One guy was so paranoid that he had a camera in his yard (out in a well-off suburban neighborhood) pointing at a public path that strobed and vocally warned you that you were being recorded. Totally unhinged

You’re lucky you can downvote it lol

Although I’m hoping to find a lobster taking the bait when I scroll downthread in a moment here so it might be good for comedy at least

No sure, I get where you’re coming from, but for the purposes of the other poster I think it was best to adjust my language.

At the time time, it’s also best for the purposes of the other poster to reply with your perspective as well haha

I guess instead of “war” I should have said “conflict” btw

The war did not start in 2022, your analysis of what has been happening before the invasion needs to go back before that.

We literally bring it up ourselves for no particular reason

That’s pretty much where we used to be on Reddit, like ~100k users, but top 20 most active or something like that lol

Reminds me of the book “Redshirts”

Stop by the news megathread sometime and see/ask for yourself. You probably won’t agree with a lot of stuff (and even that’s partly cause there’s layers of irony caked onto the walls), but it’s not quite as bad as you think.

The narrative changed about 10 years ago to “well it’s happening, but humans can’t do anything about it, it’s a natural process”. No real difference, but it puts a bit more smoke and mirrors up for the rubes who believe that sort of thing since it sounds a bit less wrong.

Interesting that you can tell where someone’s political development kinda “paused” based on this. A dork who thinks climate change isn’t happening is a full 10 years behind their fellow dorks.

I’m more annoyed with the people who reply to this low-effort garbage

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Right. I think we are about in the same place then. We need to see what comes up next.

There are certainly questions we can discuss about the democratic process, and where it may fall short, and it may be necessary to circumvent, but that’s probably a topic for another thread.

I think that looking ahead, the country is better off paving a new future rather than restoring a government that’s gonna cozy right up to the French again and maintain the status quo. That could backfire. I guess one thought is that even if it backfires and they end up in kind of an Iran situation, the situation is overall good for the global socialist movement since it weakens at least one colonial power, and we can hope that the movement reforms the country again to something “good” at some point in the future.

Idk, if it’s not true than that would change my thoughts on the current situation

Yes, my bad, and I agree but I wish (who tf cares what I wish lol) that they would do their revolutionary action under a socialist banner which isn’t exactly how I see it at this point.

Thomas Sankara is a leader that many on the left look up to for being non-corrupt. There very wellay be something I’m not aware of, though.

I don’t think Lenin was ever considered “corrupt”, even if one doesn’t agree with his political decisions.

I’m not super well read on it, but to summarize:

• We KNOW that the French definitely don’t have the interest of the Nigerian people at heart. (ask more if this isn’t clear).
• We also know that the French government is neoliberal capitalist, and opposes the aims of the global socialist movement.
• It remains to be seen how “good” or how “socialist” the future government turns out to be, but their initial actions of being hostile to French colonialism have been good for socialism so far.
• the most demonstrable action has been to cut off exports of uranium to France, putting the government of Niger in the driver’s seat to control that. Now we wait (months, years?) to see if they use that to benefit their people.

I mean the fediverse isn’t exactly super mature; from what I know you should expect that you’ll have to generate that data yourself some way or another.