Candelestine @ Candelestine @lemmy.world

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Show me some evidence. Don't just say it like Trump says his election was stolen. Quit acting like a fascist.

I don't think you seem to be aware of their actual actions as much as you have misconceptions about the actual statistics.

Do you honestly think 100% of them voted for Trump, even the first time around, before he showed his true colors? You got facts to back that up, or just circle-jerking beliefs based on your feelings?

Yes, there are a lot of moderate conservatives that also paid attention in history class and know exactly what a fascist takeover looks like.

Fascists, libertarians and religious true believers are not always fond of each other. Their party is a coalition party, a function of our two party system. We gain nothing from ignoring this.

Think about it. Does it help them in any way when they paint us out as all rabid communists trying to destroy America? Not really, it just keeps their base dumb.

Us painting them out as all happy fascists similarly does nothing helpful for us, it's just circlejerking.

Listen to some actual conservatives, so you know what the opposition is up to. It won't hurt you, you won't get converted or something, so long as you actually believe in progress. Progress is the unifying element that ties our coalition together, while resistance to change is what ties theirs. Chris Christie fucking hated Trump though. Liz Cheney wants him in prison, and led the Jan 6th committee thing.

It's important though. We need a firm grasp on reality, not our own fantasies and oversimplified dream worlds, if we are actually going to put fascism down where it belongs with the massive numbers it will require. We need to focus on the truth, if we want our progress to go in any kind of helpful and healthy direction. I can't understate how important this is.

Pokemon. It's just a franchise of watered-down jrpgs imo.

No, there's been a big backlash against Trumpism for awhile now. It's just not nearly big enough to defeat it. But it's still something we can use.

Don't paint them all into one big camp. That's what they do to us, and it's dumb. We're better and smarter than that. They're all individuals, otherwise it would just be 100% Trump-train.

Really, saying all repubs are the same is no different from saying all dems are the same. It's just not accurate, it's not the truth. Anything telling you otherwise is shitty propaganda, trying to mislead us from the inside.

We value truth and honesty, because they're necessary for progress. The truth is hard, often very ugly and challenging to work with, but its important.

tbf, that's exactly how freedom is supposed to work. We very specifically don't want them to actually effectively force the student body to cease all tobacco activities. That's draconian and should be unacceptable.

Although the report did not give a reason for the firing of Alexander Kudryavtsev, the influential Russian Orthodox Church called it religious discrimination.

Yeah, I don't think they care.

Anyone else find it funny how the values bleed over in both directions? It's westerners that would complain about discrimination, in Russia, that's just life. Life is hard, so no whining, more or less. Off to the front lines with you.

One big problem is when you think the shittiness is going to be fixed now. Those employees weren't the root of the problem, which is still down there and growing. It's not Jews or "Illuminati" either. It's harder than that.

So, this line of thought is not going to get AI fakes permitted, it's going to get rule 34 banned.

We've been censoring sex shit for a long ass time, in case you haven't noticed. The recent trend of information freedom is not going to defeat that old religious puritanical bs, and people's wishes for privacy on top of it.

Trump would shut that shit down fast. Conservatives want people reproducing, not masturbating, and he has christian supporters to keep in line, who do not like porn.

The concern is that when a strongman is in power and backed into a corner, they have very few ways out of that corner. Their systems are designed in ways to suppress the possibility that someone will try to coup them, and to keep the population from getting too unstable.

One of the more reliable ways to keep the ball rolling is to keep the situation so ugly and chaotic that its too costly for anyone to want to come in and replace them.

It looks like madness to us, but when you look at it through the lens of self preservation atop a fundamentally corrupt system lacking in checks and balances, it starts to make a sort of twisted sense.

At the end of the day, Russia is more or less immune to ground invasion, due to the nuclear threat. So, there isn't a whole lot of reason not to broaden the conflict, just to buy a couple more years of personal safety for the guy on top.

One rational way to attempt to head that off is to power up to the degree that a ground invasion would rapidly fail, not buying a couple years, but instead just hastening the decline through more military catastrophes. So, free people may consider mobilization, to posture strength and scare off aggression. Posture strength and sabre rattle, so you don't have to fight a war.

Or, y'know, we could just arm Ukraine and let them do the job. But Putin is undermining that effort with every resource at his disposal already.

It's unlikely to be WW3 at any rate, because Xi Jinping would want no part of such a dangerous and short-sighted undertaking. Though, he could use the distraction to try to take Taiwan.

Having seen and been moved by Violet Evergarden, which if I remember right was produced there, I have to say ... I think justice is served here.

The company is a rare bright spot in a very ugly and difficult industry.

I disagree, I think it would be easier. I think they'd probably starve them all. Nothing short of UN sanctions could stop them.

People call it a siege, but its not a real one. It could be. Humans require 2000 calories a day, roughly.

And WP is frequently used in smoke applications, where it is permitted. It's not completely banned. While I won't say they aren't misusing it to cause fear and suffering, it is a common tool employed by armies for use outside of deadly munitions.

At any rate, thanks for answering. I understand better.

I think left to your satisfaction would be little further than most everyone else wants him, tbf. lol You can't acknowledge any of the progress he's made though? Even like, a tiny bit?

Regarding Gaza, btw, they don't need our glide bombs to commit a genocide. There's a whole lot of ways to do an ethnic cleansing, so, you can't necessarily stop it just by stopping the weapons. It's not that simple.

We'd have to sanction them or something, that'd probably do it.

It's regional. Your experiences wherever you live are not reflective of the experiences of people that live nearby to Amish communities, where they are not a rare or amusing curiosity. They're just the people down the highway a bit.

were identified by their neighbors as members of a different ethnic group.

There's simply nothing good that comes from this, except a comforting sense of superiority from any majority group, that is not necessarily deserved.

We have Amish here in the US, that have lived cloistered lives for centuries now, keeping to their own culture. But when you meet one out-and-about, you don't necessarily immediately jump to "Amish", even though they are pretty recognizable. They're just accepted, as a normal part of American society in this area, that belongs. Their Amish identity is simply not very important, nothing important comes from focusing on it. Since they're common, you just get used to them.

tbf, my American opinion is that we do need to pay to protect the safety of our politicians if we want them to have the courage to stand up to entrenched power. Otherwise its just too easy to cow them. Just because we believe in throwing them out via elections doesn't mean everyone agrees with that method.

With news? Yes, unless I am specifically talking about the past.

News goes bad like dairy products, generally speaking. I'll occasionally dig something old up, like I could dig this up if I was talking about the 2020 election. Or if I wanted to make a point about dems and big money being a historical problem.

But for the current day, always best to play it fair. Especially among people you might realistically be able to convince or who are already allies.

So, imagine some idealistic leftist reads this, then has a conversation with their mainstream dem parents about politics. They passionately quote the information from this article, not realizing it is out-of-date. Their parents, quickly checking for themselves, see that our young idealist is just completely full of shit, the information they gave is simply incorrect.

Does this help or hurt the leftist cause?

Real life is hard, I'm afraid. It's full of traps and nuance that you can't just paper over with emotion and faith. This is why being honest and up-front encourages a healthier and more effective resistance.

No, it very much matters. It could be worse, it could be better. But one thing is certain is that OP is willing to misinform. News is rightfully expected to be recent.

Regardless, if we don't begin our political discussions with honesty, we don't deserve to even have them. That's just another form of wielding undeserved power to pursue personal goals.

You don't have to be a fascist to be power hungry.