The downvotes are probably because you seem to ‘ignore’ the US role in arming the Taliban.

Rebuilding translates to funding the lavish lifestyles of our puppets. Very colonial.

Fight your own fights.

Agree with all but this. We did start it. And we’ll learn no lessons.

Sadly Bill Clinton and Tony Blair backed Putin initially. It’s not totally the people’s fault.

Didn’t they induce actual improvements to Blender code so that they could create these animations more easily and without having to use ruinously priced industry software?

For now if you want another account, you just make another (with any username you want, I have an account with the same username on lemm.ee). It’s possible to port subscriptions and blocked users and communities to a new account using some software. While that is useful, it’s not a proper account migration.

However keep in mind you can mostly access most other instances from your home instance. In that case your username (and instance) ‘carry over’.

On the off chance lemmy.world has defederated from an instance, and you can’t access it, you can join another general, neutral instance like lemm.ee

Feel free to make an account on another instance like lemm.ee (a general sensible instance) or lemmy.cafe (run by a guy, new) or a country-based instance where people of that country congregate. You might do this to keep your interests or purposes for the accounts separate or in case the lemmy.world server is down (even for a short while), or to potentially access defederated instances and their communities.

OP should possibly check out lemmy.ml’s worldbuilding community which is slow but has had more posts in total.

Poor kitties!

I said I’d be fine with deporting refugees that use asylum deceitfully to push their agenda, but that’s probably unrealistic and would probably be used to hurt innocents.

Yeah. I hope you see the threat of deportation discourages them from speaking out about any abuses, or criticising wrongdoing as a normal citizen of the country ought to.

I’ve already said I understand your wariness of Christian fundamentalists.

I’m simply concerned at what I see as an over-focus on social liberalism; it muddies the waters for the actual problem of poverty and marginalisation. It’s proven that people become less open to newcomers and ideas when their economic circumstances take a hit - and Europe has a racist tendency of shoving immigrants in poor neighbourhoods to keep them out of sight and poor. So in many cases we’re blaming the victims.

In the UK Christianity has massively declined, and yet they have a decade of no growth, stagnation, a third of children missing meals and Victorian diseases are back.

What do you mean by that? Free speech is a fundamental right in most of the wealthiest democracies.

Americans are obviously not a race.

You also mistake the religion to be a problem when it’s the most powerful and wealthiest countries that back theocracies like the Saudis and Isreel that actually fund wahabhism and induce acts of terror.

Money is the problem.

The problem is mate, your country funds the worst Muslim countries and other theocracies like the Saudis and Isreel. So when you advocate for going all militant atheist, you have to consider that you’re not harrassing or kicking down an already impoverished, powerless people whether they’re refugees or victims of US bombs in Yemen or Palestine.

I obviously understand your disdain for your local Christian fundamentalists.

For every Muslim? That’s a lot of paper.

I’ve heard it said that women in the military get assaulted so often they’re basically the state’s own unwilling prostitutes.

If there’s to be regulation on this, it has to be universal and has to apply to all states including the US, and all social media platforms equally.

Otherwise leave it to people to decide what they want to watch. Louis Rossman’s view on the matter (guy on YT who complains about Apple and other bad behaviour by big companies) changed recently. Video: I was WRONG about banning tiktok - here’s why I changed my mind

Bro Youtube is still very often full of grifting, hawkery and other disgusting stuff.

I understand the point here, but you realise this is stupid because it legitimises that other idiot’s sense of grievance against a supposed ‘reverse racism’. Structural reverse racism is impossible because of history.

Good work guys.