Swords are kinda interesting to experience.
Think how scared you'd be if someone confronted you with a butcher knife. Well swords are worse than butcher knives. Swords are blades designed to harm people (butcher knives are designed to cleave pork knuckles etc.)
One thing that's surprising the first time you experience it is how fast the sword moves. A small movement of the wrist that takes maybe 0.1 seconds makes the tip of the blade travel one metre.
U.N have occupied Haiti on multiple occasions
a few oligarchs
i never see them say explictly that israel is using US made weapons
https://www.972mag.com/daniel-levy-us-israel-gaza-democrats/
https://www.972mag.com/palestinian-children-american-weapons/
The article does say they're photography drones and the Israelis are weaponising them without Chinese consent.
You're making a controversy out of nothing.
I have a bit going with my kids where we come up with a new meaning for the acronym every time we see one. "It stands for Bring Your Dog", "It stands for Bully Your Dad" etc.
I love them all equally 
Americans will ban you from Lemmy if you do
I've had dinner with gangsters and murderers.
There's better criticisms of Pinker.
I don't like guilt by association.
I've been avoiding most internet because I have no temptation to hear the opinions of idiots.
Two people who aren't Ukrainian, don't speak Ukrainian, have never read a book about Ukraine trying to make their opinion on Ukraine win an argument? No thanks, not my choice of pastime.
Maybe I'm part of a trend? People have seen through the slapfights and are ready for something else?
I want to learn from experts, not tabloid comment-sections. e.g. this is good content - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhn3ssSH4nY - look at her CV, she has a right to speak.