Big Miku

The factory must grow!

Not that I know of, but it should be added in for those who don’t want to interact with people from Hexbear. If people have the freedom to block an instance for themselves it would expand the decentralization that Lemmy is built on, since people don’t have to move to those instances to block out Hexbear.

I’ve read that blocking the Hexbear domain is a solution to this, but that isn’t a proper solution, since those who aren’t tech-literate would have a pretty hard time doing that, so a first-party solution would be the best.

If this happens they’ll do the “A person who swears to tell the truth and nothing but the truth says what” ordeal. If that doesn’t work they will just let you leave

I couldn’t find a single mention of a fascist movement in the uprising. So either it was neglible in size, or you are just lying.

“Insufficiently oppressive”. What? Hungary was a really oppressive nation during that time, and you wanted it to be more oppressive?

And opressive to who? Fascist? They can just lie about not being a fascist. That leaves out to just guess who is a fascist and that sounds like a wonderful time for the citizens.

Patton really was correct about the Soviet Union.

Let’s take a look what started that “fascist” uprising. Years of economic mismanagement, opression, and being forced to pay a big chunk of their gdp to the Soviets for war reperations were all factors that lead to the Hungarian Revolution.

And who did these “fascist” pick as their leader? Imre Nagy, the man who was ousted from power by the soviets for having the audacity to be a more moderate communist than hardline stallinists.

The US doing something bad doesn’t justify someone else doing bad. Think about a nazi who uses that reasoning, they would sound like a nazi apologist.

Yes, the US did some bad stuff, but I still view them as the lesser evil when compared to the USSR or China.

Also Hungary doing something 65 years later doesn’t justify the actions of the Soviets.

I would’ve, but finnish law requires you to get permits for receiving donations, and Wikipedia doesn’t have them.

I honestly forgot where this meme was posted and thought it was a really weird shitpost.

Since no western news media is good enough for you, I will use the text that Snowden himself wrote in his autobiography, since you seem to classify him as a trustful source.

In his biography Snowden wrote that one of the motives for the leak was when he learned about the extent that China collected telephone and internet communications. He described the amount of data being collected to be appalling.

He wrote his while being in Russia, so there should have been minimal “western influence”.

Also Snowden lived in China for a while, so he does know his stuff.

I won’t deny it is a problem, since I know to what extent data is collected, and where it might go. I am only asking on your position with China doing the exact same thing.

Social media didn’t exist back in the Cold War, and if it did, the Soviets would have restricted it for being western, and made their own which was heavily censored and monitored just like the Chinese social media.

So I don’t get why this is a western problem if the other side would have done it as well given the chance, and the Chinese are actively doing it.