Even if Biden had vetoed aid to Israel, there's enough bipartisan support for it for such a veto to have been overrided in Congress. Like it or not, even though I'm all for the cessation of aid to Israel and the implementation of a permanent two-state solution, all that would have done is shift even more lobbyist resources into Trump's coffers with the end outcome being identical.
Anyone who did that is an idiot for not at the very least being pragmatic in realizing that unlike most democrats, republicans have no qualms about Israelis settling the rest of Palestine, hence Trump listing the sanctions placed on Israeli settlers in the West Bank. Most republicans either don't know or don't care about the tens of thousands of Palestinians killed in Gaza, and would classify anyone as an extremist just for being Muslim.
Until a system such as ranked choice voting is implemented nationally, voting third party is in practical terms just as effective as not voting at all. The pro-Israeli lobby in the US means that there was no realistic scenario in which support to Israel would be halted outright, so in practice it's better to at least pick the lesser of two evils.
Optimistic to assume Israel intends to let Gaza stay Palestinian for that long...
Then they're likely just auto-assigning you to a server, likely based on geographic proximity.
Too much on there to be easily accessible, and although I share the artist's disdain for Spez and Musk, they needn't be mentioned in documentation meant to explain the Fediverse in a simple, understandable, straightforward manner.
Aside from the organization's charter mandating editorial independence, the BBC being publicly-funded by the country's annual broadcasting fee ensures that it does not need to pander to politicians to conduct its operations. It's far more effective at this than PBS, which is more likely to be biased due to its need for corporate and charitable sponsors.
RT in contrast is only accountable to the Russian government, and ultimately Putin, and is thus unable to maintain editorial independence from the government's national and foreign policy interests.
RT is a mouthpiece of the Russian government; the only "other side of the story" that would come from it would not only be misleading, but also promote the authoritarianism, war crimes, and aggression of the Russian government.
In an age when LLMs make reading the truth harder and harder, blacklisting publications that are guaranteed propaganda is essential.
In the same vein, even though I'm fully supportive of Ukraine and its right to self-defense, I don't think people should use any of the equivalent American propaganda agencies (U.S. Agency for Global Media: Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Asia, Middle East Broadcasting Networks, and Office of Cuba Broadcasting), since their reporting is often deliberately biased in favor of American foreign policy interests. Furthermore, there's plenty of Western media sources not backed by state interests, so they're never the only source on something anyhow.
The only reliable public broadcasting organizations are those with independent operations financed via public contributions, such as the BBC.
Private broadcasting organizations often have bias as well, with tabloids and extremist sources such as Newsmax being just as unreliable and misleading as state-backed outlets, so vigilance in maintaining a line in the sand between journalism and propaganda is essential.
Although I'd agree that lemmygrad, lemmy.ml, and hexbear are far-left, with only one specifically right-wing instance that I can think of, I don't think that most of the remaining Lemmy users on lemmy.world, lemmy.dbzer0.com, lemm.ee, beehaw.org, or any of the other big Lemmy instances are particularly extreme in their views.
On average, Lemmy users do seem to be more left-wing than right-wing, probably due to right-wing Redditors being less likely to mind Reddit's monetization of its userbase, and more likely to mind Lemmy's far-left instances.
While I don't think Lemmy should encourage far-right users to join, given that racism and bigotry degrade any platform that allows such speech, I do think that those on the right who are not extreme and are capable of having thoughts independent of the MAGA cult should be welcomed on any instance, given that echo chambers only serve to propagate existing views, rather than foster discussion.
The key part in joining any instance are the instances that either block it or are blocked by it, so perhaps one that blocks lemmygrad, lemmy.ml, and hexbear by default, while minimizing the number of instances that in turn block it, would be optimal to have access to as many communities as possible.
Here's a list of Lemmy instances by number of instances blocked and blocking, for reference. Seems to not be quite up-to-date, and can't find the instance I'm on on the list, but it should still be somewhat helpful for comparing. Personally, I prefer being on an instance with as few blocks as possible (implementing those blocks instead on a user level as a means of curating my all feed), since the Lemmy community is already small enough as it is, but new users might not want to have to configure those blocks themselves.
Very few torrents make use of I2P as far as I know, given that people have to specifically enable it when using a torrent client such as qBittorrent.
Thanks for the giveaway! Already have Railway Empire and its DLCs myself, but whoever claims it might want to also claim the game's DLCs from the prior giveaway post at randomactsofgaming.
If it's still available, I'd like to claim Cloud Gardens.
I'm guessing this happened after Yen said that he'd stop propagating his personal political views via Proton's official accounts? It seems to be a copy-and-paste of what he posted on Reddit.
While I chose Proton over Mulvad given the benefits of port forwarding for torrenting, even port forwarding isn't worth funding the propagation of far-right propaganda.
People can argue all they want in favor of him just supporting whichever party passes pro-privacy legislation (won't be the republicans; makes me wonder if Yen supports state PornHub bans out of the financial interest of boosting VPN sales...), but ignoring social issues in the process makes his 'neutrality' reminiscent of opportunistic nazi sympathizers in Switzerland during World War II...
He would have lost more moderates than he would have regained disillusioned, single-issue voters on the left. Pro-Israel lobbyists egged on by Netanyahu would have falsely tied such efforts to antisemitism, something that most media outlets latch onto far more often than reports of Israel's war crimes in Gaza and the West Bank.
Due to bipartisan support for Israel in the US, and the country's geopolitical interests, both countries vote in a highly-correlated manner at the UN. In a political landscape where supporting Israel is popular, there was no scenario in which a president from either party would diplomatically oppose Israel, particularity in an election year.
Netanyahu took advantage of this to delay the ceasefire for long enough to help Trump get elected. In an election where there was much more at stake than the issue of Gaza alone, anyone who opted not to vote—or worse, vote for Trump—due to support for Israel that would only be entrenched further under a republican administration, is complicit in the harm that has come to pass from the hundreds of other political issues at stake.