Hello fellow kbinner... kbinnite... kbinmate... what's the word we're calling each other again? Anyway, I feel the same way.
One of the main reasons why I didn't choose lemmy was explicitly because the kind of red authoritarian crowd they seemed to attract. Sure, there's gonna be people like that on kbin as well, but so far it's been pretty decent from my point of view.
Ngl, the drama is pretty nice when you're not involved in it 🍿
grus
joined 2 years ago
NATO/western countries should ask China to do a joint operation of sorts to secure the nuclear plant, they keep saying they're against war and what not. at least this way they can force them to put up or shut up.
More pressure should be put on China.
OOhh, I didn't notice! The are English CCs/subtitles on Piped!
My bad, didn't see the options, that's why I looked for another source in the first place.
For anyone else who was curious about it, you can find the documentary on their youtube channel and it has working English subtitles!
Edit: actually scratch that, Piped has subtitles too, just click on the three dots and you'll find the English Captions option there too.
I want to remind everyone that these things aren't the norm, they're the exception.
The Kremlin's strategy is to make an example out of select few for the purpose of instilling fear into the population, thus keeping them politically complacent and subservient.
The vast majority who went out to protest when the full invasion started didn't go to jail, they were just detained for a couple hours and given a fine.
If you go to VK/Vkontakte (Russian version of facebook) you'll easily find anti-regime, anti-war voices that aren't being silenced. I've had an account there for more than a year, it still up and running despite all the shit I've said about the Kremlin/Putin/Army/Russia/Russians.
Also, in the year prior to the full scale invasion - 2021 - there were more protesters detained than they were in 2022, but in 2022 there were more people made public examples by being given long sentences than in 2022.
I'm saying all of this not to minimize the suffering or oppression that Russian anti-war activists are subjected to, but to bring to light the actual reality in the Russian society, because I've got the feeling that a wrong picture is being painted.
Okay everybody, listen. I have a brilliant idea. What if you take one of those tiny robots, superglue a mine on its back and then run it in front of the tanks so they run over it and blow up?
Sure you lose the tiny robot, but you just destroyed the tank at the cost of a tiny robot. How expensive can that tiny robot be?
This could be some looneytoons-levels of elephant and mouse game.
Another aspect that people ought to consider: monopoly is actually bad. Shocker, I know.
But if you have a corporate browser engine that pretty much controls the entire browser market, then whatever standard that browser implements it will automatically become the default. That's bad, Google is evil.
Those two can and should coexist. Me supporting the rights of a members of a religious groups does not and should not translate to me not being able to offend their religious sensibilities.
In fact, I wholeheartedly oppose blasphemy laws, regardless of the particular religion flavor that they apply to.
They should have the right to go around with their head uncovered and I should have the right to trash-talk their religious idols/gods/priests/what have you.
link only works for people who are already members of the channel.
What's the link for the channel or the channels name?
it didn't even cross my mind that other sites would have a different sub-whatever shortcut.
I foresee a lot of banter, bickering and drama about it in the future.
Imagine being one of those /t/ guys. Awful. Can't be me.
I don't know about others but this hasn't been my experience. From what I've noticed a lot of left or left-leaning subreddits have been taken over by tankie mods.
I'm much happier with how kbin/lemmy/mastodon/etc work, at least this way I can choose my left/hard-left/left-leaning communities that I wish to interact with without them being controlled by tankies or other authoritarian flavors.