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It's understandable to think Russia just started the war in 2022 out of nowhere if you lived on the regular internet this whole time and had nothing but mainstream liberal sources. If this was Instagram or a more "normie" website, for lack of a better term, I'd be totally empathetic with libs who think Ukraine and Palestine are comparable. But being so incurious as to still believe that's the only version of events despite being on Lemmy, where it's pretty easy to spend 5 minutes reading what the "tankies" have to say and understand there's a different historical narrative where the war started in 2015, is just so sad.

Or another way to think about it: having borders and ports instantly means "minding your own business" implies minding other countries' business.

There's no elaborate argument here, it really is as simple as "the term Cowbee said is vague and gets applied selectively has a clear definition" and the definition may as well just be "a tankie is a communist who supports bad things"

it's the principle of the thing

now if only there was someone around who could unionize that brewery...

What's a good one to use now then? I have been on DDG just because I know it's better for privacy than Google and lets me mostly turn off the AI garbage.

I wonder what % of people who still use Google are tech literate enough to switch to DDG or some other search engine once Google decides to fully start putting the ads inside the AI results.

guys I'm thinking maybe any attempt at talking about human rights or duties that isn't firmly grounded on the world as it actually exists and its material conditions is prone to producing silly statements like this

The Kingdom of Heaven will be exactly as it is now. Heavensgaters don't really have beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like on a child's toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded. Heaven isn't change -- not even incremental change. It is control. Over yourself and the world. Exercise it. Look up at the sky, at the dark shapes of UFOs trailing Comet Hale-Bopp flying across. Ask yourself: is there something sinister in Heavensgate? And then answer: no. God is in his heaven. Everything is normal on Earth.

French pervert sub: but actually my libido is part of the basic relations of production

Don't get me started on Sisi hypno.

If someone has a theory that can better explain the facts of the world than what they see posted around, it's nice to share it. Every particular failure of liberalism to explain reality leaves a gap that can be filled with a better explanation. In this case, the theory partially put forth seeks to put Trump and the current failures of his administration as an aberration and a departure from a normative, desirable state of American politics where things like this do not happen. Such a state is a myth. There is no world where the US federal government would put $300B in funds toward anything we would remotely call good.