“Make your own games!”

“Okay!”

“No! Not like that!”

I think the “too convincing skilled impersonator” problem is covered by defamation laws.

There was never a typo in my comment.

He’s now contained in an Eastern European country. Now if only he could be contained within a prison.

“Humane” execution isn’t good, not only because execution is bad, and the pretense of a more humane method is just sugar coating, but also like 95% of people in support of death penalty just want to see a human being killed, with almost all of them are angry at how it’s doesn’t involve torture. The worst of this kind legit fantasize about murdering PoC kids as bloodsport, under the pretense of “upholding the law”.

“Look at what I’m doing, not what I’m saying!” - Viktor Orbán

In other news: fire is hot.

Long term is where things can fall apart. Yeah, currently stuff goes well to Putin, but the moment the Russians realize their emperor is naked, Russia will have a very bad time, with the worst thing that can happen to them is a Balkanization with all of its nastiness.

In the now Fidesz controlled media, he still is. If something goes wrong, it’s either foreign or opposition party interference, if they don’t cover it up with other controversies (like the Gábor Kaleta incident with the cHIld ProTeCtiOn act).

The “not like the other guys” gives us leaders like Donald Trump, Viktor Orbán, Bolsonaro, and now this Milei guy…

My guesses about elongating the war are:

1. The international far-right is very dependent on Russia, and a Russian win is a win for every far-right party that think the average citizen is like a 12 year old.
2. Said potential win could make Russia to force international human rights commitees to succumb to allow (or even expect) countries to abuse ethnic and LGBTQ+ minorities, the USA losing its leading position, dismantle international cooperations between countries like the EU and NATO (these likely will lead to either further invasions or forcing EU states to become Russian vassal states).
3. The uncertanty and other issues can pipeline people into the far-right.
4. It lets tankies flourish, who will make leftist ideas look awful, not much better or worse we currently have, unreasonable, unfeasible, etc.

To my fellow leftists: I also don’t like the US, but if they lose their place, it’ll cause a power vacuum in the stage of the world leaders. This won’t bring any worker liberation (unless you count some populist economic programs that inherently will help richer workers), but the end of human rights for LGBTQ+ people, the disabled, certain less visible minorities, etc. The US falling out won’t lead to a utopian world where every country is now free to pursue its own interest, but one where the US’es place is now being fulfilled by Russia, China, etc., and we will be happy if they don’t start to fight over which country gets which part of the EU, and won’t get “parental rights” imposed upon us by force.

A lot of these people are utterly hopeless. I went into a really bad argument with a fellow creator for daring to suggest them to at least try the fediverse, even after Twitter nazis harassed them.

One another issue is the paid blue checkmark’s effect on making one invest even more into the platform, which is needed to avoid your reach being completely borked.

Meamwhile I completely discontinued my engine’s own account there in favor of a Mastodon account ( @PixelPerfectEngine ), and I only visit Twitter for the few creators that didn’t make the jump.

Likely Putin hopes he can terrorize both Ukraine and its allies into surrender.

Heartbreaking! The worst government you know just did something great, by accident.

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I think Putin is collecting war-crimes like Pokémon.

Russia’s only strenght was its oil reserves, but Putin had to realize he can’t blackmail with that forever.

The republican party thanks you, and they also pro-Israel, but mixed with other nastiness…

Issue is, the whole world will be effected by it.

Russians are not a monolith, but a lot of other Russian expats (for economic reasons) are causing issues for very well agreeing with Putin too much on non-economic issues. I know one such Hungarian in the Netherlands, who begged his colleagues to vote for Wild Geeters, because of Orbán.