Every Country That Has Their Own Lemmy Instance
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The is a Greek sub, with a few news posts daily, but noone is really commenting yet.
I had left the Greek sub on Reddit a few years back because the mods were assholes, so I don't really miss a Greek sub to be honest.
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Are we talking "nations that have an official Lemmy instance" or "nations in which some private citizen or resident just happens to host a Lemmy instance?"
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Mentioning the French troops was a bit offtopic. But my point stands. Mali is a semi-failed state that seems to have exchanged one set of foreign lords for another, much worse, set.
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Wow, not sure if you did something or it was there all along... But I used to search for it by language. And the language is not there anymore
But seriously, thank you.
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Given how the French acts in its colonies... There isn't a worse set. You either truly have no understanding of how evil the French have been in their colonies right up to modern day, or are under the assumption the oppressed aren't smart enough to make their own decisions, which would make you racist.
You don't get to decide what the colonized do after shaking off oppression. And it's no surprise they stop cooperating with western society given how absolutely evil it is in their eyes. To you Russia is this evil imperial power. To an actual foreign colony of an evil imperial power, it is less evil than their previous owners, if only because it's not their previous owners.
Maybe that ends poorly, maybe not, but when you've been oppressing people for decades they get to a point where killing themselves is better than continuing to do anything that doesn't actively harm you.
You know those 'woke' people that always go on about the colonizer mindset? They're talking about you.
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Don't bother, he's a pro-china anti-western shill, his comment history is a mess
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Firstly, the French troops were invited by Mali's government to help it put down its jihadist insurgents. The Russian ones were invited, in turn, for the same reason, after a media-propaganda campaign by Russia that played on historic animosity dating from the colonial period. A propaganda campaign filled with angry rhetoric and sounding much like your rant.
Meanwhile, Mali is still a semi-failed state with a jihadi problem which was caused by neither France nor Russia. And on top of that it now has brutal boorish Russian mercenaries instead of generally well-behaved French regular soldiers. Mali got a terrible deal and it was their own fault.
You know why I'm not embarrassed to say that? Precisely because I'm not a colonialist. I believe that Mali is not a child, it's an adult. It has agency, it's not a colony of anyone, it's a sovereign country that can make choices for itself. If anyone's views here are colonialist, it's yours.
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Lemmy.world
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Oh, I thought their server was located in a different country. It's a bad idea to have a server in a location that the US government has authority over.
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Not sure if I missed a joke or not. But no, Norway is far from crowded.
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Lemmy.world is hosted in the Netherlands, if I'm not mistaken.
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True, but it still gives the Malian government an ultimate authority over the domain, which just seems completely dumb to me. The also-semi-failed Libya has ultimate authority over
lydomains (like bit.ly) and has actually used its power to shut down domains for being against Libyan law. Domain hacks are not just ugly, they're dumb. -
That's what I thought. I don't know if any big ones are hosted in the US.
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Which one is the Greek community?
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Since there is no realistic way to accurately and objectively determine what is or is not propaganda
Can you realistically accurately and objectively determine that the source of the claim was a tankie?
So it makes more sense to make wild claims about the person behind the message than it does to classify a piece of information based off of its linguistic characteristics?
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Feddit.ro exists
Its barely used though
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Dictatorship of the proletariat, sure. But not for long IMO.
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how you recognize propaganda is that everything is propaganda. your comment, this comment, the original article, the concept that russia remains communist, it's all propaganda. the key isn't learning to recognize propaganda, it's learning to analyze the biases of who's presenting the propaganda.
here, i'll tell you my biases. i'm an anarcho communist located in the united states. there. now that you have that intel, you can start to assess what kinds of propaganda you'd expect to see from me. more, when i don't put out the kinds of propaganda i promote, you can question the following:
- do i have a blindspot? are my politics and my propaganda out of alignment because there's something that's been normalized to me that you should point out in the hopes i'm capable of growth (that's what i did when i said russia remaining communist simply isn't true)
- am i misrepresenting myself or my propaganda? maybe i'm just saying i'm something i'm not to get my propaganda to people who are susceptible to not knowing my misinformation is misinformation, and then they'll be shifted. or, is my propaganda lie meant to draw people to my misinformation stream. in this case, it's best to disengage. block+report+ostricize+move on. this is what i would have done if i thought you were a tankie
- do you have a blindspot? are my politics and my propaganda out of alignment because you, the recipient, are missing some piece of the puzzle. do you need to look into the validity of my claims to find out if you need to learn and grow and change? the equivalent to this would be if i found your message and your politics compelling enough to change my views
the kinds of classes we receive on how propaganda works in elementary and high school are meant to get us to rigidly stick to the status quo that benefits the authoritarian rulers of society. they are, themselves, propaganda. in fact, this notion you have that we can talk about propaganda without context i actually find a little bit dangerous. by stripping context and discussion of origins of propaganda, we actually create the exact form of non critical environment that benefits the misinformation peddlar.
then again, you don't have to find my perspective compelling. that's why i told you up front what it was, as well as what my propaganda is.
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midwest.social is sorta the defacto US-specific instance despite the name pointing to a specific region.
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Ah, that makes sense from the name.
