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  • DankZedong
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    434 months ago

    All I want in life is to just, you know, chill with friends and family, take care of nature, be productive in a positive way and die after living a happy and full life. And then fucks like this get to decide whether I die in a Ukrainian trench or face whatever fate in prison.

    • @[email protected]
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      214 months ago

      The shit we are going to have to go through so that we can one day chill and enjoy life, should be unnecessary.

      • DankZedong
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        154 months ago

        I’ve accepted that it will happen I think. Too much libs screaming for a war against Russia at this point, our leaders will not be stopped by them.

    • @[email protected]
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      94 months ago

      I have started to see capitalism as a system which runs off of taking your happiness, or more like, your ability to make yourself happy. Under capitalism, money comodifies your ability to live happily and contently. What makes each person happy and content may differ but in the end money is really what drives your ability to obtain it. The capitalists goal isn’t just to take all of your money, it’s to take everything that can make you happy. They are like dragons from D&D. They are greed incarnate. If one of them actually had all the money in the world, they would want your shoes, your clothes, your food, the little stick hut you made yourself in the woods, whatever you might have that brings you some semblance of a better existence. Whatever brings you some happiness. Its not even about OWNING everything, it’s about TAKING everything, and happiness is something else they can take. All you have to do is look how they view happy poor people. They find it revolting. Normal people will always look for ways to be happy, even when they have nothing, and to the capitalist it just shows them that they “missed a spot.” If they can’t take a poor person’s happiness then they can’t take everything from them.

    • @[email protected]
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      64 months ago

      “DO YOU WANT TO LIVE FOREVER?!”

      Suddenly everyone stops

      “Well now that you mention that…”

  • @[email protected]
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    314 months ago

    Imagine starting WW3 just to defend Nazis. Just western shit.

    • @Tramort
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      -164 months ago

      Defend Nazis? Defend against Nazis?

      Which meaning do you intend?

      • @[email protected]
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        184 months ago

        If I had meant defend against nazis I’d have said defend against nazis.

        Clearly I’m referring to the west’s hard on for ukro nazi scum. Why wouldn’t they start ww3 just to protect azov types from the consequences of their actions? After all they proudly give nazi war criminals standing ovations in our governments.

      • @[email protected]
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        144 months ago

        Please please please do not tell me you’re another one of those people who, after all the thousands of pictures of Nazi tattoos and patches, Ukrainian soldiers doing Nazi salutes, posing in front of a picture of Stepan Bandera, a Nazi collaborationist, still thinks there are no Nazis in Ukraine?

        • @[email protected]
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          134 months ago

          They are. At least this one slinked off in shame after being called out instead of trying to “debate” whether the guys with the black sun tattoos are really nazis or not.

          • @[email protected]
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            114 months ago

            Oh I figured I just wanted to put the extra pressure on. 🤷🏿‍♂️

      • @[email protected]
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        04 months ago

        Nazis fighting nazis. Ukraine’s nazi units are like the nazis who tried to assassinate Hitler, this time Putin as the most fash.

  • Mzuark
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    284 months ago

    Can we just skip ahead and admit that we’re having an Intercontinental war with Russia? The language being used to avoid saying this is indeed WW3 is insane.

        • @[email protected]
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          324 months ago

          overpopulation is an ecofascist myth, dont bring that shit in here

          • @[email protected]
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            Fair enough. Let me rephrase it. Solving animal and plant extinction issues due to encroachment of areas they live in by ever expanding human activities and resource extraction.

            • @[email protected]
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              294 months ago

              Myes, I’m sure global nuclear war will help the biosphere. For sure.

            • @[email protected]
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              184 months ago

              this is better known as the degrowth movement, comrade. or half earth socialism, even.

            • @[email protected]
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              4 months ago

              Oh nevermind, you are just an ecofash. Should have checked your username first, it’s fascist infiltrator coded as shit.

              • @[email protected]
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                -14 months ago

                Also my username? Comrade

                Let Me Seize The Means

                It’s not ecofacist it’s Communist. Anyway let’s focus on the solidarity.

                • @[email protected]
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                  14 months ago

                  That’s the kind of username that you would make if you were trying way too hard to fit in. You’re not fooling anyone.

              • @[email protected]
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                What. Wrong enemy comrade. I don’t believe in overpopulation at all and I was saying it tongue in cheek, kinda assumed you’d get the joke but anyway let’s focus on the real shit ok?

