yata @ yata @sh.itjust.works

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also Hitler was an effective leader, which we should all remember as a cautionary tale about how effective horrible people can be

That is not a factual claim. He was very effective at gaining power, but his actual reign was far from effective, most of it counterproductive to his own goals, and the actual system of decision making in Nazi Germany was a huge mess.

Well some of us have, but a huge swath (perhaps a majority?) of people haven't and will happily continue to use these things as their main entry point for information seeking on the internet.

He was a paranoiac authoritarian who had no qualms about doing all kinds of illegal shit to stay in power and he got away with it without facing any legal repercussions for those crimes.

This is rightfully his legacy, especially for the GOP who learned a lot from him and he plays a huge part in why the GOP is the way they are today.

No, you said you assumed shit like that happens during war on both sides.

Remembered in the small town where he was killed only 25 years ago because of the same kind of racism which still permeates the place.

Your attempt at relativisation of this story is disingenous.

You are the only one doing that though. All you comments are basically projection (you can look up the definition of that term).

Bigotry is the overall term, homophobia is a subset of bigotry. You are the one attempting to redefine language in ways noone but yourself agrees with.

There are many kinds of bigotry, one of them is homophobia.

The line is that you don't criticise tankies/hexbear on lemmy.ml. They don't take kindly to that sort of thing.

So if Brexit even simply stoked his interest in foreign expansion, it counts.

That is not what he said. Through lack of one foreign market (EU) he was forced to seek other foreign markets. For all we know without brexit the company would be doing even better solely by operating in the EU, and that all the while nothing would have prevented him from operating in those other foreign markets besides the EU.

It is a coping quote, nothing else.

Those colours doesn't seem to go all the way through though. Scratch them for a moment and you will see the colours of the Russian flag appearing.

Well, that says a lot about you, but nothing at all about actual things happening in reality.

"These guys" held their own against the supposedly second largest army in the world for quite some time before receiving any significant help, and has now, despite all the headlines, regained quite a bit of their own territory which was lost to the Russian invasion, despite the fact that current military technology clearly favours defense over offense (in a scenario without air superiority).

They have also severely depleted the Russian military capability and most likely hindered Russia in invading and bullying their other neighbours for a long time. All for the price of some old hardware that was gathering dust anyway as well as a fraction of a bloated US military budget.

Your claim is a blatant lie. That is a fact. Your feelings have made you concoct a blatant lie which you have repeated countless times in this thread.

The "mentor" scenario which you have dreamed up and repeated ad nauseam in this thread, does not provide an actual explanation for by far the majority of gun deaths mentioned in the article.

The overwhelming majority of kids killing and killed with guns are associated with criminal gangs,

This is a blatant lie, and it does not get more true just because you repeat it countless times.

Even though a lot of gunnits certainly behaves that way, guns aren't actually drugs and can't be compared to drugs in any shape or form.

You are using the tired old fallacious gunnit claims about gun deaths only being "gang killings", which even the article in question thoroughly refutes.

Trying to solve it by taking away the guns is like trying to cure tuberculosis with Robitussin. It hasn’t worked, doesn’t work, can’t work.

Funny how it works in almost all other countries (and certainly in all other rich Western countries) but the US though.

What a bizarre subject to attempt to "muh both sides".

You don't have to wonder, this has been studied: Gun owners and their families are up to 8 times much more likely to kill themselves than are non-gun-owners.