silent_water [she/her]

lol the US security apparatus is bad but it’s not that bad. you might get put on a watchlist though.

jesus christ read at least one book about the history of the conflict you’re describing before you confidently spout nonsense.

I think the media companies have been abusing the DMCA to go after people who link to pirated material. also, I’m starting to suspect world is trying to get funding because they’re trying to “clean” the site up in exactly the way banks/VCs require for loans. it’s a conservative interpretation of the law, especially the recent rounds that purported to go after human trafficking but actually forced major websites to take down anything remotely objectionable.

defederation is good for nazi and CSAM instances. no one should touch either with a 10ft pole. there’s absolutely no reason to give them a larger platform.

when the capitalists expropriate the profits over creative works: cool, good

when some random person downloads it: how dare you

oh no, billionaire profits. anyway,

there’s no way to sell public infrastructure to the highest bidder that won’t result in a massive drop in quality of life. it’s got very little to do with your government and entirely to do with the introduction of bourgeois rule.

Ethnic cleansings in those territories are a fabricated casus beli for Russia ‘green man’.

there have been reports of Ukranian paramilitaries shelling the Donbas going back almost a decade. multiple peace treaties were signed over it, all aiming to stop the ethnic cleansing. each and every one of those treaties were violated. this is all extremely well-documented. can you even prove that a single of these reports is fabricated?

yes, capitalism is marked by class war, between the class who own things, and the class who labor. liberalizing the Soviet bloc destroyed the prospects of the working class.

jokey one-liners: you have no arguments

well-reasoned point: I’m not reading all that, I have a job

if US support dropped overnight, reunification with the mainland would become inevitable. it’s a puppet state in the sense that it’s propped up by the might of the US/NATO military.