From the same business geniuses that though that having you pay a fee to be allowed to pick a seat next to your other family members in an airplane was a good idea…

What puzzles me is how the US sacrificed so many rights at the altar of “national security” (e.g. Patriot Act) only to let this happen in the clear…so none of it really mattered for “national security”.

Sorry, I only know the piracy community in dbzer0.

Last time I bothered to check, worldnews looked like that on .ml, also happened to r/Chomsky.

Top to bottom single topic. Nothing else matters, nothing else discussed, nothing else happens, no thought, just despair, hate and circlejerk in what used to be ideologically diverse communities with some inherent contrarianism and debate.

I disagree with this, I feel like people tend to rewrite history in their brains, especially with this one, since it has the 2023 date.

e.g. https://web.archive.org/web/20230624100232/lemmy.ml/c/worldnews

Looks like lemmy.ml was a relatively normal place for a while before hexbear tried to refederate with the fediverse, that was a torrent of diarrhea, yes, but they quieted down a while after. The major turning point was when hamas attacked Israel on Oct 7th that year and everything Israel has done ever since. Then that infighting took over and destroyed any rational discourse in lemmy.ml.

I’ve seen this happen with subreddits too also with the Gaza topic. It is the best way to nuke any lefty community.

You could go with factors like culture, geopolitics, colonialism, centralization, but all you can think of is a strawman about “race”. Weak, dude.

russia as a constitutional monarchy: shithole

russia as a communist state: shithole

russia as a democracy: shithole

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I’m starting to think that the problem is russia itself and not the government type.