You cant condemn a war criminal without implicating the last 20 years of US foreign intervention he started.

Why do people keep sharing this as if it’s an achievement?

Newsom and his tech donors can go get fucked.

So much focus on the lever that nobody is trying to derail or cut power to the trolly

I don’t disagree with most of this, but saying ‘beating Trump should have been easy’ is kind of missing the point, too.

Democrats missed all the signs that the country is in crisis, and ran their typical playbook anyway. Trump, for all his stupidity, actually saw the panic in the voting base and mirrored their frustration back at them.

It was never going to be “easy” as long as they were pretending nothing was fundamentally wrong.

Listening to her interview on NPR was kind of wild

She had nothing but praise for Trump and defended the decision to bomb the boats in the Caribbean. Then she made a bunch of proclamations about accepting US intervention for enforcing regime change, and then advocated for doing the same in Cuba and Nicaragua

Once Maduro goes and we liberate our country, the Cuban regime will follow, the Nicaraguan regime will follow.

And for the first time in history, for the first time in history, we will have the Americas free of communism and narco dictatorships

Ive heard a few people ask if she’s a CIA asset, amd while I don’t think it’s appropriate to speculate, I can see why the question is asked. The American State Department has been trying to install western-backed regimes in central and south America since the cold war.

Part of the reason we even have narco states in the south is because of the decades long proxy battle happening there.

The Nobel prize has a weird amount of legitimacy for how often it backs western regime change

No, though the headline doesnt help make that clear

They’re talking about strength, not size

deleted by creator

I cant wait for the conspiracy theories about this

I think it’s annoying, but im not sure if there’s a clear solution. Id say this type of one sided block is similar to ghost bans and feels just as abusive.

I cant imagine it’s very pleasant on their side either, since it would feel as if everyone from grad or ml were giving you the cold shoulder and make the fediverse feel dead.

The nature of the fediverse is open though - escalating this to another ban/block or banning the custom fork would be counterproductive, imo. If thats their preferred way to curate content, I guess thats their prerogative

Well at least this means there’s a 50% chance I won’t need the retirement savings that Im not going to have

We need rate limiting for user comments, Jesus christ

You could be, yea. But its not at all because you refuse to use particular labels, but because you seem all too comfortable running cover for people who fit them.

A euphemism and an understatement of fact is pretty illuminating on your views of the world’s most famous mass murderer.

You didnt criticize him at all, you said you didnt like ‘what he did with concentration camps’.

You have stronger criticism for feminists, and that says quite a bit about your politics.

I certainly have questions when you’re loath to use it for literal- fucking-hitler.

I haven’t excluded him as being vegan, I’m just not going out of my way to avoid calling him an antisemitic eugenicist. Just because the label sounds mean doesn’t make the label false.

Sexism is expressed in a lot of different ways, and some are more harmful than others. It doesn’t make the label inaccurate simply because it hurts your feelings. You can be a lot of other things in addition to being sexist, too.

You don’t seem to have a problem with the use of labels when it comes to dietary choices, im not sure why you’d go to such lengths to avoid calling Hitler a eugenicist. You even used passive language by saying ‘what he did with concentration camps’ instead of stating plainly that he ‘exterminated 6 million jews’ in them.

“What he did with concentration camps”

vs

“Vegan”

You’re not beating the allegations here.

Even Hitler had admirable qualities

But certainly the most relevant quality he had was his rabid, genocidal antisemitism, right?

You wouldn’t complain about him being labeled as a eugenicist just because he painted a little when he wasn’t slaughtering millions.

You can disagree without a downvote option.

It’s more constructive to formulate a response for disagreement anyway.