Also, love how you count Soviets killing nazis in WW2. Turns out you’re a nazi sympathizer as well. Not really surprising, but worth noting.

oh no, I thought you were just talking about deaths caused. I can start justifying American wars too, if you want to do that, America killed Nazis too, but its strategy wasn't to sacrifice the meat-shields in Ukraine and then scorched earth the rest of the way until eventually launching a counter-offensive. I mean, whatever works, but damn, it was gruesome.

Meanwhile, let’s just take a look at a few things US has been responsible for in recent history

Lol, the USSR was equally involved in most of those wars, and Russia is fucking around in Syria right now too.

but yeah, nothing Russia did comes close to the proxy wars between Russia and the US.

I'm really not sure why this is a competition, but here's a short history of the jaw-dropping death Russia has always liked causing, just what I could get from a quick search:

https://en.mercopress.com/2022/11/30/ukraine-remembers-the-millions-condemned-to-starvation-in-1932-33-by-russia-s-joseph-stalin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circassian_genocide

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chechen_genocide

https://borgenproject.org/top-12-deadliest-wars-in-history/

specifically or ww2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties#Total_deaths_by_country

Note that I'm counting Russian civillian and military deaths against Russia, which I probably would with the US too, but seems particularly appropriate with Russia, since their main military strategy is just "we have more people and our land is very cold. Attrition and starvation!

... lol, you think 6 million people is a large number to Russia? Boy, open a history book.

It's incredibly dishonest to pretend that NATO expansion justifies the invasion of a country that isn't a part of NATO, wasn't planning on joining NATO, and did nothing else to provoke Russia.

The US probably shouldn't have expanded NATO as hard as it did. None of this justifies the invasion.

what? tankies are weirdo liberals...

no, like, most countries get villified somewhere or another. The Iranian regime is under a lot of fire right now for obvious reasons. Everybody has some gripe or another with China (especially the Uyghurs). North Korea, Qatar, Brazil, Belarus, Mexico, both India and Pakistan, both India and Palestine, Australia when it tries to deal with the Internet... You know what, can you name a country that doesn't get villified? I've even heard people spread FUD about Canada.

And almost none of those countries are doing anything right now as bad as invading Ukraine for... still basically no reason other than vague fear that they might have one day joined NATO.

Fuck, is Lemmy all tankies now?

Russia decided to attack Ukraine in 2014, they only doubled down in 2022.

The "diplomatic solution" would be to not invade Crimea and then that's it, problem solved.

Good thing all the Americans in that show are so great...

The Boys villifies one fictional superhero who was very much American, but was frozen in Russia. And a few other nameless Russian villains, in addition to a whole bunch of named and nameless American villains, and a few other villains around the world.

I mean, Russia villifies Russia.

The west takes advantage of one more nutjob out there to say "see? do you really want us to cede more power to these psychos?"

But Russia isn't like everyone else. They pulled CIA shit in Belarus, and they invaded Ukraine with no real justification. They're just murdering Ukranians because Putin wants to be taken more seriously, or doesn't like the idea of Nato having too much power in general and wants to swing his dick around to say "I'm too powerful, too."

And even if you want to pretend that the US is just as bad as Russia... The west villifies the US all the time, we're widely regarded to suck pretty hard. Why should we pretend Putin is a saint?

right, but that can be achieved by hiring engineers, funding education, funding research, etc. rather than whining and doing nothing and launching a pointless war.

Why doesn't he buy supercomputers, or hire engineers to build supercomputers?

Because they manage to convince people that their crypto scam model is good for them. They make their money and put it into marketing in crypto hype channels.

The web is the most popular platform in the world. It's an easy way to develop for Android, iOS, windows, macOS, linux, and the browser on your smart fridge. Layout in HTML is trivial but weak, so it's easy to start learning a frontend, whereas any other language you learn -- Python, C, Java -- requires a library before you can start learning the front end. Learning HTML, CSS, and Javascript, while three different languages, is straightforward and easy. Learn how to write the skeleton of the page, then learn how to write code to control it, then learn how to style it. Or style then code. Either way.

Then, there's the fact that you don't need to install anything. I can use Lemmy without installing any software from Lemmy. That's cool. installng software, traditionally, gives control over my system that web pages aren't supposed to have.

Is there a front-end framework that you like with all those benefits?

I don't think you understand. This wasn't a case of different opinions. This was an instance where the admins were aggressively promoting racism, vaccine misinformation and fearmongering, and staunch opposition to science. They had essentially openly bragged that, when faced with evidence, they would strongly prefer the opposite.

• An admin posted this. I hope I don't need to explain all the layers of garbage here.
• Here, an admin posted, saying that somebody who suggested compassion towards trans athletes was a "RINO," and saying fuck him -- how dare he suggest basic human decency towards trans people!

I really don't want to dig anymore, but it's bad.

On top of that, their idea of federation does not include the perspective of outsiders.

I recommended this on Matrix. It really was necessary. The site admins are in favor of vaccine misinformation and extreme fearmongering to the point of hostility towards science in general.

So, Google has done this before. They do omething similar with dislikes on YouTube. They aren't doing it manually. When a bunch of pissed off assholes brigade an app and flip a bunch of five star reviews to one star reviews based on one policy change, that's generally not something that Google want to have too trong of an effect. If negative reviews continue steadily over time, they'll pile up.