To be fair, this is pretty similar to the way American press covered the rise of German fascism at the time

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Trust me, this is how the average Russian felt about Ukraine 10 years ago (or even 3 years ago).

The answer is that soldiers follow orders, ones who don’t, also don’t last long in the military

Is it really worth drawing significant attention to? It may feel nice as a gotcha but I really feel the emphasis should be that trans rights are worth protecting for their own sake

idk about you but i greatly value the opportunity to track nearby vehicles that are outside my field of vision without having to turn around constantly or wear one of those hats with rearview mirrors

Literally just require a noisemaker

The implementation details matter tho, your instance admin actively makes federation decisions that affect the content you see. I like to explain joining an instance as pledging yourself to a warlord in medieval Japan

(extremely reddit voice) priced in

Deregulation of radio, end of the fairness doctrine (thank u Reagan) and the subsequent rise of “local talk radio” sponsored by evil billionaires and spouting the vilest shit imaginable.

which led directly to fox news and the tea party faction of Republicans and well, now here we are

That last part is the least surprising thing imaginable. Reveals a deep misunderstanding of how and why people actually vote

Trivially solvable with regulation

He does but I don’t believe he’s mentioned the end times

it does not

I think our society is ducked up enough that economically it makes better sense to have a loyal audience of easy marks than a wide audience of fickle donors. Donald Trump figures this out years ago and has been cultivating/brainwashing that audience since.

Idk how to counter it except that maybe if we gave people cheaper/free essential goods (housing, school lunches etc) they’d be less inclined to go insane and support scammers like trump or the modern democratic party.

Cuba is, like, right there. The prime example of what happens when countries in the western hemisphere try to enter into military alliances with non-us countries such as the soviet union