Jeez, I thought I took Lemmy too seriously.

Yeah this looks super unstable in the long run, and they look vulnerable to heat / heavy rain in a way that will interfere with their life expectancy even if they stay in place on the roof.

Maybe it's temporary, or maybe I'm wrong and she knows what she is doing. Maybe the cords that are laid along the roof are anchoring the whole thing in place somehow. Maybe that little balcony below is already chocked up full with plants, and she's putting the surplus up here and staying alive is their problem.

I'll happily advocate for the Palestinians' rights to kill as many of the IDF as they can manage. It won't solve their problems, but they've got every right to do it, and nothing else that I can see will solve any of their problems other than better leadership in the US.

I think you've probably understood me pretty well, what you decide about me is up to you just like it is for everyone else.

Don't go to lemmy.world, it's a silly place, for this among some other reasons.

The whole thing of treating people who are victims of drug addictions within the same system that's designed for people who are robbing houses or whatever, is fucked.

Of course, the ability to criminalize random people especially if they are members of the underclass is a feature, not a bug.

You're betting that they would be unwilling to block .world in a way that they would be willing to block lemvotes... hm, you might be right. IDK, I'm just not sure it is all worth that much bothering about. That kind of tit for tat of blocking/defederating and then making new stuff to get around the blocking, to try to force somebody to share information they're trying not to, is just kind of silly I think. Better to just address it by talking it out and being reasonable as opposed to having dueling software systems trying to enforce one person's will on another person's system. But, IDK, good luck getting a reasonable and productive response out of either lemmy.ml or lemmy.world admin teams...

It's not really necessary; 100% of what you need gets federated out to anyone who asks for it, so it's pretty easy to just set up a little instance for yourself and then do whatever data mining you want to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BBrDhgGz1k if you are interested

I am well aware that you're "just asking questions," ho ho, but this question actually does have a specific and interesting answer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svoboda_(political_party)

The TL;DR is this: The closest thing Ukraine has to a neo-Nazi party, which is honestly pretty close to one, had some pretty strong legitimate support before the 2014 revolution. Basically, "anyone but Russia" was the thinking of a lot of people, and Svoboda showed a willingness to do things like get in fistfights with pro-Russian politicians which got them some credibility and support. Basically, the same type of faux-populist "back to greatness, we'll fight for you" appeal that Trump was able to ride in the US, and it did legitimately work. They got 10% of the vote in 2012, and they won majorities in some places.

In the aftermath of 2014, once there were populist candidates who were not eager Putin's-knob-slobberers available (and, also, when their Nazi tendencies were starting to become a lot more obvious), their support cratered like a poorly designed submersible. In the 2019 elections, they Voltroned up with all the other fascist parties, hoping to merge support and at least meet the 5% threshold to keep some kind of representation in government, the aggregated blob still just got 2%, surely only that high because it really wasn't that long ago when they were seen as a legitimate and helpful party.

TL;DRTL;DR: If Russian wanted to denazify Ukraine, they could have just done another Euromaidan, that was by far the most effective denazification event that has happened for decades in Ukraine.

My mental stability or lack thereof has nothing to do with you offering up made-up nonsense to try to prove your points

.ml has a persistent myth that it's all lemmy.world that is "against them" and dislikes the Russian government. It's part of their attempt to pretend they are the majority. By implication, every other Lemmy instance is neutral, apparently, except "the liberal instances" (which turns out to be basically all of them).

I'm sure the downvotes are from off-instance brigaders, if you want to call it that. I have no idea why they would be centralized to lemmy.world, and I doubt they are.

I think lemmy.ml defederated from them.

Every other site more or less doesn't care. Your Lemmy votes are not private. But, lemmy.ml as always cares deeply about controlling the narrative, and talking about who is voting and how and how often particular .ml users feature in the voting patterns, disrupts their ability to pretend that they're standing up for normalcy and a handful of isolated "liberal" instances are the weird ones who love censorship.

The story at present has 9 upvotes, 12 downvotes. The OP posted:

If any salty Nazi cheerleaders want to complain that this isn’t a news source, you’re wrong. This is an active military correspondent’s blog giving a timeline for events which are not debatable. Better luck next time.

… which has 4 upvotes and 1 downvote.

I would bet money that one or two of the upvotes on it are from the .ml moderation/admin team.