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Bigfishbest

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  • The PEOPLE'S genocidal oligarchy was the best thing to ever happen to Russia; you can tell because their propaganda claimed nice things!

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  • You're right, the democratization point is utter bullshit, my bad, missed that one.

    As for the other points, as I alluded to, there are caveats for many of them. On the other hand, the soviet union modernized a country that was partly a feudalist state into a superpower. While the ideology and methods are unsympathetic, many of its results were beneficial, for example health care, which though imperfect, was universal and free, unlike the US for example. Education was also free and of high quality overall, marred of course with indoctrination and ideological blinders, but still good.

    Saying the USSR was all good or all bad is a naive and unnuanced analysis of 80 years of history. Compare it to tsarist Russia incredible leaps were made. Compare it to USA they outperformed them on some metrics, and underperformed on others.

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    Far-Right Influencer Revolts Against Trump: ‘Vote Democrat’

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  • You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.

  • LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy

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  • I don't believe this! As a fumgrian living as a would be dead camoose off Mt. Kabul, I am overjizzed that AI is reading all my pornhub comments.

  • Nu er det [ifølge efterretningstjenester] 'meget sandsynligt', at russerne vil forsøge at påvirke valget

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  • Hvilke partier er det Putin vil ha til makta? Er det sosialister? Sosialdemokrater? Liberale? Hmm. Nei, det er alltid høyre og ytre høyre. Hvem kan fatte det...

  • Anyone still here?

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  • Where am I?

  • The PEOPLE'S genocidal oligarchy was the best thing to ever happen to Russia; you can tell because their propaganda claimed nice things!

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  • None of what is said here is untrue.

    It just leaves out the dictatorship, the gulags, the holodomor, the torture, personality cult, the propaganda, the wars of aggression, political oppression at home and abroad etc etc.

  • Why is Western double standard so normalized? If Russia or Iran did 1% of what Israel & US do, the outrage would be endless. Why do rules only apply to them?

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  • One word. Empire. Since ww2 and the fall of the USSR, the US has built up a hegemony that allows it to do what is good for its empire, justified by the idea that what they do is for a good cause.

    Simply put, if people like you and have financial ties to you, they're often willing to ignore some of your worse qualities. It's like the wife beating husband whose male friends all say he's a great guy cause he keeps picking up their bar tabs.

    USA has through business and propaganda expounded the idea of themselves as protectors of free markets and democracy, where convenient, and revealed their true nature in many places by crushing democracy when it benefited markets.

    This was always the MO, if democracies are pro US business, (to the detriment of their own people) , then good. If not, squash them and put in dictator in stead.

    Enough of the world's elites have benefited from this, that they basically are beholden to the US elites and are unwilling to criticize when lines are over stepped. I've watched this happen my whole life, since Iraq 2003 this has expanded in every way, from mass surveillance of its own citizens and allies, to illegal attacks and drone strikes. No one with power has wanted to hold the US accountable, and as a result, they've been able to keep doing horrible things.

    If the democracies of the world had kept to the laws they made after ww2, and treated the US as an aggressor in 2003, it could have hurt the American economy so much, that it may have caused a shift in the trend. But it would also have hurt those countries' economies. So, instead the political and business elites in places like UK, Norway, Germany, Japan, etc chose to support the US in violating international law, or at least just ignore them to keep business as usual going.

    The result is, America learned it has impunity. It was tempered by the understanding that too much overstepping of the principles of international law would ruin the position as "good guy", which long term would weaken America's ability to do whatever it wants.

    The current administration can't spell 'long term', let alone understand it. In a way they've kickstarted the fall of the empire, because no one believes in America as a force for good, aside from the aforementioned elites, who have tied themselves to the USA, and must stick with it till they all go down, like Labour in the UK, or Merz in Germany. They will blatantly support the US, and it's ally Israel, in any violation of law, as they know they are politically and economically so dependent on the US, that any other choice is impossible, even when it makes their own people hate them.

  • [Video] Australian police seizes “Wanted - Netanyahu" sign saying it is antisemitic

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  • He's literally wanted by the ICC!

