The real question is who those 236,357 cars were sold to. Which European buys a car from a guy who did a Hitler salute live on stage, twice?

Currently doing a DIS rewatch. Not a big fan but not on the hate train either. But man, my intestines cramped from the cringe when that scene popped up.

DIS S01E04

How do you wanna be remembered in history? Alongside the Wright Brothers, Elon Musk, Zefram Cochrane? Or as a failed fungus expert? A selfish little man who put the survival of his own ego before the lives of others.

Well, he got his mention in Star Trek as one of the great people to will have advanced humanity, so I guess after having that had crossed off his list he could just do something different next.

Is that the bubble beginning to pop?

It’s really not. I get that the US have a lot of problems, especially when it comes to training people to deescalate, not use force when it’s not absolutely required etc, but it’s not the same on all countries.

Like… I’m from Germany. Police here are trained for years, with a focus on values and deescalation, before they commence their service. This really results in a relationship of trust between them and the citizens, like when they e.g. arrest people and tie them down to burn them alive in their cells instead of shooting them. Or when they don’t run rampant in the streets to kill or citizens (duh) but instead finance right wing terrorist groups that then kill citizens. You see?

That’s nice but not the point. You ask why people prefer YouTube and the answer seems to be that patreon is perceived as a paywalled ad platform. The fact that you might use it differently doesn’t change that perception at all.

Ah. Yeah, could have guessed that. Thanks though.

At around 60° north or south, the required speed slows to a little over 1,600 mph, still over 1,000 mph.

Wat?

Drop number two will take place at 12:04 a.m. to honor America’s 250th anniversary.

Pretty sure America is older than that.

Video by “German science guy”

not available in Germany

So… What are those two stars for then?

That means they are only depending on apple for the one thing only apple provides, which is app purchases on the Apple platform. Everything else they have locally or backed up somewhere else. It’s literally their point that they’re independent despite having used the platform for so long.

Which is entirely not the point.

Do I look like I know what an MSG is?

You didn’t find meaningful sources. And I certainly didn’t stick my head anywhere. I read the articles. The point still stands that most of them had absolutely nothing to do with your points except their general bias. You’re supposed to give meaningful sources that are relevant to the points you stated earlier. Come on, it’s not hard. Except if there’s nothing to back up your claims, or course.

This is not about being a communist or not. You made statements, I asked for sources and all you could provide was a list of articles that were mostly unrelated to the far reaching points you made and even if they weren’t consisted mostly of unsubstantiated leftist ramblings. I never said you were delusional, but if you can’t provide meaningful sources for your far reaching claims then you can’t expect me to go beyond illustrating how you act because there’s nothing else to discuss.

I implore you to move out of your echo chamber and actually pay attention to the points being obvious to anybody not being tied exclusively to propaganda pages. Some news sources aren’t just for delusional tankies and a source not being exclusively Russian astroturfing crap does not mean it’s wrong.

So, there were these points you mentioned:

• The west has absolutely hollowed out and looted Ukraine
• used it as a battering ram to damage Russia as much as they could.
• The US blew up Nordstream specifically to try to decouple western Europe from cheap Russian gas.
• The US Empire, post-2014 Euromaidan coup, uses Ukraine similarly to how they use Israel, to secure its interests in the region.

The first two links are about US officials discussing who they’d like to see active in a Ukrainian government and who they don’t. Doesn’t relate to any of your points. Maybe the last, but simply discussing which people are currently doing what in another country during a state of turmoil doesn’t really say anything.

The counterpunch link is just weird… It’s just a long list of weird accusations and propaganda without any substance at all. Looking at the site, it’s not a neutral news source anyway, but that, too, doesn’t give any sources concerning any of your points beyond “look, western politicians visited Ukraine”. Well, no shit.

The Consortium News article starts with brandishing the opposition as a Neo-Nazi movement and disqualifies itself utterly by that within the first few sentences. Like, those are your sources? That’s insane.

The Monthly Review Online article is about the Maidan massacre. Not directly related to the points above.

Maidan coup thread: deals with the question “Is there any credible evidence that Ukraine’s 2014 revolution was due to a CIA coup”. Even if the answer to this was “yes”, it wouldn’t be relevant to any of the points above.

Coup details: same. Like, it keeps going on how the US influenced actors. Well, no shit. That’s what politicians do. I still don’t see the connection to the allegations stated above and the way it’s framed in the article is despicable.

“Don’t get it wrong”: “The EU doesn’t care about Ukrainian lives — in 2014, they supported a far-right coup”, nah, I’m out. “Far right coup”, what bullshit. This whole myth of Nazis taking over Ukraine is just ridiculous and any article that keeps iterating that Russian propaganda is not believable.

advocating inflicting a military defeat on Russia in Ukraine… Helping Ukraine defend itself against an invading agressor because it serves your interest as well doesn’t make your second point true. Russia could stop the war today if they simply stopped attacking another country. They don’t. It’s not the west that uses Ukraine, it’s Ukraine that uses the west’s interest to reduce Russian power to defend itself. You’re mixing up cause and effect.

Washington, via CIA paramilitaries, has been fighting a proxy war - bullshit. The article is about US people training Ukrainian people, not about the CIA fighting a war. Helping Ukraine defend itself doesn’t mean you’re “using it”. If you’re teaching somebody some self defense to no longer get beaten up by a bully, you’re not fighting a proxy fistfight. What a stupid take.

NYT coup coverage with CIA involvement - same.

Nordstream US involvement evidence - long, long article that ends up accusing Ukrainian nationalists. No US involvement mentioned.

The US harvesting Ukraine for minerals - and here it is, the one part that I agree with you and that I think is believable. And of all the points up there, this only partly backs up the last one, because “getting resources” isn’t really “securing its interest in the region” (or one might argue it’s even the opposite, considering historic precedence such as Versailles, but I guess Trump doesn’t think that far ahead). Yeah, that sucks. But still, there is no indication of the US or any other western state being the cause here - it’s just Trump, the Russian asset of all the people, trying to take advantage of a situation.

In 2 days time on Ask Lemmy:

There’s some creep hiding in bushes in a path which is connected to the gates of my neighbours house where I usually shit at. What do I do??

FTFY