But in any and every contested race, as my mom Mary Morello always said, we have to fight the fascist every which way we can, recognizing that even if there's but an inch of difference between two candidates, there are a lot of vulnerable people who could be greatly harmed in that inch. So vote your ass off

I think this is reasonable. A "corporate Democrat", even if bad, can be better than a Republican in many cases. The Democrat might end up being less bad, for lots of disadvantaged people, than a Republican would be. These aren't ideal choices to make, but you have to deal with reality as it is.

But tankies told me that Russia is a peaceful democratic country, and that Russia has no will whatsoever to act aggressively towards its neighbours, even on the internet.

In fact, tankies told me that westerners are the only people in the world who are ever aggressive, malicious, or evil.

But Lemmy.ml told me that Russia is a democratic paradise where the friendly Mr Putin is only in power because nearly all Russians love him and vote for him? Unlike the evil West where democracy doesn't exist, and elections are just a figment of my imagination.

He's right, and people can see he's right, which is why they voted for him to become mayor of NYC

Meanwhile Republicans are a bunch of oligarchs who are like "No you can't vote for socialists because... look at all this culture war stuff! Please keep us in power!"

I'm not American. I get what you're saying though. But the quote of Tom Morello in the article, after the bit I quoted with "vote your ass off", then says:

...but don't just exercise your right to vote. Exercise your right to fight for, organize for, struggle for, and manifest the kind of world you'd like to really see...

Forget air fryers, let's talk about air friars.

I know this is a childfree community so all of you might dislike this comment, but I saw this post when looking at all posts, so here are my worthless two cents:

I think both desires (wanting kids, not wanting kids) should be considered equally valid, and both should be respected, without people trying to convince you out of your preference.

As a European (British) I hope Europe can become as autonomous as possible.

We can trade with foreign entities when they're being reasonable, but at the moment a few of them are being unreasonable.

Excellent billboard.

Like many others, I tried out the Fediverse when Reddit nuked third-party apps.

I hadn't used Reddit's third-party apps in some years, but the debacle just showed to everyone that Reddit is a for-profit company, and they'll always put profits ahead of users' interests.

They're always lurking around the corner, ready to insist that your country is evil and that Russian imperialism is a good thing actually...

Ah yes, the evil EU, maliciously expanding itself by accepting new members who democratically want to join the EU

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I think antisemitism is a real problem today. In my country, the UK, within the last year or so, there was an arson attack on Jewish ambulances in London, and a stabbing attack in Manchester in which two Jewish men were killed. Both incidents seem to have been hate crimes.

Just to point out: I don't support Netanyahu or his government's genocide of Palestinians, but I'm not going to blame all Jews for that, because I'm not racist.

Anybody can be the victim of ethnic discrimination, regardless of how "powerful", or powerless, other members of your ethnic group are.

I have to unfortunately admit that I'm interested in both, which is why I keep coming back to social media platforms like this one.

Remember that Trump doesn't care about rules. He thinks that any leader has absolute power within the territory they control. So he thinks the prime minister of Norway should have personally ensured that Trump received the Nobel peace prize.

I think some Europeans (certainly in my country of the UK) are still quite naive about Trump. Maybe they think "sure, Trump can be a bad person to some countries, but he'd never be a bad person to MY country"

One day, whoever is in the White House will choose to act immorally towards a particular European country (whether it's Ukraine, or the UK, or Poland, or Finland, or whoever) and that European country, on its own, won't be able to do much about it

TLDR: If Europe unites, it protects Europe from potentially hostile big powers, such as the US, China, Russia. A big entity like the EU has more leverage to say "no" than any individual EU country does.

I think it's possible the next government could be a Reform/Tory coalition. I don't want that to happen, but I think it's possible.

I think we've been lucky to see Labour rise in the polls. This makes a progressive general election win more likely. Possibly a Labour/LibDem/SNP coalition. Possibly with Greens. The polls are in flux, it seems.

I wouldn't rule out a Reform/Tory government though. Hope for the best but expect the worst.

I think I might like to have children one day, but I don't think children should be viewed as a selfish investment, existing just to benefit yourself.

In fact, if I do have kids one day, I think I would prefer for them to invest as little as possible in my old age care, so they can instead use their money to improve their own lives.

I think there is value in Finland's system, when Russia clearly is a huge threat to Europe.

Maybe every part of Europe should have a system like that. Perhaps everybody, rich or poor, and perhaps even older as well as younger (not kids or pensioners though) could be trained to contribute in some way to national defence. This could include training for building weapons in factories for example. Look at how important Ukraine's weapons companies are currently, when it comes to their national defence.