Are you asking why Lemmy has a lean towards political activism? Why the political activism is so heavily focused on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict? Or why they’ve chosen the side that they have within that conflict?

All three are completely different questions, and all of them are complicated and also pretty much impossible to answer with any real confidence. But they’re interesting.

Anyways, which is the biggest thrust of your question?

While I dislike PewDie as an adult, had I discovered him at the age of 13, I’d have absolutely loved him.

I feel like people frequently forget that internet demographics are very unique compared to the overall demographics of the whole population. It is definitely easier and more fun to spend lots of time on here while you’re still very young, and generally have more free time and open curiosity.

Coincidences are definitely an extremely common thing in the world. Always need to weed them out with care, to avoid jumping to conclusions.

Just let people be free. It’s not actually that scary.

Problem is that each person defines what “taking shit” is, for them personally, differently. To draw an extreme, if you’re being physically assaulted, anyone would call that bullshit. But what about criticism, which some people handle better than others, and is an important part of developing skills?

So, it really is going to vary quite a bit from individual to individual, and situation to situation. Depending as much on the receiver as the shit-giver.

That said, yes, I do think workers tend to give up a bit too much of their own power these days, just in general. Unions help with that.

Hey, another thing a chatbot could be trained to be good at. That’s actually not a bad idea.

Yep, that’s the one. That shit was nasty back in the day. Probably doesn’t hit quite so hard anymore, things like Amnesia and FNAF exist now.

Ah, for that stuff I like MrBallen on youtube. He’s far from obscure though, sitting in the millions of subs. His delivery is great though, I actually put him on before bed sometimes. lol

Is it his first war or something? He should know what defeatist talk is, once you’ve picked your side. If he hasn’t picked a side for himself yet, why not? There are very clearly two of them, and only two of them. The only alternative is neutrality, Swiss-style. Except our country is already an indirect participant, so isn’t it a little late for that…?

Offline, probably anything by Wildbow. On the internet, where he’s more well-known and I have to get more obscure, “the korean comic” has always stuck in my memory.

I would link it, but I’d rather make people google. There should be a barrier to entry of some sort, it could give literal heart attacks.

Meth can fuck your mental state up for a significant stretch of time, multiple days. It’s enough out-of-your-mind time to write a manifesto and commit a shooting.

But you might be right, I’m just going off what the article claims.

Actually, it kinda is the almighty issue of the day, similar to how nukes and the cold war was that issue for our parents and grandparents. It’s a reflection of humanity’s kryptonite, a problem that is both too big (to fix) and too slow/small (to care about), simultaneously. Somehow.

If we can’t grow up enough to address it in a serious fashion, we’re going to rip ourselves to shreds in the coming centuries, as technology gives us more and more power to change our world in ways we can’t necessarily foresee. With nukes, we just had to “don’t shoot”, and everything would be fine. No apocalypse. With this, and other potential future problems, we have to do something to help, we can’t just wait and do nothing this time. We need to devise a new general strategy, better than wait-and-see.

Regarding mass-transit, that’s a more complicated issue. Global warming is not though, global warming is a very simple issue. Which ends up being part of the problem, annoyingly, as it’s so easy for people to come to lazy conclusions concerning it.

Between the words “once lucid” and the expression on his face in his mugshot, I actually feel bad for the guy.

Don’t do meth, kids.

Results for them has nothing to do with “an audience”. I have an audience right now, but I don’t have “an audience”. Do you understand the difference I’m referring to?

Forever destroyed the myth of Russian strength? That’s funny. If that were going to happen, it’d have happened after the Winter War. Or maybe the Russo-Japanese War.

In a world where people don’t all learn the same things, a myth of military strength is very easy to build from nothing. Just takes some consistent propaganda over time.

No. It’s not quite harmful enough. If I banned that, I’d have to ban a lot of things if I wanted to keep a fairly consistent position.

Cigarettes would be the first I would consider.

But I probably wouldn’t outright ban any of it.

Except they’re not trying to monetize, so they don’t care. They’re trying to encourage disruption, which even one unstable individual can go out and do.

Given how close some of our recent elections have been, and in the closest one, how different the very straight-laced Al Gore and more cowboy/frat boy George W were, it doesn’t take many people to create a huge shift in how our country approaches things for a period of time.

One of the two rejected global warming, the other made a documentary about it, as an example of how different the candidates were.

China and Russia have no military alliance, Xi is just taking advantage of the fantastic business opportunity that opened up for him for cheap Russian imports. If Chinese troops became militarily involved in Russian territory, it would probably be to acquire their claims over eastern Siberia, dating back to the Qing Dynasty. Otherwise he’s just be supporting a state that competes with him for the dominant regional position.

The Tsar took that land from them, back in the day though. If you look at their current claimed territories, they never forgot. Maybe if Russia agreed to become a subject state of China, then they’d help militarily, but they’re certainly not friends or allies.

Russia does have actual allies, but not many. And China isn’t one of them.

72? Pretty generous. I’m pretty sure we have more HARM missiles than they do S400 SAM batteries.

I don’t know why the expectation exists that they should want to build an audience. You don’t need to build an audience to cause chaos. You just need the chaos message to generate enough noise to confuse people.