Ukraine really is just 4chan the country, huh

I make sure to remind people of this frequently while talking about institutions beloved by liberals during this period.

The US government not having a national curriculum for education means it’s entirely up to states to decide what they teach their students. And because schools get funding based on how likely it is for a college to accept one of their students (which is determined via sports and testing) the curriculum becomes nothing more than a testing meat grinder.

All of the biases students are taught are subject to the voting habits of the voting population of that state. If the voters put a fascist into the governor’s position, the Commissioner of Education will be whoever they want it to be. And that commissioner can teach students whatever they want, as it’s an unelected position and they only have to answer to the governor. US schools are capitalism factories, because the US is a capitalism factory.

In Texas, in order to graduate you have to take a class that quite literally teaches Texan Nationalism. I took it in 7th grade and it was so mind-numbingly boring.

Sorry about this person, comrades. They’re a nazi who we’ve banned three times now, but they keep making new accounts with the exact same name only with a number added.

They came to fight Russia, but they ended up just fighting their own mortality and privilege.

it’s almost like it’s actually just one party, and the whole bipartisanship thing is just smoke and mirrors.

A casualty is defined as any injury, regardless of severity, that makes a soldier unable to fight.

Technically speaking, if a person stubbed their toe hard enough and they lose their ability to walk for a while, they’d be considered a casualty.

it would be nice if it specified if “losses” meant casualties or deaths. (no they aren’t the same)

What CaptCalhoun said, but I’ll add that there’s suspicion that the WH are actually just a propaganda wing of ISIS/ISIL, who use humanitarian work to convert people into followers of their cause. With how the internet is, it’s really hard to find sources that you saw years ago and didn’t save, but I remember seeing some pictures where white helmets were matched up with identical pictures of themselves in ISIS/ISIL brigades.

Which, should that be true, would make it make total sense that they’d be reaching out to Ukraine. Before long we might start seeing Azov doing hearts and minds campaigns in the same way WH does.

the second world war was a major boon to the US economy, the only guess I have at their intentions is that. They intend to get into another massive war, so they can regain financial control over the rebuilding of Europe, and restore the crippled US dollar. I’m just throwing out a wild guess tho, i could easily be wrong.

exacerbation of the root of the problem goes brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Th…That’s not blackmailing? Russia demanding to be paid for their fossil fuels in their currency isn’t blackmail. Europe’s really grasping for a reason to fight against this.

It seems there are a few people who will downvote anything posted on this community, simply because we don’t tell the western narative.

full build-up towards dogmatic fascism goes brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

meanwhile Liberals are slurping all of this up and defending it. How long until they suggest parties that oppose other western governments be banned too? How long until PSL or CPA get banned in the US because they’ve taken a nuanced stance on the war?

There’s an important distinction to make; Following WWII with the advent of nuclear weapons, NATO had a series of debates spanning decades, that has resulted in its modern warfare doctrine. NATO’s troops (and the troops they trained) are really only scouts, their main goal in combat is to mark the positions of enemies so tanks, helicopters, jets, etc. can do the real attacking.

Since Russia has dominated Ukraine’s skies, NATO’s trained troops are missing a massive element of what they’re intended for, so they’re practically useless.

Based

I’m gonna piggy back on this. I often like to go to sites and search for political terms, just to see how different competing sites are. If you search for “communism” on Amazon, most of your results are anti-communist, where as on Ali it’s hard to find anything anti-communist. On Amazon if you read the reviews on communist books or flags, for instance, you’ll see a lot of the reviews are from anti-communists. Whereas if you read the reviews from anti-communist or NATO backed flags or books (or what have you) on Ali, most of the reviews are pro-communist or anti-NATO.

Amazon and Ali harbour entirely different cultures, and their core demographics are totally different geopolitically. So, for communists, Ali really is the best place to find political stuff.

Azov are a state-sanctioned battalion in the National Guard of Ukraine, who have been awarded medals for their “heroism” and have received training from NATO’s advisors. Their actions against Ukrainian civilians were not denounced by Zelensky’s government, nor by military officials, making it the government’s problem.

If the Azov weren’t acting under orders, then I’d hope what’s left of Ukraine’s government (or the government that takes power after the war, depending on the outcome) holds trials for the field commanders who ordered the murder of innocent Ukrainian civilians. If they were acting under orders, then I hope the higher-ups who ordered it get tried too. Regardless, someone committed a war crime, and they deserve punishment.

