but I am desperately looking for non-American takes on economy, technology and social issues.

🇳🇱 Rutger Bregman comes to mind

Maybe I should have let her watch the producers?

Nah, dive in fully and let her watch ‘downfall’.

Woof yeah, that was one of my first times reading a reddit thread since I left during the API disaster and holy fuck I am glad I left.

It’s not even people being wrong, but the whole vibe is repugnant.

I’ve had unpleasant exchanges on Lemmy, sure, but the general vibe is just so much more acceptable, seeing it now I wonder why I didn’t leave reddit sooner.

Also, to me it feels like it’s more like ‘equal partners in a relationship’. ‘My wife’ or ‘my girlfriend’ often sounds a little possessive.

Wolf

Or better yet, nationalize those papers.

Holy fuck that’s a scary proposal.

The meme talks about 2014 to 2022, your sub stack post about 2021 to 2025, so one is talking about the conflict leading up to the full invasion by Russia, the other is talking about what happened after the Russian invasion. They are closely related but not the same.

No, not really, if you mean the votes on your comment - I didn’t participate.

I was just genuinely curious about the purpose of your comment. Would you rather people stop pointing that out or what’s the game here?

Let’s just say it’s complicated.

She’s a conservative and domestically that meant a focus on the status quo, infrastructure was neglected (digital and otherwise), a lot of privatization, stagnating social programs, stagnating wages and more.

Her foreign policy and her statesmanship on the other hand was widely respected.

There must be some insane degree of anterior pelvic tilt going on.

Is this fancy words for ‘weird butt’?

Okay… and?

Yeah can we get rid of this stupid meme format? He made millions off of that.

Antennapod let’s you program the skip buttons up to 60 seconds, which is a delight.

“Yeah, cults are really fun, but I have a sixth sense about when the fun is over. You know, when there’s gonna be an FBI raid or mass sooey, or blend up beavers and put it in the town’s water supply.”

~Francine Smith

I’d call that ethical consistency.

Better be not, otherwise it would break community rules. Better be an okay rock.

Been there, done that, would still eat a whole cheesecake in one sitting. Only slight regrets.

“If you’re going to have a monarchy, it has to be a monarchy of everyone,”

What an utterly INSANE statement.

True, but I, at some point in my life recognized that all those bad thoughts and feelings about someone who wronged me only created suffering on my end. The answer was to let go.

The indifference might not give me revenge in a direct sense, but it gives me peace.

My revenge is being happy and free from that person.

It’s sure as fuck echoing right now and folks need to fucking listen.

Not alone regarding to US politics, the whole world eerily feels in a similar turmoil like 100 years ago. Let’s hope enough people recognize the overture of the symphony of horrors that is attached to it. Let’s hope we can turn it around before the true demons of our past come to haunt us all.