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True. People keep speculating that Putin has some kind of leverage over Trump, like compromising information, to get Trump to dance to the Kremlin's tune. But I think it's more likely to be like you say - Trump just admires Putin because Trump wants to be a dictator just like Putin.
I don't know if you're joking or not, but as a Brit, if the next Bond actor is American, I will be very disappointed.
Germany does have black people though, e.g. Antonio Rudiger, a German footballer who plays for Real Madrid:
Bold of you to assume that I know anybody in real life.
I don't think goals are inherently good... Hitler had goals...
Controversial opinion: maybe it's a good thing to allow law enforcement to access communications when necessary (e.g. with a court warrant)
Do we want serious criminals like terrorists and paedophiles to be able to plan their crimes with impunity?
Are they inaccurate? What polling company would be better for this sort of political question?
I expect they'll create about five spin-off TV series, all shown on Amazon Prime
Apparently he doesn't want to do it because "those that weren’t happy about the idea made the whole thing disgusting and off-putting, because it became about race".
Many people will claim that the public is on their side, without providing actual evidence. I guess that's why polling is important.
Then you have some people who claim the polls are rigged, but I think it's more likely that the polls are pretty accurate.
Fair point. Arguably the British public has a more negative view of the EU than Europe as a whole though. So if the British public wants to increase trade with the EU then they would probably be fine with increasing trade with Europe as a whole.
By the way I'm not including Russia when I say "Europe". They don't even consider themselves European - they consider themselves Eurasian.
it might be better to selfishly keep good relations with the US
Or the UK could prioritise good relations with Europe instead, which the public seems to support (source for below image):
Sure there will be more political positions than just three. I just think that some people (not all) on the far-left seem to have authoritarian and/or intolerant views, which some people on the far-right also have.
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.
I had a conversation with someone, I think they were from Hexbear, and I was trying to be polite while they were just being insulting for no reason.
Maybe I should just conclude that the particular person I was talking to was rude, and hopefully other people from leftist instances are not as rude.
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.
I think I have in the past. Then I had people from Hexbear just being total cunts in their replies. They were very intolerant of different views, rather than engaging with those views in good faith.
Maybe I shouldn't generalise across Lemmy.ml and Hexbear though - maybe some people on those instances are decent.
I wouldn't necessarily call myself a liberal, I guess I'm just somewhere in the middle, I dunno. And I definitely don't support wars. That's why I think Russia should never have invaded Ukraine.
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.