i like how this overtook: “scotty, beam me up”. lol

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.

The thing you just understand about American politics is that extremely few pay attention beyond the headlines and most who do are labeled as tankies

The Democrat/Republican one would be first on my list

The same Congress that’s giving him everything he wants and is about to pass a resolution stating “free Palestine” is anti-semitic?

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

schadenfreude on the wealthy?

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

the american oligarchy is the only relevant one that can stop the war with iran and can stop the genocide in gaza

I don’t know how I will live anywhere else in the US that doesn’t have this anymore, especially once I get older and find it difficult/stressful to drive from my isolated home to socialize and interact, a free bus system is a life ling to a possible quality of life late in life I have personally watched elderly people at the end of their lives (over and over again I have seen this in the US it is very scary actually) utterly rob themselves of everything but their real estate value by moving out to a house in the country to retire that has steep stairs, isn’t near their kids… doesn’t let them interact with anything but a fox news tv…

i’ve learned the hard way that living in the suburbs is enough to cut me off from society and it’s put me off home ownership because i know that the real estate prices in the us guarantee that i can only afford a home out in the country.

the things i need to be a happy and productive member of society only exist in ultra dense urban cores and i’ve also learned the hard way that most cities within the us aren’t dense enough to have it.

i’m already passing middle aged and the thought of having to leave because i can’t afford the prices hikes fills me w dread about the future and losing access to the trains and reliable buses are going to guarantee my isolation.

it doesn’t matter if it’s legitmate; the goal is to ensure that the american oligarchy has full control of the oil in the middle and east and have another bargaining chip against china.

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

with this and voteing human rights to food, water, shelter, etc; you’d think that this would be obvious, but no.