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[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I'm not the one who took down the Catherine the Great statue in Odessa.

 

Are they living too far away? Too poor to go there? Bots? Laziness? Are they not interested in military parades despite liking to denounce protesters?

What's the big reason?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Capitalism: If you have two cows, your landlord decides they're tenants late on rent,
then your landlord sells your cow, buys a bull.
Then your landlords shoots your other cow and tells you it was attacking him and acted only on self defense.
As punishment, he gets to eat your cow.
You protest and then he shoots you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I’ve always wanted to start some sort of organization, like many have done, where i donate certain necessities and money to other countries—especially underdeveloped ones, possibly using tax money?

Depends on where exactly you send the money to.
Is it going to that country's government?
Directly to the people?
How will you send the money to these people if they have no bank accounts?
How much of the sending money are you willing to pay to payment processors?

But so far it sounds like you're a Social Democrat.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Star Control II & Secret of Mana

They both set my expectations for how much fun a game can be.

Secret of Mana as a template for what kind of world I want to live in (minus the monsters and whatnot)
and Star Control II as a template for how to write a fun adventure.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Seconding this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Same here.
Manjaro is good enough for me, even though I hear one should use Endeavour or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I have no horse in this race :)

The fascist armed forces do and they have them trample on protesters.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I'm going to repeat what @plyth said. "Don't use the Zimbardo prison experiment".
Zimbardo was as manipulative as the psychologists from the Robbers Cave experiment,
with the only difference being that the former was only done once, while in the latter,
the subjects figured out that they were being manipulated and turned against the psychologists.

Because of this, the conclusions Zimbardo drew himself are very different from when you conclude that
Zimbardo was behind the whole ordeal pulling the strings.
One only needed to stand up against one person, not a crowd.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

1989 Tianenmen Square ~~massacre~~ insurrection

The equivalent of this would be 1000 US caucasian student communists showing up on Freedom Plaza,
demanding that Confucious Institutes be reopened while building statues of "Chairman Háu!",
and singing how oppressed they are if those institutes are not build for them,
then do a Trump style insurrection and continue to kill when US troops arrive,
which not even the Jan 6 insurrectionists dared to do, because the government,
instead of sending armed soldiers, send in their army choir
to calm everyone down and have them peacefully removed from "the plaza".

Instigators had been shot dead.
And dozens of innocent people died in a state of confusion in the outskirts of the city,
with protesters not believing the insurrection happened
and soldiers demanding confescation of public transport to get to the square
to prevent a potential coup from happening.

Then, when all is said and done, China starts calling the Jan 6 insurrection,
the Freedom Plaza massacre, despite all the action having taking place at either Capitol Hill or JFK airport.

Soviet gulags

Holdover from their imperial days, increased in use during world war I and II prisoners,
then got dismantled to a few until the last one closed down in 1987.
That's at least 38 years before the US, as the US still has forced slave labor camps all over the nation.

Russian war on Ukraine

Ukraine is an artificial state created by Russia from its own territory and Polish territory.
Kiev being Russia's first capital like Philidelphia was to the US.
A coup happened in Ukraine and Oblasts (states) wanted to secede because they didn't recognize
Poroshenko as their president since they declared themselves as Russian and demanded referendum,
that was violently blocked with lethal gunfire killing voters at the polling stations.
In response the seperatists declared secession and asked Russia for help.
Russia demanded Ukraine to hold a cease fire so a referendum could be held.
And after 8 years of Ukrainian presidents, including Zelensky who platformed on the
promise that he was going to be THE president that would bring cease fire and being
elected on the basis of that promise, after 8 years of only increasing the suppression,
Russia did a small invasion to tell Zelensky that they would really appreciate a cease fire there
and promise that it would never join NATO.
Zelensky agreed, but then Boris Johnson showed up the next day saying that the US and EU
have got all their weapons ready to arm Ukraine with whatever he wanted that the EU has,
so he would fight with all the weapons of all of Europe, excluding Russia and whatever the US
was willing to give, basically turning it into a world war and Zelensky agreed.
So basically a semi-world-war has been started by the US/UK, because they refuse a small portion of a half-Russian nation
to hold a referendum so that they could leave, because they thought a coup was undemocratic and didn't like an oppressive anti-Russian regime change when they themselves are Russian
and viewed as Russians, not just by themselves.

Iran is quite lacking on human rights too.

Iran has had countless of attempts by the US/UK to recoup the country
after a pro-sovereignty countercoup ended the rule of the Shah.
All "human rights violations" are simply retaliations against deadly attacks by paid protesters,
and CIA-astroturfed bestseller authors.


Meanwhile the US is deploying the military because people protested against police raids that deports legal immigrants out of the country and before that protests against their regime deeply supporting a genocide.
These reactions and types of protests are incomparable.

And you can see how incomparable they are when you just look at the protest chants and media pictures taken.
Hong Kong protests for example came out of nowhere, used the flimsiest excuse to overthrow the government,
with false claims and demands that far exceeded the Jan 6 insurrection claims and demands and just happened
to be hyperorganized with its leaders constantly flying to the US to pick up awards.

Imagine US protest leaders flying to China to pick up human rights awards for protesting...

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Title buzzwords OFTEN IN CAPS.

  • The real reason
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  • Dramatic
  • Insane
  • Never seen before
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And what's also extremely annoying is whenever questions are being asked in the title, when it's them who should have the expertise..

Content creator title: "Did the president of Zimbabwe just imposed a ban on bananas from Guatamala?"
Me: "Don't ask me. You're supposed to know that."

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