We’re still looking I think at several months.”

Kinda odd that a US state official is talking about this in language implying it’s the US’s war? Removes the whole facade that this isn’t US+Ukraine vs Russia that everyone’s pretending isn’t happening.

Why would you think I watch Fox news? My bad, mixed up Afghanistan and Iraq. But I’m sure Iraq isn’t far behind.

Mastodon needs a way of automatically populating your feed for new users, like the “All” button does here on Lemmy if your instance has done the work.

I consider myself somewhat technology literate and I got frustrated/bored after trying on my phone to find popular accounts elsewhere to follow on the smaller instance I signed up on. Still stuck with an empty feed, but mostly out of laziness*. New users don’t stand a chance.

Could also have been old-timers that have had accounts repeatedly banned by admins for bullshit reasons. But yeah more likely just bots lol.

Yup

How is this a real comment you just made

You’re far more likely to drown if you own a pool in your backyard. Population level statistic applied to your individual lifestyle choices are meaningless and patronizing.

I always resent this braindead argument. There’s a huge difference between a country waging a foreign war and a country waging a war against its own cities and citizens. Insurgencies work and has been proven time and time again. See: Iraq

Incoming tankie defense of state censorship

Millions of Russian ctizens having their internet cut off isn’t a big deal?

They also monitor internet communications and you can get your account deleted or a police visit if you post something to critical of the state. That’s probably irresistibly attractive to Putin.

In my time working at a hosting provider we would get these very strange requests from the Russian government demanding Russian websites customers had with us be taken down for moral violations. Like a DMCA but for free speech.

Also true if you consider the absolutely massive cost and effort it took China to get where they are with their Great Firewall. From what can be gleaned they also have a huge workforce of people monitoring communications as well in order to keep their internet safe for the state and “sanitized”.

Almost like they’re literal fascists just like China!

I am not a fan of millions of Russian citizens being in a walled garden of censorship however

If you ever want to leave your insane echo chamber – and I don’t know how the fuck you got into it you deranged lunatic – you should read “Tombstone” by Yang Jisheng. Millions dead from state enforced famine.

Why don’t you move there then? You wouldn’t be able to browse nonsense like this lol. Wouldn’t need to worry about information you don’t like hearing because they would make sure you never hear it through their state controlled internet and media.

Did you hit the off switch on your brain and just ignore every comment there and here?

40s-50s was a wild time

I think we should always care about mass genocide on specific cultural groups, the world cared about the Holocaust, or is that a “who cares” for that one too?

This is doubly true when a fascist regime is doing everything they can to pretend like it’s not happening.

Just like I care about police brutality, and the mass Graves in Canadian schools, also because local governments are trying somewhat to cover them up. I also care about the genocide that happened in the 1900s in the Congo.

Isn’t it crazy that I can care about human suffering?? Empathy is a wild thing.

😂😂 really hit a nerve huh?