I found this page on their website, it's real.

Which leads me to an important question: who the fuck are these assholes?

I've looked at their "Experts" page, I don't recognize anyone, I've looked at their "About" page, it's surprisingly low on info. Oh, their building in DC is "an iconic building that faces the Lincoln Memorial and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and that symbolizes our nation’s commitment to peace." Ok, but like, why is that on your "About" page, you fucking weirdos?!

So I'm at a loss. I'm sure (absolutely positive) there's info to be found here about this deeply shitty organization, but I think I'd have to spend hours and hours looking for weird connections, because they seem oddly reticent to tell casual visitors to their website anything about anything. And that weirds me the hell out. Who are these fucks?! Who is reading these (deeply shitty) articles they're writing?! Who funds them?! Why don't they have any board members listed where I can find them?!

This is deeply shitty. If you're right that >80% of people on Lemmy are men (I'm not sure I buy that), then it's even worse to assume everyone is a man. What you're doing is chasing off the already extremely outnumbered non-men. If you want this place to be welcoming to people who aren't men, then you need to change your behavior.

I've suspected for awhile that "it was unmoderated" is kind of a catchall for when reddit wants to ban a sub but doesn't have a real reason. Here's some more evidence to toss on that pile, I guess. Sucks that they took down this very helpful resource, fucking reddit

You can block them [hexbears], but there are tons of them that have lemmy.world accounts- and post regularly in the political communities.

You’ll know them when you see them.

Three things:

1. Russia isn't communist. I don't know why I have to remind libs of this fucking constantly, it's infuriating. You remember in 1991 or so when the Soviet Union fell? Yeah, Russia hasn't been communist since then.

2. The DPRK is how it is because of the actions of the western world, especially the US. The DPRK has tried to open itself up to trade and immigration and has been stopped from doing so by the western world, especially the US. That being said, life there is fine. It's just a normal country that's suffering a bit because it has not been allowed to trade freely with the rest of the world. Maybe watch the Boy Boy video where they go to the DPRK to get haircuts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BO83Ig-E8E

3. What exactly is your issue with China? Can you please explain what you're actually getting at here? Lots of other people have brought forth some pretty decent evidence that life in China isn't as bad as a western lib thinks, but I am curious about your thoughts and feelings on the matter. What is your issue with China? Why would you not want to live there?

This is so fukcing stupid i cant handle it. Fuck. Cathedrals are still beautiful and awe-inspiring hundreds of years after they were built. This orb is going to look like absolute shit the second it loses power or some of its screens break or something, so, like, 50 years from now it'll be giant e-waste sitting in a dead city. I hate techbros i hate techbros i hate techbros

It's becoming more common. We're getting extremely close to a place where trans people are predators by definition to these people. It's really scary

If they're soundproofed well enough, it's totally fine. Yeah, most new construction has paper thin walls, so sharing walls with neighbors sucks absolute asshole currently, no arguments there. But having lived in an old brick apartment building with super thick walls one time, I couldn't hear my neighbors ever. It rocked. That, in my mind, is absolutely the goal: high density housing (with very soundproof walls) and tons of green space surrounding the housing, with convenient stores, transit, and entertainment options, all in easy walking distance. That sounds so utopic, and yet if we changed our civilization's priorities, it could absolutely happen, we have the technology. I want it so badly

I don't think it's that wild. In middle school I was taught that Malcolm X was evil and making things worse for black people because he wasn't peaceful and civil like MLK. That's total and complete bullshit, as I've come to learn, but that's the amerikkkan education system for you

I blocked c/196, because I absolutely don't trust myself not to see some anticommunist bullshit and go in guns blazing. They have "fuck tankies" in their comm banner, which I take as a sign that it's very much not a space for me, so you know what? Fine. I don't have to be there. The rest of blahaj.zone seems pretty cool, I like that it's an explicitly queer instance, but c/196 seems like a bad idea and I just don't want to deal with it.

I'd urge you to consider the fact that we are explicitly, radically pro-trans. Our mod team is over half trans people and our userbase heavily skews that direction as well. I myself am trans. And I'm a communist, partially because of the experiences I've had as a trans person living under neoliberalism. I didn't start out as a communist, I slowly drifted that way as a result of learning, specifically learning more history. I'll recommend the podcast Blowback here, I think all 3 seasons are really good, well-researched, informative, and entertaining. They give a lot of context to various US actions abroad and it's a very approachable podcast. Season 4 is coming out soon and I can't wait!

Also, check out Cuba's family code if you want an example of a communist country being extremely socially progressive. It's cool and good!