long press the image…

It doesn’t do that for me. It only brings up the menu upon clicking the three dots on the right.

I think buttons would fly in the face of the minimalist aesthetic of the app.

I think my suggestion would only make it more minimalistic.

I don’t think I am explaining it right.

The current image lightbox has four buttons at the bottom - (Upvote), (comments), (share), and (menu)

My suggestion is to replace the (upvote) & (comment) buttons with a wide (download) button. Comments can still be opened with a slide up gesture and there are multiple places to upvote.

(Personal assumption) I think people rarely use the comment button and the upvote button in the lightbox itself.

You are right, it’s true everywhere. It’s human nature to be wary of people you don’t understand. But, for some things, you’d expect countries that are a lot further ahead in progressivism to be “nicer”, especially since, you know, they industrialised and became richer on the backs of poorer countries.

Though I suppose that’s very difficult to quantitatively measure exactly - how progressive someone is (on the scale of a country). How more accepting they are than other countries.

But there’s also room for letting people air out their issues without being told that “everyone is like this, stop whining”. That’s literally what the Russian goverment does, they implicitly tell their populace that democracy doesn’t work and that this is the best deal they’ll ever get.

A lot of Americans support Trump or have no willingness to do anything about his facism.

A lot of Germans support Afd.

A lot of french support le pen.

A lot of British folks support reform and Tommy robinson.

So, do all the people from these countries also not deserve any sympathy? You know the ones who can’t do anything about who rules over them? Because they are too busy bogged down in trying to make a living?

Do nothing

How do you expect the regular russian to rise up against putin when they can barely can provide anything for their family? But also, When their only source of truth has been the state media, ofcourse it’s brainwashing.

Americans are not doing anything about the horrific things trump is doing and is that okay? Should we start calling Americans burger pigs and paint them all as racist caricatures of fat blonde pigs?

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At least don’t dehumanise the Russians. There are plenty who hate what’s happening and have died to free their country.

Poor person gets brainwashed, coerced and joins military to earn money.

“Haha, orc!!! They all deserve to die a pigs death!!”

That was a parody of minority report. You should check it out if you haven’t.

Also if you are into anime, you should check out psychopass which covers a similar theme.

All libertarians care about is how they can make money and benefit from a situation.

They don’t care others are getting fucked as long as they can have their tea.

They don’t actually want a free market, they want a market where they can burrow their tendrils deep into society and suck off as much as they can.

My dreams have been shattered.

Fuck. This is true. There are no dream jobs.

Saturday Morning cartoons, super heros and stuff.