A job I had a few years ago did that actually. We basically shut down for the month, and just had a skeleton crew to keep the lights on.

It’s funny how this only started being a pattern after the reddit migration.

I love how we have people here suffering from the protagonist syndrome thinking that they need to make a public announcement about what instances they visit. You’re not the main character. 😂

oh yeah that’s definitely a good use case

You quote me saying Russians have fascists in their government and military, something I sent you articles demonstrating that you didnt even bother to read, and then have the audacity to pretend like I owe you more research and need to prove a claim I never made? Get outta here with that nonsense.

You never showed any evidence for this claim.

You never managed to demonstrate that Ukraine is run by Nazis, nor that it is even a “systemic problem”.

I have, but you ignored that, and no serious person would deny it. Even Ukrainians don’t deny this

Do you think lying, exaggerating, and attacking people will benefit your point in anyway?

Should ask yourself that very question. Nobody is moving any goal posts on you. Maybe read up a bit on how took power in Ukraine after the coup.

Or are you just so angry that you want the fight, and there is no point beyond that?

Projecting much?

Honestly man, I feel kind of bad for you. Good luck, I hope you can find some joy in your life.

Russia and the United States among them

Please show Russian officials sitting in front of nazi symbols, or Russian military units using them. I’ll wait. The fact that you’re trying to make some sort of equivalence here shows that you’re either completely ignorant or intentionally trolling. The difference is that nazi problem in Ukraine is systemic, and this is a fact that’s well documented.

I’ll take your personal attacks on me as you admitting you overstated the strength of your “evidence”.

definitely something a nazi apologist clown would say

Weird way to say articles about nazis having brigades and having close ties to the government. Many countries have idiots, but not many countries have open fascists int their military and government. Sorry I took your valuable time away from sniffing glue there. This clearly was too complex a topic for you to have a discussion on.

the only pile of shit here is the one that wrote the above comment

nah we’re just reading what mainstream western media reported before the start of the war

• https://khpg.org/en/1528928862
• https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30414955
• https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28329329
• https://archive.ph/ckwv4
• https://www.ft.com/content/7191ec30-9677-423d-873c-e72b64725c2d
• https://gordonhahn.com/2015/05/02/ukraines-neo-fascist-right-sector-claims-responsibility-again-for-2-may-2014-terrorist-pogrom/
• http://www.errc.org/news/anti-roma-pogroms-in-ukraine-on-c14-and-tolerating-terror

I mean it’s certainly possible that we get good old fascism as the next stage.

stay mad

I think that being human scale is largely the appeal of the Fediverse. Each instance isn’t meant to grow to the size of a centralized platform, but to be a relatively small community of people with some shared interests. I look at it similarly to the way IRC channels worked back in the day. You tend to have a group of people whom you interact with frequently and that’s how you know they’re human. If some bot enters the community then it becomes obvious very quickly.

Memes change and evolve just like any concept. It’s hilarious how some people think that you have to use a meme template in some specific prescribed way.

cry ab it

For the sake of the argument, let’s say that was actually the case. This would still be a demonstrably better situation. Under private ownership of capital, the purpose of work is to produce profit for the business owners with any social value produced being strictly incidental. Meanwhile, with state owned enterprise the purpose of work is to produce socially valuable things that the workers themselves directly benefit from. The wealth is not hoarded by the state, but it’s rather reinvested in socially useful ways such as building infrastructure, providing healthcare, education, and so on.

Iä R’lyea! Cthulhu ftagn! Iä! Iä!

The former chief of NATO has already admitted that the war started due to NATO expansion, go peddle your propaganda somewhere else

The background was that President Putin declared in the autumn of 2021, and actually sent a draft treaty that they wanted NATO to sign, to promise no more NATO enlargement. That was what he sent us. And was a pre-condition for not invade Ukraine. Of course we didn’t sign that.

The opposite happened. He wanted us to sign that promise, never to enlarge NATO. He wanted us to remove our military infrastructure in all Allies that have joined NATO since 1997, meaning half of NATO, all the Central and Eastern Europe, we should remove NATO from that part of our Alliance, introducing some kind of B, or second class membership. We rejected that. So he went to war to prevent NATO, more NATO, close to his borders.

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/opinions_218172.htm

It’s more that reading exercises specific parts of the brain. In particular it develops the anterior temporal lobe, responsible for associating and categorizing different types of information and the auditory cortex, that’s correlated with better reading skills, becomes thicker since it’s involved in phonological awareness in reading. Basically, reading is good for you.

Pointing out the obvious always makes libs so mad.

libs really hate looking in the mirror