Republican America is just English speaking Russia.
Russia decriminalized spousal abuse in the 2010s and it directley led to a wave of women losing their lives because the police didnt even bother showing up when their partners were beating the brakes off them.
Legally, Russia changed domestic violence from a criminal offense (under Article 116 of the Criminal Code) into an administrative infraction with only fines or short detentions for "first-time, non-serious cases."
and if you can believe it, the champion of this "conservative, traditional values" policy, was a woman.
It will never be a good thing because we're basically already involved in a world war thanks to Russia, Israel and Iran, but I've increasingly believed that America needs an enema..
The level of uneducated , violent hatred in that country is out of control.
The current state American society has been in for the last 10 to 15 years is heavily a consequence of Russian info ops. Many countries run info ops. But no country has done as much damage as Russia
If I hear anyone ranting about family/traditional values Im just going to cut to the chase and assume you consume Russian origin propaganda by the barrel-load. Nobody pushes that stuff harder than them. No one stands to gain from the chaos it creates in the west, more than them.
Yeah im gonna be blunt here, People who are seen as important, die all over the world every day, and Im having trouble drawing a line to why Charlie Kirk has fuck all to do with anything in any country in Europe.
you know, two countries that might have a reason to be upset for losing someone who WAS important to them, would be Russia and Belarus
Broadly bombing enemies all over the world makes them more akin to America at its worst, which is its own problem.
Russia is far more old school in its methods and goals, their goals and behaivor is that out of the 16th thru 18th century. Naked land grabs.
Israel isnt about territory and empire builiding outside of its immediate periphery, its just about aggressively neutralizing everything that they even remotely think will be a threat to them now or in 30 years.
It might have been reversed recentley, but very recentley Domestic abuse was basically allowed in Russia, Police rarely responded to calls from women saying their partners were beating the hell out of them, some ended up dead.
and the law that allowed it, was pushed by a "traditional values" Woman lawmaker.
America is Just going to become Russia that speaks English.
While it has its own disgusting traits that are unique to itself, Russia under the Yednaya Rossiya Party / Putin Mafia is by far the closest contemporary thing to Nazi Germany today.
NATO and Russia have been in a state of war for a long time now. it could have been as early as 2014, but defintley since 2022.
the difference is the war isn't directley Kinetic, but we're getting there, this is a small step up the escalatory ladder. We aren't quite at the level Turkey was though, shooting down VKS jets and Killing Pilots
at first I was sad because I wasnt able to participate in niche communities that are important to me, but after a while I found other ways of talking to people about those things,
"Just goes to show, things are always great right up until the point the “cool kids” get in on it and make it popular."
thats how I feel about the internet in general, 90s, 00s, early 2010s the world wasnt terminally online, just the nerdy and geeky people were. But now that everyone is online, the reality is that most people are too untrustworthy or too stupid to be trusted with the internet because well, you see everything that happened.
the internet is so shitty I retreated to a couple of kind of oldschool "forums" and primarily exist on there now.
yeah the content is scattered and I might not find very many people with some specific interest, but I know they are real people and we're not getting swarmed by bots, ads, and glowies
Just because the media channels got blocked didnt stop them from dealing in swill over the internet