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  • The sacrifice and courage of Soviet soldiers in the face of Nazi aggression is profound and worthy of admiration, yes.

    Should be noted that Stalin was a Hitler-enabler and early ally, or at least subtle collaborator, leading up to the onset of the war. The western democracies should have done a better job of building a coalition with Stalin in the thirties, but failed, hoping appeasement and hand-wringing would do the trick instead.

    Soviet soldiers also invaded Finland around that time and were complete assholes there, even if they did get their asses handed to them by a numerically-inferior, but fierce fighting source. It’s sad that most of the slaughter was inflicted upon Ukrainian conscripts who probably didn’t actually give a shit about annexing Finland.


















  • By having voting day be just one fucking day is already a clear sign the system is stacked against them. Like, what if someone is sick that day and cannot physically get to a polling station? Car broken down? Experiencing the literal birth day of a child. Why not have it be voting week? Voting month? Some kind of available time period that’s more than a single fucking day’s worth of daylight.

    Also, the fact that so many jurisdictions have zero interest in alternative, scientifically-proven more democratic, voting methods, like ranked choice or ranked preference or whatever it’s called, and stubbornly stick with the easily-manupulated first past the post method is incredibly telling how rigged against the people the US “democracy” (or republic or whatever symanticism people there prefer) is.