Yeah, those are very helpful, minority victims don’t deserve help as we all know.

Yeah, that’s knowledge available to you for 12.99 per month, or if you prepay for the whole year, only 129.99!

They should make another one to share. IDK why they would only make one to lord it over us. Oh, it’s the French. Then it makes sense.

The trans community picked up as its mascot since the colours of it, the blue shark with the pink mouth and white teeth, resemble the colours of the trans flag if I know correctly.

And they are also pretty cute.

I don’t know how to tell you, but dude, your country (and many others) is literally on fire every year. Even if we did something very drastic, like keep up the COVID lockdowns, Florida is going to be flooded. The United States will lose towns, villages, cities, territory it will never recover. The country will be full of climate refugees. It is like a war where you can’t shoot back. I don’t know how else to put it.

How long have you been trying to reform healthcare? And it’s still not getting better, is it? Only maybe “glacially”. Trump’s regressive changes weren’t glacial. He undid half a century of alliances and trust in years. Sure, vote Biden, but voting Biden is not a complete solution, it’s not even a band aid. It’s just the saner half of the US trying to hide from the next bullet.

So no, glacial change - “slowly but surely” - won’t cut it. We need radical change, right now, and maybe we will end up with something liveable in 25 years.

What? And the country’s name is Ukraine without “the”.

IDK where dessalines and nutomic are from, they get their funding from a Dutch EU initiative targeting FOSS internet initiatives. The EU sponsors all kinds of stuff like this, I’ve seen funding for a FOSS AI stack built on RISC-V hardware. It would be pretty cool if all these initiatives would catch on and bear fruit.

The Fediverse is far from US-centric though. Maybe your instance is, but most people will come from different instances as long as you are federated, and Lemmy itself is an EU project.

If anything, this is an EU-based social media website, Reddit was the US-based one.

it’d permit the UK lower barriers to agricultural imports more than the European Union Customs Union would permit for.

Is this still about the shitty US chlorinated chicken that we’ve already had a long-ass trade war about?

The way should be socialism and collective help for the poor, free market capitalism and taking risks for the rich. The point is, the more you have, the less the system should help you. In many places, it’s the other way around.

But we also need weapons of our own to prevent the government from physically fighting us.

And the most important and effective weapon is collective action. The reason people look weird at Americans about gun culture is because alone, you can have as many guns as you want, the police will bash your head in either way. Together, you don’t even need guns, you can cripple the government in a week by just not going to work.

And that ability is incredibly heavily regulated in the US. From our perspective, the US is the country where people don’t have the ability to fight the government.

That said, guns can be good against nazis at your door, but at that point, the government has long failed at taking out the trash.

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Take one of their most recent videos, titled “A Moral Case for Capitalism,” narrated by British conservative Daniel Hannan. Hannan is a high-ranking member of the Conservative Party in the House of Lords — none of which is mentioned in the video. He’s identified only as the author of a book called Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World.

That’s a succinct way of summing it up that the world would be a better place if this guy wasn’t in it.

Not really, as it is not really a prediction. Moldova is already actively being threatened, as well as Taiwan. It’s not me predicting this, this is the official policy of Russia and China. China is also quite obviously looking at Ukraine as a model for a prospective invasion of Taiwan. The fact that they didn’t launch the invasion yet offers some hope that they don’t trust Russia to win, else they would have already started an invasion using Ukraine as cover.

From 1990-ish up till the last few years, most of Europe could live in a world where there was no credible way a nuclear ICBM would ever fall on their homes. That has changed sadly, and it is enough for me to feel that we’re in a new Cold War.

That’s my point exactly. No revolution ever happened, the same power structures that kept the USSR working the way it did keep Russia in the same path.

Yeltsin was a highly placed party member as well before becoming president. You could say he was liberal, but so was Orbán during his first term.

Or algorithmic credit scores like in the US.

I wouldn’t compare interwar Germany and post-USSR Russia this way. On the one hand, post-WWI Germany absolutely had dictates placed on them that were big enough and were meant to cripple the country. On the other hand, WWI wasn’t about democracy, but that the autocrats ruling Germany wanted colonial empires, like the autocrats ruling the Entente had.

Yes, electing Hitler was not the correct path, but I guess it’s hard to see any path at all when English tourists laugh at the cheap prices at the café you work at while you wouldn’t be able to afford even one of them from your wages.

Russia did not turn out better, since there was no real regime change after the end of the USSR. Putin was in the KGB. I’m sure most people who are in power now were in the elite in the USSR as well.

It’s not “the people not yet ready for democracy”, it’s that the instruments of power had the same people manning them. If it was just the people, a lot of the US seems “not yet ready for democracy” with being hell-bent on electing a dictator.

If Russia wins, the next country that will experience what Ukraine is experiencing is Moldova and Taiwan. Then maybe Georgia and the Baltics.

It would be the end of the period of relative peace since the end of the Cold War in Europe.