i looked into it and i lost all interest once i realized it had nothing to do with bodily fluids. lol

to be fair: so too did the russian military dreadnought convoy not long after when they ran out of gas and their tires exploded from the pressure. lol

i wish americans and other westerners weren’t so good spreading propaganda to each other without at least getting paid like the cia or fbi or homeoffice; things are tough out there and you should be paid for your work.

here are articles of americans doing the same thing with prison labor:

https://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/putting-legal-lens-forced-prison-labor-and-thirteenth-amendment

https://breakingac.com/news/2025/jun/17/unveiling-the-system-forced-labor-in-us-prisons-and-the-push-for-reform/

https://www.epi.org/publication/rooted-racism-prison-labor/

downvotes are a good thing here; they prove that you’ve atleast acknowledged these facts and that the seed of doubt can now germinate in your mind.

tragedy is the right word, but seeing first hand how thoroughly how my government has propagandized my fellow americans, i can understand how the ukranians were likewise propagandized to believe that nato would ever allow them membership by pushing their government into doing so.

aka the chorus of the pro-capitalists and the reason why things are so fucked rn.

The Democrat/Republican one would be first on my list

I think that, for as long as there’s enough people who believe that other countries “hate us for our freedom” then we’re doomed to keep repeating this history.

I wonder if the British of the early 19th century predicted that this is how it would turn out when they decided not to press their advantage after the war of 1812 in favor of detente w the young United States

I wonder if historians in the future will mark the beginning of ww3 w Ukraine and Iran.

Also, I’m assuming the down votes are because the article makes it clear that the United States is the reason why the Ukrainians are fighting the Russians.

dunno; the aged induced bone spurs and arthritis sometimes makes me want to welcome annihilation. lol

leave it to ML users to debate subjective experience

here’s the needlessly incendiary part of this exchange.

– assuming they’re paying attention at all

it would be shorter if you list the atrocities they DIDN’T commit

same here except i didn’t know that there was a 4th; what’s it called?

til of waterfox and fennec; thanks for the reply.

i get that you’re joking; but i literally got a coupon for equifax’s credit monitoring service when the OPM was hacked back in 2015.

i didn’t know this was a thing; i’m going to try it today and thanks for letting me know

i didn’t know what chapotraphouse was back when it was a thing on reddit and i would have probably left a lot sooner if i had.

i wonder how frustrating it must by for sachs to be so knowlege about the inner workings of the united states and its adversaries and watch and they take painfully obvious steps into mutual annihilation, but be so widely disregarded by americans and the rest of the western world.

if there ever was a living representation of cassandra, it’s him.

i tried to get banned during the blackout protests by intentionally breaking rules because i didn’t believe that i could stay away at the time, but they wouldn’t ban me; go figure.

the only place that’s banned me on social media is the star trek lemmy instance and even then only to their most active communities; i wish i could understand why/how i have this ability so i can wield it to my benefit. lol