If you're not stealing from work, you're stealing from your family.

That last one a depressingly common perspective among people in power in Ukraine, including Zelensky.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/5/zelenskyy-says-wants-ukraine-to-become-a-big-israel

Kamala Harris running a damn near flawless campaign, with just a month 1/2 of campaigning.

There's a few major flaws:

Trying to out-flank republicans on the right with immigration and crime; instead of counter-messaging that republican claims of migrant crime are false and migrants commit less crime than average, and crime as a whole is declining, her campaign promotes how tough she is on crime. This is essentially campaigning for the republicans. The people who are terrified of immigrants and criminals are voting republican.

Trying to out-flank republicans on the right in foreign policy. Harris can promise rivers of Muslim, North Korean, and Russian blood, and the people who want that will still vote republican. Talking about how lethal the US military will be and how hostile the US will be to other countries decreases turnout. War is not popular. Trump's campaign is already hitting Harris on supporting the genocide in Palestine.

Joe Biden dosent use drones anymore

Huh. Wonder what that US reaper drone was doing over Yemen.

it’s actively hiding an instance as if it doesn’t exist

For the purpose of directing new users, who tend to just pick the largest instance, sure. But if you and they are both federated, there's no difference in the content.

So what do they do when the next instance gets “too big” for their liking? Hide it, along side LW? And the next?

Correct, because this increases the reliability of the average lemmy user's experience as one point of failure affects fewer users.

alienating 41% of their active user base

Why would distributing users to smaller instances alienate Lemmy.world users?

If anything, distributing the load results in a better user experience, since the last Reddit exodus was taking down .world every few hours.

The irritation caused by heartburn increases heartburn. So during your proton-pump inhibitor cycle, you still get heartburn, treat it with baking soda dissolved in warm for instant relief

Someone that actually cares about left-wing politics cares a lot more about the outcomes

Yes, that's why I recommended The Jakarta Method, it details exactly what the outcome looks like when the left doesn't repress the right and instead lets the sabotage and organize. It's really an important book because you can see echos of the methods in South Korea under the dictatorship, Taiwan during the white terror, Pinochet's Chile, Uruguay even before the '73 coup, etc.

they proved they were no better than the capitalists they despise so much.

If you believe this, you do not know the scale and details of capitalist repression.

utopia

Literally no Marxist would call any AES project Utopian, except as a pejorative.

Here's a pamphlet differentiating Utopian and Scientific Socialism It's not an easy read due to being from 1880.

The OP meme is mocking the Taliban for their lack of money. The Taliban don't have money because the US stole the Afghan government's funds and imposed sanctions.

The result of this has been the worst famine in the world during the period between shortly after the withdrawal and shortly after Oct 7. OP believes that this is liberating for afghan women because they think the Taliban need money to oppress women or something.

Anyone in Guantanamo is not a credible source when it comes to things the US wants to believe. See WMDs in Iraq.

why would they leave their homeland secretly?

What do you mean secretly? Chinese people don't have to sneak out of China.

I can't recommend any books on development of terrorism in Xinjiang if you want to know more, maybe ask in /c/History.

Before the Americans left, the Afghan people lived in terror of the Taliban, Kabul and its warlords, and the Americans.

Today they live in terror of just the Taliban (OK, the Taliban and starvation).

the end doesn’t justify the means

Suppression of the right was necessary, however the relative freedom given to locals to carry it out resulted in people using it to settle old scores or non-ideological people to advance politically within the party. While dekulization enabled them, those actions were orthogonal (and actually hindered) the aims of dekulization.

Whether that can be considered justification or apologia isn't constructive IMO. Personally though, I just consider it an error in the way it was carried out.

Similar issues (and resulting sentiments) are observed in the wake of Mao giving villages the freedom to set up their own courts and try landlords and others.

It’s [...] vital to denounce them if you consider yourself a leftist.

We had that struggle back when Kruschev sent the tanks into Hungary and every western leftist org was falling over each other to denounce the USSR. Meanwhile nazis were being put in charge of police forces in South America to do crimes against humanity against indigenous and communist elements and hundreds of thousands were being massacred in South Korea.

Turns out the tankies were right. Denouncing the enemies of the state you live in just serves to carry water for imperialism.

I am reminded of the Victoria 3 playerbase noticing how OP communism was.