UnkTheUnk

I feel like MannCo would actually be an ally under Saxton Hale

why do we care?

I think the problem is that there does need to be a certain amount of anti-establishment to even be interested in a place like Lemmy, there don't tend to be a lot of anti establishment centrists (those who call themselves as such are for the most party just rightwingers).

While I do agree that ideological diversity is good, one does need to be careful when trying to enact it because you might end up with a place like r/polititicalcompassmemes (though that particular cesspit is probably a different thing entirely).

The main issue when it comes to spreading FOSS alternatives to big tech is that how interesting a social media space is is almost directly related to how much activity there is on it, to be frank there really isn't much going on here. How we get people to show up and adapt it for themselves is that we ourselves be more engaged in it and spread the word elsewhere off-site

I do, I'm involved in my (rural) state's democratic party and it's progressive (read socialist) caucus. And I intend to be involved in local government to advocate for things like worker co-ops and credit unions.

The electoral process is not just voting, voting is the BARE minimum. The point of politics is to get people who agree with you to participate and the people to participate to agree with you, the bare minimum is the start.

what the fuck you mean "voting got us here"?

were you voting for the GOP?

Also, nowhere did I say don't do other things. in fact I'm of the opinion that if you practice organizing and getting the word out with something entirely uncontroversial like voting so when you actually go out and push for something that moves humanity forward you have an idea of how to get things done.

The stakes are too fucking high for half the people who actually want a better world to just lock themselves in their private discord servers to jack off to how ideologically pure they are.

at this point I don't give a fuck about ideology anymore.

anyone who's in the US and isn't going to be doing voter turnout shit in the midterms is an idiot who's opinions on politics should be taken seriously by exactly 0 people

the stakes are too high, we can't make life better than it is under liberalism if we are all in fascist death camps.

It's encouraged

Regardless of the geopolitical motivations behind it, it's still good on it's own. People being more free to travel as they will is a good thing.

Personally I'd much prefer this form of geopolitical scheming than any alternative, because it's going to happen anyway.

Because of what I assume are massively different media diets I don't think there will be agreement on this topic within a reasonable amount of time. Because of this I'll try to condense what I think might be the most important points while not getting lost in the weeds.

-I think Ukraine has a fighting chance militarily

-the Ukrainian public REALLY does not want to be under Moscow's thumb

-while NATO nations very often do imperialist shit NATO itself is not the way they do it (or any military means for the most part), it's a defensive alliance

I don't really have time, inclination, or skills to have an unbiased view on this (even if such a thing were possible). Most of my understanding on this comes from two sources: Beau of the Fifth Column, an anarchist former military contracter youtube person who makes shortform content aimed at people who don't generally hear any left-leaning views (and I mean actual left).

Peter Zeihan, private analyist who predicted the current invasion in 2017. even though I find him politically ehhh he does really good work.

thank you

do you have an un-paywalled version of this article?

ah yes, something completely unsourced and something that might as well be a Russian government press release