If western countries valued peace, they would recognize that it would be more diplomatically stable to have neutral buffer States between the Russian border and the NATO countries. They also could have done more to economically integrate with post-soviet Russia in the 1990s. the reality is that NATO countries don’t actually value peace, but rather their capitalist leadership would rather “contain” capitalist Russia than integrate, so NATO expansion it has been.

Ukraine is not Russian territory, but is extremely strategically important from a military standpoint. Any discussion of NATO membership is going to be perturbed as an existential threat to Russia, this is an obvious analysis from both sides. There is no “defensive” benefit to making Ukraine a member of NATO, unless the purpose is to mantain an existential threat toward Russia.

I can’t confidently say that my analysis above justifies a Russian invasion of Ukraine, but Putin obviously doesn’t care what I think. I wish it would not have happened, but I understand what brought everything to this point, and now the Ukrainian people must suffer for decades because western imperialist forces are not interested in building a strong global peace.

Funny! I played it last year on mine lol

Epstein has always had close ties to MIT and there was a big scandal about them accepting donations.

It’s also been own for several years that Chomsky stayed at Epstein’s Paris home at least once, and publicly apologized for his association with Epstein iirc.

Do we know anything about why there was an announcement and then a reversal and everything?

I sort of agree with you but if liberals acknowledged and understood class alignment, they wouldn’t be liberals. I do think that the “opportunity for education” approach is more effective than outright hostility.

I find that online interactions about complicated topics can be quite frustrating, since snark and “dunking” trend to prevail. This is driven by corporate social media and spills over into other online interactions.

Just giving the app the CBS news treatment

Technically all of these responses are political. I think we know what OP meant though, and the discussion is all the better for it!

Tbf Gold_E_Lox was being snarky in the first place

Given that you’re underage, I’m going to lock this thread before it gets weird.

I hope you can find the community and support you need, especially if it is offline.

No offense (sounds like you questions were answered anyway), but I’m going to remove your post since c/asklemmy is not for support! Feel free to DM or use c/Lemmy if you need any more help!

No you pretty much laid it out in you comment, I think it tracks.

Having a misleading UI and making not-unprobable assumptions about viewers feels less problematic though?

I don’t think I particularly matters where the situation lands on the “scale of problematicness”, but youre correct it does exist and it isn’t at the far end of the spectrum. Nonetheless, it is a symptom of a greater social issue (patriarchy), and it warrants discussion and criticism.

The porn industry is made up of corporations, which will tend to reproduce the same heiarchies that exist in society, since that’s what’s most profitable. It isn’t inherently problematic to objectify people in a sexual context, however it isn’t applied equally, and is reproduced in the user controls on most porn sites.

They just assume everyone is a straight male or a gay male, so the choice that gets presented is “gay stuff” or “everything else”. This is reflected in user stats, but it is also going to be self fulfilling. It would make more sense to be able to select one or more options of the broad “straight/gay/les/other” if pornhub existed in a relatively equal society. I don’t expect them to do this, but I do expect my online community to be able to discuss it and how it both reflects and reproduces harmful social constructs.

Idk if that clarifies anything, but I think you and I are in the same ballpark?

OK and they don’t have to cater in a misogynistic way, but they do, and I’m criticizing that decision.

We can leave it at the same volume. Its not “all men are bad” even, no need to make things up, its embedded misogyny, even perpetuated by women at times.

The question why is “lesbian” porn, in the “straight” section?

Why would a straight woman on a porn site expect to see lesbian porn when they select to see straight porn? It’s a double standard.

If men (or anyone else) wanted to watch lesbian porn, there’s nothing wrong with that, it just seems out of place in the straight section, cause that’s not what it is.

Oh OK cool, disregard then

Why?

From the perspective of pornography distributors and consumers, all womens’ bodies exist for their sexual gratification. This includes lesbians ofc.

It’s simply manifestation of misogyny.

I think this has been proposed before, but i think that the instance with the most users (whatever it may be) should be deprioritized on join-lemmy, for the health of the federation. Its not like people won’t come into contact with the largest instance like right away anyway (and could just kale a new account if they really want to)

It’s a settler-colonial project built on the exploitation of stolen land and exploited labor. As true in the 1700s as it is today. It isn’t possible for this sort of entity to mantain stability once the supply of land and people to exploit runs out.

Yeah the answer is to log off

Lol I’m plenty aware Ukraine is Nazi infested, but the downvote stays.

This is a meme comm, not necessarily a political debate comm. The meme isn’t really that high of quality.