What am I looking at?

Sometimes you can get positive change at local papers. Lots of the people working there got into it because they wanted to do journalism, and unlike national papers, many people who aren’t ideologically aligned with the billionaires don’t get filtered. Even if nobody at the paper follows up on it, I’ve seen getting a letter published in the public comment section of the paper get the ball moving.

Schools tend to take retributive action against both teachers and students, but that’s usually part of the sequence for building enough trouble that the school board/superintendent starts to lean on the principle.

Write the local paper?

They protect the institution of private property, not any individual’s personal property.

But you understand that cops, above all else, exist to protect the institution of property correct?

Roads? Slave labor. Taxes? Slave labor. Taxes that fund the police? Somehow not slave labor.

Like you’re not wrong, democrats do advocate slave labor in the form of supporting the prison-industrial complex, but I know you’re not talking about that.

Politics is about power structures. Both of America’s parties support the same structure, capitalism.

Are you suggesting Putin controlled CNN and Al Jazeera English 10 years ago?

Because I’m just recounting what I saw on the news.

Surely anyone who isn’t just begging for rivers of foreign blood must be a robot. Just inconceivable that anyone could want less bloodshed.

That was in 2014, there wasn’t even a coherent Ukrainian state and they were going through new presidents every month. A lot changed over the next 10 years. Western Ukraine was shelling Eastern Ukraine right up until the day of the invasion.

A state and it’s people’s interests aren’t the same.

Take self-determination movements; the people in eastern Ukraine want to leave, the state of Ukraine doesn’t want to give up territory.

Supporting the state in this case is opposing the people, supporting the people is opposing the state.

If I was in Russia, I’d have pointed at Syrian Kurdistan before the US invasion/occupation of Syria.

I think I see the disconnect, you conflate the safety of the state of Taiwan and Ukraine with the people so statements like “I don’t think we should sacrifice a million Ukrainians to weaken Russia” come off as undermining the defense of Ukraine.

I’m certain even the pro-independence people living in Taiwan would prefer status quo to looking like Ukraine.

Oh yeah, I forgot .world allows porn instances.

I just searched “china”, and didn’t notice any authoritarian propaganda in the first 3 pages, but I counted 6 anti-chinese stories.

The closest to pro-chinese stories that came up were that EU citizens can now travel to China visa-free, the CEO of evergrande getting fined and banned from business, and some news story about economic numbers.

Would you care to point it out to me?

Edit: https://lemmy.ml/instances includes Pawb.social and pawb.fun, they’re also federated with instances that host furry communities.

Which furry instances are you talking about?

PSA: Lemmy.ml has a piracy community and federates with everyone world federates with so you can have the same experience.

The last capitalist we shoot will be the one who sold us the bows and arrows.

Of course it’s not really you making that million dollars, it’d be the workers who make and sell the bows+arrows you’re stealing that profit from.

Alaska?