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I haven't been on lemmy for all that long, but this thread is the first I've ever seen anyone complain about moderation.

I dunno, man. I'm pretty new to the whole fediverse stuff. I just learned about modlogs from this thread here, so obviously what I say is not super well-informed on the topic. But looking at the modlog someone linked below, most of the stuff I'm seeing removed are actually the exact opposite. I see comments removed because they're calling other people tankies. I'm seeing stuff removed because it's "horseshoe theoretisizing, bad-faith". Then a bunch of people indirectly advocating violence.

I've never been a mod of anything, and a lot of this looks like stuff that if it were up to me I'd leave. But I don't really see any evidence that .world "has an overwhelmingly “US Democratic Party” slant, politically". As far as there is any ideological basis behind the mod actions, it seems to be more unaligned leftist than anything else.

Again, though, I'm very new to this and did not do anything close to what I would describe as a thorough search.

Wow! Yikes! Does certainly seem like the mods like to remove and ban people a lot. A lot of what I'm seeing on there is for comments that while I don't personally agree, don't really seem like they should be removed. I'm not trying to make a judgement about their personal politics, but they are certainly making their own subjective decisions about a lot of things that should really be left to the wider community....

Where do you go to see the modlogs?

How does one go about figuring out this information? I've seen no evidence of censorship, but I also don't really know what it would look like. I do I learn an instance has been defederated.

As a side note, we need to come up with a MUCH more simplified way to teach people about the fediverse if we're ever going to get a large enough userbase. This shit is very complicated and confusing compared to more mainstream social media.

There were 100k+ in DC alone.

Can you explain this to me in very simple terms? What's the problem with .world? When I signed up I was told it was just the most broad, sort of "default" instance. What's wrong with it? Is there one with a larger user base I should be on instead?

What if I use the term 'tankie' unironically to refer to people to the right of me?

Yes. When I was a kid and early adult I was pretty heavily involved in Boy Scouts and fired guns a lot through that. My dad also took me hunting a couple of times. I haven't fired a gun in probably close to 20 years, though.

I would fire a gun if I had a need to, but I have 0 interest in doing so for recreation. I don't own a gun, and don't really have any interest in one.

That's the thing, though, in western literary culture an archetypal journey story is the Odyssey. The Odyssey is just so old and was so important in Hellenic culture (which became the basis for most of Western culture) that all journey stories after The Odyssey were heavily influenced by it in one way or another.

A few reasons:

1. States are not currency sovereigns in that they do not create and control their own currency. All the money the state uses come from revenues they collect in taxes, fees, sales, etc. This is not the case for a national government, which creates all the money it needs for whatever it wants to spend money on. This gives the national government a lot more spending power than any state could possibly have, regardless of the state's GDP.

More importantly, though,

2. All states except Vermont have statutory or (state) constitutional requirements to have a balanced budget every year. This means they cannot run a budget surplus or deficit. Any surplus has to be spent or returned to taxpayers and any deficit needs to be resolved that year. This makes it incredibly difficult to run large programs like a M4A over time. When the state runs into a budget shortfall, the M4A system would be the first on the chopping block.

3. Insurance companies fight HARD against anything that hurts their business. This is specifically why Obamacare (the ACA) didn't include a public option despite Obama campaigning hard for a public option in the 2008 election. Insurance companies got their stooges in the Democratic Party to kill the public option when the ACA debates were going through Congress. They do the same in states when states try to do something about the healthcare industry. And if insurance companies publicly talk about a proposed bill causing them to raise rates or pull out of a market, that's a huge political stick to swing.

The Odyssey is copied in form all the time. It's not always referenced as directly, but virtually any adventure story made from a western perspective includes some elements of The Odyssey in a similar manner to how virtually all Eastern adventure stories include some elements of Journey to the West.