The only way to reach westerners is on the other side of a crisis that affects them personally. Anyone who can see the malicious cruelty of everyday life in America as well as the huge misery they export everywhere else and either pretend they don’t know or shrug it off ain’t gonna be converted by morality or reason, they’re gonna be reached once it happens to them or the handful of people they might actually care about.

I personally try to be helpful and nicer when somebody’s shown genuine curiosity or naive misguidedness. We’ve all been there at one point. But there’s far too many who are just parroting the US line as if it were gospel and I don’t think ridiculing them is even the worst option.

There it is. If you’re not a liberal you’re personally getting checks written by Putin or whomever’s the villain of the month.

My grandma has been at that stage for 8 years after a stroke that left her half paralyzed, and she doesn’t have one percent as much access to care as these ghouls. I won’t be holding my breath.

Can you point me to a party that holds any significant amount of power that isn’t just a Tory with a different preference for what sort of worker gets killed at the altar of capital today?

You need every bit of juice, you wouldn’t want telemetry to miss any of your keystrokes and send that info to microsoft all incomplete. Think of all the productivity losses if one of the dozens of react appplications running on idle were to lag even more than they already do!

They can’t be as bad as the book because they can’t have a marathon length monologue to end them

So y’all have worn out atrocity propaganda so thin that we’re now gonna have to take atrocity prophesizing?

Not even two comments in and it’s already full on white supremacist “barbaric hordes” talking points

?? Yes, the US also repurposed Nazis after they got their ass kicked despite Finland’s effort. The point?

I wouldn’t go bragging about my Nazi ancestors as proof of my bloodline being impervious to propaganda but then again I’m not a w*sterner

Y’all are always going on and on about Russian bots but you can’t read Russia in any context for any reason without dusting off the canned hate

Most intelligible lib

And they’re only going slower so they can keep going longer

You mean when they fulfilled their obligations under international law to move children away from active war zones?

Fucking monsters, they didn’t even put a wall of them in front of their weapons like true humanitarians in Ukraine.

“YOURE A BOT!!!”

Some mf whose only posts are US corporate news and comments are 95% spreading the reddit lib bullet points

the FPTP crutch is a national security threat and will cause the nation to crumble.

Don’t threaten me with a good time

While you’re at it, go find some under aged girls who’ve been impregnated by adult men and tell them the Dems are just as bad as the GOP.

Sure, which victim of Clinton’s should we start with?

There is, you can go back to reddit you crybaby

Look behind you dude it’s the Russians 😨 they’re coming to give you factual information run before you die

Tell your handlers to give you a different script for Lemmy than the one they gave you for reddit, read the room