What is so special about piefed? I see a few communities moving there. The interface looks different from the original lemmy interface.

cute

can confirm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ1MrzoZV8c

Yeah, no, this one is mother nature throwing a curve ball at putin to tell him that russia is already hard to manage as is, without trying to invade neighbours and fucking with other countries.

Yeah, nobody is getting any real benefits from watching the drama, but the damage they do will keep accumulating.

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/s? newsweek may be terrible, but that is not the reason.

russia has been found to pay delinquents and gangs to sabotage stuff in their countries. A conspiracy nut would probably be even cheaper, you just have to wind them up enough.

They think the social state was built at the expense of defense spending (it wasn’t, it was originally indirect “cognitive” defense spending as a middle ground against soviet communism) and they probably think that Europe not being a social shithole like the US hinders their neofascist plans.

Now if you’re asking why MAGA “conservatives” hate liberalism…you gotta ask them why they think the founding fathers and Jesus are woke…I have no idea there.

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Yeah, I noticed that too, but the observer and the explorer in the same page show them, so…ok…🧐

Maybe they’re trying to divide the load among different servers, so they don’t serve .world as the obvious default choice.

Have you looked at Orban, that is one fugly dude 🤭

Eventually they will find a way to seize people’s savings, but maybe they’ll do it in such a way that russians will never know it, because you won’t be able to spend it…

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The most intriguing alt-history stuff I’ve read about it was that the protesters were “lefties” protesting the Dengist attempts at liberalization and confucianist reform, because in one of the videos the protesters were singing socialist anthems e.g. 1st international. It looked like the last gasp of the cultural revolution. But I’m not sure how to check any of this (certainly not from the Chinese archives and the rest of the world only has videos…and the cables you mention), it’s probably just another bullshit story to cover up what happened.

You can already see the severed trade networks start to heal circumventing the US. This is going to be brexit x 100

Most of that looks right, but

Violent overthrow of East Timor (widely considered a genocide)

Ok, this was Indonesia, with murican quiet assent, but still, don’t give other countries a pass on these things to make them look clean.

Many of these also involved the local elites going to the US for help. e.g. The draft UN resolution for the no-fly zone in Lybia was produced by the Arab League and backed by the African Union, which pressured russia and China not to veto it.

Damn, it was like the 2/3rd most active instance

https://lemmyverse.net/ to search for a new instance

There are so many examples of petty, corporate corruption out there, this is not one, maybe if you stretch the definition to include people making decisions that also benefit them…they also set their own salaries, for example, I guess that is corruption too…so now you need a new word to call out actual petty and corporate corruption.

Letting parliamentarians retire early is not just good for them (it’s a cushy job anyway, don’t they want to keep their perks?), it is better for the country to let younger people take their place. As an example of corruption, this is the worst I’ve heard.

Hard to govern when all you do is bitch against the government.