literally a fiction book

Literally a 100% history book. 2000 pages of specific details. And literally nobody in the Soviet government ever claimed any of it was not 100% correct.

That first link is pure cold warrior nonsense

Lenin and Stalin did more harm to socialism than any other people in the entire history of mankind. You are a 20th century fossil. Soviet genocide are well documented facts. Here you go…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_mortality_in_the_Soviet_Union_under_Joseph_Stalin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0967067X97000111

https://www.chinafile.com/library/nyrb-china-archive/who-killed-more-hitler-stalin-or-mao

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2010/09/naimark-stalin-genocide-092310

https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/ezpp8k/how_many_people_did_stalin_actually_kill/

https://allthatsinteresting.com/how-many-people-did-stalin-kill

https://www.britannica.com/place/Soviet-Union/The-U-S-S-R-from-the-death-of-Lenin-to-the-death-of-Stalin

I’m not the one pushing GOP or FSB propaganda here.

The point is that the GOP promised “smaller government” and delivered a big government proliferation of victimless crimes. Where do you think they got that con job propaganda from? Lenin did exactly the same thing but on an even bigger scale.

You mean the French and Russians didn’t have slavery before their revolutions. But the Bolsheviks killed millions. And they established slave labor camps for decades.

[Soviet Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1917]

https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE4.HTM

And in the French revolution, just a handful of people caused thousands of executions.

https://www.worldhistory.org/Reign_of_Terror/

[This led to the enactment of the Law of Suspects, which allowed for the arrests of between 300,000 and half a million citizens nationwide. 16,594 of these ‘suspects’ were formally executed after a trial, while around 10,000 died in prison, and thousands more were killed in various massacres staged across France. It is estimated that the total death toll during the ten-month Reign of Terror rests anywhere between 30-50,000.]

Did you really think I couldn’t back up my statement with facts? How is the Reign of Terror in France and the mass genocide in the USSR in any way “equivalent” to the American and Haitian revolutions?

They were established 4+ years ago just to cause the dnc to lose an election in 2024?

The DNC did not lose. We are the losers. You and me will feel the impact way more than well to do politicians.

However, every revolution, Russian, French, Haitian, United States, etc. used violence and murder to achieve its goal.

This is a ridiculous false equivalence.

Leninism is called that because it literally isn’t communism. Otherwise they’d just call it communism.

They actually do just call it Communism. Few people call it Leninism.

Communism is stateless

This is propaganda comparable to the GOP wanting “smaller government” rather than authoritarian Fascism.

I know plenty of genuinely amazing coders who have no idea how an operating system

Such a person cannot be an “amazing coder”.

A huge barrier for some is picking the instance and figuring which community they should follow.

Figuring out which communities on which servers to subscribe to is way more important than figuring out which server to post from.

I literally had never even heard of Misskey and Peertube lol. I have a hard time thinking too mostly unknowns are bigger than Lemmy.

I personally have seen much worse overmoderation than undermoderation.

Curious, coming from a LW account

Why are you curious. On a decentralized platform, It matters where you post TO, not where you post FROM. Anybody can easily switch to posting from another platform.

We need large “sibling” instances rather than monoliths like .world, which is to say nothing of the politics of the instance.

Absolutely 1000%

This also highlights the destructiveness of toxic moderation. There is plenty of it here too

I can’t believe that lemmy mods/admins still think they have the luxury of making bone headed moves in a decentralized network. I am determined to get around this and it is the entire reason I am on a decentralized system. We vote with our feet and in the long term it will all work out. I am looking for suggestions for a politics group that is not lemmy.world and not lemmy.ml.