Soviet propaganda literally revolves around deflecting criticism of their evil behaviors with whataboutism with the US.

The point still stands that left wing authoritarians like Marxists and right wing authoritarians like Fascists tend to mirror each other in policy because there’s so much overlap with the authoritarianism.

Tankies literally can’t handle facts so they resort to toddler levels of denialism like this

No, we can say they were wrong because doing something like this is evil and tyrannical

For sharing a fact? You’re a “special” one, aren’t you?

You’re 100% correct, the people downvoting are dumb

You don’t even need to blackmail Trump, just offer a few million dollars and words of praise and that’s all you’ll need for a pardon.

The most depressing part is that she’ll get her release. She’ll find a way to bribe Trump, and he’ll give her a presidential pardon because he’s a whore. Then she’ll go back to what she was doing before and business will continue like usual for them because everybody will move on from it just like they did with the Panama papers before it and the Snowden leaking the NSA’s mass surveillance even further back. Accountability and justice are dead in this timeline.

I personally don’t care either way about the Japanese monarchy. The reality is that the monarchy today is purely symbolic and it’s only kept because the Japanese people want it to be there. Japanese culture is very big on traditions like this and I highly doubt that any attempts to change the line of succession is going to happen. Like with many things in Japan, there’s probably more interest in changing the line of succession outside of Japan than there is inside of it.

But France feels like an exception though. I wouldn’t say tourists are flocking to Albania or Austria to see the relics of their monarchies like people do with France.

There’s a real appeal behind having an active monarchy in place, even if it’s just symbolic. Take the UK as an example of this. One of the bigger draws to the country is that you get see all these monarchy related things places that are still occupied and used by a real royal family that has real historical depth and influence.

Languages are like tools, if people don’t see utility in them, they won’t use them. The only people who would go out of their way to learn and use a specific tool are experts and enthusiasts, and there aren’t enough of those around to keep a language alive. If much bigger languages like Yiddish, Romani, Bavarian, Assyrian, etc are classified as critically endangered and struggling to survive then these smaller languages simply have no future. I think efforts like this are good for preserving the language, and there’s definitely value in that, but I ultimately think that this is a doomed language.