I don’t think even that would work. He could certainly hamper the war effort but the US isn’t the only ally Ukraine has. I don’t think they would capitulate unless there was major movement on the front line and a total defeat seemed possible.

Yes, I will be your dungeon master.

Why would they fold though? This idea that Ukraine was merely a puppet that would concede to literally any demands from the US was always ridiculous.

Well, you do have to keep in mind that the outcomes of those races are highly correlated with each other, so you can’t calculate the odds in a straightforward way. But the more of a wave election it is, the more the chances of a surprise flip.

I have absolutely zero faith that the US government will side with people’s safety over a new toy for the oligarchs. And these companies are openly saying their whole business model is urban transportation. So they will be lobbying to change those laws as soon as they can, and, as we’ve seen with self-driving cars, it will be difficult to stop them.

This is exactly what terrifies me though. Cars are already incredibly dangerous. Now make them 5x as fast and more difficult to control, and allow them to go anywhere and imagine the carnage.

So critical you’ll be instantly banned for saying anything critical of Russian imperialism.

I’d go one step further. The people shouldn’t need a reason to replace their representative. It should be possible at any time for any reason.

Schrödinger’s investigation? No we can’t release this as it’s part of an active investigation. No, we have no indictments or other activities to report, keep waiting.

Sure, if you have total power over the media ecosystem. But we don’t.

So the question has to be asked–are you banning Zionism from the public square or simply exiling anti Zionism into a small echo-chamber where no one will hear it anymore and Zionism will go unchallenged? This is my problem with this approach.

Another user mentioned that feddit.org may have been consistently censoring anti-Zionist voices. If that’s true it would make this a lot more reasonable in my view. However the post doesn’t seem to explicitly make this claim, so I am curious if it’s true. It left me with the impression that they were defederating mainly due to the presence of some Zionist users on the instance, which seems a very excessive response when the ability to ban individual users exists.

Maybe… this is where I guess the instance rules get in the way because I’d like to know what exactly that looks like. Because it’s well known that communists and others tried to violently resist the Nazis in the lead up to the third reich. So you’d have to articulate how your strategy was different from what was tried and failed.

My reading of history is that sporadic violence is a very ineffective anti-fascist tactic.

OK, if that’s true then I what I’m saying here doesn’t apply.

Yeah I would agree with that. However there are a number of ml users who are very deserving of that treatment based on their individual behavior. But insofar as that’s used against other random users on the same instance it’s probably not appropriate.

What worked was the might of a multiple empires waging total war against one another. I don’t think any Lemmings have that power at their disposal.

Of course this only worked after tens of millions of deaths, so it wasn’t exactly the ideal solution even then.

Depends completely on the impacts of that decision. Zionism is the predominant viewpoint in my country, so if I were to refuse to ever be around them, I would be a complete shut in, which would be counter-productive to my larger political goals. Which include defeating Zionism.

But I don’t believe it’s true that this instance is full of zionists/nazis. The accusation seems to be that there are some users on it who are zionists.

Well there are many examples but yes.

Guilt by association is still stupid even if you come up with a different analogy for it.

Well I don’t think that’s very effective either but if we can’t have a discussion then we’ll just have to disagree.

It’s mostly marketing honestly. They’re both total ass.

Echo chambers make you stupid.