Nah, that’s a fucking euphemism, we need a better word to describe it
Nah, that’s a fucking euphemism, we need a better word to describe it
No. Al-Jazeera published a report that the electronic devices that exploded had high explosives embedded, and I’m not in a target country
[…] is a provocation worthy of military invasion?
See, that’s an entirely different statement. Threatening to join Russia’s geopolitical rival’s military alliance while bordering Russia, is provocation. The acts in Donbas since 2014 are provocation. Is it “worthy of military invasion”? I don’t believe so. The proto-fascist Russian government is clearly not acting entirely out of pure will and self defense, and I’ll be the last to defend it since I have loved ones directly suffering under that government. But it’s important to frame things correctly, and yes, threatening to join NATO while bordering Russia is a huge provocation.
Particularly, NATO has no history of defensiveness (as far as I know it has never intervened for the defensive purposes it’s supposed to uphold), but it has a history of offensiveness. Yugoslavia and Libya can both attest to that, and extra-officially (technically not NATO interventions even if many NATO members participated one way or another), countries such as Iraq can also attest. The case of Iraq is a perfect example of what unprovoked invasion in modern times is, and we are still forced to see libs fall heads over heels for a fucking Dick Satan Cheney endorsement to Kamala “most lethal army in the world” Harris.
So, yes, when a country bordering you chooses to join a historically aggressive military alliance that openly challenges you, that’s huge provocation. And it’s important to state so when we talk about the war in Ukraine.
completely unprovoked
considering joining NATO
Those two statements are in the same phrase… My god
They absolutely don’t both solve the problem, plenty of homeless people in the capitalist world compared to the 0 people in former USSR
Insane that we allow for the privatisation of wavelengths.
"NO!! ONLY I CAN MOVE ELECTRONS AT THIS FREQUENCY, I PAID FOR IT, RWAAAAHHH!!
I highly recommend that you get yourself a copy of the book “Human rights in the soviet union” by Albert Szymanski. It discusses the access to goods, healthcare, education, publications in local languages, and much more, for different republics within the USSR, for the period from 1917 to 1980 approximately. There was a famine in Kazakhstan, but how many famines were there in Kazakhstan before communism, and how many were there during?
In the book (which you can probably find online, ehem Anna’s Archive ehem), go to the chapter that discusses the central Asian republics, and look quickly through the tables discussing these metrics, and comparing them to (historically similar pre-1917) countries of the region such as Afghanistan or Pakistan. You’ll see how communism brought literacy, education, healthcare, pensions, women’s rights, and material well-being to central-Asian republics.
I don’t really have a good reason to be skpetical
“Company reports that things will go incredibly well” is very skepticism-worthy
CPI “economists”: “well, since people don’t buy meat anymore because it’s too expensive, we’ll remove it from the basket of goods that we use to calculate inflation. Isn’t that convenient?”
Source: CPI moves to cheaper variants of products over time because people stop being able to afford them, for example they used to use the price of a beef steak in their products basket but switched to ground meat because the price of the former had gone up so much that a majority of people bought ground meat instead.
The only real communism is gay communism
Probably depends on the country, I’m pretty sure here in Spain you can donate books to libraries, and I highly doubt they go to the publisher and call them to ask “hey, want any good ol’ buckaroos?”
Russia’s Putin as opposed to…? Just funny phrasing
Me gusta practicarlo a mi español algunas veces para que aprendo más en vez de perderlo.
Lo corrijo: “me gusta practicar mi español algunas veces para aprender más en vez de perderlo”
pero no recuerdo mucho de ellas
No pasa nada, principalmente en algunos sitios de España tenemos el sonido equivalente al “th” en inglés (as in “thesis”). Por ejemplo, al decir “zorro” (which means fox) , en inglés se pronunciaría algo así como “tho-rro”. En Latinoamérica, y en el sur de España, se pronunciaría “sorro”.
Dismissing entire sections of information simply because they don’t fit into your narrative or are associated with even a government source isn’t good
I routinely do this with US propaganda against China and with Israel anti-palestine propaganda, and I’m not ashamed to say it. I flat-out refuse to listen to news from these sources for the most part
Hey! ¡Hablas bastante bien español! Si quieres algún consejo o ayuda con el idioma, mándame un mensaje o algo. Pero te aviso de que yo hablo español de España, que es distinto al de Méjico (que probablemente sea el que hablas si eres estadounidense)
Surely not my point that we should automatically discard and ignore everything from russian government sources, just to be very careful when listening to all recounts and information about an ongoing military conflict
Honest question: why did we accept the nickname Holodomor? Why don’t we have catchy nicknames for the actually genocidal famines that the British did in their colonies? Why is it the “Belgian Congo atrocities” and not, idk, the “belgienocide” or the “capitalist turbo hand-cutter 3000”?
Can relate. I made my account a few days ago on hexbear because I’m Spanish and it’s unreasonable that I’ve been exposed to every fucking detail about the presidential race of a country on the other side of the ocean, while I literally don’t know the name of Portugal’s president…
We’re already there, there’s no need for this hypothetical. We’ve reached the point where we have trademarked plants, and natural cross-pollination with neighbouring fields has led to fines to farmers because they’re technically growing someone else’s intellectual property plant.
Vaccines and drugs whose research is paid for with public funds are copyrighted and poorer nations are forbidden from obtaining them at reasonable prices.
Vanguard technologies like FPGAs are seeing a rise in later years not because the concept is new, but because 40-year-old key patents of the technology started to expire and this allowed third parties to improve on the technology, and increase its availability and affordability.
Time and time again, software and hardware designed and published with open source but licensed copyright (or copyleft) are blatantly copied and modified without permission by big tech, without any credit or compensation to the original author, in complete violation of the license terms, and nothing ever happens because they have better lawyers than the small open source people.
AI models are unlawfully trained illegally with immense amounts of copyrighted material, and then substitute artists with real understanding of the art.
No need to make up hypotheticals for a society in which this already happens