As with many things, its complex. A couple reasons:

• Propaganda on social media uses immigration as a wedge issue to divide people. For example, the Kremlin wants to get people angry about immigration AND angry about people trying to stop immigration. "They're coming to eat your pets" and "anti-immigrant peoppe are all hateful racists"
• The planet is overpopulated. We're running out of land and resources, and that makes people worried and protective of their territory.

An advertisement for Old Spice, the most disgusting deoderant to ever assault human armpits and noses.

We also need to end road work while were at it. Enough is enough!!

How so? I've always just assumed that kind of extremely dense urban construction was better environmentally. One big system to manage HVAC, economies of scale when building it, tiny actual footprint relative to usable space, etc.

Lucky for us humanity excels at moderation and responsible use of technology, right?

... right?

Same, whatever the secret ingredient is, it's got it. Mesmerizing.

Everything there involves spending money

Almost all the good socialization has become commercialized. There's no town square anymore, it's turned into a Walmart.

The island is already unified, they very clearly reject the CCPs authoritarian, violent demands.

Fuck the CCP, Taiwan is a free country.

Intelligent people are leaving the church, so those left behind are leaning more and more on emotion to guide them. Since they're watching their religion slowly fall apart around them, the emotions guiding them are often related to fear.

Things are changing, they're losing power, losing relevance, and they're angry about it.

Killing Prigozhin definitely pissed off a lot of nationalist Russians

Good. Taiwan is a country. They have a military, they make their own laws, they have their own passports, and (unlike China) they elect their government leaders.

Russia kills 50 innocent people and it's barely even news anymore.

Yeah... OP is blind to the massive Kremlin and CCP propaganda problem here in the Fediverse.

Fuck China the CCP

I'd drink water until I was ready to explode, jump in that thing with an evil laugh and a wink, then emerge two days later as the world's most pee-drenched millionaire.

So tired of hearing about that shithead.

Mandatory classes for government workers isn't anything like a reeducation camp, and what Ukraine is doing isn't anything like what Russia is doing.

Are you spreading Kremlin propaganda on purpose?

Get ready kids, today we're going microscopic so the bus can slide up a butthole

Hard disagree. I'm already spending less time here because the Kremlin and CCP propaganda ruins the experience for me. I don't even consider recommending it to people I know for the same reason.

This man has no problem starting a full on civil war for his own fucking ego his partners in the Kremlin.

Germany has done a lot at this point. They should send the missiles, but calling them spineless cowards isn't justified at all.

"aww hell yeah look at those fuckin rocks yes"

$300,000,000 terrorist sub gone.

Exactly. If you look at the big picture, Israelis have killed WAY more Palestinians over the years, as well as apartheid and stealing Palestinian land.

I'm not taking sides, but the one sided coverage gross.

Was it lemmy.ml? They'll delete comments without notice, they have strict censorship in favor of the CCP.

When the zombies start taking over I'm grabbing wine and crackers and setting up my base in the Cheese Cave.

But actually isn't it pretty bad for their kidneys because of all the sodium?

So many people have cats and don't have this problem.

It's just works ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Good.

There are two wolves inside of you.

You need emergency surgery.

Overblown based on what? Seems to me most people aren't even aware it happened, and it was close enough that it likely determined the outcome.

Kremlin smear campaign designed to discourage celebrities from supporting Joe Biden's campaign since he's the key opponent of their asset: Donald Trump.

No exaggeration I need nap after reading that.

That's a $300,000,000 sub... well, it was.

You got my hopes up until I realized it's a joke

Bees aren't monsters.

Sure, being addicted to staring at a small screen in your hand means less physical activity and more heart disease. Also, the constant propaganda and focus on negative news can increase cortisol and blood pressure.

Your English is good.

Nothing to see here, just Russia attacking civilian ships in order to starve people.

Cats kill many billions of birds annually just for fun whether there are trees or not.