TankieTanuki [he/him]

Under the U.S. Constitution, it’s up to Congress, not the president, to decide when the country goes to war. —Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii

yes

France is an authoritarian regime

I like the little pizza cutter that slices each page. I hope it’s easy to sharpen.

WWII comparisons are apt, because this war is largely a resumption of grievances from that war, but not in the way you’ve implied. Here’s a hint as to which side is the Axis analog: It’s the one that glorifies Nazi collaborators and made it illegal to commemorate the Allies’ victory.

It happens because it makes rich people richer

Into more insidious nanoplastics

scientists warned of a potential release of harmful nanoplastics into their tissues and, consequently, the food chain

The link is correct, but has suffered from link rot.

Archived link to the document

The Atlantic Counci’ls six fellows this year come from the Department of State, CIA, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Navy, USIA, and the Congressional Research Service. […] All have Secret clearances.

Reddit’s policy director is CIA agent

Reddit is a psyop run by feds and advertisers

[buildings]

[The US] has viewed the island as an important check on Chinese expansionism

Where were they going to expand to?

Any one with a somewhat working democracy, and decent social freedoms.

What is an example?

What is an example of an extant state that isn’t “ultraauthoritarian” in your view?

I’ve never seen it once. People love making stuff up apparently. Like “Ultra-mega-hyper-super-authoritarianism!”

Peculiarities:

• Comparison of Lemmy instances contains Hexbear but not lemmy.ml

• Fediverse Observer contains lemmy.ml but not Hexbear.

We’ve all been there

It’s the devs’ test instance.

The devs are Marxist-Leninists. They’re the admins of the instance. Therefore the instance has nuanced-to-positive views on Actually Existing Socialist (AES) states, and allows for criticism of Democrats from the left.

It’s been defederated by instances whose admins aren’t wiling to critically examine their lifetime of capitalist programming and are accustomed to Reddit’s universal condemnation of AES states.