It’s a much better and feature rich platform for both users and moderators. Piefed is definitely a lot more than a “Threadiverse client where the developers happen to not be tankies.”

User facing features:

• Multi community post comment aggregation
• User reputation system
• More granular and sophisticated user-controlled blocking and mute system

Mod/curator features

• Scheduled posting (really helpful to avoid posting ~3 links within 15 min in a community)

The developers are also a lot more responsive and proactive. I’ve had several minor features implemented following requests.

“fucking pathetic pussy bitch coward” seems like a very fitting description for Elmo.

Corrupt GLP-1 addicted motherfuckers!

I used to always defend the US (even before 2014) on pragmatic grounds and due to the history of the 20th century. Americans tend to be slow, but they eventually do the right thing. They’ve done a lot of bad, but unlike russia and China they’ve also had genuine successes in their foreign policy such as promoting long-term democracy and freedom in Germany, Japan, Poland, the Baltic nations.

After they recognize russia’s annextion of Crimea, Lugansk and Donetsk oblasts, they are de facto on par with Nicaragua, Cuba or North Korea as far as I am concerned.

And this is not merely a matter of far right Americans, the American centre-right (both party elites and the vast majority of their supporters, albeit not all) is very much responsible too. Vast majority of centre-right Americans (I’ve lived there for several, and I have close centre-right friends) are too well off to support true anti-corruption measures, the type that would take down many of the oligarchs that are the nexus of chauvinistic propaganda and corruption that enabled Trump. One example from my time in the US was Obama deciding to completely avoid any anti-crime measures in the financial industry in 2008 (a unique, historical opportunity).

Support for russian genocidal imperialism shouldn’t be an issue?

I used to live in the US and I have good friends in both centre-right and far right camps.

The far right ones will come to their senses, I know it, they are not bad people (and they weren’t far right before) and eventually things will get to a point where they’ll find it impossible to back the current US oligarch regime.

But in the meantime, I have to say it is very annoying to keep hearing “I don’t like/support that Trump did [X], but …”.

No one in Ukraine trusts the Americans on security guarantees. America as it stands today is cowardly and comically corrupt.

Fuck Trump, and (unfortunately) fuck America too!

Let them get eaten alive by their oligarchs. Eventually their acceptance of corruption will get to the average American as well (but it will be too late by then).

And yet there is no EU-wide program to monitor and catch supporters of russian genocidal imperialism.

Thank you!

The Ukrainian response to the little green men in the donbas supported this narrative.

This is where you show lack your of knowledge.

There is public information around both O’ bummer, the magical black man, and Frau Ribbentrop that strongly suggests things didn’t really work out as you describe.

And what you say doesn’t address the refusal to provide serious weaponry in 2022.

Respect to Kasparov. There is a reason russians (including the allegedly “liberal” russian “opposition”) hate him!

This is a bit of an idealistic take that arguably doesn’t reflect reality.

A russian invasion would initially be small in the Baltic nations and follow a more expansionary route after that. Beyond direct military action, the overall approach would focus on exploiting corruption, complacency and cowardice [*] in Europe and the US.

There is a solid chance that the Americans will exit. Their culture as it stands today is focused on business ventures, nihilism and corruption. A significant portion of Americans are too ignorant to contemplate geopolitical realities (even if it will affect them in the long term) and their civil society and professional administrative corps have been debased by years of corruption. How did the wunderkind, the magical black man of the American centre right, Barack Obama react to the annexation of Crimea? I believe it was something along the lines of “a small regional conflict of no real importance”.

Hungary is de facto a russian satellite in the vein of Warsaw pact (but with a focus on corruption, plausible deniability and triangulation). Slovakia, Czechia and Austria have a large proportion of supporters of russian genocidal imperialism.

Germany would sell out the Baltics, no question. We’ve seen this attitude with Schroder and Merkel. You could probably bribe Schroder to support anything with some cultural acceptability. Merkel is a committed supporter of russian genocidal imperialism. Even from retirement she is pushing russian narratives about how the full scale invasion is the fault of the Baltic nations and Poland.

The Balts, the Scandinavians and the Poles would likely be willing to fight though. But their military alone is unlikely to be able to implement the scenario that you described. The approach used to take down the drone incursion in Poland suggests that they are not really ready (and the russians are).

[*] When I say cowardice, I don’t mean in a polemical way (Hollywood movies, Saving Private Ryan), but in a practical manner. E.g. Refusal to arm Ukraine after 2014. Refusal to provide long range strike capability in the first 3 years of the full scale invasion. Scholz being afraid of sending tanks (!!!) to Ukraine. Real world issues, not only a person willing to fight.

Europe as it stands today would find it extremely hard to push back the russians if the Americans exit (which I think will).

I don’t understand the fascination with the US oligarchy’s involvement with Epstein.

Many details were public knowledge already, it doesn’t seem that the US public cares.

Almost seems like a desperate coping measure.

Not surprising to see you using a liberartarian instance.

Horrible news. The solution is to drop American services (and to a lesser extent products).

America is a profoundly corrupt society where both the far right and centre-right largely support corruption and criminality (do you think anything will be done to Facebook leadership for knowingly gaining $16 B is commissions for fraud in a single year alone? Of course not!).

You can’t let a criminal group dictate ethics for you.

A federal bankruptcy judge said on Friday he will approve a restructuring plan for drugmaker Purdue Pharma that includes a $7.4 billion settlement resolving claims that it fueled the U.S. opioid epidemic through the sale of addictive pain medications like OxyContin.

US is comically corrupt. What fucking settlement? This is a drug cartel just with styling of the American elite (i.e not like Sinaloa or CJNG).

Thankfully there is a modicum of realization that America freedom posturing polemics are stupid and they don’t hold weight outside of propaganda throughout.

This article provides a summary of the arguements against BBC’s approach to covering the US election.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/06/read-devastating-internal-bbc-memo-in-full/#the-us-electionundefined

There were some fair points, but I didn’t find their overall arguments convincing. Neutral reporting (and not getting overly hanged up on the polemics of a given side) is important, but facts are also important.

I did find the overall arguments around the critique of BBC Arabic’s approach to Hamas more convincing even though I didn’t agree with everything they said (note, I haven’t actually ever seen BBC Arabic as I don’t speak Arabic).

Mr Prescott, who until June 2025 was an independent adviser to the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines and Standards Board, also highlights serious problems with BBC Arabic’s reporting on Gaza, in which it apparently gives extensive space to the views of Hamas.

I was curious what this meant, so I read the relevant section and while some of the arguments seem suspect, there were definitely massive red flags with the policies of BBC Arabic.

Haven’t read the US election part yet, but the points raised in the intro don’t sound coherent.

EDIT: The US election part is a lot less convincing. They should have explicitly stated that they are combining two separate sections from the speech, but the argument seems more like a technicality. Some other minor points were fair, but there were a lot of incoherent arguments. One example.

The BBC sometimes fell into using, without attribution, contested language such as “reproductive rights”. This signals to many BBC viewers, particularly those in America, a biased mindset.

Reproductive rights isn’t a contested term.

Jack Dorsey/Vine? So this is an American company.

I am sorry, but I strongly disagree.

It is a fact that 1/3 of the US voted for him (after seeing what he is like), another third doesn’t care (so they have a measure of responsibility too) and the final third might not have voted for Trump, but a large portion of them are simply too well off (and therefore risk averse) to have addressed the causes of Trump’s rise; broad tolerance of corruption and criminality in US society.

I didn’t say every single American supports Trump or that they voted for him.

That being said, I don’t believe Trump is a magician and that Americans are idiots, who got enamoured by his powerful rhetoric.