arcturus

tumblr isn’t dead??

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

yar har

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

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

indeed I have seen him

glory be to Cindaquil

fr fr

but like, why did it take him tanking Twitter for many to realize that he’s just a manbaby with a diamond-encrusted platinum pacifier

like it’s really weird that it wasn’t clear when he called that one guy who saved those kids in that cave a pedophile because the guy told Musk that his invention wouldn’t be useful for the rescue effort; like people didn’t see how shitty he was after he said that

unlikely, imo

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

I mean, if one candidate is like “Hell yeah, let’s actually do more fascism” and another’s like “This is bad but we mustn’t get rowdy, our dignity will shame the others into doing the right thing” and others are in between those two

then voting won’t actually do anything

yeah, it really is a mystery

like if we really had to send weapons, there are so many more that exist that won’t cause unfathomably horrific damage that is so horrific that like nearly half of the fucking world considers them warcrimes

like it’s fucking horrid that Russia’s using them, but like what the hell is wrong with the US to think “hey, we’ll use it too”

(but then again, the US and Russia did refuse to sign the CCM)

what an embarrassing comment

this isn’t a fucking action movie, people are literally being killed and our military presence will make that so much worse; this isn’t the time for us to boost our egos