Man definitely looks like he’s named Joos

Bad take.

Putin is not good, but he also isn’t Hitler. He is not an absolute evil. And regardless of the unknowable legitimacy of Russia’s elections, he’s more popular in Russia than most American Presidents are in the U.S. And at least to me, popularity is a better metric for Democracy than anything else.

Navalny is worse than Putin. Regardless of anything else, Putin believes in Multiculturalism and Ethnopluralism (his nationalism is a Civic nationalism, not an Ethnic nationalism). Navalny has significantly less support in Russia than Putin; him being put in charge would be inherently undemocratic. Navalny would also be a Dictator; he would just be a Pro-Democracy Dictator.

And this isn’t even touching on Geopolitics. Navalny is an opportunist who seeks to sell out Russia to the West. Putin is aligned with other anti-Imperialist global forces, such as China and Iran.

Putin is the pragmatic choice, not Navalny.

Ivan Guiadovsky

No, because the Taiwanese Nationalists are ethnically Chinese and want Taiwan to be an ethnically Chinese country.

You can compare it to how more Native American groups supported the British than the Americans in the Revolutionary War: they understood that they would have more autonomy as a minority in a large, multi-ethnic state than a smaller ethnostate.

All occupiers are legitimate targets

China bad, updoots to the left

Couldn’t you have left this braindead bullshit on Reddit?

I know this is a bit account (nothing against you btw I think the bit is great) but honestly this is 100% correct.

Lemmy was nice when it was just FOSS enthusiasts trying to build a better social media. Now new people have joined who are using it for its intended purpose, instead of just trying to roll a snowball.

All of those FOSS enthusiasts have the same horrible opinions and attitudes that everyone else does, once you get them talking about something actually important and contentious rather than their treats and toys.

I think it’s just a growing pain of the contradictions of Federation resolving themselves, mostly in the political sphere.

You have left-wing instances (lemmygrad.ml), center-right instances (lemmy.world), and right-wing instances (sh.itjust.works). Even if different instances defederate with each other, there will always be overlap instances (lemmy.ml being the biggest, but also lemm.ee, startrek.website, mander.xyz, programming.dev, etc.). And while individual users can block specific instances, this doesn’t prevent them from seeing and responding to their posts. Communists and Liberals and Libertarians, who each believe the others are literally as bad as the Nazis (and I’m not making a value judgement here - maybe some of them are right), are forced to interact with each other on occasionally political topics.

The hard right, unlike in Reddit, isn’t really a figure here - and moderators on Lemmy don’t know how to handle political disagreements where both sides are within the sphere of acceptable discourse.

So long as the West does not intervene, this is the beginning of Afghanistan’s slow transition into a functioning industrial state.

Industrialism is the first step towards Socialism, and is vastly preferable to medievalism. This is good for both the people and government of Afghanistan and it’s good for both the people and government of China. The only people who lose are the West.

This is very sad - the DPRK and it’s government have made every good-faith attempt to pursue reunification and reconciliation but the occupation government, controlled by Capitalist interests, has never stopped its aggression towards the North or considered reunification through any means but subjugation seriously.

Any American ship within firing distance of Yemen deserves to be bombed. They could simply leave yet choose not to.

The “No Fly Zone is a declaration of war” truism only works when you’re declaring one over another nation’s sovereign territory. Oman has every right to determine what military aircraft can enter their airspace, and if another country’s military violates that airspace, they will have declared war, not Oman.

Who cares if it’s “Legal” or not under U.S. law?

Uber has also never turned a profit. Share prices aren’t based on the value of the company, they’re based on how much people think the company will be worth in the future

There’s a word for this, the promotion of leaders based on merit instead of popularity - Technocracy. And it’s not a distinct ideology but a syncretic one that has been adopted by many groups with differing politics. The most prominent example would be the Technocratic faction of the People’s Republic of China, which was opposed to the Maoists back in the 50s and 60s; they argued for society to be led by experts instead of Democratically with a strong emphasis on Peasant participation (the standpoint of the Maoists). China today follows a moderate path taking from both factions.

In the West, however, Technocracy is mostly associated with Liberals; however, I would argue that the modern Liberal view of Technocracy is fundamentally flawed, since it relies on Capitalism distributing wealth meritocratically (which Socialists understand is not the case).

Lmao amazing

I main Lemmygrad and you’ve been defederated from us since the beginning, so I don’t think I would notice nor care. Good riddance lib safe space.

I also almost exclusively listen to political podcasts. Citations Needed, TrueAnon, and Chapo Traphouse are my main rotation.

I am an Authoritarian. “Authoritarianism” as a pejorative is a liberal buzzword, and I am not a Liberal. Any Marxist who has actually read a book will say the same.

What system do you believe in, oh politically enlightened Redditor? Or are you just a South Park Libertarian who believes that caring about things and having opinions is cringe?

Yes