You’re mistaken; the United States has no leftist parties.

I wonder if the British of the early 19th century predicted that this is how it would turn out when they decided not to press their advantage after the war of 1812 in favor of detente w the young United States

dunno; the aged induced bone spurs and arthritis sometimes makes me want to welcome annihilation. lol

– assuming they’re paying attention at all

it would be shorter if you list the atrocities they DIDN’T commit

doesn’t the picard maneuver involve light speed trickery and a ferengi ship? lol

It isn’t a short read

I’m convinced that this is why Americans don’t know

i want to imagine that it came from a world too innocent to believe that drones would become so ubiquitous in warfare. lol

don’t know; that’s why i asked

Does dronies define liberals only or is it anyone center-right?

It depends on the amount of melanin in their skin; Ashkenazi Jews are close enough to white for it to become white-on-white violence

the only surprise is learning that people still didn’t already know.

lemmy is not even a blip on anyone’s radar and huge majority of its users still primarily use reddit and twitter.

i love this and i’m stealing it. lol

it reached an absurd level in austin texas well before trump became a thing; they show up to gay bars to entrap men into breaking the law with the intention of citing enough legal violations to justify shutting down the bar permanently. it’s so bad that the bars have responded by hiring off duty police because they have a chance of recognizing officers in plainclothes.

i’ve seen 2 such examples: one on solar and another using piezoelectrics along with the wind

and your google searches plus dns queries.

– or south korea

i think it’s better that you say something if it’s not clear for the people who lurk through all the interactions.

it get that they’re both bad faith ways to shut down discourse and i can see how whataboutism fits; but i was referring to the false equivalency placed between the nato’s atrocities and that of the soviet union’s in the comment

when it’s “both sides” is brought up to shutdown arguments that the democrats have done some of the same things that the republicans did; they’re likewise implying that the democrats have fewer of such incidents than the republicans and therefore the argument is invalid.

this was my half snarky way of saying that this comment is a “both sides” example can be applied in the opposite direction where it neuters the effect that “both sides” has with liberals.