People in asia seem to have an infatuation with Russia even before the palestine issue became prominent. It’s sickening.

The only good thing about it I see is that it’s a necessary counter-balance against the US and its imperialism, perhaps.

Yeah hadn’t realized the spanish/portuguese thing, assumed indigenous folk spoke it but I realize it’s usually some different native thing.

I’m glad it’s better over there, because in my [limited] friend group and family, nobody is pro-ukraine.

Ah so the people there are still ethnically brazillian/argentinian right? i.e. the people are indigenous themselves, just not the rulers? or are the majority of people of european descent too?

Then the only way for the rich to keep getting richer is to degrade labour conditions, but that’s unpopular so you need to blame a scapegoat and enact a repressive regime to enforce it.

I didn’t get this part. Please explain?

Argentina and Brazil are colonial entities? Please elaborate, haven’t heard before.

Edit: How the hell do people deal with Israel given its Samson option??

I’m glad I’m finally seeing someone else that’s actually both pro-palestine AND pro-ukraine for once. It’s usually mutually exclusive — I don’t understand why. Literally every single pro-palestine person I’ve seen otherwise has been pretty vocally anti-Ukraine.

Yeah but him adding “your country probably sucks” was weird.

If he’s literally fucked without consent, what makes people think he wouldn’t figuratively fuck the people collectively without it too?

The analogy you’re providing is fallacious because unlike nonsensical singular statements about ducks (an ethically neutral statement), what we’re actually getting is people consistently defending various forms of hate that endangers minorities and marginalized people. They rarely, if ever - and it is my opinion that this almost never occurs - respond to reason. People being purposefully obtuse and heartless within discussions do not really deserve logical vigour or effort. You could try, but it’s a waste of time and energy, and it’ll just put one in a bad mood.

I think it’s fair to assume those when people openly support a movement that visibly takes away the rights of marginalized groups and kills innocent people.

I’m a bit distrustful of the current french political scene and macron’s involvement in their phasing out of American tech (which is in principle good but it’s the actors here that are sus).

Fair.

Even with MAGAts and the wave of red that’s ever-present online?

Oh, you just summarized america in a sentence.

Gotcha.

But why just the state specifically? Isn’t murder just… bad regardless of who’s doing it?

How’s Qwant in terms of search results and privacy/AI?

I’ve been using startpage (it’s an improvement over Mojeek, that was kinda unusable).

How do you determine what’s not in good faith?

I would imagine this would tie to values, but do those become the unquestionable object, then?

You say should, but that’s a judgment; judgments are subjective.

redistributes wealth from minority to majority

political power is concentrated to an even smaller group.

Sense you don’t make.