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alcoholicorn ,

Police vs brownshirts, whoever loses, we win.

alcoholicorn ,

There’s a difference between a few humans throwing some rocks at something’s head and poking it with a sharp stick and what chimps do.

alcoholicorn ,

In scale? Yes. In brutality? Go look up chimp attacks.

alcoholicorn ,

I legitimately don’t know if it being such a giant waste of time and money was intentional.

If the purpose was to bring aid to the Palestinians, they’d just open the border crossing.

Rather, everything we see is consistent trying to create the appearance of doing something to help, but making sure you don’t actually affect the famine.

alcoholicorn ,

if the DNC can’t find a good candidate that can beat Trump

Hell if they don’t just tell Biden what he needs to do to win. They must be collecting data that tells them how wildly unpopular Biden’s actions are among the people they need to vote.

alcoholicorn , (edited )

The problem with news about North Korea is that tabloids and defectors can literally just make shit up and it will be republished uncritically by “respectable” news sources so you have no way to judge its credibility.

Or maybe it’s all true, and to get between cities, north koreans have to pull the train to the next city. Which is actually a fake city, surrounded by fake farms, attended by fake farmers. Then they steal hollywood movies and are immediately executed by anti-aircraft gun for watching western media.

alcoholicorn ,

Do you have a rental storage place around you that offers 10 dollars a month intro pricing? You can just leave your garbage there. Pay one month, cash, and never come back.

alcoholicorn ,

How so?

I’m sure they have a rule against filling it with perishable food, but those are composable anyway.

alcoholicorn ,

You’re not dumping it, you’re storing it. After non-payment, they’ll auction it off to someone and they’ll dump it.

alcoholicorn ,

Those are more like your eyes adjusting to brightness/darkness. You’re not tricking yourself into thinking the alcohol taste or coffee bitterness are good, you’re desensitizing yourself to them, which lets you sense other flavors.

Sometimes there’s no other strong flavors so you get “Huh, this cold brew concentrate tastes like water, I didn’t even add ice, try it” “wtf that is so bitter!!”

alcoholicorn ,

War is bad.

Every day we extend this war, more and more people die, statistically mostly civilians. While we are spending billions on bombs, China spends billions on healthcare, education, and infrastructure.

And for what? So that the part of Ukraine that was trying to secede during the civil war has to stay? Because Russia is going to start a war with NATO after spending a hundred thousand lives trying and failing to avoid having most of its population and industry a few hundred miles from a hostile NATO member?

This is in nobody’s interest except the shareholders of weapons manufacturers.

alcoholicorn ,

What of the Russian-speaking population who was still in revolt before the invasion? You know the civil war and all that?

alcoholicorn ,

general Sherman

I’m not gonna look towards the guy who spent most of his career massacring indigenous people to figure out who deserves what.

zero NATO casualties, half million Russian killed

As thrilled as you are to fight Putin to the very last drop of Ukrainian blood, you have to understand this is sociopathic right?

so until someone pops him there won’t be peace

It’s unlikely that would affect the Russian war effort. I’m no expert in Russian politics, but I do cursory research and I’m not aware of any person or party waiting in the wings to take power that would support unilateral withdrawal from the lands its held for like 2 years.

alcoholicorn ,

their neighbours wouldn’t have had the motivation to join NATO

Joining NATO is not a defensive move, every single war its fought has been offensive in nature, and to quote Anthony Blinken “You’re either at the table or you’re on the menu”

alcoholicorn ,

For the people in Ukraine, this protracted war is the absolute worst possible outcome. Ukraine will never be a safe country again in either of our lifetimes. The state has had to privatize and sell off public assets like the power grid and take out massive loans. Ukraine will never be a prosperous country again in either of our lifetimes.

As far as black and white conflicts go, there’s a country currently dropping 2000 lb bombs on a tent-city of mostly children, that formed from refugees of it’s earlier bombing campaign, who are mostly refugees of even earlier ethnic cleansing campaigns.

alcoholicorn ,

History didn’t start in 2022.

There’s been a civil war since shortly after the 2014.

Zelensky was elected as the peace candidate, but was unable to get the right-wing militias that had been inducted into the reformed state’s army to stop shelling eastern Ukraine, which Putin used as part of his justification to invade. There were also some nasty laws passed, such as banning Russian from being used in schools.

