WaterBowlSlime

There’s a common delusion in our society that depraved government agencies who are known to have done evil things in the past have simply stopped doing evil things for some reason. This belief is backed by zero evidence, and is contradicted by mountains of evidence to the contrary. It’s believed because it is comfortable, and for literally no other reason.

Our government agencies are only depraved because the wrong party is in office! Vote for the other one to drain the swamp!!! Which one, you ask? The good one!!1!1!!

The more senile, the better! Only once the government becomes a hospice will we achieve true democracy.

"Since the U.S., Britain, EU, and Japan refused to honor their obligations and confiscated the wealth of other nations which was held in their currencies, why should other countries be obliged to pay them back and to service their loans?" -Sergey Glazyev

The ghouls in Washington have 0 foresight or empathy and I hope the rest of the world sees that by now.

We really should start supporting real political parties instead of these vague, opportunistic organizations. A similar thing happened with the Occupy Wall Street movement. Our frustrations will continue to be co-opted until we organize ourselves politically.

Fair enough

I responded to this in another comment but simply put: NATO isn't a defensive alliance and it never was. That's a paper-thin lie that isn't supported by their history whatsoever. If NATO were to expand to Ukraine, they would threaten Russia militarily, if not outright coup them.

Uh yeah because that's what NATO does. It's not a defensive alliance and it never was, just look at what happened to Yugoslavia and Libya. NATO is a clear and present danger to every country that opposes the west and if they expanded to Ukraine, they would be able to install military bases right next door to Russia's capital. And they would undoubtedly use them.

Also, Ukraine was coup'd in 2014 by the US so it's very debatable how much of the people's will is represented by the decisions of their government. Especially considering Ukraine has since been in a civil war between those who refuse to recognize the puppet government and those who support it.

And if we're talking about respecting sovereignty, then Ukraine should have followed the Minsk protocols. To Russia's credit, they tried resolving this conflict diplomatically for 8 years. If Russia was half as war-loving as the US, they wouldn't have negotiated their problems at all & would've sent their troops in years ago.

And what does Zelensky being Jewish have to do with anything? You realize Israel exists, right? Do you also believe that the USA ended anti-black racism because Obama was president too?

Where's the Putin apologia? I mostly just see people celebrating Nazis getting their ass handed to them. Also, what other countries belong to Russia's "empire"?

That explains a lot. I thought all of lemmy was communist but it seems like that only applies to lemmygrad. Dunno who would want a lib lemmy instance when Reddit exists tho

This conflict goes back much further than last month and NATO expansion is absolutely a key cause of this war. Being sarcastic about it doesn't change that.

So true. Libs think that by pointing out hypocrisy, we're trying to make a false equivalency or to excuse wrongdoing via comparisons to something worse.

No, the point is that the USA is weaponizing concern to push their agenda and silence dissent. Americans are the absolute last people who should be getting themselves involved in this conflict (more than they already have).

Wow Europe has an insatiable thirst for coca cola