ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]

According to the modlog you went on a marxist leninist instance and started calling people tankies. What is surprising about that? Why do you expect Dessalines, whose username is taken from the leader of the Haitian revolution, to side with you?

Hey fuckface, I hope your evening was shit, now are you going to continue being an antisemite or are you going to delete your comments now they’re been proven baseless.

Literally voting for your reps is not what the government of Russia is, though…

THEY HAD ELECTIONS IN MARCH YOU DUMB FUCK

IT JUST HAPPENED

THEY LITERALLY JUST DID ELECTION BUT YOU’RE SO FUCKING BUSY HUFFING YOUR OWN FARTS YOU DIDN’T NOTICE

Oh, you’re just stupid. YES SWEETIE, OBVIOUSLY THE RUSSIANS ARE FASCISTS, YOU KEEP EATING YOUR OATMEAL AND WATCHING FOX NEWS.

I will pedant your debatefetishist asshole in half, fuck face:

Let’s get up a definition of oligarchy, shall we? You’re gonna run to Wikipedia or dictionary.com so I’ll just go for Wikipedia:

Oligarchy (from Ancient Greek ὀλιγαρχία (oligarkhía) ‘rule by few’; from ὀλίγος (olígos) ‘few’ and ἄρχω (árkhō) ‘to rule, command’)[1][2][3] is a form of power structure in which power rests with a small number of people. These people may or may not be distinguished by one or several characteristics, such as nobility, fame, wealth, education, or corporate, religious, political, or military control.

Now, in the UK, there’s a population of around 70 million people, with 650 elected members of government and 805 unelected members, making up a rounding error of the total population.

In America, over 300 million people are represented by 535 members of its senate, plus a handful of unelected judges and executive legislators. Again, they make up a rounding error of the population.

France - 66 million, 925. Germany - 85 million, 733. Norway - 5 and a half million, 169. By all means, include the family members and hangers-on who aren’t actively in power but still weild it, and you could quadruple or quintuple those numbers. Doesn’t really matter, still comes out to a rounding error.

Maybe instead of jacking yourself off over liberalism you should take a moment to actually step back and look at the situation a little more objectively. Being able to vote for which people the power rests with does not increase the number of people welding it.

what the fuck do you think liberal western democracy is, dumbass

Imagine how stupid anachronist is gonna look when they find out we already know. Russia has been a liberal western democracy for over 30 years now.

disgusting pipelines controlled by fascist capitalists

It wasnt Germany who controlled it, it just delivered the gas to them, it was Russia who controlled it.

You genuinely think that someone who specifically wants to kill you making preparations from which they can kill you is fine, as long as they don’t actually kill you? You’re not a tiny bit bothered by the possibility of them actually killing you?

It’s ridiculous that the author thinks they can tell other games to follow D&D when they’ve only looked at D&D. Not only does this update lag well behind most TTRPGs, it doesn’t actually bring it up to date - species has its own issue of being inaccurate in a game rampant with half-lineages, which is why other games moved to terms like lineage and ancestry instead. These are discussions people have had because of the problems of D&D, it hasn’t been a trailblazer since the release of 3.0.

I mean it’s meant to be illegal in Austria, but I still saw a fuckload of Nazis when I went to a football game there.

Israel is a state, not a country.

Palestine is a country, not a state.

It’s tragic, but that’s what happens when your state primarily defends itself with human shields.

the people willing to listen the hardest.

I don’t know if you can see usernames on your instance but theirs ends in “@lemmy”, not “@hexbear” or “@lemmygrad”.

I understand how it can be frustrating for you idiots to be constantly corrected by us, but maybe if you tried learning before assuming you wouldn’t find yourselves geting dogpiled for your ignorant kneejerk support of an islamophobic white supremacist ultranationalist.

Don’t be ridiculous, they’ve shot a bunch of men - escaped hostages, their own troops, and, like, probably at least 1 Hamas through sheer probability.

That would be a government enforced media silence - media silence just means people not talking to the media or the media not reporting on a subject, it doesn’t require a direct order from the government to the media to not report on something. Media might create a voluntary silence, where they agree not to report on a subject, or might have a silence pushed on them, like football’s “silenzio stampa”, where teams will refuse to talk to or interact with the press when they’re unhappy with reporting.

What do you think the difference between “media silence” and “ministers not making statements to the media” is?

Dutch didn’t, not alone, far from that.

As opposed to the chinese, who are completely alone, all 1.whatever billion of them.

which are[…]largely self-reliant in the matter

You just fucking said it required cooperation you dumb cum juggler, now you’re saying they failed despite not cooperating?

I didn’t write that they “wouldn’t be able to”

I cannot sufficiently describe how much I hate your stupid reddit tier “um, akshumally I didn’t use those exact words therefore you’re completely misrepresenting what I said!” You won’t shut up about how hard and difficult and borderline impossible it is and you want me to believe you’re not trying to say they won’t be able to? You’re certainly not arguing that they will.

if China wants to meet the ever growing domestic demand (either military or civil), China need fabs churning chips reliably.

That’s not what commercially viable mean, buddy.