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Skiluros

@ Skiluros @sh.itjust.works

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3h ago

Trump underwater on issues that got him elected, polling shows
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Skiluros @sh.itjust.works 3h ago
The 40% approval rating is damning for the American socio-political system.
At some point one has to realize that over time political systems cannot survive without major reforms.

3h ago

Going offline for an indeterminate period of time:

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Skiluros @sh.itjust.works 3h ago

Good luck! All the best for your health!

3h ago

South Korea: Yoon jailed for 5 years for obstructing justice

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Skiluros @sh.itjust.works 3h ago

I was wondering why he only got 5 years:

Separate trials will consider other charges, including the charge of masterminding insurrection, for which prosecutors have called for Yoon to be sentenced to death.

22h ago

Republicans vow to block Trump from seizing Greenland by force

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Skiluros @sh.itjust.works 22h ago

Imagine showing this news article to someone in 1998 or 2000.

Or perhaps even 2015, which wasn't that long ago.

2d ago

Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption Bureau Raids Tymoshenko’s Party Offices Amid Bribery Allegations

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Skiluros @sh.itjust.works 2d ago

Tymoshenko is a sketchy individual. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that she was indeed involved in such a scheme.

I just hope our national anti-corruption institutions (НАВУ and САП) can develop into truly independent agencies (with salaries above private sector, let alone public sector) that can prosecute corruption in any party, region or entity.

2d ago

Digital Chief Fedorov Becomes Ukraine’s Youngest-Ever Defense Minister

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Skiluros @sh.itjust.works 2d ago

Fedorov is arguably somewhat liked by people in Ukraine. That being said, the challenges he has to deal with around recruitment and modernization of bureaucracy in the military "back office" are enormous.

e-government and public digital services have massively improved over the last 6-7 years. One could argue in this area we are even ahead of most Western countries.

World News @lemmy.world

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2d ago

The Statue of Popeye That Had More Than Just Spinach... and Belonged to the Sinaloa Cartel Cartel Insider

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3d ago

More Americans support abolishing ICE than ever before, polling data shows

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Skiluros @sh.itjust.works 3d ago

Here is a counter-arguement. It is the responsibility of the citizens to make sure things like the Patriot Act or ICE are used in a fair manner with oversight and restrictions.

The notion that "the government" is some external entity is an easy and satisfying polemic, but it's not helpful in a practical sense.

3d ago

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Skiluros @sh.itjust.works 3d ago

Seems like the same shit, but with a slightly different tone.

4d ago

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Skiluros @sh.itjust.works 4d ago

Diaz-Canel responded to Trump’s comments on Sunday by saying that Cuba was a “free, independent, and sovereign” country and would defend itself “to the last drop of blood”.

So free and independent that many thousands of Cubans somehow ended up fighting for russian imperialism.

4d ago

Iran protests live: Unrest ‘stoked and fueled’ by foreign elements – Tehran

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Skiluros @sh.itjust.works 4d ago

Wouldn't be surprised to hear comparable arguments during a similar hypothetical situation in the US.

7d ago

Iran’s Gold Allegedly Flown to Russia as Supreme Leader Braces for Collapse

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Skiluros @sh.itjust.works 7d ago

Me too!

7d ago

Kyiv Mayor Klitschko urges residents to 'temporarily leave city' as Russia targets critical infrastructure

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Skiluros @sh.itjust.works 7d ago

It's been pretty rough today. No heat / electricity since the morning, although our building (and neighbouring buildings on the same schedule) in particular are not getting electricity (the one right next us is getting electricity on schedule).

7d ago

Iran’s Gold Allegedly Flown to Russia as Supreme Leader Braces for Collapse

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Skiluros @sh.itjust.works 7d ago

This seems to imply that the piece of shit Aytolllah is seriously considering that his regime won't hold.

Let's hope his evacuation plane (with his son and family members) will be shot down when they try to run.

7d ago

Trump to meet Venezuela’s Machado and says it would be ‘great honor’ to take her Nobel Prize

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Skiluros @sh.itjust.works 7d ago

What a degenerate.

