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  • I don’t know about the apps because I normally use Lemmy on the web. There might be an option in your app to just see posts from your subscribed communities though.

    On the Lemmy.world website you can see posts from your subscribed communities by clicking the “subscribed” tab near the top of the page (the other tabs are “local” which shows you just posts from your instance - Lemmy.world in your case - and “all” which shows you the top posts from all Lemmy servers).

    Also on the Lemmy.world website, if you scroll down on the main page, you can see your subscribed communities in a list on the right-hand side of the page. I sometimes use that list when I want to look at a particular community.







  • I didn’t say Russian only lies. I said Russia “has lied about pretty much everything for a long time”. That is not the same thing.

    assuming the opposite of whatever Russia says

    I’m not just assuming the opposite of Russia’s statements. I’m drawing a best guess conclusion based on two premises:

    • Russia has a history of lying about its true intentions and actions
    • Russian oligarchs and elites would absolutely be interested in mineral wealth, given their history of megalomania

    I think it’s likely that mineral wealth would have been part of the Kremlin’s motivation to invade. Along with general megalomania and irredentism.








  • You’re so close.

    So no countries should exist? Sometimes I wonder how a single world government would work. But maybe it’s not worth thinking about too much since it’s not a realistic prospect currently.

    would you have said the same of people saying Nazi Germany shouldn’t exist during WW2?

    Perhaps it’s reasonable to say that a peaceful and non-genocidal Germany can exist (today’s Germany I think fits into that description). So maybe the same applies to Israel.

    When the ICC issued arrest warrants for the leaders of Israel and Hamas, I thought that made sense, because both sides killed civilians. Both sets of leaders should probably face trials. Maybe in the future Israel and Palestine can both be led by peaceful governments.



  • Decent points to be honest. Maybe the US could have helped Ukraine negotiate something where they very reluctantly give up some land to Russia in return for proper security (with western backing) for the rest of Ukraine. Obviously not an ideal situation, but yes it could have prevented a lot of deaths. And maybe western countries would have realised that more investment in defence would be needed to properly protect the rest of Ukraine, and the rest of Europe, and other countries.

    How on earth can you accuse me of not being a leftist and being similar to the far-right for saying that we should spend more money on schools and hospitals and less money on bombs?

    It’s just where you said “do you not believe the reasons they tell you?”. I thought you were meaning that there are genuine reasons to support or like Putin’s regime, and that I just wasn’t believing those reasons.

    Being anti-war is definitely a good position. Perhaps I shouldn’t have generalised across all of Lemmy.ml and Hexbear to assume that everyone on those instances believes the same things. My perspective has just been based on intolerance I have seen from those instances in the past, e.g. Lemmy.ml mods labelling posts as US propaganda because those posts mentioned that Russia was the aggressor in the Ukraine war.




  • Fair enough. I’m definitely not saying everyone on the left is the same as the far-right, I don’t believe that at all.

    It just seems to me there’s a segment of people who consider themselves on the far-left (posters from Lemmy.ml and Hexbear sometimes) who hold positions which can be quite similar to the far-right. Another position that both segments sometimes hold is that Israel shouldn’t exist. I definitely disagree a lot with the current Israeli government but if someone says Israel shouldn’t exist then you may as well say that no country should exist.