I don’t believe Putin genuinely thinks an invasion is helping the Russian-speaking people of eastern Ukraine, rather I think that’s a pretense to address an existential security concern, having NATO-backed right-wing militias within reach of most of Russia’s population and industry.

alcoholicorn ,

en.wikipedia.org/…/2014_pro-Russian_unrest_in_Ukr…

This escalated into open civil war with Russia supporting one side and the US supporting the other until the invasion: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Donbas

They were fighting right until the day of the election. Zelensky was elected on a platform of ending the fighting, and he ordered them to do so, but the units refused to stand down.

alcoholicorn ,

It absolutely is not. Nothing Russia could possibly impose on the people is worse than an entire generation of men lost to the meat grinder and the poverty that follows this kind of economic damage. A quick loss would have a million more Ukrainians living in their homes today instead of displaced throughout the world, and a hundred thousand still alive.

alcoholicorn ,

Do you honestly not know that most of eastern Ukraine speaks Russian? Like this is an easily verifiable fact you can just google.

alcoholicorn ,

Peacekeeping? Libya had the highest HDI of Africa before NATO’s “peace keeping”. But it’s hard to separate the blame of NATO and just America for arming the factions. Same with the balkins.

alcoholicorn ,

True, from the vitriol I’ve seen directed at Russians living in former Ukrainian territories, it’d genuinely be a toss-up whether they’d go with the guys who invaded and occupied them or the ones who passed anti-russian laws and have banderites talking about ethnically cleansing them in parliament.

There’s really no good outcome for anyone involved, and a longer war makes all of them worse.

alcoholicorn ,

You have a cartoonish understanding of the world.

alcoholicorn ,

When you do the math of “Half a million dead Russians, and it didn’t cost us a single life”, you betray that Ukrainian lives literally do not matter to you and that you consider dead Russians a good thing.

if the majority of Ukrainians actually would prefer Russian rule they’d just stop fighting

That would require the Ukrainian government represents the interests of the majority of people in Ukraine. There’s only a handful of governments whose actions are consistently in the interest of and supported by its people. None of them are in eastern Europe.

alcoholicorn ,

If Russia has legitimate reasons, why are all the reasons they give for their actions always a bunch of lies?

I’m not saying the invasion was legitimate or justified, those concepts don’t even factor into state actors. I’m explaining the things that motivated it.

If they have the truth on their side, why not tell the truth?

They’ve said over and over that it was over the failure to enforce the Minsk II agreement. But lies are convenient and animating so you get both. Same reason the US media pretended that Iraq had chemical weapons and was involved in 9/11. The populace probably would have been happy to go to war without those reasons, but it makes it easier and increases domestic support for the ruling party.

alcoholicorn ,

Both parties agreeing to peace as soon as possible would be ideal, but we only need one party to stop this war. I don’t speak Russian and my country is not enabling Russia to continue the war, it’s enabling Ukraine to continue the war.

But if I did have psychic powers and could tell Putin what to do, I’d tell him to sue for immediate peace, ideally with the occupied regions having internationally monitored referendums on whether to join Ukraine vs Russia, but ending this phase of the conflict and moving on to the decades of militia violence and terrorism ahead would be worth even giving up that.

alcoholicorn ,

Correct, it would be absurd to apply that analysis to all states everywhere forever without any examination of the history or nuance.

alcoholicorn ,

You’d happily allow things to degenerate into a decades-long insurgency

We’re getting a decades long insurgency whether Russia or Ukraine controls the region. There was an insurgency before the war, and there’s sure as hell gonna be one now. Ending the war is the only way we can slow the rate things are getting worse for the people there.

As far as which insurgents, that’s much more complicated, you can’t just say all insurgent factions are good or bad.

alcoholicorn ,

How decent can you be while supporting more bloodshed and immiseration?

alcoholicorn ,

The victims are the people. Every day this war goes on means more victims. The only reason I examine Russia’s reasoning is to predict future behavior, moral judgements on Russia or Putin’s character have nothing to do with this since the only moral action is what benefits the people.

alcoholicorn ,

The alternative is what? Putin just hates the Russian and Ukrainian people so much he decided to create a humanitarian disaster? That he wanted the wealth and productivity of land that currently looks like a WWI battlefield?

Lets be realistic. Putin is an agent of Russia’s national bourgeoisie, he wouldn’t have power if he didn’t offer anticommunism and stability for the oligarchs he depends on.

alcoholicorn ,

I don’t live in Russia, my country is not supporting Russia. From where I am, opposing Russia is equivalent to supporting escalation.

If I did live in Russia, I’d be focusing my energy on Russia. If I was in Russia, opposing Ukraine would be equivalent to supporting escalation.

alcoholicorn ,

Even if it left Ukraine alone, Ukraine would still fight to the end.

Except they were engaging in serious peace talks back in March of 2022.

