“You don’t need a formal conspriacy when their interests converge.” “It’s a big club, and you’re not in it”
That being said, very likely that - like Xitter - they intentionally amplify activity that benefits their interests. We know for a fact that Reddit was founded on astroturf.
(And as we’ve seen under Trump), those ties can be abused.
You mean because the holder of the highest position in government is upset about the exercise of free speech by PBS and NPR?
Those ties that we have seen where the government is trying - and so far failing - to crush those outlets for dissent, and are actively being sued for it? That abuse?
Saturn is a hexagon, it just spins so fast that it looks round from the side. The rings are speed lines.
Uranus and Neptune are two hemispheres, they were once joined at the edge like a buttocks.
Mars is a concave mirror-shape. Mercury is just the reflection of the sun bouncing off Mars and hitting stellar swamp gas that floats near the Sun’s tip.
Venus is the only actual sphere, it’s just not a planet. It’s a death star. That’s why the surface is so hostile, to deter hijackers.
Yeah, everything is fine, because human is here and is even paying attention to dog. All will work out in the end.
Is this the birth of the Flat Sun theory?
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I’m not making light of casualties, I’m making light of the baseless claim that there even could be casualties, because I reiterate:
If they had identified Ukrainians smuggling weapons platforms into the country, the whole operation would have failed.
You think if they found spotters deep in Russian territory near their nuclear bombers the operation would have succeeded?
So, you’re not gonna defend the claim that we should worry about retaliation? Going to pretend that Russia will do anything it wasn’t already trying to do, and just move the conversation elsewhere? This is so incredibly bad faith.
To quite treating this bloodbath as a fucking football game.
Congratulations, it’s not working. You just sound like a cheerleader yourself.
Lol what unreported casualties do you imagine there could even be? The drone operators developing carpal tunnel? If they had identified Ukrainians smuggling weapons platforms into the country, the whole operation would have failed.
And then nobody wants to talk about retaliation as a consequence.
Right, because Russia hasn’t been trying until now? They haven’t really tried to crush Ukraine, they’ve just been playing around? But now that Ukraine has bloodied their nose, boy are they sure gonna find out what Russia’s capable of. Lol.
“Things will be worse once the bombs stop falling” is pure war propaganda.
No, “things will be worse when a nation is conquered by a hostile dictatorship” is not propaganda. Ukraine knows that for a fact, because they’ve been through this before.
Seriously, what do you even want here? What is the point of this? You want capitulation and appeasement?
The patriarchy is “some men.” The term is literally describing what you want. The subset of men who are in power.
You are not the patriarchy. You should be fighting the patriarchy.
How would I react if you described the matriarchy? What matriarchy? What world do you live in that there is a social heirarchy dominated by women in power?
Please answer the question about white moderates. Was it wrong to refer to them as white? Was that “toxic”?
Kinda funky how many of them are just stabbed straight through the skull. That would be no easy feat. Anyway, #5. A solid axe swing.
Xinis threatened to hold them in contempt a long time ago. I’m glad she hasn’t rolled over completely but I’m not holding my breath. “Potentially classified material” my ass. He’s a father who was kidnapped and shipped off to a concentration camp.
Small businesses, maybe. Large corporations already have large enough profit margins, they’re just squirreling them away in personal accounts instead of proper rainy day funds.
The Great Depression 2 will unfortunately outlast any stockpile one can reasonably make. Still smart to stock up on essentials, but they will only get you so far.
Invest in sustainability where you can, everyone. Build up your communities and connections. Invest in solar, gardens, composting, tools… anything that will help keep costs down over time.
This entire post is literally about a successful counterattack on Russian soil. One with zero Ukrainian casualties.
What, exactly, do you want from this conversation? People to recognize that Ukrainians are suffering? They do recognize that - that’s why they don’t want Ukraine to lose.
A defeated Ukraine would suffer far worse than they are now, as retribution for defending themselves and embarassing Russia in the process. Ukrainians would inevitably be conscripted to fight in Russia’s next attempt at conquest anyway.
Try not to stress too much about it while you’re away! If nothing can be done, nothing can be done. Solarpunks need to be resilient to things like this anyway. Community over convenience.
Not all fuckups are fascist, but all fascists are fuckups. They just can’t help themselves - an authoritarian life is a a desperate life full of violence, hatred, and fear.
Important to remember that digital data can be just as much a strategic target as an air field. Especially as the US reduces its cybersecurity defenses, and completely relies on increasingly incompetent defense contractors like Boeing.
It’s almost as if the nation of Algeria was specifically colonized for those natural resources, and people have continued to fight over those natural resources, because they have always been attempting to extract those natural resources.
Look into the railroad structure of Sierra Leone. They don’t connect the people. They connect the mines to the ocean.
Those natural resources are the exact reason why these nations haven’t been able to recover. There are incentives in place to stop them from flourishing. They don’t have time to stabilize because there is a pot of gold sitting on the table, and everyone wants it. This is literally why Taiwan still hasn’t achieved sovereignty, and why the Middle East is constantly awash in a river of blood.
Also, Japan? Really? The literal former empire? The former empire that also flourished in the aftermath of WW2 because it fell under the umbrella of the American military? Because of its incredible strategic importance in the region? Literally the exact same situation as South Korea?
Seriously, these aren’t good comparisons. At all. Claiming that Algeria suffers because it wants to be a victim - and then justifying that stance by comparing it to Japan and South Korea is so fundamentally wrong that it’s genuinely fucked up to say these things. The shit you say is falsifiable, you just don’t want to listen.
These nations uniquely benefitted from the influence of a white empire because they weren’t plundered for natural resources, they were reinforced as a wall against the Red Scare.
So please define for me - exactly - what you think that something else is.
So before the API it still generates everything you need to mail in the forms?
Minor addition - in this case, it’s literally the only possible delivery mechanism. Any other mode of transportation is functionally impossible.
The same company manufacturing eyeglasses and providing vision insurance isn’t “start to finish” manufacturing.