Tankiedesantski [he/him]

I’ve been trying to come up with a term to describe this phenomenon for a while now. Privatewashing, maybe?

Westerners are programmed to not accept certain things if done by the government directly. Publishing propaganda? Bad. Laundering government propaganda through private media outlets? Not a problem. Interfering with a foreign election? Bad. Sponsoring a “Private NGO” to do it? Totally fine. Foreign government influencing domestic policy? Bad. Multinational companies paying lobby groups to do the same? Democracy.

In this case, the government telling people that their votes don’t count and that rules don’t have to be followed would be flagrantly undemocratic. A private organization doing that though? Well we can’t do anything about it even if it’s directly relevant to the outcome of elections and national policy.

Sigh

I’ll go set up the trolley. You wait for me by the track switcher.

If someone liking something I don’t like doesn’t negatively impact me then doesn’t that mean that me not liking something that someone likes doesn’t negatively impact them?

If so then why does any of this matter? They’re free to gush on about the thing and I’m free to complain about it.

Sorry but I like [thing] and therefore [thing] must be held inviolate from even the mildest criticism.

Oh come now.

Biden isn’t trying to conquer half of Europe. He clearly wants all of it.

It’s almost as if cutting yourself off from your biggest energy supplier while needlessly antagonizing one of your biggest customers at the same time has bad consequences.

Too bad you can’t eat smug moral superiority or heat your home with European Values.

Actually, I shot everyone in that refugee camp regardless of religion so I didn’t do genocide, just ordinary everyday mass murder .

This was an actual argument that was run in one of the Yugoslav tribunals BTW.

Okay colonialism is bad but think of how good the food would be.

What’s even the point of this line of argument? At best you prove that this technically isn’t racism in the strictest definitional sense but it’s still just as harmful to kids and Muslims as racism.

Hexbears: Stronger than brick walls.

You heard it here first folks!

In EVIL CEE CEE PEE CHYNA, Muslim children are denied education if they wear their cultural attire to school.

illegally 'arrested

That’s kidnapping. You’re describing kidnapping.

The West must immediately repay the Global South for centuries of imperialism and colonialism, with interest and punitive damages.

It’d probably grate on me the second time I do it. Doesn’t mean that it’s not more interesting than the generic “this settlement needs you to shoot some dudes” FO4 encounter.

Lemmy.ml get mad at people who don’t like the Democracy Party. We must all support Prime Minister Biden Robinette or else the Party of the Republic will win the next Voting.

Yes but this game is political because it lets you pick pronouns. Give me back my wholesome, unpolitical, giant stars and stripes robot spouting anticommunist catchphrases, Bethesda game!

Yeah the interface is awful.

On the other hand, I came across pirates boarding a freighter yesterday. I shot down the pirate ship and boarded the freighter. The gravity generator was malfunctioning so it would sometimes have gravity and sometimes be zero g. There were navigation puzzles, some of which could only be done in normal grav and some in zero-g.

None of the random side content in FO4 is anywhere near that interesting.

I like the game, but reviews are pretty unreliable these days. Cyberpunk 2077 also got a load of 8/9/10s on release and that game ran like shit and was full of bugs.

I searched for her name and despite the RFE article being a week old, no other more credible outlets have picked up on it. Maybe other outlets are using a different romanization of her name but this is certainly a red flag.

Even by you’d definition of “socialism” being public infrastructure spending, how is the US highway system more successful than the Chinese High Speed Rail system?