… I don’t think you understand what’s going on in Serbia if you think there’s voting happening. Have a good day.

Visible support from government/establishment officials of the Serbian student anti-corruption protests. The students that the sitting Serbian government is trying to freeze and starve into submission.

Again, contrast that to what the US did to their students during the pro-Palestine university encampments.

We Americans need to open our fucking eyes, clapback tweets and watching leopards eating faces is just the new bread and circus. Holding up “fact checking signs” during a Trump speech will not save us.

Apparently Americans can’t learn from other countries. American Exceptionalism truly is the best.

The “powerless” opposition party in Serbia btw:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/04/serbian-mps-set-off-flares-and-smoke-grenades-inside-parliament

This is freaky, and not in a good way. Look at their eyes…(or lack-thereof)

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Still no answer for the Starlink.

Ok, ignoring everything else, answer my one question:

Why would Elon turn off the Starlink satellites right before an important Ukrainian operation?

Edit: oh nvm, 8 day old account that is going around “giving the benefit of doubt” to any Elon/Trump + Russia related story. I’ll see myself out 🙄

Russia said that, but then also why would Elon turn off Starlink during crucial military operations in 2023? Shits and giggles?

The OG article I linked also says that Russia and China are in contact with each other. May Musk, Elon’s mother, lives in Shanghai and travels to Beijing frequently. She has pictures on Chinese social media having dinner with both Chinese and Russian diplomats. Is that also just coincidence?

Elon is also connected to Russia (and China)

Awesome, thank you so much!

Pardon my ignorance, but what is Briar?

Oglaf spotted!

It’s so sad because if you look at their resumes, Usha Vance is actually much more accomplished than her husband. Peter Thiel just prefers JD, I guess.

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Yay, I’m glad you like it there! It’s definitely more slow moving than the rest of Lemmy, but I like their weekly community chats and stuff. Also a killer gardening community.

Holy shit, almost double the next person. Dude is in the twilight of his career, he could have told them to fuck off with little consequences at this point.

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Ngl, I am learning so much lemmy server id pol from you right now, lol

It’s very interesting reading your experience (which I guess is the more common experience), and how even on this free and open platform there is still some sort of social grouping happening. I didn’t really even factor that into my choice of server when I signed up, but now that I think about it, servers like slrpnk and the old 196 server (I’m completely blanking on the instance name) are built around special groups, obviously so. I guess I just don’t think too deeply on the identities of the general instances because they claim to not have one (but they clearly do lol.)

Thanks for making the effort to explain all this, I appreciate it!

Communities shape how people think and act. Normalizing bootlicking for authoritarian regimes causes those who participate in those communities to feel and reproduce that normalization.

Sure, but only if they’re solely in those echo chambers, which if they’re posting in .world, they clearly aren’t. And any ones who do are told off because of the content of their posts, not their home servers.

I see quite a few inflammatory posters from .world and .ee (especially of the American exceptionalism, anti-Palestine, and more recently anti-Canadian (🤭) varieties) but I don’t automatically assume every single person on those servers hold those values. In fact, I think 9/10 comments I see you post specifically, PugJ, I agree with.

I had no idea about the Hexbear/lemmygrad lore though, I’ll definitely keep that in mind going forward.