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SomethingBurger, 10 months ago

Tankies aren’t leftists. They simp for genocidal far right dictatorships.

lhx, 10 months ago

Tax all billionaires more?

palebluethought, 10 months ago

So, let’s put aside for a moment the rather shocking number of people casually advocating for murder in this thread.

I want to talk instead about how everyone here is just talking for granted the notion that removing the billionaires, Republican politicians, or whatever “they” you care to think of, would be a solution, or even a positive step, for modern social ills.

There’s a big undercurrent in almost any political discussion online, this implication that every one of the world’s problems actually has a super simple solution, that The Powerful could just snap their fingers and make it happen if they wanted to, and it’s only because of their greed etc that we have any problems that all. Obviously we live in a time of huge inequity and we’d be a lot better off if we found a good way to improve it.

But many (most?) of our biggest problems are inherent to the challenge of keeping 8 billion people alive and happy in a hostile universe, and in fact nobody has ever had a perfect solution. Throwing the entire planet into chaos by causally throwing away human beings’ rights and leaving an enormous portion of the world’s capital in uncertain hands, ready to be seized by some other set of psychopathic opportunists who happen to be in a position to do so, certainly ain’t it.

skullgiver, 11 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

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Alexmitter, 11 months ago

As someone who first switched to lemmy, and then quickly switched to kbin due to rampant de-federation in the lemmy world, I say I just first heard about lemmy.
But, Kbin is much more modern, and spectating the changes done in the last days alone, it moves fast and attracts many developers while all lemmy 0.18 did was breaking federation with kbin. I can fully recommend the switch to Kbin, its that good.

There is also the issue of Lemmy being developed by a group of genocide denying tankies.

About Tildes, it seems to be more of a clone of Digg in the old days.

kingmongoose7877, 11 months ago

Could this be the beginning of the end for franchise films?

We can only hope.

‘The Flash’ and Other Mediocre Movies Won’t Stop Superhero Fatigue - Variety. Fifteen years (since Iron Man), for the love of Stan! As Scorsese said, “…that’s not cinema…the closest I can think of them…is theme parks.”

Fun fact: did you know that the (then) new distribution strategy invented for the iconic film The Godfather gave rise of the Blockbuster (and thus “franchise movies”) and the near-death of auteur cinema?

!moviesnob

Unaware7013, 11 months ago

There are reports of a bombing plan being approved for the Ukrainian nuclear power plant, so it's very possible that Prigozhin sees the writing on the wall and knows time is running 9ut before the situation could become entirely unsalvageable.

Overzeetop, 11 months ago

Listening to his videos (translated) it appears he is positioning himself with the West while cheering that he is a true Russian. Calls for Belarus to oust Lukashenko happening simultaneously along with his implication of Russian oligarchs in the Ukraine invasion as being purely a money-grab implies he's going for a small-Russia policy to appease/pacify the west while implicating Putin in a financial rather than patriotic or anti-Nazi purpose for the Ukraine war. He's in full-on propaganda mode.

That said, it's best not to interfere when your enemy is busy making mistakes (or, in this case, infighting). It sounds like Ukraine is already using this opportunity. I expect everyone outside of the theater to hold tight and see how things play out, (though I would not be surprised to find out that Five Eyes is feeding some additional intel to Wagner on anything interesting popping up in Moscow).

KuchiKopi, 11 months ago

Thanks! I'll upvote this for visibility.