I listened to more of their stuff on YouTube, it’s pretty cool, I can respect the guy’s anger and pissed off attitude.

I don’t think it’s just Putin which is why I mentioned the megalomania of other Russian elites. But Putin surely made the final decision to invade.

I didn’t say Russian only lies. I said Russia “has lied about pretty much everything for a long time”. That is not the same thing.

assuming the opposite of whatever Russia says

I’m not just assuming the opposite of Russia’s statements. I’m drawing a best guess conclusion based on two premises:

• Russia has a history of lying about its true intentions and actions
• Russian oligarchs and elites would absolutely be interested in mineral wealth, given their history of megalomania

I think it’s likely that mineral wealth would have been part of the Kremlin’s motivation to invade. Along with general megalomania and irredentism.

Maybe the primary cause was Putin’s megalomania, or indeed megalomania among quite a few Russian elites.

Occam’s razor would dictate that Russia is probably lying if they say they’re not interested in Ukrainian minerals, given that the Kremlin has lied about pretty much everything for a long time.

Putin is even saying he wants to sell minerals from Russian-occupied Ukraine to the US. Clearly he wants to profit from minerals in Ukraine.

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It’s hilarious that you accuse the US and Ukraine of wanting to get rich from mineral rights, but you won’t accuse Russia of the same thing. In reality there will be rich people in each of those countries wanting to profit from minerals.

Why do you think that what Russia says is true?

Russia said they didn’t poison Alexei Navalny in 2020, but they did. They said they didn’t kill Alexander Litvinenko, and they said they didn’t poison Sergei Skripal, but they did both of those things.

Interesting idea. I suppose you could start a Lemmy community for meet ups for people in your country. I don’t know how easy it would be to find willing people who are relatively local to you though.

Yeah there’s some truth to that. Working at home can be lonely in my experience. But on the other hand you save all the hassle with commuting.

True. On Lemmy I can still be bombarded by stuff about the two billionaires running the USA, if I look at the active threads on all instances. But I can avoid that by just looking at threads from the instance I’m on, or by visiting particular communities individually.

I’ve been thinking how socialising on the internet with strangers is so hugely different to socialising with people in real life.

In real life you can see someone face to face, you can get a sense of their personality, and you learn to trust them. Those things are harder on the internet. You can’t see a person’s face, or hear their accent. Someone on the internet could be lying when they tell you about themselves, and it’s harder to tell if they’re lying.

Also of course on the internet people are much more willing to be rude and offensive because there are few penalties. If you meet someone in a pub, they probably won’t be rude to you, most of the time. If you disagree about something, you might say “okay, agree to disagree” and move onto another topic. But on the internet people will just be disrespectful cunts because they can get away with it, without negative social consequences for themselves.

In conclusion, internet socialising should be better than it is.

I guess it’s not the kind of thing I normally listen to, but I came across Jobseeker on YouTube and thought it was good. That feeling of authority figures being patronising and belittling and you just want them to piss off.

I wasn’t meaning to criticise any particular country, I just meant that goals aren’t inherently a good thing.

Regarding China and the US, I think both countries have a lot to offer, and there will be decent people from each country, but I don’t think I’m a fan of the current government of either country.

No I haven’t, in fact I think I only know one song by them… good song though (Jobseeker). I should probably check out more of their stuff.

I just chose this username because I was trying to think of something randomly and it popped into my head.

Germany does have black people though, e.g. Antonio Rudiger, a German footballer who plays for Real Madrid:

Bold of you to assume that I know anybody in real life.

I don’t think goals are inherently good… Hitler had goals…