Melvyn Goldstein is one of the most famous Tibetan anthropologists. in the 90s, there was a ton of atrocity propaganda about forced sterilizations in Tibet, almost exactly like what's currently being alleged in Xinjiang. Goldstein's research essentially disproved it, and now even Tibetan exile organizations largely accept the reality.
it was a real wake up call when I saw ancoms and ultralefts decrying "authoritarianism" in places like Bolivia and Venezuela and Cuba. If these places are irredeemable to you, then you're really not aiming to accomplish anything. makes me laugh when I see their example societies, and they're celebrating some Korean gangster warlord in Manchuria. Yeah, if they were alive in the 30s, and imperialists wanted that guy gone, they definitely would've found it intolerably authoritarian too.
what do you mean regardless? you literally only mentioned his code. and yeah, kiwifarms certainly has been spreading slander about him to try and ruin his reputation and hurt him emotionally. I don't know why such a terrible person would need to have so many disproven lies told about him by incels.
Sapkowski is a troll who lies in interviews, and has never given a straight answer about where his politics lie. In the Hussite Trillogy, the main character literally says in the 2nd book that he's joining the hussites to establish "Communism" by name which is pretty impressive considering it's 1426.
Damn. I thought Pao was alright, because she criticized reddit informally associating with Ghislaine Maxwell, and was forced out of reddit after she took the blame for making it more inclusive, while the new CEO kept all her changes and continued down the same path, only worse.