Tankies are going to hate this comment.
They already are. :) I didn't quite expect this effect, but I welcome it. :)
perestroika
joined 2 years ago
How many times can you list russia/ussr? Give me a break with this lib imperialism.
I may list it as many times as I need. I was born there and grew up there, and have a whole lot of information about how life was.
There's a book on the subject written by Srdja Popovic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueprint_for_Revolution
Summary: protests that start (and try to remain) non-violent have a greater chance to succeed, because they can attract more people to their cause.
Critique: with some regimes, it's not possible to non-violently protest. For non-violent protest to work, the environment must respect a minimum amount of human rights.
Case samples:
- US during the civil rights movement era: yes
- USSR under Gorbachev: yes
- Serbia under Milosevic: yes, with difficulty on every step (Popovic was there doing it)
- Israel under Netanyahu: probably yes
- China under Xi: practically no (not for long)
- USSR under Kruschev/Brezhnev/Andropov/Chernenko: not really
- Russia under Putin: no, don't even hold a blank sheet of paper
- Iran under Khamenei: only if you're doing a bread riot
- Saudi Arabia, USSR under Stalin, NK under the Kim dynasty: no, and execution would be a possible outcome
...etc. In some places, you can't organize. Then your only option is to fight. As long as you can publicly organize, definitely do so - it's vastly preferable. :)
Sadly, Iran has not been "tolerable to the media" in recent times.
(Example: a few months ago, their courts were discussing whether to sentence a rapper named Tataloo to death for "corruption on earth" - singing about the wrong things.)
Since they are now in war, media freedom in Iran is probably under the table.
Opinion:
Politically, the ayatollah can't be toppled by foreseeable events, except if an Israeli strike should kill him. His successor in that case is unlikely to be milder. Netanyahu is also firmly in power due to special circumstances, and probably pretty safe from any Iranian attempts.
Militarily, Iran has taken bigger losses, and has probably lost expensive and important parts of its nuclear programme - but not its stocks of highly enriched uranium, or its ability to launch ballistic missiles. From that perspective, if the Israeli strikes were meant to disarm Iran - they didn't.
Prognosis: they will trade more strikes and neither will achieve breakthrough success. Iran will lose more in the process.
- Not providing a platform for activities that harm society (e.g. scams, disinformation).
- Not providing a platform for activities that will get you sued or prosecuted (e.g. piracy, child porn).
- They had to pay a considerable amount for the service.
On social media, putting the burden of blocking on a million users is naive because:
- Blocks can be worked around with bots, someone has to actively fight circumvention.
- Some users don't have the time to block, simply conclude "this is a hostile environment" and leave.
- Some users fall for scams / believe the disinfo.
I have once helped others build an anonymous mix network (I2P). I'm also an anarchist. On Lemmy however, support decentralization, defederating from instances that have bad policies or corrupt management, and harsh moderation. Because the operator of a Lemmy instance is fully exposed.
Experience has shown that total freedom is a suitable policy for apps that support 1-to-1 conversations via short text messages. Everything else invites too much abuse. If it's public, it will have rules. If it's totally private, it can have total freedom.
Thanks for the info, a healthy amount of real life awaits then. :)
I knew it was running on solar energy and old hardware so I guessed something like this had happened.
If you need fail-over to awaken a backup system when the primary fails, things can be designed. :)
Ma katsun nende kohta samuti õhtul lugeda.
Tead sa öelda, mis on PieFed-i põhilised eripärad Lemmy kõrval?
Endal on mul algusest peale kaks Fediverse'i kontot. Teine identiteet on "perestroika@slrpnk.net". Seal ma siis modereerin kogukondasid "offgrid", "science" ja "perestroika-pw". Esimesed 2 on madala liiklusega, kolmandas ei toimu mõhkugi. Muid kogukondi on serveris sadakond. Adminid on mõistlikud inimesed.
Server on pigem säästuässa haldusega, käib sagedamini maas kui muud. Hetkel on vist kah jälle maas, või olen ise hetkel võrgus, kust sinna välja ei ulatu. :)
Kui miskipärast vajalikuks osutub, võib-olla saaksin sinna kõrvale avada ka kanali "eesti", aga seda pärast teiste moderaatoritega nõu pidamist - et kas me tahame võtta pardale keskkonda, mille nimi kattub mingi kultuuriruumi / maa nimega ja milles hakatakse valdavalt rääkima keeles, mida serveri adminid ei mõista. (See tähendaks ju, et kui kunagi tekib läbula, siis adminitel on raske modereerida.)
Kuna siin ei olnud kogukonnal üldse mingit halduskoormust (polnud ühtegi moderaatorit ja läbu ei puhkenud), siis ma esialgu ei näe, et "eesti" kogukond Lemmy võrgus hetkel olulist halduskoormust põhjustaks.
Aga jah, hetkel kõhklen ja ei torma midagi tegema.
it was also unclear he has in fact paid any taxes to the Russian government
Seems like a Captain Obvious moment. You work somewhere, your employer pays taxes to the government without even asking if you like it. I'm fully certain that even hardcore anarchist partisans who burn shit at night, pay taxes to the RF government on their day job - to look more like a normal citizen.
Perhaps more importantly, Netanyahu also exchanged the director of Shin Bet, as if anticipating that some day, that guy might get a warrant to arrest a certain person accused of war crimes.
To make it short and get to the point, Israel is also risking their constitutional order by letting Netanyahu run wild. He might decide not to leave at some point.
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Russian ammo depot, reportedly holding 264,000 tons of munitions, obliterated near Moscow
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Thanks for correcting. You're right, I should have written something else than "probably yes" about Israel under Netanyahu. :(