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  • To add to this, whatever “website” the OP is on has no ideology. Different instances of Lemmy do moderate in different manners, so depending on the “website”/instance he visits, the content available and moderation may skew towards a specific ideology. For example, I don’t go to the news community on lemmy.ml anymore, because I got tired of the pro-Russia stance there.

    So if the OP ran their own instance where race hate and misogyny were acceptable, that would fit their definition. But good luck getting anyone to federate with them.

    The problem is that their definition of “left” lines up pretty well with people who are willing to cooperate with others that are different from themselves — which is the basis for any non-autocratic community.



  • While Canada and the US occupy roughly the same amount of territory, the American military is roughly six times the size (at 450,000 troops to 63,000) and its budget 30 times larger ($842 billion to $28 billion). As a percentage of GDP, Canada’s military spending has languished around 1.3 per cent, near the bottom of the Nato table and below the expected minimum of 2 per cent.

    That actually doesn’t look all that bad to me; it appears that for the most part, Canada has tried to work smarter. Considering the population disparities between the US and Canada, the military spending has been invested in non-personnel assets, resulting in significantly less waste.

    That said, there are definitely places implementation can still be improved.