arcturus

christ

communism is when…

people use adblockers, apparently

Russia is very capitalist; like how exactly are they communist at all??

you’re really not going to accept that systematic racism (gentrification, the War on Drugs, racial profiling, job discrimination, etc.) exists unless there’s like literally a law that says “you should be racist” in big colorful letters, are you?

I’m honestly in disbelief that people like you, who think that racism was completely solved in the 60s when King did the famous speech, still exist

it is 100% a dominance thing

fucking bunch of high schoolers these governments are

why do you think that the US in particular has the responsibility to directly get involved?

it’s not that; it’s that it’s the US doing it for a country halfway across the world, as if we’re actually going there to help instead of taking advantage of the situation because Russia’s involved

if we do go there, it’s not gonna be for aid

you might be surprised by how many people don’t understand this tho

you’re moving the goalposts

someone criticizing the US government isn’t an attack on US citizens; like it’s kind of weird how we identify so hard with the country itself such that the country being criticized feels like a fundamental personal attack

this is a weird take; aren’t police literally the arbiters of said systemically racist policies and laws?

like isn’t that their colloquial job definition?

that’s not the point; the point is to not have a single group dominate the site and to make it easier to avoid bad actors (bigots + fascists, because there’s a lot of that online) by just blocking the instance they live on

the “one single account” thing is a bonus, but definitely not the main reason for federation

tbf, that’s just microblogging in a nutshell

man, I guess the annual (at least) police killings of unarmed black people (including at least 2-3 children) just didn’t happen?

oh wow

the government is racist, though

like demonstrably racist

OP wasn’t talking about the average people

ah, that’s not surprising

really bad, but not surprising

okay, there’s no getting to you then

also I didn’t mention China

yeah, but still, it’s the US doing this

after offering to give Ukraine fucking cluster bombs (and after decades of the US doing the same warcrime shit during every invasion they do), I have zero confidence that they’re not going to make the conflict so much worse

like I’m not actually communist in any meaningful sense, but they have a point about how brainwashed us Americans are pertaining the military and foreign interventions

like again, it’s not an action movie; we’re not fucking heroes in a Saturday morning cartoon; we’re a country sending human beings to kill other human beings for almost certainly selfish reasons

War’s not a fucking game, and the US isn’t “the savior of the world” either; it’s a country that has interests and does things to obtain or sustain those interests, and some of those things include invading other countries (like we did with Vietnam and Korea and Laos and especially the Middle East) and subverting the governments of other countries ( pick a South American country )

like if you can’t understand that nations mainly work in their own interests and that the US has a very old pattern of invading and subverting other countries for that interest as opposed to the countries’ own interests for itself, then you basically won’t actually be able to understand any kind of foreign policy, especially that of the US’s

it’s just baffling that you can genuinely think that the US is a hero in any military situation, after what we’ve done for decades

are they gonna get in trouble for doing it, even if the government finds out?

probably not, so it’s practically legal; and that’s kind of the only kind of legality that matters in this case