Huh. I didn’t take a look at your links and kinda expected to have problems with the mods for that comment anyway.
Seems like we have the same opinion and lemmy.ml is indeed not Reddit.

Sorry for such a bad comment, i’m french and our president, but far from only him, said a few annoying things that made me want to vent out, honestly i don’t know why, just that it’s one of these times when everything i’m hearing from the radio or t.v. or some twitter accounts of politicians just annoy me, it was a pointless comment in that sense, probably the equivalent of seeking a (verbal )fight in a pub, i was just getting ready to be angry at a poor pro-ukrainian as if it was productive, 🤷

So Ukraine wasn’t building up an army to recover Crimea and fight against anti-n.a.t.o. separatism in its south-east ? Zelensky was elected as an alternative to anti-russians(, without the vote of south-eastern ukrainians under an economic blocus among other things), and did the opposite.
It’s just like saying that Russia will invade the rest of Europe or other lies(, probably the russian interferences as well since Russiagate was debunked and we have a strong history of lying, Georgia was the aggressor during the Beijing olympics), we just can’t tell the truth and our population is even ignoring the talking points of the opponent. The non-westerners know our point of view, never difficult to understand, we’re the ones systematically ignoring theirs, and lying with biases visible even to those agreeing with us.
Netanyahu is also a liar but that’s what we(sterners) do, the end justifies the means our leaders/representatives don’t speak from/with their heart, there’s an assumed propaganda of talking points, e.g. unprovoked for Russia or terrorists for Palestine, what are palestinians supposed to do to stop the ongoing colonization and live peacefully together ? What is Russia supposed to do if it’s rejected by the west because of their desire to be independent and in favor of multipolarity, supporting the declared enemies of the “policemen of the world” ? Iran wouldn’t be considered authoritarian if it was zionist.
What matters here is that there are solutions for each problem, we have a strong tendency to consider our opponents crazy/incomprehensible, without explaining/justifying in order to seek a national unity.
Now we’re censoring people for their opinions even more than before, it comes from the state and not platforms, with jail time and fees, but since we’re not killing people for posting unapproved opinions it could be worse. JD Vance was right to criticize the censorship wave of these last years in Europe(, and the US as well in a lesser measure), liberty is our only answer for a lack of egality 🤷(, in some forms, « poverty is slavery » though)

I love your optimism :)
Each time that i realize we’re being lied to and it’s so obvious(, currently about the threat towards Hamas to free all hostages, e.g.), i can’t help but believe that people will be forced to open their eyes on the lies/manipulation/disinformation we’re being fed to.
And we’re supposed to believe that the u.s. is attacking South Africa for reasons unrelated to their support of Palestine, etc.
The only reason that a lot of people in my entourage are criticizing Israel is because our medias criticized it first.
The u.s. were doing worse in the 50s-70s i.m.o.(, i’m currently reading pope Francis’ autobiography, a very very good book, but when he mentions the argentinian dictatorship, with its many horrors, there’s no accusation towards the u.s. and the Operation Condor, even if i can understand the need to stay diplomatic, he does say that the communists stole the role of the Church by taking the poors under their wings as well, etc., i’d prefer if it didn’t happen again, a lot of respectable capitalists become crazy p.o.s. when they’re confronted to bleeding heart communists). Even if the u.s. destroyed everything and killed billions of people they’d still be “our side”. At best you just change the figurehead and everything continues, you probably already agree with what i’m saying, i’m just venting 🤷
So many people have great solutions but are ignored, we’re clearly not doing our best.
Revolution.

Or, as i said in the selftext and elsewhere, we could encourage the oligarchic announced failure of the west as long as they agree to be in the impossibility to force non-western countries to follow them, even under the pretext of human rights, e.g. with a world army and an effective world tribunal, that’d be a start.
We(sterners) would be free to follow our path, and others as well. None would be able to exert or fear an unwanted foreign influence.
Communists would be encouraged to leave this capitalist hellhole that will transform into fascism if there’s too much internal dissent, or into the distinction nobles//peasants if there’s not(, and there’s also the replacement of laborers by robots), and join socialist states that wouldn’t need to spend anything in an army since the world army would make wars impossible.
We’d keep capitalist failures to teach us of what we may have become, and ideologies would spread peacefully through the desirable success of our example, and more slowly, there would be a lot of things to test and details to fill, but we’re not even trying to find a way to live peacefully together, it’s hegemony/uniformity all the way

One day he’s criticized for saying that Hitler was a communist, the other for apparently assuming his love of nazis.
There’s an old series of books by Terry Goodkind that i’ve read as a child, named the Sword of Truth, each book has a wizard’s rule, and here’s the first one :

People are stupid. They believe things mainly because they either want them to be true or fear them to be true.

I’m not particularly fond of these books nor do i agree with this rule, but if you’re political then you’re judging real political actions, such as enacted laws, like adults do, or you’re eventually discussing assumed theories, but not unfair little excerpts regretted afterwards by the one who did them, and we can hopefully both agree that we should not explain our worldview or vote based on the latter, its ‘just for fun’/‘not serious’.
At least most journalists know that it’s only about influencing his future decisions, but you don’t if you believe it was ‘a coming out’/‘something to be discussed seriously’.
That’s just my two cents, thanks for reading my insults towards ~you, and let’s continue not changing.

conspiracy theorists taking us for idiots, nothing new(, even if you’re taking it quite farther than usual).

On the side of real stuff happening : D.Trump said a lot in his inauguration speech, and just put Cuba back on the terrorist states list, as well as signing over twenty executive orders, etc. Seems worth more discussion than your fantasies.

Just unfortunate that, like for D.Trump, you’re too used to discussing the form instead of the content, we’re worth more than selected/biased excerpts.