What allies?

This guy acts like any of this is new, or that it’s some right wing conspiracy to make us mistrust the government.

They’re in the pocket of capitalist interests and have been for hundreds of years. More and more it’s becoming clear that the leading factor behind most of our major societal issues is unfettered capitalism, destroying everything and squeezing everything.

Our governments answer only to the rich these days, moreso than ever before in recent Western history. Any response from the people can be moderated and restricted, and at worst results in a pathetic protest that - while it may be large - is a brief, unsustained blip that doesn’t even rattle the stock market, let alone worry the rich ruling class at all.

Society has been cleverly trained to think they can’t affect change, and that writing a comment online (like this one) is a good way to affect change or make a difference.

All it does is make you feel like you’ve done something useful, when you haven’t, and identified yourself and your political opinions to your government, who will put you on various lists and come for you when the time comes.

This guy is on the right track, but needs to think bigger. Much, much bigger.

We must continue to build our defences against US aggression.

They’ve already threatened to invade our allies on multiple occasions recently, and that’s on top of the deeply evil things they’re already doing, both to their own people and to others around the world.

We must take them seriously and protect ourselves.

They will come for us once they’re done crushing their own citizens, and once they’re finished securing their control over the global strategic and industrial resources needed for their future peer wars of domination against enemies and former allies.

It’s sad, I know, but it’s the reality we live in now. We mustn’t live in denial just because the future is scary. They will continue to do evil things like this, and eventually come for us.

What I hate most about the Independent these days is that they’re a UK news agency for UK news reporting, but seem to want to heavily report on local USA news now.

Not just big international news worthy stuff, but lots of small local area USA news.

I’ll see some headline that sounds serious, only to open it and find it’s not referring to events in the UK at all, but in the USA, which is entirely irrelevant to me.

Not sure why they pivoted to being a US news company, but I’m sick of it, so they’re on my blacklist now.

Why don’t France want to go to war with a random country for lols? Are they COWARDS?!

The American military is a den of animals and monsters. disgusting subhuman cowards; Bloodthirsty beasts.

Dehumanising people, calling them animals, subhuman, beasts, etc - using their own horrid, evil tactics basically - is not how you win me, or anybody decent, over.

They can be bad people doing bad things, but the moment you try to persuade us that they’re not human, but are less than human (and it thus follows that doing bad things to them is more acceptable than doing bad things to actual human people), you immediately lose my support.

No thank you.

Is Russian propaganda truly “the strongest”, or just the most obvious, especially to someone like myself who is an outsider to their system?

I suspect propaganda across the west is just as pervasive, it’s just more insidious, and much harder for us to spot from within.

I wanted to keep using Boost, and they banned third party applications from Reddit.

Especially annoying given that their own application was awful and at times unusable with whole features completely missing.

I was barely aware they ‘funded’ mental healthcare at all, it’s been on life support for years.

I’m on various years and years long mental health waiting lists, I’m sure they’ll get even longer if they reduce the £5 a week they bother to throw at mental healthcare.

How dare you contradict the Great Leader! He has said many times that it’s a War (the best war, nobody does wars like him)

Not our war, fuck off Miliband.

Irish Stew with pickled red cabbage on top.

Because I’m lazy and wanted to make something good that’d last a few days.

They just need to transfer power from the car’s inertial dampers to the containment field

They killed the man himself, Dow Jones!

I like this ^_

Hey now, they care so much about protecting children that they’ll cover them in body armour and send them in big groups to far away lands (to keep them safe from domestic terrorism ofc)!

You’d never find one of you went looking over here, I’ve not seen a cop on foot or parked up in YEARS. Only ever see em driving somewhere. Strange.

When I spent some time in the USA though it was creepy, they’d drive their cars around real slow, just watching you, and they’re everywhere. It felt weirdly oppressive/threatening to have them always around the next corner, always over your shoulder…watching o.O

Did they actually have domestic concerns though?

It looks more like their Dictator wanted to start another war (possibly to distract from his many crimes, or to distract from his domestic racist death squads, or to raise his side’s standing in the upcoming elections, or to distract as he works to rig said election), and did so because nobody can stop him.

It seems to be very effective, people are paying huge amounts of attention to this, especially those who were on his side but starting to rethink their position given the continued fallout of the Files. Many of them have instead focused on him as a strong no nonsense wartime leader, which was, I suspect, the plan.

Anyway, just a reminder that a few weeks ago he also promised to use his military to annex a European NATO nation if it didn’t surrender in full to him and cede itself to be annexed.

Given that he’s started two crazy wars this year already, it would be unwise not to take him seriously when he threatens us directly.

The point being, aside from everything else, Europe must not drop its guard against US aggression. They will eventually turn their military sights on us, and we must stand together.

Exactly, like my box of condoms! Knew they’d come in handy one day 😎

Functionally it may be different, but if I’m sat at a table with another user, next to a criminal gun salesman and their customer, the salesman passes me a gun, and I pass the gun to the other user, who then passes it to the customer, am I not just as guilty of facilitating that illegal exchange?

I understand that one could try to make that argument aimed at an ISP or internet infrastructure in general, but in this case the added element is that we are individuals, we know people are often using these services for illicit means, and we still choose to facilitate their use.

Honestly I don’t know if I agree with my own argument 100%, but it’s something someone could argue, and it’s worth some thought before deciding to become a part of that shadowy community. Especially knowing there’s a good chance at some point you’re a willing link in the chain for criminal activity, even if it probably can’t be traced back to you.

Hmm, food for thought I suppose.