1990: Don't worry, the free market will save us!

2000: Sure it's a slow start but we'll get there eventually.

2010: It's going to be hard but if we all work together and take drastic measures right now we can still stop this!

2020: Okay, this is getting kind of scary guys. I don't care how you do it but please hurry up...

2030: The world is doomed. Here's why it's all Stalin's fault.

If Xi sent the balloons it's proof of his evil schemes. If Xi didn't send the balloons it's because he failed to keep his regime in line. He can't win no matter what he does lol

Intelligence and political awareness aren't correlated. Confrontation with politics in everyday life and political awareness are.

Maybe a hot take, but we really shouldn't be glorifying intelligence the way we do, it has a lot of resemblance to fascist ideology.

The spread in intelligence really isn't that wide. People without clinical impairments or other disorders can specialize in practically whatever field they like. It's primarily just a function of wealth and mental health. What distinguishes 'intelligent' people' from the less intelligent is that, for whatever reason, they have an edge in learning speed. That's it. They're not transcendental beings who somehow have more access to 'the truth' of the universe.

Of course, on the very rare occasion, there are people who excel at very specific tasks but even then that says nothing about their ability to do anything else.

I mean the Azov Batallion is a nazi organization. This is commonly accepted knowledge and a result of Stepan Bandera (a nazi who wanted independence from the Soviet Union) being the primary driver of nationalist sentiment in Ukraine. The western media just want to pretend like the fact that they 'only' run the propaganda for the National Guard isn't bad enough to make every soldier a nazi.

...And that's a fair point but irrelevant to whether the Ukrainian military has fascist sympathies. Imperialist wars are always motivated by capitalist interests and fought with the blood of workers. The question is who's material interests those workers are serving, wittingly or no. The Ukrainian ministry is giving a lot of power very specifically to the tiny militia of Azov Batallion which I think answers that question.

Finally, yes it's also Russian propaganda but that says more about the west than Russia. If the Kremlin can invade a country and make itself look like it has the moral highground while doing it using commonly accepted facts you really fucked up. They might not be on the right side of history, but you are on the really really far outer edge of the wrong side of it.

The right to be airstriked by NATO peacekeepers, duh

Have a general resentment towards reddit > read about alternatives to reddit as a result of the API controversy > Lemmy gets brought up because it's private and decentralized > libs in comments: "Nooo it's full of communists!!!"(gee I wonder why) "Not hating CPC = basically fascism!! I don't care that I can make my own instances, 'supporting' communists who for some weird reason keep building good software is icky" > me: sounds based