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  • "The Chinese government bans all new investment in Israel"

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  • Better in every metric? Try being Chinese and criticizing the government online, and see what happens to you. That’s a pretty scary metric.

    Metrics are unquantifiable things that if you did manage to quantify would make China look far better than the US.

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  • 90% of Dems stop compromising right before they win big

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    Freedom Road Socialist Organization - Novo General Megathread for the 30th of January to 6th of February 2026

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  • you know shit is fucked when inappropriately sniffing children only puts you in the 25th percentile of gross perverts in positions of power

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    Freedom Road Socialist Organization - Novo General Megathread for the 30th of January to 6th of February 2026

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  • wakeup honey, authoritarianism 2 just dropped

  • Hey chat is PSL's website legit?

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  • Cops can get this in a single geofence to wherever the meetings are held. But Palantir or Google probably already serve this info up on a silver platter for feds.

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    Should liberal governments suppress democratic freedoms to prevent tankie governments from taking power?

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  • That's exactly what this is...justifying their lack of control to themselves by grounding it in a cause they perceive as just.

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    Freedom Road Socialist Organization - Novo General Megathread for the 30th of January to 6th of February 2026

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  • In the primaries? Why?

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    Freedom Road Socialist Organization - Novo General Megathread for the 30th of January to 6th of February 2026

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  • Nightmare shit.

    And he's serving up asscrack 3/5 days a work week.

    What does this mean?

  • Under Pressure From Trump, Venezuela's Leader Signs Bill Opening Oil Industry to Privatization | Common Dreams

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  • reactionary af

  • SLRPNK admins discuss the hexbear smear campaign against piefed

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  • I only understand how to write Python

  • SLRPNK admins discuss the hexbear smear campaign against piefed

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  • time to make accounts on tons of piefed servers

  • -1 Fedi Social Credit

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  • There is, quite literally, zero direct evidence of what I posited. Evidence exists, sure, but only by understanding the context around the behavior patterns of the devs and the swarm of very dedicated Piefed missionairies. There is no smoking gun of them directly saying that the primary purpose of their software is to degrade the commons in order to deny "tankies" a space where they can talk mostly amongst themselves, nor will there likely ever be.

    Given radlibism and anti-tankie hysteria is universally socially rewarded for aiding the empire in isolating and crushing its enemies, don't let them dictate the terms of engagement by framing of discussion in terms of whether tankies are "evil red fash" or not. Any dissenting opinion you express thereafter will be dismissed as "authoritarian apologist" and trigger bystanders' cognitive dissonance by making this a repeat of every insufferable "tankie vs. anti-authoritarian" debate. You cannot convince the rabid cold warriors that their tragedy of the commons / EEE behavior is politically detrimental to the entire left during a period of rapidly encroaching fascism because they hate us more than fascists, and yearn for our destruction. Us being hunted down like dogs would be preferable to us having our own sovereign, but isolated platform broadly deferated from liberal instances.

    Call into question their trustworthiness, their intentions, their development practices, their ability to play well with others, and specific objectionable lines of code.

    Be level-headed, objective, and non-ideological in your critiques. That way, when they inevitably derail discussion with their political screeds, they (rightfully) seem like a weirdo, and you have shown yourself to be the reasonable party.

    Ask them why they should be trusted to be good stewards of their power over the ecosystem, especially given how many lines of code are simply baking in moderation of whatever pattern the main dev finds annoying. The devs are actively attempting to use their position as a platform developer to impose their whims over discussion at large...exactly their rationale why tankies shouldn't be trusted with developing the fediverse! Channel their fearmongering into seemingly apolitical scrutiny into their existing behavior.

    IMO the best way to counter the shilling is by criticizing the project on technical grounds.

    Piefed is a sloppy, poorly thought out pile of staples and hot glue haphazardly developed in pursuit of a bulleted list of (poorly implemented) features that they can cite when trying to one-up Lemmy.

    Most of their actual "features" are implementing some frontend enhancement, often as an API change incompatible with the broader fediverse. They are making their software less compatible, adding technical debt for one-off features, and putting in virtually no effort to implement things in a responsible, future-cognizant way.

