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Screw community names, I want instance agnostic URLs for posts and comments.

Right now lemmy.ml/comment/123456 and lemmy.ml/comment/123456 are two different comments, and there is no simple way to find one comment on another instance (so you can interact with it from your logged in account). What we should have is lemmy.ml/comment/123456@lemmy.world to point to a comment made on another instance, then you can just change the instance name after the @ to find the comment (or post) on any other instance.

Go one further, edit and delete all your posts.

Usually tickling his feet makes him release.

Guacamelee??

Super Sopapillas ftw!!

“Chinese crap” is what allows America to build F-35 fighter jets, the same crap that also commands 45 to 50 percent of total shipbuilding globally.

Taiwanese =/= Chinese ;)

One has to utterly lack any intellectual integrity to dispute the fact that NATO has invaded and destroyed many countries.

To quote you, "Where?" Where did I say that?

You're making disingenuous arguments and personal insults again. You aren't presenting ideas - presumably because you know your ideas are lacking - instead you're trying to attack me personally.

Calling an alliance that continuously attacks countries in wars of aggression defensive is the height of intellectual dishonesty.

I haven't said they don't attack others, you haven't offered enough detail for me to critique that point over any specific events. You've mentioned a few countries, but I'm sure you know it's far more nuanced than that. Instead, you're just parroting bullshit rhetoric. This is real dishonesty on your part.

Nonetheless, it must be said that aggressive actions do not invalidate genuine defense. Not that NATO is defending in regards to Ukraine. NATO is not involved, even if countries that are in NATO are involved.

Countries that are in NATO are feeding weapons to Ukraine. They're doing this not because they are in NATO, but because they are financing their local war industries. For example, the UK is providing arms not as donations, but as bilateral aid agreements - Ukraine is supposed to pay them back eventually. Meanwhile, the terms of these agreements almost certainly favour the UK (as all bilateral aid agreements always favour the country giving), such that, financially, they are "selling" the weapons at above market rates, albeit as a long term loan. Even though in the future Ukraine will almost certainly not be able to repay the debt, it means that the current UK government can fiddle their books to make it look like they haven't raped the country's finances as much as they have. Writing off the debt is a future UK government's problem.

Meanwhile, Russia gets away with squandering the Russian peoples' money even more than any other government in the world, financing things like Putin's estate near Gelendzhik. Throw out all the marble, who cares, it's not Putin's money. Throw all the young country men's lives away in Ukraine, they're not Putin's people, who cares.

Scholars such as John Mearsheimer are in fact respected by the vast majority of their peers, and geopoliticis is in fact their specialty.

Way to name drop. Argue a point, not people.

That’s infantile reasoning. It’s perfectly possible for adults to understand reasons and motivations of others without endorsing them.

Again, personal attacks. You're not making meaningful arguments, you're just following a playbook. How many pages do you have left? When will you actually present an argument that's on topic?

No you don’t, you’re regurgitating a false narrative and ignore basic facts of the situation.

Please, present the facts. Put your balls on the table. Bullet points can be given with a - in front of them

• Like this.

This itself is a false statement.

What's false? The fact that I finally replied to you? Do you actually have something meaningful to say?

It’s actually quite clear that you yourself have an agenda to push, and you continue to refuse to acknowledge the responsibility that the west bears in creating the conditions for the conflict, and in prolonging it to this day. Maybe do some self reflection.

I haven't refused to acknowledge anything, I've called out the west. What I haven't acknowledged is your interpretation that "People said Russia would attack if the West behaved as they did, thus Russia is justified in their invasion of Ukraine" as any sort of a reasonable argument.

Please, present a reasonable argument for Russia's invasion of Ukraine. I've asked too many times now.

I wish you’d follow your own advice.

Man, I'm always trying. I don't get it right every time, but I keep trying.

I dunno where your downvote and my upvote came from, but you have my upvote for replying to my comment and for not downvoting me. I appreciate the discussion regardless.

Holy thread revival Batman!!

This is a well known fact that’s beyond dispute.

Just because you make that statement doesn't make it true. In reality, the very fact that you would call something "beyond dispute" points to a disingenous argument on your part. There's always a devil's advocate argument to be made.

If you were arguing in good faith you would recognise this and try to get me to see your point of view. Instead, you're creating a show for those that blindly support you, in an attempt to turn them against me and get me to shut up. You are trying to fight me, trying to defeat me, rather than trying to prove me wrong.

This is an argument of ideas, not a fight between two people. The more you try to fight me, the less value your ideas have.

I’ve provided you with history and the context, as well as numerous resources from respected scholars. Meanwhile, you’re the one who’s been regurgitating useless rhetoric here.

Your "respected scholars" aren't unanimously respected - particularly in the fields you quote them in, which are not their specialty.

I'm just calling out bullshit where I see it, there's no parroted rhetoric from me.

I’m sorry to see that you lack reading in the reading comprehension department.

Yay, personal insults, that means you win!

You endorse Russian military.

Where?

You did not explicitly endorse them, but you gloss over obvious failings and objective evils, and divert to praise instead. The implication is that you support Russia and stand against anyone who Russia is against.

Meanwhile, I call out Russia, I call out NATO, I call out Ukraine. I dig my heels in the sand and call out bullshit in all directions. Fuck the war industry and those that profit from death.

No, I’ve explained to you in detail how NATO created the situation for the war.

You have completely avoided commenting on Russia's motive for invading Ukraine, a foreign country that Russia has no justification in occupying - nevermind any justification for killing civilians.

Yet, it’s plainly clear that you don’t care about facts and just keep regurgitating nonsense here. I’m sure you’ll leave another content free reply so enjoy having the last word.

Again, making false statements as if they are fact. I have finally left another comment, but that's only because I could not let such bullshit go unchallenged.

Nonetheless, I do have some respect for you. I've even offered an olive branch here and there where I agree with your sentiment. However, you have completely ignored this, with a clear implication that you have an agenda to push.

I wish you were a better 'man.

I did read it, however the article never really called him out on it.

I get that journalists shouldn't express opinions, and this article does manage that at least. However they should at least clearly display contradictions and hypocrisy, such that no reader can walk away without recognising it. This article doesn't quite meet that bar - someone hooked on this paedophile's lies could walk away after reading all his quotes and still think he's fair minded.

I think the real reason the discussions on reddit have been in decline is because

• reddit promotes controversy and ragebait, as this has been proven to "increase user engagement".
• more recently reddit has been wielding the ban hammer hard and perma banning people over things they would previously let slide.

Wait did sh.itjust.works do anything? I thought the story was that beehaw.org cut them and lemmy.world off, but only for people browsing on beehaw.

Make an account in another instance, there are lots of them.

Even delivering on it might not be enough, if you just end up with separate businesses all owned by Alphabet Co.