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It's as if leftists do not actually like Putin or any of the other ghouls on the Russian side, but are instead critical of NATO and willing to consider NATO opponents as rational actors instead of cartoon villains.

Edit - I didn't think this would need an /s but clearly it does.

The fediverse leans left overall, but there are still plenty of reactionaries around.

The status quo is hard to change. The British are responsible for changing the status quo from "don't really care" to "illegal." That also has effects on how people grow up thinking about LGBT rights, which is how you get support for a law that's ratcheting up the oppression.

I don't think this article should be read as "the Brits are fully responsible, period," but as an example of how the many harms of colonialism still leave marks today.

e.g. removing old.reddit

Shit, are they planning this?

Prescott Bush?

Shouting "whataboutism" every time someone brings up context isn't lazy?

You can judge governments against perfection, you can judge them against the governments they replaced, or you can judge them against peer governments. The two realistic options involve comparisons, and those types of comparisons happen to be a key component of what passes for international law, too.

The pure (libertarian) socialists' ideological anticipations remain untainted by existing practice. They do not explain how the manifold functions of a revolutionary society would be organized, how external attack and internal sabotage would be thwarted, how bureaucracy would be avoided, scarce resources allocated, policy differences settled, priorities set, and production and distribution conducted. Instead, they offer vague statements about how the workers themselves will directly own and control the means of production and will arrive at their own solutions through creative struggle. No surprise then that the pure socialists support every revolution except the ones that succeed.

I wonder how the government of nk earned those sanctions?

"We do horrible things to them, but we're the good guys so they must deserve it"

“We were heavily geared for export. We’d be selling to Finland, Sweden, Norway, Ireland, Netherlands, Italy, Spain. We had Hungary in the pipeline. And it all disappeared with Brexit.”

Looks like it was meant for export here.

If opiods were as cheap as this person claims and as deadly as cops claim, the U.S. would have dropped them on Afghanistan, not encouraged the locals to grow them.

You can return empty bottles in some states, but it's for 5 cents. The guy I spoke to last Thursday about his fentanyl addiction told me he needed about $100 to get his fix for the day back when he used. It's just absurd.

Wonder what the milk to iPhone exchange rate is these days

It's such a comical lie, it's almost insulting how bad it is

[Removed a bit too much hostility.]

I work with homeless people, many of whom have substance abuse issues. I've heard of all sorts of ways to get money for drugs (by the way, $2-4 isn't going to get that done, not even close) and have never heard of anything close to this ridiculous.

It's unbelievable. As someone else pointed out, with selling them you're looking at $40, not $2-4, for standing at an intersection or in a park. And you don't need to do it 30-40 times to get your fix.

You'd tell me it's just CIA propaganda or something.

And you know this because...? It is actually possible to dismiss some unreliable/contradicted sources, accept others, and view more iffy sources with skepticism but not write them off entirely.

I literally can't read it very well.

It's extremely easy to read on your phone if you zoom in. You also mentioned that you could download it, like a PDF. You just don't want to read it for some reason.

I have seen homeless who buy bottled water on SNAP only to dump and resell the bottles so they could get cash for their addictions.

If you're going to lie, why make up the most nonsensical lie imaginable?

I didn't say you demanded sources; I said you're doing the reddit debatelord bit of "if you don't have sources I demand them and if you do they don't matter." I had already provided a source, so of course it didn't matter.

I see you're still refusing to read that source, which talks in detail about the various parts of the initial months of the war, including the northern attack towards Kiev.

That link is perfectly legible and incredibly relevant. You just want to pull the "if you don't have sources I demand them and if you do they don't matter" bullshit.

Other countries are criticized non-stop basically everywhere but small communities like this.