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I don't disagree with you that this is a potential motive. I just also feel that if we as the "reasonable" left see these motives in everyone and everything that (for whatever correlative reason) elicits right wing talking points we're just solidifying the division that prevents us from finding common ground on pretty much anything besides Israel these days.

There is plenty evidence for this person being completely in their own bubble. They lost their job, now they're doubling down on whatever cuckoo world view they managed to craft for themselves up to that point. My point being that while we're definitely not obligated to understand or extend an olive branch as they say, we must never fail to see the humanity in others, whether allied or opposed.

There is no humanity in terms like The Daily Wire or Fox News, so once we draw that connection we automatically dehumanize actual real life human beings, which then puts us exactly on the same level as "them" if you get what I'm saying. They call us fascist marxists (whatever that means) and we call them Fox News bootlickers. Rinse and repeat.

The best kinds of cults are the ones revolving around a single person. /s

The fediverse is such an interesting new human experiment (and I'm just saying this to you specifically since I don't expect this comment to make it past the moderators either). I was going in expecting reddit except not morally bankrupt, yet what you find are numerous bubbles that their respective communities use to shield themselves from whatever it is that they (for whatever arguably rationalizable reason) cannot accept to penetrate the safe space.

I truly feel for the emotions OP experiences and has outlined. I was just trying to level with them from an outside perspective and it is truly sad that there seems to be absolutely no platform left on the internet (if there ever was one) where one can be guaranteed to find community that puts the commune and the upkeep of its unity before any agenda or collective emotional guidance.

You're obviously on edge when your entire (self-assigned) identity is about crafting a reality where being a traditional housewife (and mother) with no husband in sight isn't a complete contradiction. She badmouths the partners of her friends for not being that traditional breadwinner she herself doesn't have and probably never will have to support her either.

I don't think she's acting, she's just completely lost in her search for a life she would deem worth living. And that's all completely ignoring the racist aspects of it all. But I think that is also good "evidence" for it being real. You don't fabricate racism. At least I couldn't think of any motivation to do so. There's subtler ways to dogwhistle yourself into the good graces of the neofascist circus on the right.

I mean yea sure, those are the 2 most relevant data collectors to most people. But as much as you can say about Apple's anti-consumer practices, spying on its customers or letting anyone else spy on their customers isn't something they can be accused of.

It's still a closed source ecosystem so you have to take their word for it, and you better assume that their analytics game is the best in the business so you are definitely feeding them (anonymized) research data there.

However the point I'm trying to make is that if you aren't a tech-savvy user (of which there are many) who just wants a solution that works then there isn't really another option if you want your privacy respected. Google don't respect your privacy and Microsoft can't offer big picture solutions that just work with no fuss.

more like a trad-mom still looking for mr. right (wing)

Couple Z brains just got an aneurysm from logic overload.

I share your optimism but not because I put my faith in the guys (not) pushing the button. Putin at his core and in terms of where he's coming from is a small time FSB thug who made it too big for his own good. Perpetualizing corruption to keep himself in power and amassing enormous wealth at the cost of his people was fun for about one and a half decades. What does a kid do when it gets bored of its newest toy? It demands more of course. There is no nuclear option because little Vladimir knows at that point his days of demanding more will be counted. No more backing from big brother Xi. And all the reason for NATO to actually step in.

Some draw the analogy that you never know what a cornered Pitbull is gonna do but I don't see that being applicable. His recent job reassignments show that he does not feel safe in his position as de-facto dictator anymore. He is much more worried for his domestic survival right now than anything going down on the international stage. He can't nuke his own mutineers thus he needs to keep everyone in rotation so their levels of influence don't get out of hand.

I can't tell you what endgame there is left for Vladolf Putler. The only way onward is to keep the war going, which probably will require a full transition to a wartime economy sooner than later, but he probably doesn't want that toll on the Russian people. Nuclear weapons would mean the opposite of keeping the war of attrition going and he knows that.

I mean does he get played around the sides a lot? If not, closing down the angles as much as possible should be correct right? So many situations are impossible to play reactively in this league.

If only deductive logic was applicable in the US justice system.

Absolutely loving this comment-chain.