Which eastern anti-communists are you referring to?

Maybe Syngman Rhee?

• The U.S. installed Syngman Rhee,a conservative Korean exile, as President of South Korea in 1948. Rhee became a dictator on an anti-communist crusade, arresting and torturing suspected communists, brutally putting down rebellions, killing 100,000 people and vowing to take over North Korea. Rhee precipitated the outbreak of the Korean War and for the allied decision to invade North Korea once South Korea had been recaptured. He was finally forced to resign by mass student protests in 1960.1

Maybe Chiang Kai-shek?

• In 1949 during the resumed Chinese Civil War, the US supported the corrupt Kuomintang dictatorship of Chiang Kaishek to fight against the Chinese Communists, who had won the support of the vast majority of peasant-farmers and helped defeat the Japanese invasion. The US strongly supported the Kuomintang forces. Over 50,000 US Marines were sent to guard strategic sites, and 100,000 US troops were sent to Shandong. The US equipped and trained over 500,000 KMT troops, and transported KMT forces to occupy newly liberated zones as well as to contain Communist-controlled areas.51 American aid included substantial amounts of both new and surplus military supplies; additionally, loans worth hundreds of millions of dollars were made to the KMT.59 Within less than two years after the Sino-Japanese War, the KMT had received $4.43 billion from the US—most of which was military aid.511

Or maybe Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam?

• From 1955-1975, the US supported French colonialist interests in Vietnam, set up a puppet regime in Saigon to serve US interests, and later took part as a belligerent against North Vietnam in the Vietnam War. U.S. involvement escalated further following the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, which was later found to be staged by Lyndon Johnson. The war exacted a huge human cost in terms of fatalities (see Vietnam War casualties). Estimates of the number of Vietnamese soldiers and civilians killed vary from 966,000 source to 3.8 million.source Some 240,000–300,000 Cambodians,source23 20,000–62,000 Laotians,4 and 58,220 U.S. service members also died in the conflict, with a further 1,626 missing in action. Unexploded bomb continue to kill civilians for years afterward. 1

Neither I nor the article are supporting or defending him. People understandably see his infidelities as a surface-level or cover reason for his ousting, and are speculating as to what the deeper / real reason(s) are.

Anti-communism in the west has been a cradle-to-grave indoctrination program for nearly 100 years now, affecting everything from schools, media, local and national politics, communications mediums, even religious institutions. Its extremely naive (or disingenous) to pretend to take a centrist stance, yet agree with everything the US empire says about its enemies.

List of US atrocities

The US empire has over 700+ military bases outside its borders, and has waged wars and coups in nearly every country on the planet.

All other countries combined, have a total of <20 foreign bases.

My ideals are of course embedded into Lemmy in some ways, but overall its a self-hostable social media platform, that can be run in any way the server-runner sees fit. This autonomy is completely up to the server runner, and no one, including me, can dictate how they run it, or what content and discussion they choose to platform. If this weren’t the case, there wouldn’t be so many lemmy servers with different and often conflicting viewpoints. I can encourage that diversity, while at the same time saying what I like on the spaces I have a hand in running.

There’s a reason why projects aiming for widespread adoption do not shout their controversial opinions from the rooftops.

Most companies have PR firms to make sure they don’t make controversial statements that would upset their users and shareholders, and affect their profits. I know some would prefer that developers be opinion-less vanilla automatons, because they see user adoption as more important than anything else. To me, having smaller, more enjoyable, more closely-knit communities (with the window to the greater fediverse) is more important.

If someone is offended by a project lead like myself saying: “Israel is carrying out a genocide against the Palestinian people, and it must be stopped”, then they can use reddit which already supports the opposite viewpoint.

It’s just a descriptor to indicate something beyond the prototype phase, and likely reliable enough to eventually be used in commercial applications.

I think there are a few now… iirc victoria launcher is one of them.

The minimalist ones take a different approach, and are really great at encouraging less phone use: minimo launcher, fokus launcher, olauncher and its variants, etc. There’s some theory around why grayscale and text are less addictive than colorful icon grids, widgets, and multiple pages, but I can’t find it right now.

I’m currently on murine launcher because I have a tiny phone, but I use black and white icons with arcticons.

You seem to be completely oblivious to NATO expansionism:

And the atrocities NATO and the US has committed in Europe, Libya, Afghanistan, etc.

https://dessalines.github.io/essays/us_atrocities.html

Or, to put it another way: socialism has powerful enemies. Those enemies don’t care how you feel about Marx or Makhno or Deleuze or communism in the abstract, they care about your feelings towards FARC, the Naxals, Cuba, North Korea, etc

This point is especially important. I’m in the middle of reading (and recording) Philip Agee - Inside the company, a CIA diary. He was a former CIA case officer who defected and escaped to Cuba. In Ecuador, he ran several of the 15+ operations the CIA was running in that country. These programs included everything from running US-friendly assets in the government, infiltrations of labor unions, control of religious institutions, control of youth orgs (especially catholic and conservative ones), journalists (especially getting them to put out anti-communist agitprop), leftist-org penetration agents, witting and unwitting police captains. They ran both ultra-conservative and social democratic / center-left media and political orgs.

These campaigns destabilized and divided the country, and the CIA was laughing while people on the streets were killing each other.

Their #1 goal: to get the Ecuadorian government to cut ties with Cuba and denounce communism, expel Cuban diplomats, and alienate them from Cuba and the USSR. If any org was even vaguely pro-Cuba, regardless of how left it was, the goal was to either take it over from the inside, or if that proved impossible, then make a new org friendly to US interests.

The US knows that the greatest threat to capitalist-imperialism and its overall power, is the threat of a good example, in the form of nations who reject its dominance. Anti-communism becomes the new witch-hunting campaign to unite all these disparate groups, to act on behalf of US interests.

It must take incredible bravery to agree with a country with over 700 military bases outside its borders.

The sad part is that this is probably safer than using vanilla javascript.

Neither axis nor allies, neither washington nor moscow, neither g7 nor brics, neither israel nor palestine, etc. You’re staying very pure and uncontaminated by the major conflicts of our times.

Even on the fediverse, speaking up about tara reade during the last election cycle, would get you banned from the liberal / correct the record fediverse servers.

#MeToo gets dropped immediately as soon as it exposes US democrats as being part of the same epstein class.

Syncthing was made for this use case.

These sorts currently don’t work on the profile view; and common sorting for multiple types is one of the features upcoming in 1.0.0

Hitler particles off the charts

Liberals staunchly support unlimited freedom for the capitalist class, including their rule over everything. Its liberalism’s defining feature.

Reviews in OpenStreetMap, so that google maps can have a real competitor.

Its not FOSS, but I use to use foursquare for years because of how good it was at finding good restaurants / things to do in a new city. Now that its shut down, there’s no real alternative that comes close.

Interesting. Who forced the Biden administration to do this?