That community kind of sucks its basically just people posting about their vibe coded “Reddit Alternative” project and many posts about actual alternatives like here are removed. I guess this is exactly what shareholders want…

Exactly this.

The news loves this kind of stuff.

[Thing Associated with not being poor or chronically ill is Linked to Thing associated with not being poor or chronically ill]

And then they love the narrative that [thing that’s hard to afford] is actually the reason not just a correlate.

Ehhh when you’re an officially neutral nation with immense financial power surrounded by West Germany, France, Austria (also neutral), and Italy. And you’re on good terms and deeply financially intertwined with NATO.

I feel like having people in your population be homeless and die of lack of medical treatment is a bigger priority than inflating the already massive military budget and capability.

Yeah cold war logic was paranoid. Nuclear bunkers in essentially every building built during the cold war, highway segements were built with fighter jet landing capabilities. And yeah I believe many bridges have explosive “capabilities”.

This is not just because of public education gutting. It’s a worldwide phenomenon, even in places with the highest ranked public schools on earth.

the simple truth is bombarding someone with a certain way of seeing the world makes them more likely to see the world that way. It’s propaganda, plain and simple.

Sad thing is it works on a lot of naive young people.