the point is more that entire nations or peoples can’t be unilaterally good or bad. imperialism is bad. it is evil. it is a rot upon this world. the real empires that actually did it were largely ancient cultures that existed long before and continue to exist today. to say that Japan is evil for their ww2 era imperialism and that nothing else counts would be an incredibly reductive and cynical worldview.

real people are also complicated.

don’t forget that you only ever know any of these leaders public images. you don’t actualy know what they are like. I’m sure there are people in your life who you make excuses for because they are meaningful to you.

ceaser was incredibly beloved for plundering his neighbors and giving that wealth directly to his people. he did so much good and so much bad. to try and cast all of those things into a single word is madness.

ultimately, i just don’t agree with one word descriptions of things as broad as people and cultures. there’s always more to it. people can be selfish, greedy, caring, helpful, many many things, but “bad” and “good” are just too simple to actualy mean anything more than “i do/dont like them”

so like… what do they believe? what IS the ideology? like the actual ideas.

well, reality is simply more complicated than fiction.

in reality there is no clear good guys and bad guys. if you see it that way then you are absolutely oversimplifying something.

there can be victims and aggressors, but that doesn’t make the victims “good guys”. for example, i actually despise so much of what the Palestinian government represents, and yet, they are undeniably the victims. that does not make them good guys.

that concept is too much for most people to contend with. many people, especially conservatives, never grew out of needing everything to be cast in black and white. they can see someone kicked and abused and denigrated their whole life, and still only see them as “bad” for escaping that torment with drugs.

unfortunately there are many resistance movements i could join right now in america, but they’re all the wrong kind. they are confederate wannabes that just want the chance to shoot gay and brown people.

if life were a simple as “join the resistance” being generally good advice i would need to be a screaming racist homophobe to do it. i think I’d honestly prefer being killed by the fascists.

sure, it won’t help them recruit, but it will help them hold their existing members. when they have evidence of the “persecution” they face it makes it easier for them to discredit the negative info online.

i know for certain that this is at least the Mormon playbook.

ahhh, no worries friend. i like the other commentors suggestion if you have any reason to care lol.

i guess I’m my mind “quite good” is better than “good”

like “quite” is a synonym to “very” in this context as I understand it. maybe to a lesser degree, but it’s certainly a positive modifier. i would use a similar scale if those two were swapped.

maybe that’s just my dumb american vocab or something, but i would be very confused by that scale as it stands.

i mean, on that scale a 6/10 is barely above average. I’m still looking at you funny foot calling that “quite good”

oh i mean i already have one. it was like $30. from Logitech.

don’t need anything fancy for navigating from the couch. for games i have a nice third party controller with hall effect sticks and decent features, which cost less than a regular xbox controller. the flydigi vader 4 pro.

the only world where this steam controller makes ANY sense is one where people just don’t know how good this party controllers have gotten.

damn, I just use a wireless keyboard with a trackpad and media keys.

nah, it’s mostly the artists and writers in my life. myself included. the seo sloppers adopted ai fast because they had no love for what they did anyway. they’re the same sloppers.

one says everyone the other says no one.

at that point I’d base my answer on the breed. golden retreiver or chihuahua? but i am very racist against chihuahuas…

there’s laws about terrorists without that being defined. they’ll manage without one.

incredible, you people have even twisted Russia attacking Ukraine into America’s fault. like yes, America is awful, but Jesus christ you people sound like evangelical Christians talking about Satan. this shit has gotten downright religious.

i mean, it’s meant to have meaning. it makes sense in a way.

part of the idea behind palantir is that they’ve collected basically every picture on the internet to be used in ai facial recognition. that includes your tinder profile. Trump also recently bragged about using palantir in some way to kill people in iran.

so it’s supposed to make you aware of that fact that if you put your politics on your tinder profile, Trump may one day use palantir to hunt you down.

i didn’t say you should be centerist lmao. i said that extremism is real and something to watch yourself on. I’m very far left, that why I’m on this forum you goof. that doesn’t mean leftist extremism isn’t real.

when i said father i meant in pursuing a specific goal or idea. not “father left”.left vs right is just defined by vague political goals and ideas. to say anything is more or less of that is impossible because the scale is undefined. that’s not what matters, the point is that if you don’t police your own beliefs you are likely to fall down dangerous rabbit holes.

it’s more about power balance. a mod on a forum has no real meaningful power over anything that matters.

“the government” is too narrow of a term, but it does need to be a person with power and control over others. right now corporations are the real centers of power in this world. they are largely authoritarian.

people saying they don’t want to hang out with you is not that.

authoritarianism is when the government that has real control over things that matter and uses it to control up. when a private citizen kicks you out of their club it’s just called a disagreement.

the farthest extremes on either side are unrealistic and deluded. just because you like one side doesn’t mean they dont get crazy when you go far enough. it’s VERY important not to lose site of that.

yes a communist utopia is unachievable. yes there are people who are actively pursuing that impossible goal. that does not make them unleft.

even banning trans people from enlistment is intentional for keeping people they don’t like down. historically in america military service has been a MASSIVE social stepping stone for the underprivileged. it’s hard for them to call you a coward when you fought in a war for them. it’s hard for them to say you would be a bad neighbor when you were a good brother in arms.

many black families used it as their first step out of poverty and into acceptance. now trans people, who are derided as cowards and corrupting influences on your community, are being denied that privilege. vance and co. are very aware of this.

sadly more and more sites are rejecting many of the easily accessible mail forwarders and temp email services.