Russia: Is imperialist settler-colonial regime that conquered and settled while genociding much of native siberian, kamchatka populations etc.
Dessalines: If you criticise Russia you are an imperial colonialist.
this post was submitted on 11 May 2025
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I'm from Japan. Does this mean I can say “Fuck colonists, fuck tankies!”?
Please do. And don’t forget that most “Tankie” regimes,
Russia, China etc. have large settler colonial histories, especially Russia.
The devs are the biggest problem with lemmy. Sure, there's hexbear and whatever else, but the devs need to be better than most. A sane person sees that kind of post, and they leave before they even give it a chance.
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The devs should be invisible if they want their project to succeed like a California wildfire. This hurts Lemmy's donations.
Not necessarily a bad thing. There are multiple interoperable “threadiverse” platforms already. I like Lemmy currently but I’d happily switch to an alternative, and financially support them, if like the UX and the devs are less toxic.
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Weird how they didn't ban that meme with the map showing Crimea as Ukrainian