I've noticed that lemmy as a whole is much more leftist than reddit (outside of political servers of course)
Depends on whether they've got something else to distract them really same as always. Could go either way. Anything involving their money could take away their focus.
Nope just follow me around here I suppose. I'm more active on Hexbear.net though and there's much much better and more educated comrades than myself there. I don't really think crypto was ever a threat, it certainly manage to convince people it was to sell itself to libertarians though.
This uhh. This is just nonsense right? I'm not aware of Ukraine having broken any of the defensive first lines let alone past any of the dragon's teeth lines. There's 2 more lines beyond those. Getting past these lines is necessary before getting even 10%, let alone 50%.
Or are they talking about something that happened much earlier? That's really confusing too because anyone that's been watching the map trackers knows nothing close to 50% ever happened. Certainly some pushback several months ago but hardly 50% ????
Mainly the part where an attack intended to destroy the building would be very easy but this is just mild damage. I mean that in the sense of it not being catastrophic rather than implying that this occurring to a religious building isn't upsetting, it's not a pleasant thing. The point being that when they intend to actually blow stuff up there's usually very little left over of the targets, which leads me to believe this wasn't the target.
Which is why I'm interested in seeing what hit it. I'm surprised there are no photos of the missile debris so far, there are in almost every single other attack as it's the information that validates a lot of information for international eyes.
Nah mate. You're just out of touch with mainstream politics here in Britain. Jeremy Corbyn defends the USSR. Diane Abbot defended Mao on national tv. John McDonnell's job is "to overthrow capitalism". Or the time John threw Mao's little red book at Osborne. Etc etc.
Mainstream elected MPs. Mainstream opinions.
Yanks are just out of touch with what a political left looks like because they have no left. It makes you think "this person must be a teenager" because the american left simply doesn't exist and you can't imagine what the left over here in europe actually looks like because you have no baseline experience of a left to draw from.
These people are the elected soft left demsocs lmao. But all of this shit would cause americans to start screaming the word tankie or whatever because it's so far outside their experience and education.
How can that be prevented or mitigated within something like the American political framework?
You'd need a revolution or an economic collapse to happen first to trigger an absolutely massive amount of introspection among their class. I doubt revolution is viable at the current moment in time with the size of and loyalty that the american military has to the american civil religion and see no likelihood of it becoming viable in the near future so economic collapse is likely the only possibility. Two things will happen as a result of it, the military around the world will have to be reined in because it simply won't be able to continue to afford it while also keeping the population in check, and also the bourgeoisie will get a scare from it occurring and have to ask themselves whether they want to continue to risk their existence in the global headquarters of capitalism. This would likely trigger new interest among them for a New Deal similar to the one Roosevelt implemented, which contrary to what americans think about him and other bougies of his time being "nice" it was actually implemented for the same reasons - stopping the threat of a working class revolution from occurring.
It might sound odd that an economic collapse would need to happen (which would make the country poorer) before seeing the ruling class implement better standards of living, welfare and protections. But it makes sense when you realise that these things are implemented not because the ruling class are nice but because they are threatened. Revolution is and always has been the primary threat that the working class can use to extort compromise from the ruling class. As we saw with Bernie, they are unwilling at the current point in time to allow it to go ahead, anyone that watched the democrats all conspire together to ratfuck him out of the race saw that.
This of course wouldn't fix capitalism. It would just make the poor live a little better and rein in some of the worst excesses of their class in society for the sake of maintaining their rule.
Is economic collapse likely or possible? Not right now. The american dollar being the world's global reserve currency allows them to print infinite amounts of money to prop up the system whenever it's under strain. Dedollarisation is underway worldwide as an effort to remove that ability from their toolkit, when a financial crisis hits and they no longer have that ability then such a collapse is quite likely, this of course depends on when the next 2008 happens but you can count on those occurring every 10-20 years or so because it's capitalism and the boom/bust is never ending.
Oh man we won't go extinct so we shouldn't worry about 80% of us dying ! Nevermind the absolutely hostile and inhospitable conditions those who do make it through will have for the rest of eternity.
Because nationalism is the accurate term for it and nationalism is a disease.
Cuba isn't "bribed" to have america occupying part of its sovereign land. They have been told to fuck off. They will not leave. Same in Iraq. Same in countless other countries. It has nothing to do with corruption and everything to do with americans simply doing what they want with their military because "just try and stop us".
Decimation was considered a harsh punishment even by the standards of the ancient Rome and was abolished. The fact that you use 90% survival rate to defend the ussr just shows how delusional you bolshevik tankies are.
Mate 90% survival rates pre penicillin are incredibly common, let alone in camp prisons as a result of proper prisons overflowing due to world war 2 conditions on top of food problems. Read a book. It wasn't until 1953 that these rates came down to standards that you'd expect when new industrial processes made penicillin widespread in the region. This stuff is extremely basic and is in practically every single book on the topic I shouldn't have to explain it to people but none of you actually read anything.
Nah that makes no sense mate.
Nah mate it's what I say to americans that see basic political terms as cringe because america has turned their entire system into a politically illiterate joke. You'd probably get a culture shock if you saw me using the word comrade but if you came over here you'd find it is in common use in labour parties all over europe.
I haven't told a single lie or engaged dishonestly with anyone. You can jog on if you think I'm reading past that sentence.
Ahh yes the famous american communist propaganda outlet Gallup which certainly isn't widely regarded worldwide.
This comment is dripping with sarcasm, in case you didn't notice.
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It wasn’t just a Reddit sentiment.
You're right, it was also a 4chan and far right sentiment.
What you're missing here is just how significant the right wing narratives are on reddit.
"Haha nothing to worry about guys" - this thread.
You’re applying US patterns to places you don’t understand.
I'm not american.
Interesting. I was unaware of other investment groups gone into coalition to make it happen. I was aware of several banks that are on the hook for $44billion though. All of which will definitely not see that money. Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Mizuho, Barclays, Societe Generale, and BNP Paribas.
The fact that such massive loans were taken out to make it happen doomed twitter from the start. The interest alone on these loans makes any monetisation strategy impossible. The company was never going to be able to pay it back.
Under capitalism the political class are subservient to the financial elite. You are making a hierarchy error, these people are puppets to the real elite.
Considering a lot of his financial backing for the acquisition was from the saudis
Where is this from?
Anti-corporate platforms don't generally appeal to people that built and uphold the existing corporate status quo.
The first wave here were anticapitalists, anarchists or communists. The second wave are the most anti-corporate "liberals".