I mean, it is literally a defensive alliance if only because if one country is attacked, the others are legally obliged to treat it as an attack on them. It is then also an alliance of Imperial core countries (it was after all, founded in response to the Warsaw Pact).

It is indeed worth mentioning, but I don't think it's worth framing it as some sort of public promise that was walked back.

Like, I think people are upset about blocking the piracy communities, sure, but I think that the real issue is that it feels like everyone is just vibing, doing their thing on their lemmy instances, then this troll comes in all fake concerned about breaking rules, gets utterly piled on naturally, only for the admins in question to come in and "side" with the "loser" in people's eyes.

I think that many people identify as pro life are simply ignorant, so if I want to change that, I'm not gonna get very far by calling them anti-choice because they'll immediately shift into the defensive.

Really no one should be shocked that an informal promise wasn't honored. If a legally binding treaty can still be ignored by a sovereign power, informal promises are always worthless and no one should be pointing to them and going "but they promised!"

Not the people I'm talking about. Far more people hold partially formed, vague opinions about these things than believe in the Christian rights view entirely.

Then you should be encouraged, every time it's been on the ballot, abortion has been protected or expanded since roe was struck down. Just last week, Ohio voted down an amendment meant to make it harder for a pro-choice amendment legalizing abortion this November, which is also expected to pass. Politicians are acting in spite of voters.

This is a comment section, not a peer-reviewed journal, sir

I sympathise with instance admins without the ability to risk a court fight, but that doesn't mean there aren't those out there who would welcome such a challenge, and I don't think they should be pressured to cave if they're inclined not to.

Sure, but doesn't it suck that it doesn't matter what the law says? Do you think it'll ever change if everyone rolls over and isolates undesirable communities (think beyond piracy to other things like adult content, or content from marginalised groups)

I also just thought that, given how thoroughly downvoted that post and all its OP's comments were, it makes the Admins of Lemmy.world look like they've actively gone against popular opinion. Psychologically, mobs tend to dislike that appearance.

I do grasp writing, that is specifically why I asked this question, because the headline framing it as a loss is negative to people who aren't already supportive of climate action.

Why not "youth activists win climate change fight against montana?"