Whoaa that’s so cute

heck yeah

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Still WIP, all the chains and stuff you see around there is for an inventory management system that is still missing a few key pieces before it works.

Hexbear has no morals, I don’t know if they are actually trying to be evil. You literally cannot say death to America and have that mean anything peaceful.

I guess the only way to not be evil is to be a pacifist? What’s wrong with wishing for something that’s not peaceful?

Misery loves company, and here we suffer together.

yes

(For the joke to work the reader must consider Radio Head to be a good band that is currently not fashionable to like due to their Zionism, this makes the joke have the appropriate number of layers of irony)

Radio Head - Creep

Cause if you think about that statement for a few seconds, it is unclear what it is even saying. 30 minutes in Ukraine? By what definition of Ukraine borders? The international ones? No matter how bad it is, that seems impossible. The Russian ones? Well, yes. Being behind the front lines is hella dangerous. Not sure how they would even get there. The de-facto controlled Ukraine territory? In that case, you are just saying soldiers that charge Ukraine defenses tend to die, which duh.

Hats off to Wittgenstein in that thread.

I wonder if these soc dem writer types look at a character like and think “oh this character is well executed because he has a bad ideology but is still relatable because of his personality” or something extremely shallow like that, because otherwise I don’t understand how they go from Disco Elysium’s treatment of its communist characters to that kind of failure. Like, just read the Deserter’s dialogue for a couple minutes before you write a line for a communist character. Look at how human he is, how he’s kinda right about everything (not about women but hey, can’t win em all) even though his mind is gone, how the things he’s talking about aren’t just lines of propaganda but really more like a coded language that the truth of the universe happens to be written in. If you can’t pull that off, don’t make a Disco Elysium successor.

Time to go Good Will Hunting

If you like they have a series on 9/11 that I think is serviceable, it’s fairly good about staying grounded in plausible assertions rather than too much speculation.

Definitely feels like this makes Tucker look better to a lot of people and it ain’t helping either Roger nor whatever good getting the truth out about 9/11 might do.

He was definitely connected with Bush Sr so it’s more or less guaranteed he’d be a Nazi.

First image I’ve seen of a celebration of Lithuanian culture that doesn’t leave me going a bit like

is the first character you talk with who has a “coherent” ideology. If you have a huuuuuge anchoring bias where you just go with the first thing that makes sense (okay, maybe the word “sense” doesn’t fit here but you know, superficially at least) and stick with it no matter what, it could happen.

Everybody say it with me: Nothing ever

You’re right that it was in 2014 not 2015 as I said in my comment, but to say that Russia “first invaded” and started the war then is also incorrect. The ethnic Russians in Crimea who asked for Russia to intervene were responding to the Euromaidan coup which was a significant escalation from the far right in Ukraine. If there had been no intervention from Russia there would probably have been massacres of ethnic Russians.

It’s understandable to think Russia just started the war in 2022 out of nowhere if you lived on the regular internet this whole time and had nothing but mainstream liberal sources. If this was Instagram or a more “normie” website, for lack of a better term, I’d be totally empathetic with libs who think Ukraine and Palestine are comparable. But being so incurious as to still believe that’s the only version of events despite being on Lemmy, where it’s pretty easy to spend 5 minutes reading what the “tankies” have to say and understand there’s a different historical narrative where the war started in 2015, is just so sad.

Or another way to think about it: having borders and ports instantly means “minding your own business” implies minding other countries’ business.

There’s no elaborate argument here, it really is as simple as “the term Cowbee said is vague and gets applied selectively has a clear definition” and the definition may as well just be “a tankie is a communist who supports bad things”