Here’s a link to the specific war crime killing civilians

I feel like your reasoning to disregard me is flawed at best. It doesn’t matter if my account is from lemmy.ml or lemmygrad.ml, that’s why we federate, so instances can participate with each other’s content.

As well, my comment was asking for more information because “is lemmy.ml approving war on Ukraine” isn’t enough information for people to know what exactly you want to be answered. Do you want to know how the community on lemmy.ml feels about the war? do you want to know the official admin/dev stance on the war? Are you wanting to know if people are supportive of the war itself, or a faction of the war? Is the inverse of that question what you want, to know if people are against the war in its entirety, or just against a faction? You didn’t clarify that at all. Also the body text “Should it be shut down a few months if it is ?” is nonsensical. What do you mean by “shut down”, why would you think it needed to be “shut down”? Again, not enough information for an answer.

This post likely did poorly because you didn’t provide the information people need to know what you needed from them, my comment getting 5 upvotes (that are visible to me, sometimes federation is weird about not showing votes. also with mine subtracted from the total) proves that people agreed that you failed to provide information.

What exactly are you asking? because what you’ve written doesn’t really provide enough information for anyone to really know what you want answered.

because crypto can be untraceable, it’s possible to convert actual money into it via buying it, then pass the money along without a strong paper trail. This is one of the reasons Ancaps and silkroaders are so into currencies like bitcoin.

edit: I should add an example, so uhm.

Hypothetically speaking, let’s say someone stole a few thousand dollars from the company they work for. They could use that money, straight from the company account, to buy bitcoin. That bitcoin is sent to their crypto wallet anonymously, they then use it to buy an NFT that they put onto the market, thus adding a respectable but not suspicious inflow of money into their bank account.

The Lemmy devs have already decided that karma is just a bottomless pit that just harms users mental health, so it’s highly doubtful we’d ever have a reputation system be introduced, as that’s literally the same thing.

Also, captchas can be preventative to people with certain disabilities, so introducing them (I believe it would be reintroducing, actually) would contradict Lemmy’s disability-inclusive culture. As well, email verification wouldn’t work for people who would prefer anonymity. And nefarious users could just use a spoof mail account, so the introduction of required email account verification would really only harm privacy-focused real users, and do nothing to prevent trolls. Also, while on the subject and though you didn’t mention it, we don’t ban IPs because some VPNs reuse them for multiple people. So banning the IP of a troll might also cause the ban of real users.

just letting you know your comment doubled.

the media spinning NATO supporting Neo-Nazis in a civil war as “providing aid to Ukraine in border tensions with Russia” has to be one of the wildest parts of the new cold war.

I hope when all is said and done and historians look back on this, that people will realize they’ve been supporting the wrong side of history this whole time.

a part of me is dreading to see Lemmy get big. Keeping up with all of the posts is hard enough as it is.

But I am really happy it’s getting more popular, and it’s been a ride seeing it from the beginning to now.

oh cool, a convenience tax, that inconveniences people who’re tight on their money.

I don’t really do coding, the bulk of my text editing is from changing values in games. Sublime Text is great for that.

I usually try to use cash, but the convenience of being able to use online banking (and the requirement many sites/services have for online banking) makes it difficult to only use cash.

TBH I wouldn’t be surprised if they sent some diplomats to attend the games, entirely erasing that they boycotted it before, then staged some sort of an accident or something of that nature.

at this point, with how desperate the NATO dogs are for a war with China (or at least escalation of tensions with China), that feels like the kind of cartoony villainous stuff they’d pull. Being able to pull an “oh no, the Chinese attacked our diplomats” would work wonders for getting the general population to support a war in China.

this reads like the insane scribblings of a madman, and effectively in paragraphs of explanation you only really say one thing. repeatedly, I might add.

please if you’re going to waste Lemmy’s time and effort, at least be coherent?

inb4 a truther on reddit shares this and says something like “they’re expanding the Uyghur concentration camps to foreign nations, how evil!!” or some shit.

maybe they’ll reform the definition of Human Rights to the point that people will start realizing that it’s a liberal invention that means nothing, and has only ever been used as a justification for imperialism onto impoverished and non-western nations.