Internet forums have always been full of contrarians who want to be the only ones to know the “real truth”. That explains a lot of it. Others just get lost in the logic of it. I’f I can’t prove that he held true Nazism in his heart when he did it, does it count as a Nazi salute?’ This is sort of futile question they ask. The fact that there’s broad consensus on what this was makes them more likely to try to logic their way into a special minority position.

Cool sentiment, but they all vote every time and we don’t so it doesn’t matter. Or you can become a 2nd amendment person.

Making the German state officially state that this is Nazi imagery would be a worthwhile win lol.

To some extent, political parties are naturally occuring . The group dynamics of a legislative body will naturally result in groups forming around specific issues and even philosophies. But there is definitely a strong argument to be made that we’ve made them far too official, and far too entrenched.

Cool, but half the country supports this shit. And no, people who don’t vote don’t matter in this context.

America collectively doesn’t deserve Bernie as president. People go on about how the DNC shafted him in 2016 but honestly, I don’t think it would matter. I don’t think he could win. The same country that elected a wretched sack of shit like Trump (twice) could never elect Bernie. Not to mention that if he got the nomination, the forces that would align against him (every single rich person and all of corporate America, and 95 percent of the media) would ensure that he wouldn’t win.

Next time they won’t announce it.

Others have explained it (places where social interaction is the primary intent - not home and not work) but I’ll add - old European cities (and most smaller towns) have some sort of public square. Many have lasted to this day and are still used. We can still build them, we but our chosen form of urbanization isn’t that conducive to it so we don’t. In North America in the 80 and into the 90s, malls we’re 3rd place. Then they started aggressively going after loitering in malls since simply sitting in a mall doesn’t produce economic activity. Many malls died and many are still dying. Those that survived achieved the - nobody goes there to chill anymore. Just to buy what they need, maybe eat, and then leave. Nobody plans to “meet at the mall” anymore.

It’s dead in a similar way to Latin where nobody learns it as a first language. Everyone who learns it does so for a specific purpose.

In Canada there are large organizations (including many in the government) who subsidize college courses on Cobol just to be able to get some fresh talent to learn it. In some cases they’ll pay the tuition for the course entirely. Huge systems at the center of critical government functions still depend on Cobol .

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None of that amounts to this:

If things are okay just because we like them and not okay just because we don’t then what kind of morals are acting on?

The reasons this was justifiable have been explained to you ad nauseum. You insist on pretending like its an arbitrary whim despite that. Do you cry every time a drug cartel kingpin gets shot?

See better.

If things are okay just because we like them and not okay just because we don’t

That’s not the situation, nor what anyone is asserting. Who are you talking to?

Dfc

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It’s a better opinion than “US in decline because TOO MUCH democracy”.

Literally no one said that. Read better. It’s not the amount of democracy that was the problem, it was the actual choices made.

Lmao. You just witnessed this last election Dems suing third parties to stop them from running, Dems not even pretending to hold a primary, republicans saying its the last election ever.

What did the voters who actually voted for Trump choose?

This logic is going to keep getting trotted out throughout the trump presidency. In some cases it’ll be true. In this case I think it could be. In many cases it won’t be , simply because destroying things is easier than building things and they’re mostly there to destroy .

The US isn’t a democracy though, it is a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, where every election we get to select which group of oppressors will wield state power against us until the next one.

Yes that truly one of the opinions of all time.

No, I really have no clue what you mean by that because you’re implying Putin’s role is far larger than it actually is.

I’m asking a very simple question. Were there words in there that you didn’t understand?

When he steps down, it’s most likely that it’s going to be Medvedev that replaces him.

This already happened. Putin was still in charge, and came back when the pretense of not being in charge was no longer necessary. What reason is there to believe Medvedev is next in line and that everyone else will just go with that when Putin is dead? Yes I’m saying dead because dictators don’t have retirement plans lol.

You evidently have absolutely no clue about Russian politics.

Ah yes, the last refuge of the loser who can’t answer a simple question. You’re dancing around the question because your ridiculous claim that Russia is “stable” falls apart immediately when the fact that this question has no clear answer is considered. It’s your ridiculous opinion dude. You can change it for free.

Not sure what you mean by that.

You know exactly what I mean by that. Who runs Russia after he dies and how will that person be selected? Until you can answer that question, your claims of Russia’s “stability” will remain ridiculous.