Doubtful. Putin for example has been in power for decades. Stalin ruled Russia with an iron fist for the rest of his natural life after rising to power. Unless they're overthrown, that's what dictators do. That's the whole point of dictatorships, to make the leaders the new kings.
There's nothing stopping that dude from suspending elections and just ruling indefinitely.
Okay, let me explain something to your dumb hypocritical ass before you make a fool out of yourself any further:
You're clearly the only one being an asshole and a bully here.
You're the one being the -- how did you put it? "authoritarian we should try to avoid", and you're the one being a worthless hypocrite on top of it.
This is me talking to you via an alt account, an account I have because most people on Lemmy have at least 2 or 3 by virtue of federation.
You did nothing but take a cheap shot at some innocent dumb fuck who stuck their oar in because you wanted to hurt me and my feelings. And judging from the rest of your account activity, you very blatantly do the exact same thing you accuse me of doing, all the time, non-stop. And you have zero self-awareness at all.
So why would you even come here all offended at me in the first place, unless you yourself were just @FlyingSquid's dumbass alt? I guess we're all alts here, moron.
It's okay though. You're acting just like me and I'm here for it. 👏
I don't care if you feel convinced or not. It's the truth. New large trucks will always put out more CO2 than electric cars, even considering manufacturing, and that doesn't change just because you don't want to hear it. And that's the end of the debate.
What could I possibly answer to a rant about opinions that do not belong to me?
Well, you wrote 2 pages of denials, dismissals, and meaningless diatribes that have nothing to do with anything to do just that, so fucking get with it, spanky. You started it and I'll finish it. You want to force dumb, dangerous, evil shit down our throats and then backtrack like a coward when you're called on it? Then this is what you get. Actions have consequences, motherfucker.
I am not pretending anything
I refuse the idea of having to make a balanced preamble for every comment to deflect this objection.
Ex falso quodlibet.
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt with you, is it?
Now we enter in the realm of lies, lack of ability to read or straight up bad faith.
I honestly think that your method to carry on a conversation is completely dishonest,
Projection is for movie screens, not internet arguments.
Okay, so, top line: the name of your game: denial, projection, blame the victim.
You are so wrong in your (to be honest, ridiculous) attempt to paint my own ideas.
Holy fuck is your dishonesty and blatant motte-and-baileying real. Yes, that is your position. You are actively arguing that Ukraine using a drone on a fucking airport building is a war crime because attacking civilians is always a war crime regardless of circumstances, even though no one adheres to that way of thinking. You even say it several times in this post. Like here:
Despite this, I have specifically mentioned that I’d rather let Russia be the only one committing war crimes.
Implying Ukraine is committing a war crime by attacking an airport, a common target in a war, to force a nuclear aggressor to stop committing genocide on their own people.
You completely miss the point of stuff like the Geneva Convention and other war treaties. Those treaties are put into place because of pragmatic and practical considerations, not feelings, and it is the spirit of the treaty that matters, not the treaty itself. Ukraine is trying to protect their citizens from genocide. Russia's citizens are suffering the very real consequences of their own actions in supporting said genocide.
Ukraine is a social entity made up of people like all countries are. They have the basic natural right to prioritize their citizens' lives over others, including Russia's. Ukraine does not have to care about Russia because Russia is threatening Ukraine's ability to live and Ukraine has the unilateral, natural right to use every means available to protect its life, including drone attacks on airports. EVERY country has that right.
THAT is the basic principle everyone else gets that you don't. It is, how did you put it? Basic. BASIC IN ALL CAPS.
And that principle trumps the complaints of Russia's citizenry who categorically support the invasion of Ukraine. If they didn't want to be attacked then they wouldn't have been dumb enough to support a regime trying to invoke genocide and nuclear war.
Russia's people brought it completely upon themselves. Period. Full stop.
We in the U.S. deserved and got the same with 9/11 and it's the same now. And ultimately, we look back on our own actions in shame, which is likely what the people of Russia will do.
Where is the lack of empathy in defending the fact that people who are outside a conflict should not be killed?
By insinuating those people have no agency or moral culpability in supporting literal nuclear tyranny, ignoring the reality of Russia's stances and actions, and categorically demanding Ukraine surrender and submit to genocide rather than have access to every means available to force Russia to stop.
By framing the situation in black and white whereas you accuse people like me of the exact same thing as a negative when you use the same reasoning to condemn rape, bullying and abuse victims who fight back against their oppressors or even when we morally condemn abusers and rightly and justly call for violence against them.
Because you DON'T care about human life. You ONLY care about yourself and your feelings.
So wrong that I actually don’t refute the idea of violence at all, I am not a pacifist in that sense at all. In your example, if the bullied kid went raping the bully’s mom I would then think that the bullied kid is wrong, though. This is a more fit example.
Stop fucking lying. You falsely frame that drone attack as unnecessary and cruel and you haven't considered that that drone attack and several others that went down over the past year are either attempts to assassinate Putin or setting the groundwork to invade Moscow, which Ukraine -- probably quite rightly -- perceives as their only means to put a stop to Putin's bullshit and prevent him from launching a nuclear strike on their country or the world.
The rest of the world should have invaded Russia long ago, but people like you bitched and cried on the same grounds and look what happened. Now Zaphorzhiza's plant is rigged with bombs. Now one of Ukraine's biggest dams was blown up, causing the very civilian casualties you are parading right now in front of us.
This is a fucking war and Ukraine's survival is far more important than anyone in Russia's, period, full stop. And we make that distinction because unlike you, we're NOT deluded inhuman scumbags divorced from reality. We're certainly not perverse enough to equivocate a drone attack on an airport in a war with a nuclear power that has literally raped Ukraine's people en masse with a bullying victim raping his bully's mom.
Because a more detailed comparison is that bully being a white racist kid in a white racist neighborhood who rounded up the other kids to go bomb the victim's house, a Black family's house, kill his father, kidnap his baby sister, and rape the victim's mother before his eyes, before forcibly conscripting the victim in their little lynching gang to go kill the next Black family down the street.
And here you are, telling the nerdy Black kid down the street that he can't launch a drone to blow them up after the police, in collision with the racist bullies' families, that they categorically refuse to do anything about it. And that drone? The rich mixed family on the other side of town mailed it to our next victim, with the explicit intent of using it against the bullies.
Because that's what's actually been happening during the Ukraine invasion.
Civilian casualties are going to happen whether you like it or not and the rest of the world is right to rather Ukraine do it to ensure their own survival instead of Russia alone with no words of condemnation or cynical attempts to exploit philosophical debates to undermine their ability to do so like you're trying to do here.
You're HURTING Ukraine and victims everywhere by arguing this.
You're disgusting and vile. You make me sick.
God damn do some of you people need lithium scrips
Post a lemm.ee version
That hot moment when you realize you forgot to add the [serious] tag
Fascism isn't a legitimate political ideology so there's nothing to tolerate. It's just genocide in fancy window dressing.
People have been doing that for years and it's obvious to anyone with any insight that they won't listen and don't care.
I already left Lemmy.world because those assholes refused to defederate, don't make me have to set up my own instance 🤦
All I want is a free internet, of the people, by the people, that bans corporate dystopian bullshit. I am not asking much.
I left Lemmy.world too and I can't even log back in to my old account to close my subs on that instance on account of the hacking.
That place is sus as fuck and I have strong reasons to think the admins of the place have been compromised. Centralizing people to one instance which defeats the point of federation, beig cagey and dodging the issue when users demanded they defederate from Threads, and then this.
Long live federation and it giving people a choice