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Controversial amongst whom and for what reasons?

Without providing that context your critique is "...unhelpful at best"

Edit: to be clear, Hexbear is a large and active instance, so if you value their content (as I do) other instances being de-federated can be just as much, if not more, a mark against those instances. Hence why it matters who deems them controversial and why.

I don’t personally know who they are federated with, but as someone who’s only used Lemmy.ML, I can interact with their instance and I can interact with many (if not most, idk) other instances (.World, .Zip, Lemmygrad, DBzer0, etc). So if they are de-federated with those instances and you want to see both Hexbear and them, maybe come to Lemmy.ml.

Side note: is there a way to track de-federations aside from just searching for communities hosted there from within your instance?

"How many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man!" ~ The left.

But the old man is a masochist and part of a broader coalition and his role is to distract us with beating him while the rest of his group sacks the town.

Then when they are making their escape he jumps up and says "we could have stopped them if we worked together ! Look what you've done!" And keeps intentionally getting in our way while we try to chase the ransackers.

Then when they have escaped successfully he moves in with them and shares the loot while planning the next mission.

People are recommending all sorts of instances without telling them how many instances have de-federated from them and if they're federated with hexbear etc.

You only focus that criticism on this suggestion because you are obviously one of the people who don't like hexbear and want to frame your critique of the suggestion as more reasonable/less biased.

What exactly is the "reputation" hexbear has anyway? Being based?

Those darn time travelling Chinese went back in time or something!

The Chinese government has said the death toll was about 200

From their June, 3, 2009 piece.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=7744479&page=1

Which happens to line up with the lower "historian estimates" they provide in this article...

Historians estimate that the People's Liberation Army (PLA) killed anywhere from 200 to several thousand people that day.

Unironically they probably intentionally changed their story on the governments claims because if the government claims around 200 and many historians claim around 200, then the higher estimates are less likely to be blindly trusted.

Can't spell "Lamborghini" without "L"

Can't spell "Knowledge" without "W"

Checkmate Atheists.

Chinas High speed rail has a 97% coverage for cities with a population of at least 500,000. (160+ Cities). (Including standard rail brings it to 99% of cities with 200K, 180+ cities). As you say, China is absolutely massive and that size makes this reach even more impressive. If Japan has better rail coverage, it's not by much.

Okay? Youre comparing Japanese technology that hasn't been built yet to established Chinese technology. China has successfully tested a 1,000KM/h Maglev...

China has transported 1.46Billion Passengers this year (as of may 2025) on pace to surpass the over 4Billion Passengers last year. I've only seen estimates of around 450M for Japan last year (though finding Data on Japan is more difficult due to their corporate divisions and not speaking the language)

Sources:

http://wap.china-railway.com.cn/english/news/202505/t20250527_145536.html

https://english.www.gov.cn/archive/statistics/202412/06/content_WS675248bac6d0868f4e8edb50.html

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2024-08-06/-China-s-1-000-km-h-maglev-train-completes-demonstration-test-1vQhnqCxUw8/p.html

By what metric?

China has the world's largest HSR network at 45,000KM, 15x that of Japan's 3,000KM network.

Chinas fastest regular use line is 350KM/h. Japan's is 320KM/h.

(AFAIK) China is the only country with an operational maglev line (in Shanghai). A 30KM line at 430KM/h. While Japan's Maglev is still under construction.

So what are the metrics that Japan's rail system cooks China?

I haven't been arguing against new slogans, I've been arguing in defense of existing slogans and pointing out that the slogans themselves aren't as flawed as you perceive, but that your perception of their flaws is a result of circumstances that would exist even if we changed the slogans.

From the River to the Sea being "essentially the same as 'destroy Israel'", is a perfect example of the attacks not ceasing if you get rid of "no right to defend itself" style language, it's possibly one of the most targeted slogans, but it says nothing in the negative of Israel/Israeli existence, only the positive of freedom for Palestine/Palestinians. The negative connotation is entirely fabricated away from the slogan and the same would happen to any other phrase created trying to tow the line.

If something can be improved by being phrased better it should be. I cannot see how anyone would consider making a slogan more precise to be failing somehow

I'm not against it as a 100% firm principle. I asked for your alternatives which fit your view for a reason, not just rhetorically. These slogans have been around for decades. Masses of people have rallied around these slogans in protest against Israel, they work. I'm arguing that a simple change of slogans will not win anyone over. The problem isn't these slogans, but it the institutional stance against what the slogans represent.

How did you get from “we should improve the slogan to be clearer” to “let’s fit inside the existing narrative”?

Because a slogan will always have enough ambiguity for them to propagandize against it, and they will do so, rendering that slogan now a "radical" slogan in the same vein as the current ones. The established powers will always work faster to discredit and muddy the slogan than you can clarify/clear it.

"Decolonize Palestine" would be met with the exact same arguments as "Israel has no right to exist".

"Free Palestine" is already treated as an "anti-Semitic dog whistle".

Ultimately: If you want to propose new, sanitized/clear slogans, absolutely feel free to so, do it here and if I find them compelling I might use them. Do it at a meeting of any action group you are a apart of and I'm sure they will do the same and/or also think of new slogans along those lines. If you are right and these new slogans are more effective, I'm sure they will grow. Otherwise, this isn't something that will be solved here. We are going to talk in circles.

Because the month is bigger and provides more context on it's own. You figure out the month first then place yourself within that scale.

Example:

"It's May (immediately tells us the context of 31days, spring, etc.) It is the 30th, so there's one day left in May"

Vs

"It's the 30th (provides no context except that it's not February). it's may, so there's one day left in May"

So both lead to the same conclusion, the first way just gives the limiting parameter/most context first.

Similar reasoning why the month is the primary separation on calendars.

Another example that follow this same principle, you tell time HH/mm to provide the larger context first, not mm/HH.

"nobody tells me what to do" - me when I look at a "ReadMe" file which perfectly explains the cause of the problem I end up having and having to try and fix