it was more a way to test out their new toys.
And as a demonstration for any would-be challengers (one in particular, and we all know who) to the emerging US hegemonic dominance, a demonstration not just of the destructive capacity of nukes but of their willingness to use it.
“Now is not the time to oppose genocide.”
Your reprehensibility is confirmed. History will look upon people like you as on those who supported Nazis but pretended the concentration camps were just a bit much.
you: “Yes you absolutely should tacitly support genocide. If you don’t tacitly support genocide then you’re an accelerationist.”
There are other candidates you can vote for that are vastly lesser evils than both the fascist democrats and fascist republicans; candidates who are not actively funding and perpetrating genocide but actually, get this, opposing it. If instead of voting for one of those, you still choose to support a party committing genocide, you aren’t just an accelerationist and wrong, you’re fucking despicable, evil.
I’d be willing to bet that at least one of the upvotes this comment got was from a liberal who didn’t recognize it as irony posting, took it at face value and fully agreed. Perhaps it was FruitLips or Mac, who have already demonstrated their intellectual prowess in this very thread.
I mean, a choice between cancer and the common cold is still a choice.
What a strange, ill-fitting analogy. First of all, who in the hell gets to choose between getting cancer or getting a cold? But even if we ignore that, it’s still not a fitting analogy because one is typically a deadly disease and the other is just a temporary discomfort, so it absolutely does not apply to the US regime’s political parties. With democrats and republicans, we still have 2 deadly diseases, so the analogy should be more like “a choice” between colon cancer or bladder cancer.
Both siding Republicans vs Democrats, while both bastions of dirty capitalism, is an intentionally superficial take
You know what’s “superficial”? Failing to see through this obvious goodcop/badcop routine and thinking both of their goals aren’t exactly the same.
Did you just look at the pictures or did you actually read the text? It’s not about who gets cheered for and who doesn’t. The issue is people (in the US) saying it’s not possible that a Chinese athlete did that and that he somehow cheated, which is not only childish and cringe, but extremely hypocritical given the context.
you: “That’s unscientific”
get shown that it is in fact scientific
you again: “I disagree.”
You don’t seem to understand how science or reality works.
Personally, I for one would really appreciate it if you provided the archive link in the OP especially if you’re posting paywalled articles. When the OP is the one who does it, then all the readers who want to follow the link that the OP posted won’t have to, and the people who don’t even know about archive sites will still get to read it when they wouldn’t have otherwise (and maybe even learn about what archive sites are as a result). In that sense, it’s not about entitlement, it’s about one person doing it one time rather than (for example) 30 people all having to do it while others may not even be aware they can do it.
Another thing is that while it may be ultimately just a drop in the bucket, it does help cut down on the amount of traffic that mainstream western media sites will get, which I think you would agree is better than helping increase it for them. It’s for that reason that just as a reader browsing, I almost always archive any MSM news articles I read, including the ones I see in posts here. On the occasion I do post, I always make a point to link the archive or frontend (like piped/invidious for youtube, redlib for reddit, used to do nitter for twitter, etc.) It’s a very minor annoyance to have to do, as either the reader or as the poster, but I’m all the more appreciative of posters who do do it and wish that more would.
It’s not like you have to, but it would be courteous and considerate if you did.
Wow. Unironically spouting nazi propaganda in a thread about the nazis being evil. What a load of ahistorical bullshit.
Yes, and it is booming. It keeps outperforming the sputtering western economies by leaps and bounds.
If all countries under discussion ramped up to full war time economies, like Russia is already doing, the West would outproduce Russia by at least an order of magnitude, maybe even two.
Well, sure. But you may as well say “if all countries under discussion magically whisked an army of robot supersoldiers into existence, they’d outpace Russia’s fighting ability by an order of magnitude.” It’s just a pipe dream that ignores the material reality of the entire situation. The countries under discussion can’t ramp up to “full war time economies” because they’ve long ago outsourced nearly all of their production capacity. If right now, they dropped everything else in order to rebuild their productive forces (that they willingly and knowingly dismantled for the sake of finance capital profits and honestly to also prevent domestic labor from having the kind of leverage it used to have) then it would take well more than a decade to get back to the kind of productive capacity necessary to outproduce Russia the way you’re talking about. And that’s if we’re being extremely generous. That’s simply not going to happen for numerous reasons ranging from the greed of finance capital to plain old logistics.
This is the economic imbalance that “Putin knows.” He has known it all along and never needed to undercut western support of Ukraine because of it. The waning support from the west is due to the fact that they’re now realizing what a lost cause Ukraine truly is and that no NATO Wunderwaffen or boomeranging giga-sanctions are going to save them.
subversion of the political process via corrupt politicians, keeping the US and others in a state of hand-wringing and infighting
This is just silly. Putin does not have that kind of ability.
believed any of his own propaganda, he would already actually be at war with NATO (instead of just claiming to be and not actually touching any NATO territory), and the West would coalesce around the clear immediate threat and begin the war time economic ramp up.