We could have had this same peace 2 years ago, and avoided so much needless destruction.

alcoholicorn ,

Sorry, try the “bypass paywalls clean” plugin.

alcoholicorn ,

It’s Foreign Affairs, literally a state-department mouthpiece, you have to read between the lines and understand the way they use emphasis and conjecture to manipulate the narrative.

The atomic unit of propaganda isn’t lies, it’s emphasis.

alcoholicorn ,

I didn’t say anything about believing Putin, I wouldn’t trust him as far as I can throw him. My point is that you have to read any media critically and understand how they are trying to twist the facts. I chose a state department-aligned source so you wouldn’t disregard it out of hand.

The fact is that Russia offered a peace deal that would have ended the war with Russia even giving back much of the territory it had taken 2 years ago, Zelensky pulled out of the peace talks when he had guarantees of unlimited support. The writer’s bias of course, makes them suggest that actually Russia didn’t really want Ukraine to accept the peace deal.

alcoholicorn ,

Sadly the people enabling Putin doesn’t care what either of us think. The people enabling Zelensky might. Opposing only the other side in a war is the same as supporting the war.

I’m not making moral judgements, if justice were served, both Putin and Zelensky and every other representative of capital would be devoured by the workers who choose between rent, medicine, and food. I’m looking for the closest avenue for ending the war that anyone who pretends to represent me can effect.

For me, an American, that means not sending weapons so they have to agree to peace.

alcoholicorn ,

What am I looking at?

alcoholicorn ,

Temporary visas… So what happens when those visas run out? Israel certainly won’t let them back in.

alcoholicorn ,

OK, so what are you gonna do to make things right?

alcoholicorn , (edited )

That wasn’t it, Cloudflare didn’t like the way the casino was using Cloudflare’s IPs, since they were getting banned in multiple countries.

Cloudflare only offers byoIP as part of a business package, and that comes with extortionate pricing.

alcoholicorn ,

You wanna know how credible any media is? Look at the receipts.

Where did they stand on Libya? Iraq? Afghanistan? Kosovo/Yugoslavia? Iraq the first time? Panama?

If the closest thing to criticism they did when it mattered was “maybe it could be done more competently”, they’re only free in the sense that they’re publishing what the state department wants for free.

alcoholicorn ,

Of course this didn’t pan out. 2-3 huge tech companies rushed onto the market with somewhat crappy products just to own the patents so smaller companies couldn’t innovate. When they weren’t immediately profitable they started cutting back and shutting down.

The way advanced capitalism can’t even grow a product before trying to strangle it for every last penny is all that saves us from special Black Mirror levels of hell.

alcoholicorn ,

I’m certain I saw something about someone getting 10+ years for burning police cars back in 2020, but I can’t find it.

I could be misremembering and it was just the prosecutor asking for it, or google could just be complete shit now.

alcoholicorn ,

Who is burning an unoccupied car violent towards?

alcoholicorn ,

The point is that it has predictable behavior.

You can look at every military action the US has taken since WWII to see the same behavior.

I am not excusing the US’s behavior, I’m just saying it’s wild that he could look at Bagram and the black sites or the weddings, hospitals, and ambulances the Americans bombed, and not see the only difference between him and the other victims is that he is currently useful.

alcoholicorn ,

We got our own problems, but they are our problems.

Don’t worry, we’re getting ready to give you problems so big you’ll forget you ever had any problems.

How about you mind your fucking business and just leave us the fuck alone.

[laughs in American]

alcoholicorn , (edited )

You should be, look at literally every place we’ve “supported”. Yall are gonna look like Ukraine or Iraq or Libya or Yugoslavia or Somalia if Raytheon and it’s politicians get their way again. They’d love nothing more than to fight the PRC to the last drop of Taiwanese blood.

alcoholicorn ,

Wanna know who doesn’t get these new chips once Taiwan is in China’s hands

Everybody. Our own war games show we won’t be able to hold Taiwan, unless we focused our entire military on that singular task and had future technology that doesn’t actually exist, so we can assume they’d destroy TSMC to deny it to the enemy.

I would be surprised if even those wargames weren’t wildly optimistic about readiness of reserve equipment, when we mobilized some marine divisions for Iraq, parts of aircraft that wasn’t supposed to fail over the life of the aircraft and were no longer manufactured were failing.

Ukraine is just a buffer from Russia.

Ukraine is a bleeder; the US will continue to provide weapons and training to right-wing elements in Ukraine long after the Ukraine government loses its appetite for war. That was the strategy with Afghanistan in the 80s, and Russia can’t retreat from this one since it’s right on their border.

My point is that a status quo where reunification remains some time in the distant future forever is infinitely better for you guys than what war would entail.

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