Yes, well said. Many of them are just useful idiots.

I have to disagree. Ukraine is getting hurt, but they’re pretty successfully fighting off Russia. They sank a lot of Russia’s Black Sea fleet despite not having their own, caused nuclear-sized explosions in Russia, destroyed hundreds and hundreds of military jets and helicopters, took out several fucking AWACS, destroyed tens of thousands of armored Russian vehicles, killed hundreds of thousands of troops invading their home, developed very successful new weapons systems, held Russian territory for over a month.

The Kremlin has dragged the Russian economy into the dirt and the only “help” they’ll get after their barbaric land grab fails is one-sided deals with the CCP and India. Meanwhile, Ukraine has already received many billions of dollars worth of support from many different countries, and is on a path to membership in maybe the most valuable economic bloc on the planet.

Ukraine is getting beat up, but Russia is being destroyed.

The Kremlin is probably happy to hear it called Satan. They’re getting desperate and empty threats of global nuclear war are one of the only cards they have left.

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Just more empty sabre rattling from the Kremlin

Most propaganda isn’t that obvious. It often seems normal and a lot of it is actually based on the truth.

Why is this Lemmy.ml propaganda garbage showing up in my feed when I have the instance blocked?

I’m disgusted but what the Israelis have been doing, but the last place I want to hear about Israel from is Lemmy.ml.

Ahem… boobies.

Yeah, consequences might save the next person she freaks out on, or prevent a dangerous escalation.

Holy shit

Yes, I generally agree. I can’t help but note that we aren’t expected to hit peak population for a long time. There’s a good chance we’ll both be underground by the time it happens.

Meanwhile, many of the key metrics we use to monitor the environment have already been indicating irreversible damage for decades.

Maybe an Iranian LLM spreading “anti-Western” propaganda.

I’m a computer hacker

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it’s looking more and more like these were done by hacking the devices and detonating the battery.

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If I knew the goverent would support me like that I’d be more likely to have a child

Its right there in what you typed, its giving them time off. That’s what inventivizes them.

I’m part of everyone, so yes, it’s reaching into my wallet.

I’m not trying to take anyone’s “rights to reproduce,” I just don’t want someone reaching onto my wallet to incentivize increased population because its a stupid thing to do that harm humanity in the long run

This is coming from somene who supports things like single-payer universal healthcare, broad financial support for education, ensuring housing for people, etc.

You’re putting up optimistic hypothetical consumption scenarios against an ongoing global mass extinction, climate change, and environmental degradation caused by our actual real world consumption

Yeah, that’s going to suck, but the apparent alternative is continuing massive overconsumption that will eventually cause much worse problems.

Immigration will be a huge problem that’s already being exacerbated by climate change and disinformation.

Says the fact that we’d require several more earth size planets just to sustain current human consumption, or the fact that we’re killing off other life on the planet at an almost unprecedented rate.

We produce enough food to feed everyone… in a completely unsustainable way.

weird angle to take against equality

Come on, what a shitty strawman.

Yes agreed, at this point Putin will look weak if he doesn’t get something out of all this. Which could give someone an opportunity to take him down.

They don’t really need more fuel reserves, but they want to prevent Ukraine from undercutting them on the market.

Putin’s bridge to Crimea has almost been destroyed already, and they’ve stopped even using it for a lot of military logistics. A land bridge isn’t vulnerable like that.

I’m fine with regular support for people who need it, but not paying for people to create more people. There are WAY too many of us already.