                • @[email protected]
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                  24 months ago

                  If there was any doubt you weren’t an infiltrator you just dashed it with that one.

        • @[email protected]
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          4 months ago

          I have never seen a joke bomb so hard in my life. Pro tip: if you have to say “BTW i’m not an ecofash” it’s time to rewrite or just not comment.

  • ☭ Comrade Pup Ivy 🇨🇺
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    254 months ago

    Here is the question of the hour, when Russia inevitably retaliates against the new combatants, will they go crying to NATO?

    • @[email protected]
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      164 months ago

      And if they fight these new soldiers, which will probably happen even if by mistake, will Russia also consider it an act of war from the new participant countries and will they attack their territory for it?

  • @[email protected]
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    244 months ago

    I’m worried they’re serious. The liberal leadership of Europe are mad dogs (the DPRK knows what to do with those) and the US is desperate and flailing with the way things went. They expected to crush Russia and now they realize they have no hopes of that with sanctions so want to kill Russians and drive up the cost to create anti-war sentiment at home to either force their terms for an armistice or to force a defeat and withdrawal and/or even attempt to use it to remove Putin from power or set a new domestic agenda from more pliant elements in his party in the Duma.

    Of course they could be bluffing and posturing to try and get better terms from Russia and an armistice instead of a defeat but they certainly sound deranged enough I worry. And they may be huffing their own propaganda and further defeats once they enter and their own inability to lose face could mean a spiral of escalation.

    Russia should not back down or compromise however. They should consider this a bluff, reiterate Ukraine is a threat to Russia’s existence and reiterate their right to use nuclear weapons if Russia’s existence is threatened.

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      244 months ago

      If WW3 should be the result, Russia, China , and whoever else is involved better not flinch, agreed. Right up to invoking MAD and worse- humanity will be freed, the global south will develop independently no matter what, and western hegemony will be broken, come hell or high water.

      And that’s part of the issue- I think this is, in large part (not unanimously, but primarily) not a bluff. Western society, particularly it’s elites, have drank the kool-aid past the point of return IMO. This is what the unipolar era and the “end of history,” and hundreds of years of white supremacy and conquest has resulted in- these neocons are unused to consequences, unused to accountability, devoid any sense of self-preservation beyond their individual self and family and thus uncaring even of the end fate of their own nations and the peoples they ostensibly represent. Frankly in the face of the neocons I suspect there can be no peace, without such a show of force as a limited nuclear strike at minimum, in due time and in the face of predictably near-inevitable escalations to come. (This isn’t me supporting escalation- but seeing it as near inevitable)

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        100% agree about Russia using nuclear weapons in a limited ‘fuck off’ type strike on a NATO base, I think it may come to the point where Russia has no choice but to show resolve there with use of one which is very unfortunate and will likely lead to many other NATO members independently acquiring nuclear weapons though they’ve been indicating an interest in that anyways (much like Russia not going into Ukraine would have meant not directly causing the nordic fascists to join NATO but still notching up an L for Russia and leaving them in a worse place, all moves have a cost for Russia, but the price of inaction is highest if NATO escalates and Russia turns the other cheek).

        As long as Russia doesn’t hit the US itself but a NATO base in Europe I don’t think the US is going to do anything but ramp up the rhetoric, they’re not going to risk their cities burning and their military destroyed while China sits on the sidelines watching and grinning to avenge some Europeans with a full strike. Now the worry is they feel a need to respond in kind to show NATO still means something for the western anglos at which point Russia as the aggressed against party needs to respond again (unless the detonation from the US was a show of force type thing like nuking a forest in Russia or the ocean) with nuclear force and from there things can get bad. Any use is of course a frightening escalation but more frightening to me is the idea of Russia being defeated by NATO and pushed out of Ukraine or hundreds of thousands, millions of Russians dying fighting them if it could be stopped with the use of a little bomb and the deaths of a few thousand or tens of thousands of NATO troop scum.

        But if the NATO fascists are absolutely determined Russia not win and will not take off-ramps like carving up Ukraine, giving Russia the eastern portion it already de-facto controls and has incorporated de jure unto itself and then declaring that Russia not taking Kiev or Liev and signing a peace treaty that forbids NATO membership as a win then Russia sooner or later is going to have to take off the gloves. And how much longer China can sit on the sidelines is also a question, with all the sanctions targeting them and the knowledge that they are next for military aggression a few years after this thing with Russia ends and NATO re-arms has to weigh.

