So what was Hunter doing in 2014?

From the title alone, that is lovely. It suggests that no major, general toxins contaminate the area.

The Biden admin + Canadian targetinh of Samidoun and the domestic forces have been increased throughout the admin via direct funding of cops and supplying with military equipment along with fighting to keep and expand Trump-era national guard deployments using the insurrection act.

The Biden admin is already going after Palestinian solidarity orgs and ramping up powers to use the military domestically.

Biden issued a blanket pardon starting in 2014. What was Hunter Biden doing in 2014 and how does this reflect on the idea of him simply passively getting “caught up” in something?

Biden is sharpening the knife that will be used against every other family while saving his crackhead failson.

Rules-based international order

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

Whomst among us hasn’t been given cushy jobs we aren’t qualified for in corrupt Ukrainian companies by our dad and then done a bunch of blow with prostitutes and tax fraud and illegally owned guns!? Clearly this is a witch hunt.

Sounds like some classic whataboutism. What time is it in Moscow, comrade!?

he was pretty good

he did some genocide but that is normal

You should do some self-criticism ASAP before you get correctly called a racist fascist.

If you think your political role is to uncritically support whoever is chosen for you by the Democratic party, you are simply throwing away your political power. Worse, you are indicating that their strategy of shaming you into compliance works and they never have to provide you with any political program that aligns with your positions.

Instead of doing what the party tells you, think for yourself and work to build actual power for the people around you, not the capitalists picking your pocket.

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.