I simply do not know.

It looks like you have to be an instance admin.

From what I gather, instance admins file endorsements & censorships on other instances, listing their reasons.

It’s nice that it’s democratized, but it’s not nice that one person can put you on the censor list.

for people who care, our endorsement to censor ratio is 3/1

I went ahead and looked into it a little closer.

We’re still on their whitelist, which could honestly be an accident. But if it’s not, then it makes the second part of my findings more annoying.

We were added to the “censored” category because one instance listed us as being “redfash”. We banned a person registered to this instance for “liberalism” a short while ago. Meaning, very likely, they retaliated by listing us as redfash on Fediseer.

such a fuckin reddit moment.

when they sent me the DM, I replied “good for you” and simply moved on with my morning.

because like, did they seriously think anyone cares at all that they defeded from us?

edit:: after investigation, it was an automated message, and wasn’t informing me of defederation. Still annoying though.

This whole situation feels like copium for the failing CO.

Like fuck Musk, of course, but at this point it’s hard to ignore that Ukraine’s having a rough time. So Liberals are going to look for anything they can to make excuses, not unlike how Neo-Nazis make excuses for Germany’s failure in WWII, by blaming the weather or pitting the blame for failure on one or two figures.

Starlink also sucks, it’s genuinely horrid internet. It’s only useful if you’re far from cell signal and you want to access social media or streaming services, and at that, only if you’re willing to accept buffering and snail-slow speeds. It’s not something a military would want to exclusively use for coordination. Ukraine’s military probably has its own internet, and its own secondary lines of communication. Blaming Starlink outages is simply illogical.

If this becomes common knowledge, the western left is going to once again show their true faces.

Without a doubt, we’ll see people who call themselves “socialists” arguing that the Ukrainians who fled the country are - in some way - in the wrong and should be sent back. I’ve already seen them argue that Russians who’ve moved to Western countries should be arrested, simply because they’re Russian. And these are the people who call us “Red Fascists”? Fuckers literally argue for the mass arrest of an ethnic group, because the government that represents them is an enemy of the West.

telling a white “socialist” about Che’s ideals and tactics made them look at me in disgust, and later I saw that they posted on social media that they threw out all of their “commie merch”.

These people are posers and nothing else, they will back the whites in the revolution.

I honestly have no idea, I’m just aware that the current term limits have allowed Putin’s government to get Russia out of the post-USSR depression, and have kept the country out of the grips of the Western imperialists.

Maybe if someone comes into power after Putin leaves who leans towards Western interests, and if they’re not replaced by someone better, it could be bad. But at least at the moment, the current system is not the worst thing in the world.

They aren’t “permanent” leaders. For instance, Stalin, Castro, and the Kims all retained power because they continued to be democratically elected into their positions. Notoriously Stalin asked to leave his position multiple times, and was turned down.

The need for long terms without term limits can be explained by it being very hard to get anything done when you can easily be replaced by disagreeing factions. Building Socialism requires long projects that generally have high costs, such as industrialization, refitting of industries, rebuilding wartorn portions of the country, etc. Projects like these can take 10+ years, and then require more time afterwards to ensure that the project was a success. Stalin’s industrialization of the USSR wouldn’t have been possible if the anti-leninist factions acquired power before they were finished, for example.

Having one leader stay in power over a long period also helps to keep capitalist bandits from leading a colour revolution in your country. For instance, if Russia had term limits - thus meaning Putin couldn’t’ve stayed in power for 20 years - the country likely would’ve become a Western colony. The same is true of a Socialist example, like Cuba. It’s hard to depose a leader who’s beloved by their people. Even harder when it’s the only leader those people have ever known.

white western leftists will literally be like “yes I’m a socialist… I just hate everything that socialism has done in the world and I’ll gladly defend anti-communist efforts when they don’t directly effect me”

I’ve added the medal to the emoji, feel free to award fellow comrades with the Hero of Lemmygrad medal.

It’s a shame we can’t pin comments on posts, because this one would get a pin from me.

so instead, have this Farmer_Heck seal of approval

anytime someone says “I used to be a communist” then defends capitalism, 9 times out of 10 they were a larper who never actually read substantive theory and was just angry at certain aspects of the capitalist system… which their privileges overcame, thus pushing them back to the right without ever actually learning anything.

This person claims to’ve “woke[n] up … [to] look at the facts” but really they turned on MSNBC and turned off their brain.

Even if that’s the case (it isn’t always) it’s a lot better to have a local boot than a foreign one.

Africans deserve to be governed by Africans, not politicians who turn their country over to imperialists for profit. It’s much better to critically support coups in the imperialized world when they’re done by local interests than it is to make blanket statements and deny local voices their self-determination.

I’ve watched people play it, and aspects of it look enjoyable. But it’s far from the semi-realism that WT has so I’m not that interested in it.

To be honest, I like that they added tanks to the game. I started playing a little after the tanks update, and the game was fun as hell back then. There weren’t try-hards, there weren’t game breaking mechanics, you only had like 4 nations to choose from (if not only three, I don’t remember how many were there at launch) and generally, the game was just a lot better.

now there’s a million nations, the same tanks in a lot of the trees, too many BR levels so you’re stuck fighting tanks that are way too powerful for yours because you happen to be nearer the end of the BR range you’re in. And simple fragments of a round that hit feet from your tank can breach your hull and kill your entire crew?! It’s absolute ass, and world of tanks is far from a substitute unlike what some people insist upon it being.

I would love a tank game that forced you to actually use tank tactics and work with your teammates, and didn’t allow you to use period-inaccurate tanks for “”““balance””“”. But, unfortunately, I haven’t found that yet.

what the fuck is up with imperialist Westerners taking stances against China, then going on diplomatic visits there.

“hello yes, I stand in opposition to your sovereignty and your authority in the international sphere. Pls be friendly wif me uwu” shut the fuck up

I hate Orwell, but man was right about the doublespeak thing.

western MSM will say “democracy” when they’re talking about western leaning dictatorships, and “dictatorship” when they’re talking about non-western democracies.

The only “democracy” in French West Africa is what has been built by its local inhabitants, not what the white man has forced upon them. Full solidarity with the coups, freedom comes from the barrel of a gun.

is it actually good?

if you like pouring months of your life into a game where most players use the most toxic methods of getting kills and then shame you for complaining about them, then yes.

if not? hell the fuck NO

Genuinely, I commented on a youtuber’s video (wherein he was talking about issues with the BR system, and how it’s not great for new and casual players) that I had limited time to play the game every day, and after doing the math I found that it would take me nearly half a year to unlock the next tank in my tree, even with XP buffs. I got so many replies, including one from the youtuber (then an offhanded mention by the youtuber in a toxic af follow-up video complaining about the casual player base) telling me to just “get good” and “stop whining”.

Honestly, if you’re not willing to spend your rent money to just buy vehicles, it’s just not enjoyable long term. I played the game every day all day for about three straight months and got seriously burnt out with it, then picked it back up years later and played about an hour every day for about a month, still got dreadfully burnt out.

I know that some people do genuinely enjoy the game without buying premium, but I just can’t see eye to eye with them. I just think the game’s horrid, pretty much entirely because of the community.