That happens to a country who had its ass kicked by a coalition, not a treasured trading partner and strategic middle-east asset.

This planet is hard to bear.

Those will be pretty ironic if it ever goes to the Hague.

Which it won’t, they’re not a defeated enemy, they’re a treasured trading partner. But it’s nice to dream.

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Yo, is it really so inappropriate?

No, nobody actually cares. Lefties are really, really good at creating things to scold other lefties about.

the people will finally get sick of sacrificing their sons

This is what happened in the US with Iraq and Afghanistan, arguably similar forever-wars instigated to benefit a few. But holy fuck, it took nearly two decades.

The modern internet and media age in a nutshell: “Everything you believe in is succeeding and your enemies are getting DESTROYED with facts and logic.”

Also, backing up the request to check sources. Some data just asks if you live in an “owned home” and a vast number of young people are just living with their families and parents now through adulthood. That counts to some surveys as “owning a home.”

I think a lot of the sentiment comes from the absurd difficulty in getting there and maintaining it now. Single-salary home ownership is just dead and buried for the middle-class and even with more than one person working full-time, it’s a grinding slog to make monthly payments and expensive upkeep that never ends.

Thankfully the US got there first, so we can all see where the conservatives around the world are headed.

I really wish that it would realistically serve as an international warning, but I’d be surprised if the scourge of weaponizing atomized worldviews and the attention-span erosion hasn’t seeped into every corner of the developed world. Corporations are the engine that drive this trend of fear mongering and authoritarian rule, and even if we see a bit of pushback here and there, they don’t recognize borders and see every nation as a ripe field to reap and have more patience and resources than any progressive group.

We should all argue about it.

Meanwhile some mysterious, highly charismatic and intelligent stranger we never met nor talked about will magically appear and have a full set of perfect progressive values that everyone can agree on and yet have no qualms about using violence to achieve those values. We will have clear-cut borders and divides between the people who are opposed to the new regime and those mighty leftist warriors who always march-lockstep with whatever leader we elect.

Literally. They are collecting Russian kickbacks on one side, and collecting ransom payout on the other.

Meanwhile Ukrainian citizens are being murdered by an expansionist aggressor and our own nation is trying to twist the narrative so that it’s a “war between two leaders” so that it seems petty and pointless to US citizens.

And the worst part is our collective attention spans are so low, that this actually works. We have a collective attention span of only a couple years, anything past that is now forgotten in the endless haze of scrolling and sensationalism.

Exit polling after Trump was elected to his second term revealed this basically. People said they didn’t know if there was a meaningful difference between the candidates and many people just voted for whoever seemed “more genuine” and while they weren’t necessarily wrong that Trump is a more “genuine” person than Harris, it still meant that most people had forgotten what Trump’s first administration was like, just four years prior.

In fact, in conversations with people, I’m more and more baffled and horrified how many people don’t have strong memory anymore. Things we did a year ago together have become fuzzy and lost, anything before that seems to be almost non-existent unless it made a huge impact. The epidemic of scrolling for dopamine hits is impacting our shared memory of reality.

Oh I would advocate for learning to pick up the goddamn phone and just calling your family members and saying hi, but that is such a lost art that I don’t even try to recommend it to younger people who don’t even know what the number-pad on their phones is for.

As a veteran of all these spaces, I feel like Lemmy feels superior for being what reddit was circa 2007, a small, underground but tight-knight community of free-agents and strong, independent thinkers. With less underage sexual abuse material. (As far as I know.)

It’s funny because despite being a site that seems to openly take pride in being further left than reddit, a lot of the people are the exact same people that they hated in reddit; a lot of isolated white male young american gamers with poor social experience, so left to its own devices this site would become a carbon-copy of reddit, warts and all.

Exactly, and as long as everyone is freaking out about will-they-or-wont-they on these radical ideas like deporting millions of people or invading canada or shutting down democracy, in the background entities like Palantir have soared in power and reach because nobody senses nearly the threat from that vague, intangible thing as they do from armed ICE agents marching on peaceful neighborhoods.

But in the long run, a nationwide surveillance and data-gathering program will allow them to quietly and effectively depose all opposition without it even making the news.

She was promising my brother that she was “in love” with him and that she wasn’t in fact, dating multiple men from other countries at the same time. (Spoiler: she was seeing multiple men from other countries.) But he didn’t even want to be with her, so I guess he chose to overlook suspicious behavior. She started asking him for large sums of money to help with kids she suddenly revealed she had the moment he got back to the states. It was a weird fucking trainwreck, not helped by the fact that he was deep down the manosphere of insecurity and thought “western women weren’t subservient enough.”

He got eventually went crazy and took a weapon to a school to “secure mates” and went to jail and shit fell apart even worse from there.

I’ve gotten pushback from places I really wouldn’t have imagined for saying that we all need to kill our social media, starting with Twitter.

I do not care if you keep a facebook account open just to talk to your dear aunt Ethel over the holidays but PLEASE, Lemmy lefties… speaking directly at you right now.

DO NOT KEEP USING TWITTER.

When you use twitter you generate views for other things, those views translate into monetary rewards for people in other countries who have been paid to destabilize your country. You are not saving anyone, you’re not helping anyone. It’s a half-dead platform that empowers some of the worst people in the world.

“But people use it in other countries to organize resistance and several other excuses that make me sound addicted!”

I do not care. They have other means. You’re not a revolutionary. Just put it away and spend that scrolling time walking and meeting people and reading about local progressive candidates in your area you can back and support and actually make a fucking difference instead of trying to get your twitter arguments clipped and shared on reddit.

The moment your culture makes you feel any kind of superiority or entitlement to make others feel bad it becomes a problem, no matter the source of those feelings or who it’s directed at.

They have no intention of doing any actions towards citizens critical of the government right now, they’re already swimming against a tide of hate towards the administration’s overreach.

Not yet at least. The idea here, like with everything so far, is to introduce the idea, let it keep bubbling up once in a while, and then we all get sick of the story and stop caring so much when it gets brought up again, but this time more seriously.

Have a sibling like this. They went to Thailand and shacked up with a scammer for a few months, did the whole thing where he promises to take care of her, fled to the US and ghosted her. Just scum preying on scum and ending as classlessly as you could expect.

That became his whole identity for years. “When I traveled in Asia…”

Bruh, you traveled from your bungalow that our dad paid for to the beach and back every day while contracting god-knows-what from someone you said had a “prostitute’s black book” in her handbag but you explained it as “she’s very social.”