1w ago

Trump suggests U.S. will begin to strike drug cartels in Mexico

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Skiluros @sh.itjust.works 1w ago

I personally think it doesn't really matter if the Democrats win (I am not American, but I lived there for multiple years and have travelled extensively).

I can't imagine the Democrats doing anything substantive to address criminality and corruption (which is arguably the root cause of Trump's rise).

This is true of both party leadership (that always avoid prosecution of criminal elements) and much of the party's electorate who are too well off to risk rocking the boat and generally do not see real anti-corruption reform as a priority.

Consider the fact that Meta was found to have gained $16 B (10% of their 2024 revenue) via a premeditated policy of gaining commissions from fraud on their platform. They even developed a "playbook" to manage this process; so they knew what they were doing.

It is comical to suggest that the Democrats will do anything beyond a nominal fine and asking Zuckerburg to promise to not get caught the next time he runs a scheme (if even that)

When a genuine desire to fight criminality would require Zuckerbeg and all senior employees being locked up for multiple decades while having all their asset seized (Zuckerburg directly profited from this mass scale fraud scheme via his ownership stake in Meta).

One can look at Obama's inaction against financial oligarchy in the late 2000s to predict the behaviour of the US centre-right should they win elections. Funnily enough Obama is once again pushing his shallow and meaningless "What’s needed now is courage" rhetoric.

For everyone in the world that believes in liberal democracy, human rights and opposes corruption, it is reasonable to assume that corruption and criminality in the US will not be addressed any time soon. I hope I am wrong though, but I wouldn't count on it.

1w ago

Russian politician charged with ‘abusing press freedom’ after calling for end to war in Ukraine

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Skiluros @sh.itjust.works 1w ago

There is no verbal acrobatics, senior figures in his movement openly admitted that Navaliy and his movement supported the annexation of Crimea because the overwhelming the russian population are committed supporters of what is as a matter of fact genocidal imperialism. I will also add that his broader support of chauvinism is well documented.

The "smart voting" approach was comically stupid. The non-United Russia candidates are all (almost without exception) shills for the regime as part of their Potemkin village "election" process.

I stand by my statements that a "putin lite" option like Navaliy (or really most of the mainstream russian "opposition") will always lose to the real deal.

I don't expect any super human efforts from the russians. Something as simple as recognizing that all the bad things in Russia are not the fault of someone else would be a start.

Can you find one mainstream opposition figure that goes beyond "it's all putin's and EU's fault, we are innocent angels!" I am genuinely curious. I know some public figures who admit this, but they universally hated both by the alleged opposition and the genocidal imperialist that make the overwhelming majority of russian society.

Many countries have a lot of historical/systematic challenges, yet many often to do find a way (or at least keep trying). One can look at Iran (not just the current protests); arguably they are in an even more difficult position than the russians.

1w ago

Trump says U.S. to ban large investors from buying homes

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Skiluros @sh.itjust.works 1w ago

Did the thugs at the Blackstone criminal gang decide to play hardball with the recent demand to increase the size of bribes?

1w ago

Russian politician charged with ‘abusing press freedom’ after calling for end to war in Ukraine

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Skiluros @sh.itjust.works 1w ago

There is quite a lot to unpack, so let me ask a few more holistic questions.

Is there a point at which historical / systematic / external factors can no longer serve as a justification (however nuanced) for the pro-authoritarian, pro-imperialist direction of russian society (let's say that if one disagrees with this characterization, we replace the word society with polity or "russia as a country")?

If such a point does not exist outside of the most extreme cases, is there a semi-realistic scenario where such factors do not come into play and russian society is able to move beyond authoritarianism, imperialism and being "easy to manipulate"?

I personally disagree with what I see as a victim-hood narrative, a very measured and nuanced one as described in your post, but still fundamentally a victim-hood narrative (in my eyes).

Even Navalniy, the darling of the west, was openly supportive of imperialism and and a fundamentally chauvinistic outlook on international relations.

And this lack of desire to address such deep rooted and near universal chauvinism; (85% of russians supported the annexation of Crimea even with adjustments for preference falsification) is why russia cannot progress beyond thuggish monsters as leaders for life. Why choose Navalniy when you choose the real deal (i.e. putin)?