I'm sorry this instance has problematic relationships with some capitalist overlords being favoured but you are correct.

I'll try to see if I catch examples happening

Sources like The Guardian, Reuters, Telegraph, CNN, BBC are sometimes allowed and sometimes removed on rule 1.

The latter case is usually evident while lurking and finding a deep long comment thread. Sometimes one user there has deleted messages and there's another's rule 3 content comments left. Apparently these cases seem to usually be mutual rule 3 but it looks like they're treated differently.

It is somewhat opaque how sometimes the rules apply and sometimes they don't, like news sources on rule 1, and iirc rule 3 in general. Deleting content should have the mod informing the user and the rest community what happened and have a way for the users to manage mistakes, be it either accidental rule breaks by the user or wrongful modding.

Not a controversial stance for an European nation but the joint statement is interesting. Could this be a part of a deal for China to flip on Russia. Does China choose to stay with an ideological reactionary ally or move towards collaborations

The headline is a bit misleading. The article elaborates some, for example:

In other remarks, Crosetto said that if Russian troops were to occupy Kyiv, it would "inevitably lead to a clash with other nations, which would not accept Russian tanks on their borders."

European nations have been voicing the need of peace from the beginning, it's just that the negotiating third parties can't get Russia to participate in a dialogue. Which leads to desperate stuff like France asking for China to do their part (desperate because they'd need some unlikely deal incentive to flip).

They kinda pretend to play both sides, kinda not. Left hand says peace talks (without action and on Russia's terms), right hand helps Russia with resources.

Maybe it's like a "takes one to know one" situation, as both the USA and China meddle in the Middle-East and Africa with an infantilizing attitude.

Good ideas. Blocking actually only hides content from the user, it doesn't lead to admin action.

I've joined this instance because of the rules and the communist lean

No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia. Code of Conduct.

Be respectful, especially when disagreeing. Everyone should feel welcome here.

However it's clear that the worldnews modding rotten. Fascist/xenophobic/antisemite users have their posts alive while those who call them out get hidden or even banned.

As it is the main news community of the instance, I understand how it can be seen as an instance issue instead of user preference to use some smaller community.

Echoes of the 30s. Putin following the checklist from the Austrian painter and other news are displaying escalation after escalation

I'm sorry you see me as an enemy and act reactively. I see we the people as one and am not related to the image you need to attack.

Edit: and after all the compassion that horrible projection of a reply is what we see

Yea muricans are always a good example of the lot. Thanks for discussing and taking part in the philosophical pondering, it's not usual here!

It's not a metaphor relating to those. You can substitute the apple for anything you like, the fruit is not a relevant object. It just carries similar properties. They can be called 'Notexistilandia', 'United Territories of Nowhereon' or 'Countrystan'. Whatever helps.

You're very close with Chomsky and people not knowing!

What I mean is that the mystical prophecies of one true holy and pure — despite the evidence, like we've discussed, rely much on faith, instead of (and sometimes contrary) to knowledge. And general populations "knowledge", fooled, propagandized is just that — much closer to faith.

More Chomsky:

I think irrational belief is a dangerous phenomenon, and I try to consciously avoid irrational belief. On the other hand, I certainly recognize that it’s a major phenomenon for people in general, and you can understand why it would be. It does, apparently, provide personal sustenance, but also bonds of association and solidarity and a means for expressing elements of one’s personality that are often very valuable elements. To many people it does that. In my view, there’s nothing wrong with that. My view could be wrong, of course, but my position is that we should not succumb to irrational belief.

Idealistic nationalist supremacy is just a form of religion.

You misunderstood. I'm taking your word as is.

Government propaganda is good to realize!

Let's say we have a basket of apples. The world's most powerful apples. And they all look rotten and diseased, we know the reasons which make them rotten, it's peer reviewed and considered a fact.

So then we make a leap of faith. What if despite evvvvvvveeeerrrything, this one apple is actually pure and holy. And only a few know this for sure and they're not letting anyone else know the proof.

That's very wonderful but, kinda sketchy at the same time?

Modded as misinfo, worth to check the modlog... There were no links to any fake news sites nor information commented, just a realization that apparently all reports of even different cases can't possibly have any truth to them.

Trump's lawsuits could be an allegory. There's so many of them and similarly all of them have to be fake I guess. No fire where there's smoke

Very convenient. Maybe you're a chosen one and nobody else can't figure out that light flows in aether. Thanks!

Wait... Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tibet, Uyghurs, Philippines and the rest are all big fabrication 🤯

Global press really. It's been fascist ever since everywhere

Yea lol, every other day it's that "collapse imminent" and every other time it's "turning around and winning everything"