No, we are as baffled as you are. Arrogance and stupidity is good general universal explanation for a lot of the shit that government have been doing these past years. The only admirable thing they have been doing is really their staunch and continued economic support of Ukraine.

It most definitely is ;)

::Laughs at fahrenheit::

Weird focus. How about you considering that a one-party authoritarian regime isn’t exactly the hallmark of human rights, atheist or theist?

Sticking your fingers in your ears while screaming like a baby does not make reality disappear.

We are referring to the staunch defenders of the system which this thread is about, defenders who are very proactive on lemmy. The fact that you cannot see the relevance is on you.

Also useless whataboutism. The sign of someone who has no arguments left to defend their beliefs.

Very typical .ml whataboutism. Both things can be bad at the same time. This is not a null sum game.

Definitely not the end of all life on Earth. Most of it sure, but there are certainly living organism which are going to survive, just like they did the other times this had happened on Earth.

Life on the planet is not fine. We are in a mass extinction event after all. It is “fine” as in life will continue to exist without us and the millions of other species which are going to perish, but that is hardly the definition of “fine”.

Because, at the behest of their oligarch masters, they are among the most vocal climate change deniers in existence. Is this really news to you?

He should probably not have participated in the bombing of Iran then. Him trying to act as some kind of neutral arbiter right now is completely insane, when he has just dropped bombs on one side of the conflict. This is not how anything works.

Nah, this is just him once again doing Putin’s bidding.

The US is a lost cause, simping for Putin for the foreseeable future.

The Russia which has attacked and invaded its neighbour?

Canada is seeing benefits from it as well. So far Canada has seen a 13% increase in tourism in 2025 compared to 2024.

They have always engaged in that sort of petty bullying of their neighbours. It is in reality Russia being in a state of constant “cold” warfare against them, but they know that their neighbours won’t respond. A couple of days ago a Russian warship wouldn’t move out of the way of a Danish ferry inside Danish territorial waters (even though ferry lanes are clearly marked as such), causing the ferry to last minute swerve.

Russia consider this psychological warfare, creating chaos and confusion. The country is a tumor on mankind, spreading its own shittiness everywhere it can.

There are definitely varying degrees as to how far that phenomenon has taken hold, and it has done so to a much larger degree in the US than in a lot of other countries. There is not really any point in trying to relativise this, it is not “business as usual”, this is radicalisation on a 1930s Germany level.

Also educated people tend to vocally disagree with fascists, so obviously fascists wants fewer of them around.