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Most likely not.

However, a lot of people here and there have been reporting that they've cancelled their Disney subscriptions. They saw that the trend is not showing signs of ending and had to make it end. Get Kimmel back and customers will stop leaking away.

The Russia started actively supporting neo-nazistic organizations in ex-USSR countries around year 2005. That was documented back and there were news articles about that. For example in Ukraine that caused the prevalence of a nazi problem to increase steadily year after all the way until 2014 when that development got cut and the prevalence started decreasing.

Back then, 20 years ago, when there was more media attention about it, it was done only in ex-USSR countries, but it would be weird if the same concept hadn't been extended to EU countries as well. Why wouldn't it have been? It has worked extremely well for Putin in the original area, and there's no reason to assume it wouldn't work for him the same way within EU countries as well.

At least we should.

But, if we are playing that, then at 2 % of the intensity required. There's a LOT we could do.
One thing I keep saying is that where Russians can still obtain EU visas, they should have to fill a short questionnaire about current events in the Russia and its war against Ukraine.

Something, where they'd have to know the basics of who has attacked whom and when, and also what has been happening at the front in the last 4 weeks.
In order to know which correct answers to learn by heart. they would quickly develop a network of delivering that information to everyone who needs it for applying a visa. That network could be used for getting reliable information about the situation in the Russia without the information having been tainted by Kremlin.

For most of the people applying for visas, that would be just "so, this is what they want to hear, so this is what I will tell them. I know it's not reality, but I don't care. That's the correct words for them and I'll get to visit something else than this shithole."
But here and there, some people would figure out how much the Russian TV has been lying to them. And at the same time, the same sources of information that exist for visa applicants could be used by anyone who wants reliable information. That would sow the seed of a revolution.

That would be super useful for spreading awareness in the Russia! And basically from Kremlin's playbook.

It might not explode!

Maybe @jsonarray@utter.online can say? :)
(Though, I'm not sure if they read their Mastodon anymore. But maybe yes?)

If the Russia says there were two dead, there were at least 4 in reality. If it says there were 15 injured, there have been 60 injured.

I know. They'd exist anyway, but the scale is because of the Russia. They firstly give a lot of funding, secondly they do a lot of work to shape the discussions in the Internet. They put some "opinion" into the wild, then let local people do the talking. They only need to bootstrap the discussion, after which it will continue on its own weight without much need for further influence by the troll factory.

This is a ridiculous article. In practical terms, our current government has been slashing as much climate work as it has been able to do.

And Petteri Orpo is anyway a person who never makes any decisions. He always yields to all other ministers in all matters. Funny seeing the photo of him as if he was a person of power. He's very purely a figurehead only.

Yes there is. There is no other police force than the national police. And they do choose what to enforce.

Not in Finland. Here the idea is that such inpectors cost money, and you don't want to waste money.
They also refuse to hire more parking wardens because those would cost money – even if in the end there would be more money in the city's coffers than before hiring them.

They can make a rule, but absolutely nobody will enforce it.

But a huge amount of autists also have ADHD. And vice versa.

Still, I agree this would better fit in an ADHD community. Because, those autists who have ADHD... Well, they have ADHD. And they can be reached in a community for ADHD people, not only here.

The only thing this petition can achieve is maybe getting a few people to move their donations to projects such as PieFed.

Beside that... Well, Nutomic and Dessalines are the two people who decide on how to act regarding this petition – if they should remove themselves or not. I find it unlikely that they will look at the finished petition and go "oh, people want us gone. Okay, we'll do that".

But yeah: Do not give money to Lemmy. There are other projects that are compatible with Lemmy and have use for your money as well, without being assholes :)