BlindPenguin

you “know” that “Russia has a pattern of this sort of behaviours” because the BBC told you so.

The BBC isn't the only one reporting about these Russian "adventures", you know? At some point you just have to realize that Russia is influencing people in multiple countries it perceives as enemies. This isn't anything new.

Just open the group chat

I'm not talking about becoming centrists, i'm talking about building coalitions. There are core issues many people can agree upon, and treat each other under the motto "the enemy of my enemy is my friend". Details can be discussed later, when the threat is less urgent. History has a few examples on what happens, when the left treats other democrats as the enemy. The most infamous one should be the German KPD. They declared the SPD and social democracy as the main enemy. I don't think i need to point out how that ended. The thing about democracy is, that you will never get everyone to agree 100% with each other. But you can agree with enough topics to prevent a dictatorship.

Multiple factors led to the US declaration of war on Great Britain that began the War of 1812:[26]

• Trade restrictions introduced by the UK under the orders in council of 1807 to impede trade with France, with whom Britain was at war (the US contested the restrictions as illegal under contemporary international law).[27] The impressment (forced recruitment) of seamen on US vessels into the British Royal Navy (men who Britain claimed were British subjects).
• British military support for American Indian tribes who were offering armed resistance against the US expansion of the American frontier in the Northwest Territory.
• A possible desire by the US to annex some or all of Canada.[28]
• US desire to uphold national honor in the face of what they considered to be British insults, such as the Chesapeake affair.[29]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812>

Art of the deal, everyone

It's kinda funny, how the right-wingers consistently manage to infiltrate parties and turn them into a vehicle for their own agenda, while the left-wingers are either busy fighting each other, or fighting whatever they perceive as "centrist". Funny in a sad way.

Now compare it to the water used to grow animal feed and the animals themselves.

You're so busy accusing everyone who disagrees with your stance to be a "genocide worshipper", that you don't even realize that people have wide range of issues they vote on. For example the issue of not becoming a fascist dictatorship. You cannot fix the world if your own house is burning.

Not voting leads to extremist parties gaining ground, because extremists will always vote for their option. Which in turn leads to people suffering under their policies at best, and at worst to situations like Nazi Germany. Which makes the whole genocide argument look kinda performative.