Saying the quiet part loud
Saying the quiet part loud
"Some of you may be willing to die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make" but unironically
Edit: The user has since apologised https://hexbear.net/comment/3848285
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That one post about how "programming.dev" users are complete dumb dumbs was pretty on point.
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every single time, without fail
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My my my, there sure is a lot of lemm.ee trolls, paid pentagon shills and bots brigading this post.
Surely that can be the only explanation for people disagreeing with me! -
e: this was the wrong thread for this, but it still kinda works
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Whoops I cut off their reply halfway thru.
I know you all hate Ukraine and think they should lay down and let Russia steamroll into Kiev and annex the whole country. But reality doesn't always reflect your geopolitical wet dreams.
Geopolitics is when you think people shouldn't die in a senseless war. It's also somehow unrealistic
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Why yes, poor people in another country should die so I can sound like a smart wargame strategist on my forums.
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HoI IV was a mistake and considered by many historians to be a bad idea
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Ukranian forces could have pulled an Iraqi army / insrugency move and just melted into the general populace and IED'd the fuck out of Russian forces on a weekly basis for the next 20 years. Making Putin and anyone after him just bloodlet the russian forces. It is so fucking funny that they think a Hot War is, in this day and age, a better option than an insurgency.
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I wonder how that would have played out. The Russians still have Soviet-era records of military installations, so big hidden caches of weapons like in Iraq are out. Western support could probably still come through but probably only a matter of time before the Ukrop resistance blows up a school bus by accident and the West gets squeamish.
Unlike in Iraq where there's radical differences in culture, language, and history, how long before the average Ukrainian gets sick of living in European Falluja and starts snitching on the people blowing shit up?
If the insurgency can't get up to much more than random stochastic terrorism, that's probably not going to get them independence. The Chechans got up for far more and the Russians didn't cave then.
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duty and obligation to try
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A duty and an obligation to whom exactly?
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If you were a grunt in Lord of the Rings and your opponent was the orcish horde and Gandalf was saying this to you after having demonstrated his righteous power, there might be an argument because you live in a world where anybody with a baby brain can tell the good guys from the bad guys. You were born from a mother and your opponent was carved out of mud ugly and feral. It'd suck, but it's like fuck it, we ball.
If you're a member of a capitalist society being antagonized by a member of another capitalist society so that treat manufacturers can uphold NFT copyrights 13% more effectively, then there's 110% less duty.
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Libs straight up just manifesting 40K lore into the real world, these people are sick
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Hi Hexbear Dunkers,
Thank you for calling me out on the misinformed, small-minded, and frankly awful comments I had made about the Ukrainian conflict. I am significantly out of my element talking politics, especially eastern european politics.
I appreciate everyone who responded to me, even if they were just pointing out how ridiculous or foolish I am.
I'm going to engage in some self reflection and figure out my motives for making uneducated comments on the internet.
Wow, I'm taken aback at a person actually coming onto the internet with an open mind. Good on you stranger, you're kinda my hero.
It's a pretty low bar so please save your admiration for someone who deserves it. Thanks for the encouraging words though.
This is the most surprising thing I've read all week.
Just remember LiberalSocialist said the same thing
Came here to dunk amd this is the first thing i saw. We love to see this. Thank you for your honesty and I hope your self-reflection goes well.
Most of us are reformed libs who might have said something similiar to you had we not done some reevaluating of our recieved ideologies ar some point.
If you should want info on left wing perspectives or ideologies, the fine comrades on hexbear are as eager to help as we can be ruthless toward reactionary assertions.
Thanks for the welcome. I'm actually interested in media sources I should check out, specifically around the russia-ukraine conflict. History, analysis, commentary, etc. Anything I find from Google or YouTube (also Google 🤔) is couched in the same exact narrative.