die of deprivation and injustice.

I use Happy Cow. In addition to having a vegan filter it doesn’t seem very gsmed yet.

I also check new restaurant openings at a local aggregator.

Gross

Osmand has a terrible user interface

Embrace petty bourgeouis class traitors and don’t fetishize the working class.

I’m not a liberal — I’m a leftist

That is what embarrassed liberals call themselves.

and I consider a Tankie to be someone who gets so wrapped up in hating the U.S. or West in general that they start defending the likes of Stalin and others who used a facade of Marx/Lenin to consolidate power and do horrible things. Like, you do not, under any circumstances, have to hand it to Stalin.

Not under any circumstances? What about ending The Holocaust and The Third Reich? There’s a reason Western anticommunism is inextricable from fascism.

By usage, a “tankie” is just anyone that defends an entity that a liberal wants to attack, generally in line with the Western imperialist consensus. Hell, it was defined originally by Trots to attack a decision by Kruschev, someone whose (largely fabricated) anti-Stalin statements defined much of the Western propaganda against him, likely including much of what you’re thinking of. It is very funny to see it used against Stalin. To honor the Trot tradition you should call such people (and maybe everything you don’t like) Stalinists!

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Okay bud

Bluesky was banning people en masse for doing that a couple weeks ago. I know some of the Palestinians that were banned.

And what do they say about the people getting banned for fundraising?

That’s good because last month they were banning people for doing that

Pro-Palestinian or by people who are in Palestine? Because Bluesky has beeen censoring the latter.

I viewed the public trending section and listed some of the racism there in another comment.

Where is the tankie racism?

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.

That post is not a criticism of Russian imperialism.

Are you familiar with what liberal racism looks like?

Anonymously browsing the feed I rapidly came upon these posts:

• https://bsky.app/profile/lepapillonblue.bsky.social/post/3lcbh7org5c2c - Russophobia and some other brainworms I don’t even want to get into.

• 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.

• https://bsky.app/profile/euromaidanpress.bsky.social/post/3lc7vfobvqz2e - more liberals celebrating fascists, this time Azov members.

Bluesky is known in left circles for censoring Palestinian accounts and allowing liberal Zionism.

Try criticizing liberal forms of racism and see how well it goes for you.

Try watching sometime merely being Palestinian and see how it goes for them.

Try looking into who funds and runs the platform.

Bluesky is a platform by and for the most racist liberals.

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.