    Given they reimplemented a Rust backend in Python, just to facilitate

    If architecture for their own project is an afterthought:

    • why would you want to give them more sway over the trajectory of the entire ecosystem?
    • why would you want to administer a server with little consideration for standards, compatibility, and API stability?
    • why would you want to worry about integrating your project with a backend that doesn't bother adhering to community developed FEPs?
    • why would you want to join a server that is less interoperable with other server types than others? is it worth not having the entire context not render properly on other platforms?

    Without getting into ideological grounds, this is enough to turn off software devs, sysadmins, self hosters, and end users...as well as those of neighboring projects. Enough to make even their fellow ideologues more apprehensive to choose PF over Lemmy.

    Anyone who has any interest in proper software engineering, code quality, or long term maintenance would find Piefed's development to be appauling. If these people knew the piss poor quality of the dev team's practices, they would be self-motivated to counter the 24/7 shilling by the Piefed devs and its stans. There will be no shortage of opportunities to point these things out.

  • I have trouble seeing Trotskyism as a real ideology

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  • Yes, but they want Trots to exist because they make us waste our time having to have discussions like this, rather than moving forward with organizational, theoretical, or operational endeavors.

    Arguing what makes us different from Trots isn't exactly what they want, since they will tend to want similar things. They want Trotskyism to serve as an off ramp for communist thought leading to support of AES states.

    By giving an avenue where people on a radicalization path don't have to refute the piles of rhetorical trash thrown at MLs who support AES, they neutralize threats to capital by getting them to support an ideology that cannot achieve their stated goals.

  • I have trouble seeing Trotskyism as a real ideology

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  • Trots are simply people who would be MLs but cannot get past the knowledge boundary required to confidently refute the claims that exist due to a century of propaganda pushed to tarnish the reputation of AES states.

    It is the path of least resistance if you want communism, but also think there needs to be a state to protect a budding socialist project. This is common sense when you have anything better than a child's understanding of geopolitics. However, to embrace normal MLism and AES, you have to refute such a massive volume of falsehoods and thought terminating clichés that you subconsciously avoid putting in the daunting work needed to debunk them and instead choose to denounce the actual projects and leaders as removed or revisionist.

    If the average Trot was well informed enough to lay out their disagreements with MLs, they wouldn't have become a Trot in the first place. Trots are simply cowardly MLs. They fear having to defend their positions from liberals and they fear having to commit to educating themselves.

  • 1993: Removed 'communists' from Niemoller's poem. 2026: Only the Jews are now considered the victims of holocaust.

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  • Nobody is doing as good a job of popularizing antisemitism as the turbo zionist orgs.

    Prior to the 2023 escalation of the genocide in Gaza, anti-semitism was pretty fringe, even amongst right wingers. Now, those same right wingers, having witnessed any semblance of opposition to the Israeli project or solidarity with Palestinians get scrubbed from the internet, believe that Jews do in fact control the media and run the world.

    The same dorks that spent years crying about "cancel culture" over even bigger losers getting fired cannot muster up the same assessment of the situation because that would entail siding with the same leftists they've spent their whole lives fostering a hate boner for.

    The amount of casual antisemitism I hear now is astronomical and would have been unthinkable a few years ago. This is thanks to the extremely overzealous Zionist orgs wielding their power over even the smallest detraction from their genocidal project. Shit like this post.

  • -1 Fedi Social Credit

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  • The UI is separate from the backend regardless. You can swap out Lemmy's frontend with like a dozen others.

    Most of Piefed's features could have been implemented with an alternate frontend for Lemmy, but they don't do that because the real primary goal of the project is to coopt and destroy the only corner of the internet where communists have any sense of sovereignty.

    Obviously not stated out loud, but I wager the intention is to mirror the Lemmy API closely at first while flooding Lemmy with rabid, astroturfed anti-communist propaganda, convince enough users to migrate to Piefed, then start to introduce API incompatibilities so that interop doesn't work as well for Lemmy users.

    I wouldn't be surprised if the project originated as an op in response to a libre, communist led social network appearing.

  • Days since the dems caved: zero. The GOP pinky sweared that ICE/CBP might have "guardrails".

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  • Dems are going to push Republicans into implementing a final solution with their million asterisk compromises

  • A glimpse into the life of the man who attacked Ilhan Omar.

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  • average republican

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    I'm a bisexual apologist

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  • BeanDSM

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    Beware of Tankies — a warning for all feds and unbewitting assets

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