Hexbear is holding pretty steady, I think there are just a lot of Ledditors elsewhere still who were never going to stick around longterm

Did msnbc really broadcast that?

https://merics.org/en/comment/chinas-social-credit-score-untangling-myth-reality

If operating in bad countries is a reason to have your little boycott, then not operating in Russia won't budge the dial because BK will keep operating in the US irrespective.

I'm sure an invisible mouse with an evil, human-level intelligence in its head and a total commitment to do the latter's bidding would have gone much better than what happened

I was about to say, Hexbear is very against stochastic violence, which on the left is called "Propaganda of the Deed" after a failed activist "experiment" to do just that. We reject it as a type of adventurism, i.e. doing something for kicks that isn't actually politically useful (and in fact is usually wildly detrimental).

their custom emojis are huge (I don't know if it's just me since I use sync) and often take up entire comment sections.

This is a, uh, compatibility problem. Viewed from hexbear.net, they are normal size. Devs are working on a fix.

I remember being young and convinced socialism was the way forward.

Did you actually do any studying about socialism during this phase, or is this the "Che Guevara T-Shirt" socialism I've heard so much about?

If you think the US would be disciplined about only attacking cartels after seeing the War on Terror, I have a bridge to sell you

Absolutely, I was just trying to be brief because of it being on lemmy.ml, where an anticapitalist text dump might understandably be seen as a derailment. Still, I should have included more of the "why," so thanks for your contribution.

The Brits called themselves communists, but you've spoken at length about how calling yourself communist means very little.

The Brits were morons or useful idiots and, while I hate Khrushchev and view him as a revisionist, it was correct for him to put down the color revolution lead by liberal reactionaries who called themselves communists.

Was West Germany expansionist?