Even more so when the invaders, the russians, have no issues with using cluster munitions or mines.

There is a feddit.kyiv.ua instances? Is it run by Ukrainians?

Didn’t know there was a Ukrainian instance (there are a few Ukrainians here and there on the threadiverse).

The russians will do anything other than getting their house in order and rejecting genocidal imperialism.

This is not true.

When a sufficiently large part of a society goes along with mass high crimes such as genocide it is reasonable to collectively blame the whole of society.

I can’t speak for Israel, but if you look at say russia, a strong majority (at the very least) are openly committed to genocidal imperialism and an overwhelming majority (~84%) are openly supportive of imperialism.

People come up with lazy arguments such as “they are all afraid!!!”, when preference falsification can be measured and it’s not a good result for the russians. A small minority falsify their preferences with respect to open support for genocide, but when it comes to imperialism (e.g. annexation if Crimea) preference falsification is literally at 1% or so for a totally adjustment from 85% to 84%.

I honestly don’t know much about Israeli public opinion research, but I wouldn’t be surprised to find damning results.

Beyond double standards (which definitely exists, some perhaps on a subconscious level, some premeditated) there are also practical considerations with operating in Iran for foreign journalists (and their local handlers).

No, I don’t think you are racist for that comment alone (even if this is not a mere translation misunderstanding).

That being said TechTakes (awful.system) has lots of interesting content, but sometimes poor moderation principles.

I’ve seen them delete people’s comments on TechTakes for not fully agreeing with orthodoxy on a completely different instance. This was in context of a discussion side-thread about whether trans community in non-english-speaking countries would agree with every single initiative from the english-speaking trans community.

This is a trash-level source. Some of their news headlines:

NATO risks nuclear catastrophe with attack on Russian airports.

This wasn’t a NATO operation, it was a Ukrainian one and russia has “warned” about nuclear war at least for 50 times (they have a deep understanding of useful idiot types in the west).

I’m not sure that just dropping multiple bombs in the same spot wouldn’t work.

I have no clue whether this approach would or would not work. I am assuming the question would be how many times you need to drop bombs on the same location to target the facilities.

I was just going the info in the article saying that haven’t touched Fordow.

Sounds like the strike was significant, but not decisive. In particular, they can’t target the plant in Fordow.

If anything Israeli action reduces the likelihood of any deal and increases the possibility of the aytollahs quickly rebuilding nuclear infrastructure (article implies they have the capability) and going full nuclear.

I can’t speak for Lemmy, but I had a very different opinion on say things like prevalence of local corruption compared to the average American when I lived there (and this was under the second Bush and Obama, so not that recent).

I will admit, the US seems very far from “end is nigh” (I don’t mean this in a positive sense, it can get infinitely worse, I know from practical experience), but that doesn’t mean regressive tendencies aren’t broad and have deep roots (completely unrelated to Trump’s direct actions).

Again, treat this as a perspective of a foreigner who lived in the US for multiple years and visited regularly before COVID. Just an alternative perspective of sorts.

I thought I don’t know any modern rock/metal hits because I stopped listening popular music around 2005 or so. I guess my assumption was wrong.

But I also think 90s and early 2000s were probably the peak for the American music industry in terms revenue as share of cultural spend and in broader significance.

That being said it was a different time, I think there are less “hits” in terms of broad listening these days in general.

I am not saying there wasn’t any progress (perhaps even a lot), but from my impressions living in the US there were serious regressions in terms of democratic governance and rule of law (in the broad sense of the term, not US specific).

Just my view from my time living there.

Definitely, it’s not a straight line.

But a country regressing on a more or less permanent basis in the medium to long term is not unheard of.

I am not American, but I have lived there.

The impression that I got is there has been a level of regression in rights in the US in the past few decades (going as far back as the 70s, i.e. before Trump).

Enablement of mandatory arbitration clauses de facto removes your ability to fair civil trials and force you to use a USSR-style kangaroo court. Legally allowing unlimited campaign donations by oligarchs undermines universal suffrage.

Fascinating article, I would have never imagined a mosh pit could trigger smartwatch/smartphone emergency service alerts.

As a side note, when was the last big hit by Korn? I feel like it’s been at least 20 years.

That is very low.

YoY declines need to hit 60-70% or more. Even they 50% decline in European countries should be higher.

Even by the low standards of American oligarchy, Musk is a terrible individual.

Shouldn’t these scammers be using AI keywords? Biowellness backed by AI and so on?

Or have they not got the memo that even haescore buttpumpers have given up on “buttchain use cases will change the world!!!” spam.

Piefed, Mbin.

For sure, I agree that US security services seem rather trigger happy and there are massive issues with propaganda in the US (far worse than in many other countries, perhaps even most countries).

Just sharing some thoughts.

I am not going make any predictions, but with the expansion of anti-regime protests, it seems that the situation is entering a new phase.

As the old saying goes, “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”

While I agree that American security forces tend to have what I call “wannabe cowboy syndrome” (I have firsthand experiences when I was living and travelling to the US), I would also consider more base human reactions with respect to the attitude of the security services.

No one wants to be the one forced to do the dirty work and take the bulk of the risk. This is human nature. And at some point US security forces might question whether they want to take the heat for some oligarchs and other senior criminals.

I would also question the willingness of the US pro-oligarch plebs to actually engage in “war”. There is a lot of crazies (especially with the militia LARP that’s popular in the US), but the average pro-corruption American arguably has a very low tolerance for challenges. It’s one thing to talk big and another thing to well actually put your life on the line (engaging in “war” also means there is a solid chance you get hit).

Just some thoughts from someone who has loved in both the US and Ukraine (this were I currently live too).