Again, you’re assuming that this belief exists in a vacuum and not as part of an elaborate belief system with clauses specifically meant to address this. Besides, your average leftist believes that if you (well society at large more like) disagree with them millions if not billions of people will be condemned to lifelong poverty for generations. The scale is a bit smaller than eternal damnation, but really this is just how it goes when you have strong/high-stakes opinions about anything.

Netanyahu Nobel prize when?

If Snowden and Assange are any indication, the harassment will extend way beyond the right side of the political spectrum.

A “true” believer therefore has a moral imperative of destroying diversity in order to protect other people.

I mean they have a moral imperative to try within whatever limits their interpretation of the religion imposes, but that’s it. It’s not like these religions imply, say, putting followers of other religions in reeducation camps. One can fully operate in a diverse society while still thinking “I’m right and everyone else is wrong when it comes to this thing,” for the same reason having political opinions isn’t mutually exclusive with diversity. BTW Islam =/= Islamism. The former is a religion; the latter is a political ideology based on the religion.

This is one of the parties that were formed into Likud BTW.

Frankly the “pay someone to talk about how awesome your product is” brand of ads has always been kinda creepy, so this is par for the course.

If this is sarcasm, hats off for pissing off so many people while being right. If it’s not, then… uh… I’ll refrain from speaking my mind so my comment doesn’t get deleted.

Cautious bet on number 2 from me.

Feeling bad about a policy is a necessary but not sufficient condition to stopping it, in the same way having a high school education is a necessary but not sufficient condition to being a CEO. And this isn’t even getting into how Americans seem to always defend/outright support new imperialism. For example 74% of Americans supported Biden’s Houthi airstrikes.

your point seems moot

My point (edit: forgot to complete this sentence) is that Russians aren’t meaningfully worse than Americans, not that they’re necessarily better.

It’s likely Russians wouldn’t support the war as much as they are now if they had access to the kind of information Americans do, but either way that’s not the point. Do you think Ukrainians would be better off if Russians felt bad about the war but not enough to actually do anything about it?

In 2003 an entire nato coalition thought the Iraq war was justified with only a few holdouts

Then the entire NATO coalition needs to die in a ditch with only a few holdouts. Why do you think I care?

12 years after the Iraq war began, or 4 after it ended, a majority of Americans believe it was a mistake

Then I’d like to see this belief translate to, you know, less imperialism, because something tells me the hundreds of thousands killed and millions displaced in Iraq are scarcely comforted by the fact that Americans in 2026 are kinda sad about it. Call me when y’all actually do something about your imperialism, until then you have no basis at all to claim moral superiority over Russians.

Yes, and? Doesn’t make it wrong.

This assumes that the only evil imperialists are MAGA, which is straight up false. In 2003 ~80% of Americans believed the Iraq war to be justified, so potato fucking potato. Hell, the American potato is worse considering Americans actually have freedom of speech.

Adding to my somewhat short list of good things Trump did (I consider a dumber officer corps for the American war machine a good thing).

If I had a nickel for each peninsula that’s shaped like a boot I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.

Its slowness (thinking of the glacial pace of sanctions here) means that it’s effectively funding Russia’s war effort then funding the opposition to in it Ukraine. Also its failure to address rising costs of living and adoption of anti-immigration rhetoric is fueling the far right, which is notoriously pro-Russian. Every other EU policy I see in the news is basically outright self-sabotage.

And the first pic suggests that all 3 countries present a united front against EU, which is not true either.

Yeah true.

How so? Even if we ignore the pro-Russian far right and the political establishment(s) giving them legitimacy, I haven’t seen anything resembling resolve, let alone competene, from most EU countries. Hell, those guys are still dragging their feet on sanctions and importing Russian gas.

Subtility: 0.

Why do you think I liked the men that got the Democratic nomination for president?

The subsidies aren’t special at all compared to US and EU ones, and they’re apparently going to be phased out over the next 5 years. This supposed evil scheme just doesn’t seem to exist; the truth of the matter is that China just makes better and cheaper cars.