[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 63 points 3 months ago

He's still not good, but he's a rational actor. The west is living in the world of what plays well in the media; he's at least living in reality.

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 61 points 4 months ago

Why are you concerning yourself with this?

Goes on to make 30 comments in the thread

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 65 points 7 months ago

You're saying Ukraine's intelligence chief is wrong? Smdh just what a Russian bot would say

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 66 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Let's set aside the multiple issues with "I think one of my distant ancestors lived here 2000 years ago, or maybe just other members of my religious group, therefore I have a right to live here today" and assume that yes, that sort of historical/ancestral claim gives comtemporary Jewish people a right to live in Palestine. Even in the most generous light imaginable, it would not give them a right to build an ethnostate by committing genocide on the current inhabitants. Israel is so far past anything that could be reasonably granted from ancient Jews living in Palestine that there is no possible defense along those lines.

Or are we strictly talking about western powers giving the Jewish people a 'homeland' after the second world war and the holocaust?

Yes, that's what people mean when they refer to Israel as a colony of Europe/the U.S.

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 60 points 8 months ago
[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 62 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

a fledgling democracy

Sees notably corrupt country the U.S. couped in 2014, where even the anti-corruption president has personal funds stashed in offshore bank accounts

is-this "Is this a fledgling democracy?"

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 61 points 1 year ago

Russia and Ukraine may have agreed on a tentative deal to end the war in April, according to a recent piece in Foreign Affairs.

“Russian and Ukrainian negotiators appeared to have tentatively agreed on the outlines of a negotiated interim settlement,” wrote Fiona Hill and Angela Stent. “Russia would withdraw to its position on February 23, when it controlled part of the Donbas region and all of Crimea, and in exchange, Ukraine would promise not to seek NATO membership and instead receive security guarantees from a number of countries.”

The news highlights the impact of former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s efforts to stop negotiations, as journalist Branko Marcetic noted on Twitter. The decision to scuttle the deal coincided with Johnson’s April visit to Kyiv, during which he reportedly urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to break off talks with Russia for two key reasons: Putin cannot be negotiated with, and the West isn’t ready for the war to end.

Foreign Affairs is a Kremlin propaganda outlet now?

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 62 points 1 year ago

You get plenty of good folks in programming, but you also get high volumes of:

  • Stemlords
  • Bazingas
  • Temporarily embarrassed millionaires
  • Labor aristocrats
  • Misogynists

Lots of underlying drivers of reactionary thought.

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 64 points 1 year ago

Goofy emojis help, as does the anti-debatelord logout culture

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 63 points 1 year ago

the only viable left leaning political party in the US

I vote for Democrats because shit, why not? But what is the worth of a party that:

  • Does not function as a party (single defectors routinely kill major legislation without consequence)
  • Is incapable of countering the rising tide of fascism, or unwilling to do so
  • Has no plan to address the Supreme Court, which will continue to kill anything legitimately good if left unchecked
  • Is too beholden to capital to push even the most tepid climate change legislation (the Green New Deal)
  • Constantly attacks its left flank, preferring to chase the votes of suburban reactionaries
  • Isn't even reliably pro-labor
  • Tailed popular movements on all sorts of civil rights issues
  • Still can't be bothered to even de-schedule marijuana, the most slam-dunk popular policy one could imagine + a huge driver of mass incarceration
  • Is on basically the same page as Republicans with respect to foreign policy
  • Generally offers nothing besides "at least we're not as bad as Republicans, most of the time"

Where is that party going? It's never going to meaningfully address climate change, it offers only crumbs to the working class, and any social change has to be led from the outside.

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 62 points 1 year ago

You're right! This time the conman is totally telling the truth!

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 60 points 1 year ago

How does he manage to be 100% right but still sound like a piss baby

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