My general dislike for modern conservatism to the side, it does reflect a wider issue with lemmy. There is no diversity of opinion on anything. There are no niche communities. Either you like the political and tech subs and the meme subs which are, at a mininum, 60% political, or there really is nothing for you here.
The manga and anime subs can be good for keeping up with new releases, but not there’s next to no actual discussion.
While I have no issue with Republicans being shunned for their unashamed fascism, it does mean threads like this are essentially pointless because almost none will actually participate and the ones who do will be downvoted into oblivion.
Everything Donald Trump has ever done or ever will do, is a grift.
Existing provokes Trump.
You seem to be missing the point.
I remember reading something once, that the reason so many people didn’t believe in the threat of Global Warming was because there have been so many other threats they heard about that didn’t come to be.
Except, they didn’t just, not happen.
Overpopulation? Mass starvation? Scientists dedicated their lives to increasing agricultural production.
Y2K? Computer scientists put more man hours than some factories did during WWII to eliminate the potential bugs.
Hole in the Ozone? We eliminated the chemicals causing that particular one.
But none of that work was in the public eye for 99.9% of people. So, their lives went on as if there was never any threat. Thus, people slowly got it into their heads, consciously or not, that all predictions of destructions wrecking our way of life were bullshit.
This is the (exclusively) political version of that. Most Americans have lived in a largely functioning democracy for so long they don’t really comprehend that it’s possible for America to not be as it is. Sure, plenty of people wring their hands about encroaching authoritarianism, but they don’t see America just turning into a state where voting and free speech don’t exist.
I said any Muslim who voted for Trump will get what they deserve.
Which, when you think about it, is even more bullshit. Because that means Reddit believe Trump’s election will result in violence against Muslims. But they still allow pro-Trumpism.
Because the Britons who vote for him hate minorities.
As much as this makes me hate Donald Trump more than I already did, which was already more than I hate almost anyone, the really horrific thing is that a decent fraction of Americans will look at this and think Trump made the right decision, or at least a brave, or reasonable, decision.
If they’re going loose an eye, it seems likely it’ll be the orange one.
I didn’t change my story. Anyone who looks at this argument will see that and that you have taken the Blue Pill until you ODed on it.
I don’t consider “not actively opposing” to be the same thing as “involvement.”
Your sole cite was by an economist directly profiting from the Putin regime.
For all your demands of sources you have not provided a single bit of evidence of anything you have alleged. Even that article sucking off Putin couldn’t offer any evidence of US involvement other than Sullivan encouraging Ukraine not to bow to Putin. Do you have any actual evidence of US involvement in Euromaidan? Of Ukrainians being blocked from participating in elections?
It’s not moving the goalposts. Also, you haven’t alleged any “actions” the US did other than not disaproving of the Kremlin’s puppet getting booted out of office.
Blaming NATO expansionism is effectively denying the agency of Ukraine. So yeah, saying the US is responsible for Putin’s hard on for Ukraine is an attack on Ukrainians.
What’s pathetic is your apparent worship of Sachs.
Putting blame for the war anywhere but the Russians is effectively blaming Ukraine.
Putin has also spoken in front of the EU. It does not make Sachs’s opinion anything other than stupid.
I’m basing my beliefs of off the expertise of the hundreds if not thousands of experts who agree that Sachs is a moron.
I’m not getting paid by Russia to shill for them on RT propaganda shows. That’s what.
It don’t see how blaming Ukraine for starting the war helps the Ukrainians.
You’re begging the question. NATO isn’t escalating. It wasn’t a coup.
I’m not shifting the goalposts. The mere fact the US supported Euromaidan is not the same as the whole thing being a CIA coup.
Except you’re not listening to geopolitical experts. You’re listening to an economist’s opinion on geopolitics, platformed only by Russian assets that is contradicted by most actual geopolitical experts on Earth.
I ask again: how do I source proof of something not happening.
I am not. You’re just parroting the nonsense the whores of the Kremlin have been putting out for a decade.
There was never any promise by the US not let Ukraine into NATO. Even if there was, Russia has done enough to justify saying that promise doesn’t matter anymore.
Sure, the US supported Euromaidan. That doesn’t make it a CIA plot. Why shouldn’t we support protests against a corrupt, authoritarian regime backed by our biggest opponent on the international stage? You and the overestimated Mr. Sachs reach the conclusion that because Ukraine leaving the Russian sphere was in America’s interest, America must have acted to cause it, despite the total lack of actual evidence.
Here’s an idea: maybe Russia wouldn’t have to worry about encirclement if it didn’t constantly threaten it’s neighbors.
I’m saying that Euromaidan was a popular revolt against the corrupt, pro-Russian government which the CIA has no meaningful influence on.
I don’t understand where this “blanket denial” stuff is coming from.
That is not at all what I claimed and I don’t understand how you could interpret what I said as meaning that.
I’ve definitely thought about trying to get back onto Reddit once I get a computer they don’t recognize.