This is a trash-level source. Some of their news headlines:

NATO risks nuclear catastrophe with attack on Russian airports.

This wasn’t a NATO operation, it was a Ukrainian one and russia has “warned” about nuclear war at least for 50 times (they have a deep understanding of useful idiot types in the west).

I can’t speak for Lemmy, but I had a very different opinion on say things like prevalence of local corruption compared to the average American when I lived there (and this was under the second Bush and Obama, so not that recent).

I will admit, the US seems very far from “end is nigh” (I don’t mean this in a positive sense, it can get infinitely worse, I know from practical experience), but that doesn’t mean regressive tendencies aren’t broad and have deep roots (completely unrelated to Trump’s direct actions).

Again, treat this as a perspective of a foreigner who lived in the US for multiple years and visited regularly before COVID. Just an alternative perspective of sorts.

I am not saying there wasn’t any progress (perhaps even a lot), but from my impressions living in the US there were serious regressions in terms of democratic governance and rule of law (in the broad sense of the term, not US specific).

Just my view from my time living there.

Definitely, it’s not a straight line.

But a country regressing on a more or less permanent basis in the medium to long term is not unheard of.

I am not American, but I have lived there.

The impression that I got is there has been a level of regression in rights in the US in the past few decades (going as far back as the 70s, i.e. before Trump).

Enablement of mandatory arbitration clauses de facto removes your ability to fair civil trials and force you to use a USSR-style kangaroo court. Legally allowing unlimited campaign donations by oligarchs undermines universal suffrage.

Shouldn’t these scammers be using AI keywords? Biowellness backed by AI and so on?

Or have they not got the memo that even haescore buttpumpers have given up on “buttchain use cases will change the world!!!” spam.

Piefed, Mbin.

Thanks man!

Let’s how tonight goes.

I was honestly surprised that they went with such a statement. Putin is smart enough (smarter than much of the US) to understand that Trump is a lazy degenerate, but it seems a bit premature to openly ridicule Trump.

Ukrainian, living in Kyiv (have lived in other cities too).

It does seem that Kyiv has by far the best AA defence systems in the country. For what it’s worth, I’d rather they target Kyiv if that helps blunt the impact of the attacks.

That being said, it’s not fun to have constant shockwaves and loud noises from explosions/takedowns all night. Not to mention the risk of death/getting wounded and/or having your apartment be heavily damaged.

Best option would be if all regions could have an AA defence comparable to Kyiv, but unfortunately that’s not possible.

One other option beyond BDS (and not involving an invasion) would be countries removing diplomatic recognition of Israel and expelling all Israeli diplomats.

This is of course easier said than done, but it’s far more viable than any other alternative courses of action.

Why would it raise concern in the Canadian Jewish and Israeli communities?

It seems that the Israelis were killing civilians, not US mercenaries.

It’s really too bad that Lemmy MAUs are once again on a decline curve. I was really hoping we would stabilize above 50K MAU.

Says who?

It’s pretty clear you have no clue what you are talking about or you’re playing dumb (in an effort to work as a free PR shill for China).

I am done here!

What info have you provided?

There is no moving goalposts. From the Wikipedia article:

Construction of the port commenced in January 2008. In 2016, it reported an operating profit of $1.81 million but was considered economically unviable.[4] As debt repayment got difficult, the newly-elected government decided to privatise an 80% stake of the port to raise foreign exchange in order to repay maturing sovereign bonds unrelated to the port.[5][6] Of the two bidding companies, China Merchants Port was chosen,[5] which was to pay $1.12 billion to Sri Lanka and spend additional amounts to develop the port into full operation.[7][8][9]

In July 2017, the agreement was signed, but CMPort was allowed a 70% stake. Simultaneously a 99-year lease on the port was granted to CMPort.

Can you explain Kerry Brown’s arguement in context of this information?

Russophia is a propaganda term.

A sober view of russian “culture” and history is not a phobia. It is reasonable to approach russians as they are (e.g. strong majority support for genocidal imperialism even with adjustments for preference falsification during polling) and not as one would like them to be.

What wasn’t refuted?

The port has no commercial viability. If it does, show me its transactions relative to ports of comparable size in say south India.

Have you ever lived or visited the region? Sri Lanka or south India. Or any part of the Indian subcontinent. Or any part of Asia for that matter.

Prove me wrong! I will admit I am wrong and will appreciate the correction.

Let’s not play dumb, ok?

That China’s investments aren’t necessarily beneficial for the country host country.

There is an element of domination and geopolitics (having a de facto military port on India’s doorstep).