I don’t mind any variation or shortage of my username.

In 2022, Robert Scheer reported that Google AdSense informed publishers, including MintPress News, that, “Due to the war in Ukraine, we will pause monetization of content that exploits, dismisses, or condones the war.” According to Scheer, these restrictions included “any pieces that question the NATO narrative on Ukraine into the content it describes”.

They questioned with the NATO narrative? How dare they! Next thing you know they are providing well-sourced information and debunking poorly sourced claims.

I am glad that your Wikipedia page quoting USAID funded media outlets is saying that Mintpress is a scam. This completely impartial news helped me wake up to my brainwashing of not blindly believing US state media.

Next time I read a MintPress article I will be sure to not check their sources to make up my own mind. But instead brand them unreliable because they question the NATO narrative. Thank you Lemmy.World user! I love the IDF and unit8200 they are awesome!

No. I do remember some usernames if they frequently take stances but will never judge them for a single comment. The userbase is small enough to know nearly everyone.

But people cannot sign in to the account while awaiting activation. This is a turnoff because people will leave and not come back when their account is activated.

A better option would be letting them sign in but only giving them comment/posting rights when their application gets approved.

No there are activation periods as well. Mods have to approve your account. You can’t just jump in and get to know the place. There are so many different barriers to entry. And this is for people not even knowing whether Lemmy is a good place to go.

Maybe a LemmyAnon “tutorial” instance to dump all the users with no verification and let them get to know Lemmy before choosing an instance?

How is a person supposed to know which instance to choose before knowing what each instance is even about? Or what an instance even is. The barrier to creating an account is too high.

If there was an account migration option it would be possible to throw users into a random instance which federates with everyone and later let them migrate with their account age and post history.

He volunteered that he wanted to kill himself by strapping an explosive to his head, setting the timer for one hour and drugging himself to sleep. He said he lacked access to any drug stronger than codeine. Available explosives were not the problem.

Blue MAGA is not a saying born lightly. These people are truly incapable of seeing their own party for the monters they are.

Feddit already permabanned me for calling the German government Nazis a few weeks ago so their precious eyes are protected from seeing this meme.

I feel like if we started a thread discussing this it would be like two AI’s hallucinating against eachother. I’m also not very interested in Herzls backstory, for the simple reason that he saw the Palestinians the same way (or even worse) as the Europeans treated the Jews.

Herzl himself also was a very rich dude from a rich family and he certainly didn’t face any of the suffering or antisemtism which other Jews faced at the time.

So my history on Eastern Europe is quite lacking and this might be completely wrong but from what I recall Russia conquered a few countries like Poland and Ukraine and suddenly they had Jews living in Russian territory. Then Russia started doing Pogroms (The word Pogrom was inventen in Russia). Knowing that, I would assume that German Jews at that time would not be very warm to Russian conquest but I really don’t have enough historical knowledge on the subject.

I swear every time I read some commie stuff I get halfway and it starts referencing other stuff which I click and then I get halfway and then it references something else and suddenly I’m reading critiques from 1800

Yes. Every person has to believe in it to accept the notion of good and evil.

Pretty sure Russia was Pogrom king and they wanted to get rid of the Jews too.

Sure, so I’m completely unfamiliar with the whole Commune structure and am wondering how wealth would be acquired and distributed. Are people rewarded for their labor and how does ownership work?

Sure but how can Communism prevent someone from trying to acquire more wealth than they need?

Greed is boundless for some. If anything Capitalism is the perfect example of this. I don’t see how having enough will fix it for them.

When I look at the open-source community the way altruistic projects reach sustainable success is with a beneficial dictator which is authoritarian but has correct intentions.

Okay but how does it solve this im14andthisisdeep Facebook meme?

At the moment of voting there was only one choice which had been complicit in genocide up to that point.

So if everyone gets rich we have Communism?

Also I read some of your other link as well, but it went into tangents about elite friend groups and while it was interesting I felt like watching one of those 2 hour videos about speedrunning where you get a huge infodump but are not sure what to take away from it.