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Pleasure doing business, good sir

It’s difficult to quantify, but I think there is a compelling argument to be made - just off of my head, WW2 led to:

• the fall of German autocracy/restoration of German democracy (though Hitler did kinda break that one in the first place)
• Italian and Japanese democracy
• redistribution of wealth/power in Britain
• the 4th french republic
• alignment of the European democracies
• establishment of the UN

It’s crazy that this isn’t even the first comment I’ve seen this week arguing that the Ukraine war is somehow a conspiracy by the West to sell more weapons, as if Russia didn’t just roll up and invade them, illegally and unprovoked

Bold to go with the pro-auth-left take

I’m just going to ignore the long responses to stuff I didn’t claim in the first place

Okay but this isn’t “oh no, there are tankies around”, it’s the admin of one of the largest Lemmy instances systematically suppressing information about massacres and genocide.

There’s quite a big gap between banning “opinions you don’t like” and defederating from a systemically auth-left instance, in the same way that defederating from an auth-right instance would be a no-brainer.

You had me for a moment there

Well sure, but I don’t think anyone is seriously proposing matriarchy as the reasonable alternative to patriarchy

Gender equality, however, does imply a fairer society

Yeah I guess waydroid is probably the way to go for TFT on Linux

That’s the maximum non-custodial sentence

There are dozens of us!

But that definition from Wikipedia doesn’t contain the contested part of the definition, that it is a “transitional system”

It’s okay for people with bad takes to be here too - that’s why the fediverse is special

The swastika doesn’t have the same associations with the Nazis in Asia

Make that bad boy unsigned, just to be safe!

The difference is that China claims to be neutral, whereas the US explicitly supports Ukraine

Like Russia and Germany did before WW2?

The $1bn is the first batch of weapons being sent that were funded by the (now passed) $61bn allocation

The Israeli $26bn number is their version of Ukraine’s $61bn

In the wise words of Ordinary Things:

people turn to angry politics and alternative narratives when rotting institutions refuse to show them a future worth believing in. Yes, there are crazy, evil people in this world, but they only get a foothold when the sensible ones stop giving a shit.

Don’t let the bastards grind you down

Why not just use type c headphones?

The 3.5mm thing has always baffled me, it feels like complaining your pc doesn’t have a VGA port, except the thing you connect costs like a fiver