Ah yes, because funding never comes with any strings attached.
purahna
joined 1 year ago
wow British state owned media is acting on behalf of the state? craaaazy
I don't get this trend of finding someone identifying legitimate problems with the best available option and trying to have discussion on a discussion website and drowning them with "B-b-but everyone else is worse! If we didn't have [lesser evil] then we would surely have [greater evil]! Why do you want [greater evil]???"
He is a rapist. Yes, let's censor him. He's also a dipshit brainwormed neocon, but that sadly isn't enough to censor someone, but surely having multiple corroborated rape allegations is enough to get someone deplatformed, right?
that quote still actually applies if you accommodate the fact that he didn't actually count Indians as human beings
Doing so would be a valuable contribution to the discussion and morally good so I sure hope so
Mastodon is also not backed by any major donor and also has a better UI??
This comment kinda makes it clear that it's your service and you're plugging it though so I'm glad I could have that suspicion of mine confirmed
what does this have that Mastodon doesn't?
and why is the very first thing I see on the starting page a slur?
the privacy policy is a fucking nightmare
and also you have literal nazis on your trending
lmao this place sucks
based? yeah I hope so too
nerd lmao
I acknowledge that this isn't a question towards me, but I'm gonna take a stab regardless, so compared with Lenin, Stalin:
- didn't have the advantage of "noob gains", or the period where all of the low hanging fruit fixes to what was basically feudalism could be made
- had to amass nearly the whole productive output of the union to defending against and defeating the Nazis, as well as drafting nearly every man in the country in a highly self-defensive war
- had to start from rubble at the end of the war
- was the target of much deeper and more frequent propaganda, as the USSR under Lenin was an alarming proletarian experiment to capital, but the USSR under Stalin was a global superpower that threatened hegemony on a daily basis
- faced famines and sanctions of a much higher magnitude at much worse times than Lenin
- and yes, fumbled a couple things very badly which lead to a non-negligible amount of death (although, and I recognize that this is impossible to prove, handled most things far better than any bourgeoise head of state handled their similar crises)
He was decent. He isn't a god, he didn't do perfect, but when you count how shitty the hand he was dealt was and how much better things were going by the time he walked from the table, he did pretty damn decent.
are you sure its your life that's swell and not your brain that's swelled from your long COVID?