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That division is much, much older. The beltway is full of people who benefit from corporations or come from wealthy families and are materially aligned against the working class, and their ideology reflects this. These people as a group stand to lose more from the democrats moving to the left and hurting the bourgeoisie than winning than staying in the middle and losing.

This is a common dynamic historically; liberals in power need the people to maintain power, but their interests aren't aligned with the people, so they pass policies that marginalize their own base of support, and so the conservatives take power and then do counterrevolution.

Further evidence that the democrats can be moved if we don't let them maintain the delusion they can win while trying to be republicans: The entire party told Biden to drop out when it was clear he had no path to victory.

Sadly Kamala was allowed to believe she could win while embracing the same policies and messaging that killed the Biden campaign. Instead of screaming at the party to campaign on overwhelmingly popular left policy necessary to win the election and use every power at the democrat's disposal to accomplish it, blue MAGA told anyone pointing out that we're headed back towards the waterfall to shut up and paddle harder.

VR had such a bright future around 2014; between VRChat, tech demos of VR browsers, big players like MS and Sony getting into VR, and generic hacks to port old games to VR, it seemed obvious that companies were going to start re-releasing old games in VR (since you couldn't run modern AAA games) and most every app would support VR and multiple users to make better use of the network effect.

Except instead 99% of games released for VR were just underwhelming tech demos and the only people who pursued creating a metaverse were short-sighted, rent-seeking, cryptobro parasites.

Try flipping it.

Those leaders were all elected, as were all but the lowest level of the communist party. Nearly every communist party is structured this way.

Yes, amateur astronomers can make out some of the clouds with a decent-sized reflector, and have even taken photos for us.

Well we still have Jupiter and Saturn.

The CIA's internal reports acknowledge that perception, while popular in the west, is not accurate.

At least one of them was killed for collaborating with nazis. Why did Stalin kill the rest of them?

Even wearing a swastika or flying a Nazi flag doesn’t mean you’re a murderer or that you intend to murder people

Are you not familiar with the political program of the nazis? The end result of neonazi's conspiracies is to justify violence against jews and other minorities.

He literally apologized

The apology and break failed to remove nazis from his community and failed to educate their defenders on how you're supposed to deal with nazis.

Should I follow you around the Internet forever now reminding everyone how you think being violent is a good thing, even after you say you are sorry for it and don’t want to hurt people?

You are free to tell anyone I speak to that I advocate for punching nazis. But that's not even what is being argued here, I am saying because he failed to expel nazis from his community and reeducate them after inviting them in, he shouldn't be given a platform and people who don't know any better should be reminded that he has failed to correct his mistake beyond some meaningless words.

Sure I stabbed you, but I apologized. No I'm not going to pull the knife out or fix the damage, but I've stopped pushing it in further.

Violence against nazis is good. If you are using your massive platform to normalize nazism, free speech doesn't apply to you and you should be censored. You don't beat nazis be engaging with them in the marketplace of ideas.

This conversation tells me he hasn't done enough to tell the nazis and their defenders in his audience to fuck off, and without action his apology is worth fuckall.

Fascism is when you don't engage with nazis and tell others not to engage with nazis.

He had a bunch of "Haha, I'm just being a nazi ironically and what even is a nazi, this symbol has lots of other historical usages" incidents, such as paying a foreigner to yell "death to jews" and doing a video where he was wearing a shirt with an iron cross on the collar.

I never thought of that, next time I talk to a Russian I'll ask. I suspect was probably more like watching Newsmax given the role Russian media plays in maintaining power. There's probably an editorial explaining why Yeltsin getting drunk and falling in a river in DC was actually a diplomatic masterstroke.

Protecting the people in eastern Ukraine was a justification they used, which they wouldn't have been able to use if the right-wing government the US propped up in kyiv hadn't passed discriminatory laws and failed to stop azov and friends from shelling them.

Putin wouldn't have been able to occupy the Russian-speaking parts of Ukraine if he invaded out of the blue, there would be a massive insurgency, let alone justify the necessity of the invasion to the people he depends on to remain in power if there hadn't been a coup.

But yes, Putin would never have come to power and former USSR countries wouldn't have a problem with right-wing nationalists if we hadn't supported Yeltsin's coup and then intentionally immiserated the population during the 90s.

They've been on this trajectory since 2014.

Was Putin also calling the shots when Europe's deal required Ukraine sell off its ports and power grid?

Ukraine was always going to get stripped for parts, that's why the west invested billions in making it happen.

Evil was winning, we're watching the collapse of the evil empire from within.