Fantasy land. Cloud cuckoo. Complete failure to understand how geopolitics even begins to work in the age of nuclear powers, or even the meaning of the term proxy war, let alone the material circumstances of the countries you’re talking about.
I personally feel these are the end days of what’s left of the freedom internet.
I hope you’re wrong. I guess that should go without saying. But I don’t know, it seems like they’ve been trying to crack down and been consistently failing at it, which is hopeful. Like youtube’s attempt to make adblockers not work anymore ending up just strengthening uBlock Origin and making it work even better than it did before. lol.
Obviously, google et al have all the power, but even so, they mostly keep losing battles, which is both hilarious and hopeful. I agree that we’re seeing the further enshitification of all the big social media giants and they’re corralling and enclosing the commons more all the time. But I haven’t given up on all the little things that spring up to address that enshitification, like the frontends, like searx, and hell, even lemmy. You were 100% right, we need to evolve, but I would say these things are good mutations that are part of the process of that necessary evolution.
I don’t know, I’m too high rn not to go off on tangents.
The only people I know of who don’t know what the word “liberal” means, especially in the context the person above was using it, are very ignorant Americans. To be clear, even though I don’t like most Americans, I’m not blaming them for being ignorant in this particular case because they have been subjected to decades of mostly uncontested propaganda deliberately obfuscating the term. But most of the rest of the world knows what everyone is talking about when saying “liberal” and knows it’s a right wing ideology. And everyone shouldn’t have to hold up the conversation to preemptively explain what the word means to those who don’t already know. People are generally expected to pick up the gist of a sentence or point via the context of what’s being said. The context was perfectly clear and it just sounds like concern trolling to go on about needing to hand-hold and dumb down the terminology being used for “the average person.”
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Also, this whole post is pretty disgusting popularity contest bullshit imo. Still, there are some awesome posters here and there who deserve some sort of meta-recognition.
Not to be too cornball, but there is a core to hexbear. SFS has consistently embodied it since chao.chat days. Comedy is always spot on. One liners are consistently bangers. I mean the guy makes me crack up but also seethe at the same time. Is that not the raison d’être of hexbear? There’s also the human vulnerability. Some here are open about some of the shit they’ve gone through in life, and SFS has been through some fucking hell. I have a lot of respect for that. A good person, a comrade and a comic. There are a number of people here who the site is lucky to have posting. SorosFootSoldier is undeniably one of them.
What, you didn’t like the fact that others already schooled you on that topic, and you wanted me to hold your hand through that too? No, I think it’s actually that you’re embarrassed that you have exactly zilch to say of any consequence in response to everything else in my comment. Whatever the case, I’m happy to leave it as-is, since anyone who can read beyond a grade-2 level will recognize your cringe for what it is. You can’t even fall back on that bullshit you made up about being misquoted, since even that was an obvious lie. 🙄
Sounds like it could be the same person, yeah. And if not, they’re infected with brainworms from the same lineage.
All of the positive things that happened within the totalitarian racist regime of the US not only could have happened jus3t as easily elsewhere, these things would have probably happened sooner and certainly in ways that benefited more people. Take insulin as an example, the doctor who discovered it refused to patent it in his name so as not to deny access of it to people who weren’t rich enough. He had to do that in spite of how medicine for profit worked/works in the shithole US. And look at it now! An ongoing struggle for people to be able to afford it and not, you know, FUCkING DIE, so they have to pay thousands of dollars a month, totally unnecessarily.
Capitalism in general, with the US being the shining example of it, is and always has been the enemy of art, culture, and medicine. It has been and will continue to be the enemy of the people, those who just want to live a fulfilling life and contribute to the community and culture they grew from and are a part of.
How many brilliant people lived and died in poverty because capitalism can only function with a large and severely exploited underclass? How many of those people would have gone on to achieve great things had they only had their basic needs like food and shelter met? All of those advancements (and the ones that really were advancements like in medicine and art, not bazinga bullshit that only helps the most wealthy) happened despite the imperialist, capitalist, great Satan that is the U.S., not because of it. How much further along, technologically, would we be were we not stifled by the capitalist system that suppresses the potential of the masses? What advancements in medicine would we have now, were it not for the absurd need to turn a profit instead of helping people? Cuba alone has shown that if the world had followed its lead in prioritizing genuine medical research regardless of profit, we could well have fucking cured cancer by now!
Anyone who attributes technological, artist, medicinal, etc achievements and advancements made under capitalism to capitalism (outside of maybe rapid industrialization) is full of shit and is in desperate need of reeducation. Capitalism is only a hindrance to human achievement, and we can only realize the full extent of human potential once capitalism is thrown into the garbage heap of failed modes of production where it belongs. Where it no longer holds us back and holds us down, where it is no longer able to thwart the deep, empathetic social aspect of our species from flourishing, no longer able at every turn to suffocate the true human ingenuity that emerges from us in aggregate as social, collaborative, empathetic creatures.
Posting news in a news comm of a presidential speech that is literally a link to the official government website of that president is “intentionally inflammatory and trolling”? This is a joke, right? You’re doing a bit and playing a caricature of a typical lib clown?