American voters are stupid

Democracy is when you have two options, a wrong candidate and a right candidate. And the elections process simply an IQ test

Congress is full of these fuckers. I don’t see why the presidency is special

Giving a country with a track record of violating treaties as long as Russia’s

Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post–Cold War Stalemate

The title of the book, Not One Inch, refers to James Baker’s famous statement to Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO would expand “not an inch” to the east.

A good book and worth a read, if you’re genuinely curious at the history leading to the current crisis.

But it’s a hard read for anyone who believes history started in 2014

every tankie hiding in the shadows can’t take the pressure anymore and HAVE to pile out to whinge about how unwinnable the war is

Being a Tankie is when you don’t want to fight a war? But being a conservative is when you do want to fight a war? And they’re both on the same side?

I feel bad for Ukrainian people having to endure not just a hostile invasion but scorn and skepticism

I feel bad for anyone trapped in a warzone and treated like fodder for the war machines.

But I’ve got no pity for the cheerleaders on the sidelines eager to trade human bodies for rhetorical points.

Nobody in this thread seems interested in saving lives. It is entirely an argument over territorial control

Yes us lemmy posters are all high ranking Ukrainian officials.

101st chairborne, to be sure. Tons of folks seem to think this war is a team sport that you just cheer at from the sidelines.

It’s not our decision to make how many people Ukraine is willing to sacrifice

It clearly is, or you wouldn’t be telling them the terms for peace.

The better question here is how many people is Russia willing to sacrifice

They’re not the ones negotiating loss of territory. You gotta quit this “Well I’m rubber and your glue” line of reasoning.

Nobody wants to accept that the celebrity comedian placeholder candidate who won on a generic protest vote years before the war started isn’t this generation’s Nelson Mandela.

I’m beginning to understand how the Ukrainians have lost to an army as incompetent and corrupt as the Russians.

You don’t reward a thief and murderer

We literally do and we do it regularly.

At this point, telling Russia to give the land back might as well be a land acknowledgement you read in between demanding Florida to back to the Cherokee and telling the Normans to leave England.

I wholeheartedly support shooting every uniformen Russian or allied you can find.

Well, quit wasting your time. Get down to Ukraine and win the war, then.

Don’t give up a single meter of land

By doing what?

A little tired of hearing this endless “well, if I were Ukraine, I would simply win the war and claim a trillion dollars in reparations and make Russia disappear off the map” Internet wish casting.

What do you do to extract any of these concessions that hasn’t already been tried? And how many more people are you willing to throw into the meat grinder trying?

I remember Hexbear admins flirting with a system to throttle new accounts, because they experienced a similar problem (troll accounts posting “Fuck Tankies!” as many times as possible before they get booted).

I know a few forums simply won’t let you create an account without an admin’s permission, which seems heavy handed.

Feels like there should be a good technical framework for addressing this. Idk what that is, though.

Ford saw it as a means of control. He dictates who gets to live in the suburbs, who gets the cushier factory jobs, and who earns the more lavish managerial salaries.

I don’t think his model was strictly intentionally good. It just so happened that baking your consumer base into your workforce guarantees a certain baseline in sales and promises growth that scales with the size of your business.

We pretend to work

They pretend to pay us

Broadly classifies as gross negligence and any business that wants to stay in business will be wise to make that info public.

But I’d rather just not end up in an ER to begin with.

Her, at the funeral: “He needs his glasses! He can’t see without his glasses!”

Fordism is dead

We outsourced all the manufacturing jobs and gutted the service sector

People acting like potluck Thanksgiving is a novel invention have lived a very privileged existence

No - literally rivers were on fire.

BP lit the Gulf on fire a while back. Nevermind the drought induced wildfires all through the Mountain West.

And gay bashing was mainstream, fully tolerated, very common.

Texas Senate Bill 12 is bringing it back.

Lakes were turning clear like swimming pools due to acid rain - kinda pretty, but totally dead.

We had a climate-related disaster every four days last year.

It doesn’t even exist and I’m already getting insufferably smug Apple heads telling me it’s the best one.

Rivers on fire, gay bashing, satanic panic, abortion clinic bombings, acid rain…

Okay, but we have all of that now, too. What was different?