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  • The article doesn't really seem to make any moral argument (probably because it's unfinished - maybe don't post it until it is?). Yeah, Discord is financially unsustainable, but that's just because it's still in phase one of the enshittification cycle. At this stage, venture capitalists are basically subsidizing the service for everyone. Maybe I'm just myopic, but I don't really see anything morally wrong with enjoying a service paid for by a greedy billionaire. And once the enshittification ramps up, well, there are always alternatives.

  • The US didn't decide to start this war, but it still has to fight it or it's going to lose it.

  • It’s not our war. It’s not our fight. It has nothing to do with us.

    That's where you're wrong. America has a global empire, and Russia is one of the other powers trying to undermine and dismantle it. If America wants to keep its empire and the many benefits it brings, it has no choice but to defend it. Be thankful you're only having to spend money while someone else is spending lives.

  • The Ukrainians seemed pretty grateful for the help. One would have to be pretty thoroughly brainwashed by propaganda to sincerely believe that we're somehow doing more harm than good by providing aid to a nation fighting against an invader intending to commit genocide.

  • I don't find many reasons to be proud of my country, but the fact that we were the first to give tanks to Ukraine absolutely is one.

  • a plausible argument could be made on humanitarian grounds that a negotiated settlement as quickly as possible is the best of the bad options

    Absolutely not, that idea is based on a total lack of historical memory and amounts to nothing more than kicking the can down the road. Russia will not accept anything less than keeping the territories it currently occupies, and that's not an option. This invasion happened because Russia had been getting away with this kind of stuff for two decades. It's not Putin's first land grab. It was Chechnya in 2000, Georgia in 2008, Crimea in 2014, the rest of Ukraine in 2022. They took a small bite at first, and when they got away with it, they took a bigger bite next. And again, and again. Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Allowing Russia to get away with this and keep the territories it took guarantees another repetition of the same pattern less than a decade later with yet more devastating results. If we had nipped this in the bud, the war could've been avoided entirely. The second best time is now.

  • If this were on Reddit, I'd have no doubt that those comments are from Russian trolls. I doubt there are many of those here yet, so I guess they're just useful idiots who have had their brains washed.

  • Generations of having a chance to blow up children. vs maybe a short term push of the front, maybe.

    The thing you're forgetting is that the Russians are busy laying as many landmines as they can get their hands on all over eastern Ukraine. Using cluster munitions to drive the Russians out will result in less UXO than letting them continue doing that.

    With conventional weapons UA is already kicking ass.

    I guess we must be following different news outlets, then. All I'm hearing is that the Ukrainian counter-offensive is going a lot slower than planned. And if you can be sure of one thing in a war, it's that things are always worse than the belligerents are willing to admit.

  • Again, and for the last time, not kicking the Russians out of Ukraine as quickly as possible will hurt the civilians more. There are no good options, the US and Ukraine are choosing the lesser evil. If you disagree with that and think that there is a good way of kicking the Russians out quickly without hurting civilians, please, share.

  • I find it absolutely sickening and disgusting.

    So do I, but you know what? The damage the Russians are doing every day is worse; in case you haven't heard, they've been busy these last few months turning eastern Ukraine into one giant minefield. So the lesser of two evils it is.

  • Dan Carlin did an episode of his fantastic Hardcore History podcast on this, it's called Logical Insanity. I highly recommend it.

  • the options are not in fact committing borderline war crimes or accepting russian rule

    I can't help noticing that your claim of other options existing was not followed by even a single example.

    at least grow a spine and say it with your whole chest instead of shoving off the responsibility on said russians

    It is their responsibility. The fighting happens because Russia invaded, and it would cease immediately if it withdrew its troops back within its own borders. Every single casualty is 100% the fault of Russia. Calling me spineless is not very nice and more importantly not a very good way of arguing against my logic.

  • If that's what it takes to kick the Russians out of the country, then it has to be done; failing to kick them out would result in far more harm. The fault is still with the Russians, since if they weren't there, there would be no fighting and no casualties at all.

  • Yeah, but you have to weigh that against the harm that kicking the Russian out quickly will prevent. It's like chemotherapy. It fucks you up too, but less than it fucks up the thing that's killing you.

  • Hasn't Russia been using these munitions and worse all along? Screw them, let them reap what they sow.

  • That is true but not really relevant to what I said. By saying that it's working pretty well, you're in fact confirming my point that the presence or absence of downvotes matters. If they truly didn't matter, Beehaw would have no reason to disable them. Or, if Beehaw wanted to be a lightweight experience with no unnecessary fluff, it would remove both downvotes and upvotes.

  • If the numbers were pointless, there would be no reason to disable them.

  • Do people not use it anymore? I still do. I follow a boatload of different youtube channels, webcomics, blogs, etc. If there's some other way besides RSS to have all of those updates show up on a single page, I don't know it.