just to be clear, we're talking about the people that created Lemmy and gave it to the world for free and do not attempt to control your personal opinion on political matters nor are telling you that you can't use the system they developed if you disagree with them politically.

Yes, I understand that quite well. For me its not just a matter of them dictating one thing or another, but its about attracting individuals that favor tankie perspectives simply by espousing some form of soviet apologia or defense for various aspects of the regime.
Birds of a feather and all that.
I've seen this happen numerous time and its precisely why I asked about it from the get go. A lot of leftist subreddits have been taken over by those who favor systems such as the soviet imperialist one simply because they allowed those views under the guise of "leftist unity".

then make sure to investigate the authors of every single system you use and then decide to stay or leave based on your congruence with their political opinions to ensure you maintain consistency. i believe you'll find it nearly impossible to find a place

Yeah, that's what I'm trying to do. Don't think it's possible either, but that won't stop me from frowning upon "X imperialist system was bad, BUT" kinda takes and trying to steer clear from that crowd.

Regardless, so far it seems that lemmy.world is quite lovely, while lemmy.ml gives me quite a number of red flags (no pun intended). As long as that works, I'm fine with it. Worst case scenario I find another online crowd to hang with.

but if you want to criticize states and their respective economical systems based on the human toll, you might want to consider all of lives lost to manifest destiny, slavery, and then followed by CIA meddling in Latin America. if you're from any country in Western Europe that was a colonial power, then I don't even have say anything. if you're from elsewhere without Western European ancestry, then I applaud your inherited innocence and I wish you good luck.

I'm not from America nor am I from any of the western European countries, that being said there's no "inherited innocence" for my country. Even though we haven't been an empire and we have been under the occupation of a series of empires - Roman, Mongol, Hun, Byzantine, Russian, Ottoman, Soviet, Austro-Hungarian - which we survived and fought against for centuries, but we still had slavery and serfdom for hundreds of years, with slavery being done on the basis of ethnicity. I mean for goodness' sake, one of the most well known historical figures of my country is a guy who impaled ottomans on giant wooden spikes through their taint or anuses and lined the streets with their corpses - that doesn't exactly scream progressive.

Anyway, wow mucho texto, such leftist, wow. Not the end of the world, some things work for me, others don't, what can you do.
Thanks for the comment though!