        But you have to stand by your red lines with these NATO white supremacist, heirs to colonialism, entitled monsters, if you don’t they’ll take a mile when you had only intended to strategically cede an inch and then after taking that mile they’ll gas your citizens in terror attacks using chemical weapons anyways just to show how far they plan to take on walking all over you (for reference Russia has claimed evidence of use of banned chemical weapons against Russian troops and civilians and recently the FSB raided a group of Ukrainian terrorists in Russia planning such an attack, the OPCW has been ignoring their claims showing once again international law is largely whatever the west wants it to be).

        Fact is they’ve been humiliated, they’ve realized too late their world order, their threats, their military credability has all gone up in smoke and now many of the Euro liberal elite, now burning from collapsing economies they did to themselves at the US behest and feeling backed against a wall may be feeling like lashing out and dying on their feet is a better gambit than losing what they and their monstrous ancestors built over centuries of colonialism with a whimper.

        It is interesting though that the US, Poland, other EU countries have all now publicly come out against this idea. Though truth be told given that NATO would hardly want to telegraph an attack and direct deployment of their troops into Ukraine and would almost certainly do it through surprise to give them an advantage so their public statements to the contrary don’t mean it won’t happen. Though if they are being honest it may just be a French bluff after all trying to seed a threat for leverage in negotiations.

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        74 months ago

        Frankly in the face of the neocons I suspect there can be no peace, without such a show of force as a limited nuclear strike at minimum

        This is an interesting possibility for avoiding WWIII, but what kind of target would be hit?

        Breaking the frontlines wouldn’t really be possible I think especially with Russia’s own troops nearby, so perhaps an attack against a logistics base behind the frontline or even going for the NATO countries’ base far at the rear so NATO couldn’t say they got attacked in their own territories?

        Another possibility could be a nuclear attack against the first country Russia engages with, but I’m not sure they would do that.

        • @[email protected]
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          144 months ago

          I’m not promoting Russia making a nuclear strike now, nor necessarily anytime soon, or even necessarily doing it as the first strike. My point- and suspicion- however was that things would continue to escalate, in Ukraine, in Palestine and the MENA region, and in rogue Taipei, until a nuclear strike of some sort would be inevitable, and I suspect that peace cannot be found until the resolve for MAD is tested and found willing. Until then, I don’t see the neocon agenda of ever-expanding, unhinged hegemonic warmongering coming to a standstill. Sooner or later (hopefully, later) the neocon ideology will force this scenario IMO.

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          94 months ago

          I wonder, given how the west is starting to have a lot of distrust in the government and given the political divisions forming, if a call for war and the subsequent draft wouldn’t end in civil wars across the west. How many people legitimately would want to fight for the countries they live in right now? The right wing maybe, but they likely don’t give a damn about supporting a government they see as, whatever right wingers think.

          Or would it strengthen internal ties?

          In short; everyone go get diagnosed with bone spurs!

          • @[email protected]
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            104 months ago

            How many people legitimately would want to fight for the countries they live in right now

            And how many would actively resist? Everyone says they don’t trust their government, that it’s corrupt and needs to change, yadda yadda. But the moment the ghost of Russia, China or communism appears - brains turn off and it’s full on goose step. Will the citizens of Poland, Germany, Moldova actually fight their governments should those governments begin conscription? Or will they hunker down and pray somebody else gets nabbed? “Sure I don’t want to die for the government, but someone should!”

        • @[email protected]
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          44 months ago

          Just a nuclear test. Like the DPRK. Hitting any target will just lead to retaliation

  • @[email protected]
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    164 months ago

    Like…officially? Because there have been plenty of intercepted communications in Polish and mysterious coffins returning to certain NATO countries.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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      94 months ago

      Yeah, there’s a lot of covert involvement that even western media is covering, but this would be explicit boots on the ground. Although, worth noting that pretty much all the countries have now backed out of this idea.

  • It’s like NATO is acting like Russia doesn’t have nukes. How much longer are they going to push Putin until Russia is forced to drop a “warning bomb” in an unpopulated field in Ukraine somewhere?

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    124 months ago

    Taking “if you like war so much, go, go die in a war” disturbingly literally.

  • PeeOnYou [he/him]
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    104 months ago

    why? do they not like their own militaries or something?