According to other headlines they already have IDF soldiers refusing to deploy to Gaza and going to prison instead. The Nazis invented the gas chambers because shooting crowds of civilians was leaving their SS troopers disabled with PTSD. they need to gamify it to provide some psychological cover for their grunts to finish the job.

I had my wife and best friend using signal until they dropped support for sms. Switching between apps was too much for us.

Economies that worked without cash still had debt.

Debt and obligation do not require money, but they do require people that will give you the things you need in exchange for “I’ll owe you one.”

Here in the US most schools gave up trying to ban phones in the 2010’s.

I’ve seen enough history to know that your calls for blood and retribution goes to forever wars, permanent military occupation, and concentration camps.

It didn’t work in afghanistan. It didn’t work in Iraq. If it works in Gaza it will only be when the last Palestinian is in the ground.

You can defeat crime with a police state, and then you have a police state to deal with.

The cure is worse than the symptom.

El salvador is run by a fascist dictator.

How many innocent people have had their lives destroyed in El Savadoran Prisons? Proportionately more than the Mexican Cartels I’d wager.

Some of them wanted it out of government. The fundies of the day we’re willing to go along because their parents and grandparents were chased out of England for being wackados.

All of the practices in the book are inspired by real history.

It’s not about fairness for them. It’s just power.

Sigh.

Let them. Let them lie. They don’t care about truth, evidence, or justice. Why should we care what they lie about?

What else would superman be? Are you gonna change the lore so Krypton is a small town in Kansas?

Wealth is actually being redistributed quite a bit in Russia right now. The oligarchs are paying for the war and “the people” are getting much higher wages either in the military or because of labor shortages.

It’s not great, what with all the death and destruction. But Russians gini coefficient is going down fast.

They are not our ally and you are arguing a strawman.

REPUBLICANS in Congress have abdicated their constitutional duties. A few Democrats are collaborating.

I learned about Lemmy from reddit.

Soooo…

I said Ukraine would win if they continued receiving the level of aid they have been getting indefinitely.

That goes back to my earlier assertion that the trump administration is shot through with Russian propaganda and direct plants.

Depends on if Trump gives Zelenski a deal he can’t refuse.

If nobody changes US or European support I think Ukraine will win eventually.

But that’s a big if. As Russia gets closer to collapse they will make noises about peace and cease fires and try to hold what they have, and pushing them off where they are entrenched will be more difficult. Ukraine can do it, given time, and money, and In the short term, military equipment.

This is evidence that the white house is riddled with Russian plants/propaganda not that the reality on the front is worse for Ukraine than we thought.

We always knew it was bad. It has never been good for Ukraine. If it ever gets good for Ukraine you will see Russians retreating. Nobody knows where that point is, but they are almost certainly closer today than they were a year ago.