If full time Walmart employees need government assistance programs to afford food and pay their rent, is it not Walmart who is leaning on government assistance?

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  • There are definitely more of them on Reddit, but I think new accounts there stand out more as an attempt to obfuscate prior intent since reddit has been around forever and lemmy still gets a lot of highly involved new users or people switching instances without intent to deceive. I’d be curious if an actual analysis shows a trend of soft introductions to soft on Russia sources using articles that don’t mention Russia or Ukraine at all. Still, even if shown to be the primary technique, it’s a hard sell to moderate based on articles that weren’t linked, and certainly larger media corporations have a few crappy false articles a month as well, not even to mention opinion pieces.


  • His news sources are often the most leftist coated articles from the most tankie sources. I feel we should judge based on the articles shared rather than the sites he frequent, but it is worth keeping in mind the staff of their news orgs are extremely anti-nato and can’t quite seem to condemn Putins aggression as fervantly as they condemn Europe arming itself in a defensive stance… but you’d only see that if you explored the sites’ other takes than what’s being shared here. Whether the goal is to soften people on these sources, idk, but it’s not for a mod to say a factual article should be removed because other articles hosted there are more dubious. Just my 2c







  • If you remember, he tried not to by hinging it on a bogus investigation into Berisma and he also discontinued all support later after presumably discarding Zelenskyy since he had nothing more to give the admin politically in an era of ally abandonment. Notably, all of this abandonment is good for Putin.

    It’s arguable that Trump isn’t so much an ally of Putin, but someone hoping to benefit from him as an attack dog to leverage power with our actual allies, but it’s been shown time and time again that Trump does not have either the ability or the will to reign in Putin, so the end result is virtually identical to treating him as an ally – except the added national embarassment of inconsistent messaging.

    The alternative is that Trump is reigning him in, but it’s through personal favors that we may never know about. This is the entire Russiagate justification.