It’s time for another episode of “Everything I Don’t Like Is Socialism” with Donnie Temper Tantrum!

I don’t think he’s being naive, he knows Trump is going to hang him out to dry, and he can’t win without ongoing US support. So if he’s come to the conclusion that defeat is inevitable, or at least that victory is impossible, then it makes sense to start posturing to that effect, to try to get the best outcome possible later at the negotiating table.

Tasty burgers. Mmmm

Thank god he’s old, then, because he’s not going to last long enough to be long time dictator. But maybe thats not the point, even if trump is gone, if hardcore republicans dismantle elections to ensure they’re perpetually in power, then who the current figurehead is will be the least of our problems

Isn’t Jill Stein effectively a republican asset at this point? Like not just a spoiler candidate but one actively funded by the right?

The economic situation is so complicated there that you probably need to sit through a 60 minute documentary to get an answer to this question, or really understand much about their crisis at all.

It’s very difficult to say whether or not the cure is worse then the disease; they were fucked to start, and the austerity measures weren’t the origin of the unemployment and poverty, but they did exacerbate them. But, they also lower the inflation rate, which itself was the largest cause of hardship, especially poverty.

Is the increase in suffering due to austerity worth the decrease in suffering due to cooling inflation? That’s the real question but I’m not sure anyone knows objectively, yet.

Anecdotally, as someone who spends 3-4 months a year in Buenos Aires: things seem to be getting worse; but they’ve been worsening for a decade, and the rate at which they are getting worse seems to be decreasing. So I guess a sort of Pyrrhic victory…?

Not arguing with you, but I think Gaza is even worse.

What’s happening in Ukraine is terrible - but it’s a war between two countries, that each have an army.

What’s happening in Gaza is something else. It’s a country sending an army on a civilian population. Palestine has no army to defend itself.

And if, for the sake of argument, you accept Israel’s claim that it owns the Palestinian Territories, then it means Israel is turning its army against its own land and its own citizens.

Given the corresponding elections it would be helpful if publications would state “Georgia, USA” or “Country or Georgia”, or something. “Georgia (Atlanta)” vs “Georgia (Tbilisi)”. Something to that effect.

To put that into perspective, the World Bank estimates global GDP as around $100 trillion, which is peanuts compared to the prospective fine. Google would therefore have to find more money than exists on Earth to pay Moscow.

Seems a bit suspect.

More than that, they supposedly punish multiple generations of the family in labor camps. You can Google something like North Korea 3 generations to see the details.

Mr Netanyahu, please stop dropping bombs on Gaza, ok? Anyway, here are some more bombs. All the bombs you want in fact, at our expense!

In Best Korea, it is whatever day Dear Supreme Leader says it is. Reality is for westerners.

I feel like the decentralization brings some downsides in the quantity of bad actors, extremist views, and the like.

The open platform certainly has an overwhelming advantage over Reddit in other ways, but there seems to be a higher number of trolls, shitheads, wackos, etc and in some cases entire instances dedicated to them.

While these people get banned on Reddit, Lemmy hasn’t yet solved this moderation issue; user accounts are basically disposable and moderation is super distributed, so it’s easy to abuse.

This one made me burst out laughing, very creative

The comparison certainly makes sense. Awesome, that means we’re just a few years shy of a world war.

Good news though. Israel can avoid a war if it wants. All it has to do is stop waging its current war.

Are you high? Lmao. What a comment 🤣

My dude, you’re posting on a social comments platform. If you don’t want other people to comment, then why post here?

Not that I in any way support Israel’s campaign of violence, but I’m not sure these kinds of posts from and questionable news sources are doing anyone any favors. For those of us who already oppose the Israeli campaign, there’s nothing new here. For those who do, these kinds of sensationalist posts just push them farther back into their views.

The best case scenario is to open peoples’ eyes to the harm Israel is doing and convince them to change their opinion, which a more neutral has a better chance of doing.