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  • Unfortunately only a handful of US soldiers tends to die or be injured in these wars, so most of them will likely never see anything close to the evil they're inflicting.

  • I mean tbf they did say "white collar criminals," not "billionaires." China is famously more willing to slap its rich criminals than America.

  • This weird ultra capitalist version of democracy is so fucking exhausting.

    Ftfy. America is on the more blatant side, but this is how liberal democracy works everywhere; it's why the rich like it. Lobbying, political donations and control of the media are the mechanisn liberal democracy provides for converting wealth into political power.

  • Now let's see who votes against it.

  • The vast majority of people don't vote in primaries for some reason so the demographics are different from the general, but also the DNC has plenty of tricks at its disposal to get the results they want. Now part of the reason those tricks work is that American leftist politicians tend to be pussies who are unwilling to take shots at liberals, but yeah the whole process is captured by DNC liberals.

  • Party's in my house at 7. Eat shit, Merz.

  • but that doesn't automatically mean that going to a restaurant is a bad option.

    Sure, but that's an opinion, not a question. Clearly they consider it a bad (or at least less desirable) option.

    where do their expectations come from?

    If as you said this is a Russian thing and not a your parents thing, then presumably default social expectations. That's what they're used to, so that's what they expect you to do, in the same way people in Western countries expect Christmas gifts. There's no deeper answer unless you want the historical background or an explanation of why social expectations exist.

  • If you get it, then why are you asking?

  • What monopoly?

  • Again, you're assuming that this belief exists in a vacuum and not as part of an elaborate belief system with clauses specifically meant to address this. Besides, your average leftist believes that if you (well society at large more like) disagree with them millions if not billions of people will be condemned to lifelong poverty for generations. The scale is a bit smaller than eternal damnation, but really this is just how it goes when you have strong/high-stakes opinions about anything.

  • Netanyahu Nobel prize when?

  • If Snowden and Assange are any indication, the harassment will extend way beyond the right side of the political spectrum.

  • A "true" believer therefore has a moral imperative of destroying diversity in order to protect other people.

    I mean they have a moral imperative to try within whatever limits their interpretation of the religion imposes, but that's it. It's not like these religions imply, say, putting followers of other religions in reeducation camps. One can fully operate in a diverse society while still thinking "I'm right and everyone else is wrong when it comes to this thing," for the same reason having political opinions isn't mutually exclusive with diversity. BTW Islam =/= Islamism. The former is a religion; the latter is a political ideology based on the religion.

  • This is one of the parties that were formed into Likud BTW.

  • If this is sarcasm, hats off for pissing off so many people while being right. If it's not, then... uh... I'll refrain from speaking my mind so my comment doesn't get deleted.

  • Cautious bet on number 2 from me.

  • Feeling bad about a policy is a necessary but not sufficient condition to stopping it, in the same way having a high school education is a necessary but not sufficient condition to being a CEO. And this isn't even getting into how Americans seem to always defend/outright support new imperialism. For example 74% of Americans supported Biden's Houthi airstrikes.

    your point seems moot

    My point (edit: forgot to complete this sentence) is that Russians aren't meaningfully worse than Americans, not that they're necessarily better.

  • It's likely Russians wouldn't support the war as much as they are now if they had access to the kind of information Americans do, but either way that's not the point. Do you think Ukrainians would be better off if Russians felt bad about the war but not enough to actually do anything about it?

  • In 2003 an entire nato coalition thought the Iraq war was justified with only a few holdouts

    Then the entire NATO coalition needs to die in a ditch with only a few holdouts. Why do you think I care?

    12 years after the Iraq war began, or 4 after it ended, a majority of Americans believe it was a mistake

    Then I'd like to see this belief translate to, you know, less imperialism, because something tells me the hundreds of thousands killed and millions displaced in Iraq are scarcely comforted by the fact that Americans in 2026 are kinda sad about it. Call me when y'all actually do something about your imperialism, until then you have no basis at all to claim moral superiority over Russians.