Russia is communist
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I have a different answer than blakeus12
the two factors are
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An ambient sense of how unreceptive the instance is toward us. If the distribution of responses we get is skewed too far toward "I don't give a fuck what you have to say, I'm not reading that, fuck you you disgusting tankie," that's a reason to not federate. And I mean... I'll be the first one to admit hexbears can be annoying and too eager to dunk on people, but on the flip side I also think our views are often misrepresented and demonized, and it's frustrating when people won't even bother to understand what we actually think or why.
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If any of our users feel harrassed or unsafe, even if the culprits are a small minority of the instance, we are liable to defederate. And this shouldn't be taken personally! We all know lemmy still has limited mod tools. But we prioritize each other over federation, we're a close-knit community who have been together for years.
when a majority white community mocks a chinese man by comparing his appearance to a yellow bear, it's a little weird
After you fight and win a revolution, how do you protect your new state from being crushed or invaded? Look what happened to Allende, Lumumba, Aidit, Árbenz, etc.
- 70% of Americans want singlepayer healthcare
- 90% want universal background checks for firearm purchases
- 75% want Citizen's United repealed
and yet these and other popular policies remain politically impossible
Study: Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens:
From the abstract:
Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.
further down:
In the United States, our findings indicate, the majority does not rule — at least not in the causal sense of actually determining policy outcomes. When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites and/or with organized interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the U.S. political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favor policy change, they generally do not get it.
What is it, like, 70% of Americans want single payer healthcare?
You ever notice how America seems unable to meaningfully damage China's economy?
This is because China's economy is integral to everyone else's. You can't really hurt China without hurting yourself. Their annual trade volume is in the trillions of dollars.
China paid a price for this leverage. The price was allowing capitalists to operate within China. That is how you do business with the rest of the capitalist world.
before you praise America or Europe, remember where that wealth comes from
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095937802200005X