  • intersectionality forever

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  • Yeah forget about sending those squatters back to Europe. We don't fucking want them.

  • Video games are losing the "attention war" to gambling, porn, and crypto, according to industry report

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  • Totally. Been a gamer for 30+ years, and none of the new stuff holds my interest. Also, my hardware being less than a full time mortgage, means most new games run poorly. So, old stuff it is.

  • science killed the radio star

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  • We can disagree on that. My take is that God / author wants to tell a story that shows that he does not want human sacrifice. There's an added effect here since Isaac is the ancestor of the Hebrews. Whenever that story is told to that group of people, they would on some level realize, that if Abraham had sacrificed Isaac, none of us would be here.

    We must take care to not insert our way of thinking into bronze age minds, and reversely, be critical of importing ideas from them.

  • Tankie and PROUD, come @ me lemmy liberals

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  • I read the book

  • Name this band

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  • Cunts Anansie

  • Tankie and PROUD, come @ me lemmy liberals

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  • Couldn't even get the image right. Atlas bore not the earth, but the sky.

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    Yemeni leader: US-Israeli focus on Iran stems From Tehran’s role in blocking their hostile schemes

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  • He's out of line, but he's not wrong

  • European alternatives to Visa and Mastercard ‘urgently’ needed, says banking chief

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  • Norway has BankAxept I believe. Fully homegrown, works just like visa.

  • Andrew Tate is ’too smart to read’ and says books are for ‘slow brains’

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  • Dear Andrew. You need to fill your head with stuff cause you're unable to sit in the silence of your own mind since it's shouting what an utter failure you are at being a decent person. You've hurt so many people, and deep down you know that ain't right. It's called cognitive dissonance. I want to hope you can become a whole person someday, but frankly you don't deserve that. Honestly I can't see you as anything other than a drain on society.

  • Is Star Trek Discovery worth a go if I liked Picard and like Strange New Worlds?

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  • Short answer no. Long answer: noooooooo!

    Useful answer: Meh. First of all there are some cool storylines and cool characters. There are also utter shit in both regards. My worst gripe is Michael "The Wailer" Burnham. She is by far, like warp 9 far, the most over-emotional character in all of Star trek history. Never mind the fact that she is a star fleet officer who should be somewhat professional, she was also raised by Spock's parents, which is utterly invented out of whole crap for discovery, on Vulcan. If she behaved the way she does on ST:D one tenth of the time she was on Vulcan, they would have put her in an asylum or shipped her back to earth. It is intolerable to watch a star fleet officer bawling in every other episode.

    The spore drive. Again, no real connection to the tech of any previous trektech, and never heard of again later. I like the concept actually, but I feel it belongs in another universe, not trek.

    The twists. Subverting expectations seems to have been the foundation of the series. While a few surprises are great, discovery seems to hammer the expired equine with twists until it more resembles a gory corkscrew than a horse.

    I could go on. I won't.

  • XCOM: Enemy Unknown – Review and Retrospective- Is It Worth It In 2025?

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  • Eh, the original from the 90s is a more solid game. The game is good is some ways, but flawed in many. First of all the dumbing down. In 90s version you recruit soldiers for money, then check their stats and make them snipers, grenadiers, shock troops or even suicide bombers depending on their skills. 2012 version, you get a bunch of gamified units that have set upgrade paths.

    90s version you build and attack multiple bases, administrate a world wide war with great wins and painful losses. In 2012, you pretty much have to win each scenario or the game becomes unwinnable.

    Old version, more units, lose one or two, the fight goes on. New version, two dead soldiers will make many fights unwinnable. Old, all aliens are on map at start. New, aliens spawn suddenly in illogical positions and often put your troops in impossible situations that you would never have wandered into if the enemy was on the field and not suddenly appeared out of thin air.

    Old, no limits to equipment, give every man 2 grenades and 2 smoke grenades, no worries. New, only Carl can carry smoke grenades, because the game wants to force strategic choices.

    I could go on, but long story short, yes new xcom was good, but it really was a dumber version of the original, which had small flaws, but is still an amazing game. New xcom I would just not want to play again.