Is it was so great, why did most of the conquered nations run west as fast as they could as soon as they could? Must have been because the USSR was so ‘progressive’.
Is it was so great, why did most of the conquered nations run west as fast as they could as soon as they could? Must have been because the USSR was so ‘progressive’.
Let’s start with the second part of your question? How do you make someone understand that invading another country is not a good thing?
Sorry, I don’t.
I saw some documentary that suggested that they used to chip straight through fossilized feathers and skin to get to the bones because they didn’t realise what they were.
Firefighter here. Brush and gently vacuum your smoke detector. Insects are attracted to the LED and can set off the alarm. They may be very small. Dust can also set it off.
This. Has changed my life.
The bible apparently.
Look up biblical cosmology on Wikipedia.
It’s not about defining it, it’s about giving yourself a pre communicated basis to remove content that may be disagreeable but not strictly illegal.
5.0: Lemmy.World consists of a large number of communities from all around the world, leading our federated network.
This sentence is a little unclear to a native speaker. Maybe change “leading” to “constituting”.
I also suggest that maybe an extra clause could be added to pick up CP related content that may not be illegal, such as drawings, hentai and AI generated content that depicts minors involved in sexual or other inappropriate acts. It doesn’t quite fit into 5.04 as it may not necessarily be illegal (IDK) , or 5.06 as it may not necessarily involve gore or violence.
I notice that the IDF doesn’t actually say that they didn’t hit the hospital, they just say that Hamas is ‘responsible’ for it. That could mean that they are saying that it’s Hamas’s fault for launching rockets from close to the hospital and making it look like a launch site. IDK, everyone lies in situations like this.
THIS! When those in power start dehumanizing others, you know there’s killing coming. Hotel Rwanda is a great history lesson on this.
It feels like a great time for everyone to take a massive chill pill.
This seems like the digital equivalent of burning books. Rather than controlling what people can read, shouldn’t we be doing more about the underlying reasons that mental health has taken a dive, such as the cost of living, climate change, the cost of further education and, you know, giving people a reason to feel optimistic about the future?
Finger limes. Tastes like lime sorbet but with the texture of roe.
I’m not anti-Fediverse here, but tbf it would be ridiculously easy for data harvesting companies to plug into the API and fingerprint individual users from their activity. Admittedly, I don’t see how browser based fingerprinting could be done without hosting an instance.
To be fair, that’s true of most social media, including Reddit.
You are the one who did the whataboutism
Fair point.
not me.
Not a fair point.
You replied to my comment that highlighted American bully language by saying that Russia acts like a bully.
Correct, I did, and russia does act like a bully.
If you go back one leval on the thread, the commenter was making the point that “Russia only understands one language: violence.” This statement is correct. Don’t interpret this as me agreeing with everything that followed, but the reality is that Russia is more than happy to impose its will on it’s neighbors (and its citizens for that matter) using violent means, including invasion. This is not OK.
You can’t blame modern russia for things done by the Tsars for example.
I don’t agree. It is evidence that Russia has been invading other countries for a very long time. Cultural norms persist across leadership changes. Russian culture has been one of domination, control and exploitation for centuries, and remains so. Until russia does some cultural introspection it will remain a bully.
being a soviet state doesn’t count as occupation
Wrong! It absolutely was occupation. So-called soviet states (occupied countries) were not given a choice and did not want to be part of the glorious union. They were invaded and forced to join at gunpoint. Civilians were shot, Russian language was imposed against the wishes of the population, culture was banned, environments were destroyed and resources were extracted. It’s no surprise that all of those countries that managed to escape the russian ‘sphere of influence’ (read sphere of domination) are now more prosperous, free, happy and keen to join NATO to ensure that they never have to be part of the russian ‘sphere of influence’ again. Again, the solution for russia is to start being a good neighbor. If you aren’t a threat, then you won’t find your neighbors joining mutual defense organizations to protect themselves from you.
It’s pretty telling how dishonest you are.
It’s pretty telling how quickly you are switching to playing the player rather than the ball. I wonder if you are FSB, GRU, or something else, not that you will ever admit it.
you don’t come out looking good
Who’s this “you” you speak of?
I don’t even support modern Russia
Lol. That’s why you are defending their behavior so vigorously. Sure. Whatever you say.
except critically on the specific grounds of protecting Donetsk/Luhensk/Crimea from Ukrainian fascists,
The idea that the current russian illegal invasion of Ukraine has anything to do with protecting Donetsk/Luhensk/Crimea and nothing to do with preventing yet another previously invaded country from joining NATO to protect itself from russian aggression is laughable.
and killing nazis is always great of course.
Is that why russia shot down the plane with Utkin in it? Why’d it take so long to kill that particular Nazi? You know, the one with litteral Nazi tattoos who fought on the side of russia for years. The one who who established a russian backed mercenary company named after Hitler’s favorite composer.
Can you not see the parallels between the behavior of the actual nazis and russia? Lie, invade, suppress, murder, control, extinguish. I’ve got some news for you. The ww2 Nazis were bad, but the russian invaders were much worse. Ask anyone who experienced it. And yes, I have asked. The answer I got included a lot of swearing about the russians.
Shut the fuck up about Ukraine Yankee.
Is this “America invaded Iraq, so that makes it OK for russia to invade Ukraine” or, “stop bringing attention to our attempt to illegally invade a neighboring country”. I can’t tell.
Or how about this one? Gee, I wonder why everyone wants to join NATO?
Not to mention that the vote was boycotted by Armenia, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Moldova.
They were sooooo keen to return to the Russian embrace (/s).