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14 days agoSilver lining, the fact that the child of such a terrible person can turn out okay gives me some hope.
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I don’t think there’s much point in continuing this discussion. To a lot of the things you say I have no response other than “that is simply not true” and if we can’t agree on basic facts of reality then I don’t think any agreement is possible. To summarize my position: Russian allegations of genocide by Ukraine are baseless justification for revanchism about the fall of the USSR. Russian escalation of violence during the war has been wildly disproportionate to anything Ukraine has done. A lot of the specific accusations you list against Ukraine are simply false DARVO, with the potential exception of the inadvisable fighting positions around hospitals thing (Amnesty International published a very critical report on the subject, which I assumed you were aware of and thus I included three links from them in the hopes that you would take their opinions on Russian war crimes more seriously). I also don’t know what to say about the statement that Hamas is a moral military force other than to reiterate that it’s clear we’re not going to agree on this. Basically, I feel that you are reciting a lot of Russian propaganda and I fully expect that your response will be that I am reciting a lot of Western propaganda and I don’t see a reasonable way to reconcile these positions.
24·16 days agostated goal
Oh, great, we’re just accepting the stated goals of aggressors now? I guess I have to apologize for all the things I said about Israel and the US defending themselves from terrorists in Gaza and Iraq and definitely not doing genocide or trying to militarily secure access to oil. What a joke.
Cyprus
Is not a NATO member, and can’t be as long as the dispute with Turkey persists.
Leo2s
Arrived in small numbers in March 2023, after a year of fighting and months of begging. A far cry from the article’s lies about high-tech weapons in Ukraine from the beginning. A few dozen decent tanks and howitzers do not constitute a modern army, particularly with NATO’s emphasis on air power and missiles, both of which arrived very late and with strict limitations.
What are russian troops supposed to do? Not fire back?
Firstly, they’re supposed to not be there at all. If you start a war, and can end the war at any time by just leaving, you are responsible for what happens in that war. Second, yes morally and legally militaries are supposed to not blow up civilians on reports that there are enemies around. Was Israel justified in bombing schools and hospitals in Gaza if Hamas had fighters inside them? If not, why does Russia get a pass? Thirdly, yes they absolutely have targeted civilians deliberately.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/08/04/ukraine-apparent-russian-cluster-munition-attack
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60629851
Fourth, you didn’t address the point about mass graves, or the just blatant massacres.
What a bunch of nonsense.
The idea that Russia landed airborne troops in Kyiv without wanting to at the very least overthrow the Ukrainian government (just as the US likes to overthrow Latin American countries, which leftists rightly deride as imperialist, but many can’t seem to recognize when non-western countries do it) is laughable. It also ignores Putin’s clearly-stated belief that Ukraine has no legitimate existence as a separate country, a belief that he reiterated during his interview with Tucker Carlson instead of saying anything that Western supporters of Russia wanted him to say. It ALSO fails to mention reports from early in the invasion that Putin has personally rejected a peace deal because he wanted to go to war.
A couple other things that jumped out at me:
The idea that the war was over NATO membership is outright nonsense, since that goal HAD ALREADY BEEN ACHIEVED by the annexation of Crimea and support for separatist factions, since NATO membership requires territorial integrity.
The statement that the West gave Ukraine their most advanced weapons is a ridiculous lie to anyone watching Ukraine beg for years to get moderately updated tanks and jets, and mid-range ATACMs. In reality, the Biden administration had been withholding the best weapons specifically because they wanted the war to end like this and just didn’t want to admit it. The things people do are more important than what they say.
The article conveniently fails to mention any Russian war crimes, such as the repeated bombing of civilian infrastructure, including schools and hospitals (only a bad thing when Israel does it, apparently), the Bucha massacre, or reports of mass graves in occupied areas.
Good thing the Democrats already gave up all their leverage for the next six months, or else they might be expected to do something to capitalize on this.
Why would the US need this access for anything aside from trading with other countries?
To move warships rapidly between the two oceans during the world war he’s going to start, obviously.
It’s almost as though fascists are unreasonable and attempting to avoid their ire by compliance is doomed to failure if they’ve already decided to hate you.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5178797-texas-measles-outbreak-kennedy-vaccines/
Kennedy has begun promoting the use of vitamin A, cod liver oil and the steroid budesonide as a way of treating measles
100·29 days agoElon truly is a genius businessman. Letting him run the government is clearly a great idea.
I’m not a fan of the US military, but as a supporter of LGBT rights it is important to acknowledge that military service has historically been an effective means of gaining public sympathy for expanded civil rights in the US. (The most obvious examples being African-American service during the Civil War and WW2.) In the context of the militaristic US culture, forbidding people from the military is inherently a clear declaration that they are lesser and unworthy.
I don’t think the shambling husk of Twitter is a good representation of the U.S. population. My impression is that Elon has driven away most good and reasonable people.
811·2 months agoThe leopards are eating well this month.
If he were a normal president who cared about Congress and the future of his party in fair and free elections this would matter a lot. Unfortunately he isn’t and his plan is to make certain there aren’t any free and fair elections, so we’ll see what happens.
43·2 months agoThe State Department handles diplomacy. I would expect that the intention is for US diplomats (however many are left after all this) to drive around in these things. I’m sure that will help convince other countries that the US is not at all stupidly corrupt.
5·2 months agoAgreed.
Cybertruck owners, though, they’re a different story.
“That’s too insane for him to actually do” is exactly the sort of complacency that got us into this mess.
There’s a simple explanation for that: they’re more committed to fascism than to their own self-interests.
It’s important to remember that the only reason he can get away with everything is because lots of other powerful people are going along with it.
It’s pretty impressive just how thorough Trump and Elon are being about destroying every single thing that used to be good about the USA.
The bar is on the absolute floor, but I’ll take it. Better than that one guy who said he didn’t regret his vote after ICE got his wife.