Yes, of course. But the right-wing grifters on YouTube told me that brown people are bad, so I guess we should stop taking asylum seekers, even if doing so is bad for the UK.

Probably not needed but I’ll put it anyway: /s

If you want to go down the rabbit hole of old British game shows, there’s a TV channel called Challenge. It’s on Freeview and Sky etc.

I went through a phase of watching that channel a bit too much. Things like Family Fortunes, old episodes of Who Wants to be a Millionaire, and some shows presented by Bruce Forsyth.

I wonder how long it will take until tankies come into this thread and insist that every Israeli civilian flying on an airplane actually deserves to die…

Edit: the downvotes show that they’ve arrived

I don’t think my view of Israel changes the fact that antisemitism exists

Alot of hate crimes happen against other different communities as well

Yes, and there are specific programmes to tackle those different types of hate crimes, motivated by Islamophobia, or homophobia, or whatever it might be

I’ve seen the usual comments across the internet from Tories saying things like “I’ve paid into the system all my life, therefore I deserve a generous pension”.

But we don’t normally apply that argument, do we? Nobody says “I know my leg isn’t broken, but I’ve paid into the NHS all my life, so I deserve a plaster cast, even though I don’t need one”.

Maybe we should just means-test the state pension. Pensioners who are genuinely poor should absolutely be helped by the state. Pensioners who are wealthy probably shouldn’t be helped by the state.

I know this thread is old but yes I agree with you.

I’m now trying out Piefed because I’m not a fan of the Lemmy developers. I’ve seen some of their mod actions on Lemmy.ml and I don’t agree with their perspectives.

For example, I think imperialist behaviour done by any nation (US, China, Germany, whoever it is) is bad. It means exerting control over people who don’t want it, and can’t vote against it. But the Lemmy.ml mods seem to think that imperialism is fine when it’s done by China or Russia, and imperialism is only bad if it’s done by western countries.

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.

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 don’t think Streeting wants the UK to go to war. I think he’s saying that the UK should invest more in defence.

Think about this: why did Russia invade Ukraine instead of the Baltics? Probably because the Baltics are in NATO, so Putin knows it would be much more difficult to annex Baltic land, because the whole of NATO would potentially defend the Baltics.

Better defence doesn’t start war; it deters war.

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.

Why does Farage try to portray himself as a man of the people, when in reality he’s a very privileged public schoolboy who puts his own enrichment ahead of the interests of Brits

I think a lot of football fans are decent and peaceful, but some are rowdy, and adding alcohol to the mix might not be a great idea.

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.

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

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.

You talk about “bloodthirsty westerners” but there was a lot of opposition in the West to the Iraq War. I think France refused to get involved at all in Iraq, spurring Americans to rename french fries to “freedom fries”. There were protests like this across western countries.

Anyway I would agree with you that American imperialism is bad. I just think that Chinese and Russian imperialism are also bad. For example China seems to want to take Taiwan, and islands in the South China Sea, without regard for laws or for democratic wishes.

Maybe a world of large powers (US, China, Russia) invading wherever they like is bad for all of us.

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.

As the other reply said, you are unhappy about the situation in Palestine, but not about the situation in Xinjiang. I think my position is that Israel is wrong to kill Palestinian civilians, Hamas is wrong to kill Israeli civilians, and China is wrong to lock up Uyghurs in internment camps.

As for the US, sure their imperialism is worrying, whether it’s invading Venezuela or taking Greenland. I don’t think that means Chinese imperialism is any better though - e.g. their desire to take Taiwan, regardless of the wishes of the Taiwanese people.

I do think Trump is bad. But seeing as you’re from Lemmy.ml you probably defend imperialism when it comes from other countries: China and Russia.

I think international law might be a good idea. A set of laws that the US, China, Russia, and all other countries would have to abide by.