Then it doesn’t work for you, which is fine.

Everyone has their own way of visualizing things.

Left/right is deeply ingrained in a lot of people for steering and screwing. Makes “natural” sense to me so I use it.

Learned it from a colombian, so based Colombia, !que chimba este pais!

It’s not an original idea, but rather a direct translation of how some spanish speakers remember how to use screwdrivers.

Thanks though :)

When you are asked to turn left or right, you instinctively know where to turn your body. Now, imagine you are looking at it from above, seeing yourself from the top. When you turn left or right, your head and the rest of your body turn in a specific direction, which should be easy to visualize. That’s the same movement in which you’d turn a valve / turn a steering wheel / rotate a screwdriver when asked to turn it left or right.

Thanks for pointing it out :)

When you are asked to turn left or right, you instinctively know where to turn your body. Now, imagine you are looking at it from above, seeing yourself from the top. When you turn left or right, your head and the rest of your body turn in a specific direction, which should be easy to visualize. That’s the same movement in which you’d turn a valve / turn a steering wheel / rotate a screwdriver when asked to turn it left or right.

Whoops, not anymore 😅

The US surveillance state is communism, you read it here first.

Political literacy.

I don’t directly consume any myself, I’m not the correct person to try this gotcha on.

Although even if I wanted to, I don’t get to know or control which country the fossil fuels I’d use are imported from. These are things that are handled at state level. I’m a full time activist trying to get politicians who would deal with that elected (and trying to get the state to change its stance on Israel), my words are not hollow.

How about not arming Israel, not financing Russia through fossil fuels, not giving tax cuts to US megacorps while they fuck around the world, actially applying financial pressure on bad actors and organizing boycotts etc.

I was asking the question rhetorically, to make a point. There’s other ways to wage a war. We’re not even trying (or worse in the case of Palestine we’re actively harming them).

The EU is willing to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian 🫡

My country is the third biggest purchaser of Russian fossil fuels, spending more on it than on helping Ukraine, while Macron is posturing as the one true ally of Ukraine.

I’m not so sure governments are interested in preventing Russia from doing whatever it wants. Capital makes the decisions.

We already surrendered to Putin when we let the war happen in the first place and didn’t cut off Russia financially afterwards. It’s been four years of pretending we haven’t, how many more to go? How many millions more casualties are acceptable until we actually do something one way or the other? If waiting for Russia to Vietnam itself is the plan, put an “acceptable” number of years and of casualties on it.

Sure, I agree, then let’s actually militarily defend Ukraine / Palestine / Venezuela / Iran / Lebanon.

Oh wait, it was all posturing and nobody’s willing to actually do that.

Now let’s find actually realistic solutions to those conflicts that aren’t 1 000 000 more dead proles.

Then we agree that there is no possible military intervention.

Negotiations are not friendly talks hosted by Trump, they’re attempts at ball twisting hosted by parties that actually want peace. So far all I’ve seen has been way too friendly, obviously Putin will just say “ok give me everything” and walk out if he has nothing to lose.

I don’t think more dead proles is a healthy endgame.

I’m not talking about them, I’m talking about the only tolerated stance being “send more money and weapons to Ukraine” with no end to the conflict in sight. How many more years and millions of casualties do we have to wait to actually do something to end this?

It’s particularly annoying in french communities, since my govt waited and looked on for weeks at the start of the war, refused to intervene while Macron was having (useless) phone calls with Putin, and now we’re meant to act all tough and pretend we have been the biggest Ukrainian supporters since day one, no slander of the glorious french nation will be tolerated!

Screw this bs, either we have a plan to intervene at some point to kick Russia’s ass and end this war (which we clearly don’t), either the only moral position is to ask for an end to this through peace negotiations. Enough dead proles while the bourgeoisie feasts.

Oh you thought this was about Iran?

This is about Ukraine and how people talk about it on Lemmy (and Reddit).

I don’t shy away from pointing out hypocrisy in controversial settings.

Have a nice day :)

There’s a long list of reasons why he attacked Iran and most of them are not distractions (although I do agree one of the reasons is to distract from domestic crises in general, Epstein being the least of his domestic worries atm, he’s above the law already).

This is a textbook US imperialist move, coordinated with Israel, to address imperial issues that existed long before the Epstein files were a mainstream story: maintaining US hegemony and securing israeli military dominance in the region, preventing Iran from becoming a regional pole aligned with Cihna, trying to open iranian markets to western capital, and projecting military strength to make the military-industrial complex side of his political supporters happy. Those goals have been discussed in US policy circles for decades, and happened now not because of the Epstein files, but because of the timing: Iran is going through an internal political crisis that is ripe for imperial exploitation.

If anything, seeing a distraction from the Epstein files in everything Trump does is the distraction from what he is actually doing.

Flattening the analysis to “Epstein distraction” when the topic actually matters to leftist internationalism around the world is some lazy memerot-brained liberal shit straight out of Gavin Newsom’s twitter. He doesn’t need to bother with distractions thanks to you and others who are doing it for him by seeing Epstein in everything. The mountain hidden behind the Epstein files hill is that he seized so much power that he doesn’t need to fear justice anymore, and is now trying to mess with future elections to keep that power. People are in denial about how much control he has already seized. Epstein files won’t matter until he is removed from power.

The guy did a coup and suffered no consequences, and showed everyone that he is above the law over anv over, why do you think he fears consequences for the Epstein files?

Not everything is a distraction.

Yup that’s the one!

On a long term quest to make more “shareable with a wider public” versions of some smug ideology classics.

Major capitalist countries are extremely authoritarian, the issue is not inherent to any ideology or mode of production.

Capitalism has the need for a strong privately owned military-industrial complex to protect the assets of its ruling class. This complex needs to sell weapons to sustain itself financially, so violence, war, repression, imperialism, colonialism are natural consequences of capitalism and don’t even need any “personality disorders” to happen.

“But authoritarian communism happened” gets an “eh ok sure whatever” from me given the state of the capitalist world, only a few elites within the imperial core are living a life free of authoritarianism right now (and that’s only because they don’t really notice it).