Staines [he/him, they/them]

There’s no reason to be afraid of people engaging with your opinion.

There’s no “brigading”, it’s simply a large instance of people who can see active threads, that’s all. They can’t downvote you, so are accustomed to responding to things thoughtfully and in earnest. There’s no reason to be afraid of them unless you literally want to see zero opposing views, or, unless you’d like to call them “tankies” or “bots” but can’t cope with similar treatment in kind.

It feels kind of MAGA-y to you because you’re using the American definition of Liberal. Both the American Republican party and Democratic party are ideological liberals. Whom MAGA folk would call “liberal”, we just call “blue-MAGA”.

I’d call this a debate but it’s weak, I don’t think there’s even anything but bait.

How is Lukashenkos posting that powerful.

Everyone that disagrees with you is a child? Sounds like the kind of thing a bot would say.

You just engaged in a discussion without name calling, malice, or anuses.

The difference is you didn’t call us bots, tankies, nazi’s, or use ableist or homophobic slurs.

Please, link some of these sources.

There was no massacre within Tiananmen Square. This isn’t even a controversial statement. Look it up in a source you yourself consider to be neutral.

How was this “hostile”?

A couple of people drifting by reply to you and you consider it “brigading"? Aren’t you a delicate creature.

I’m sure Russia had to hold, (at gunpoint?) the people of Donbas who had been shelled for 8 years by the Ukrainian government to get them to vote to leave Ukraine. Or the people of Crimea who had already voted to leave Ukraine before the Russian Federation even existed.

Ah yes, “free” as opposed to »free« Ukrainian elections.

In free, western Ukrainian elections, the ruling party simply bans opposition parties that they don’t approve of and seizes their assets.

You acknowledge that people have a right to defend themselves, and be supplied weapons to that effect. Your usage of “propped up” also suggests you acknowledge that there were legitimate separatist sentiments in Ukraine in 2014. Why do your principles of armed self determination break down when applied to Donbas? Seems that “tankie” is your word for “someone that believes in self determination”.

When did that happen tankie?

Minsk 2, proposed by Russia, outlines that control of the border should be restored to Ukraine, and that Donbas should be reintegrated democratically back into Ukraine with a level of federalization to protect it from future lapses in Ukrainian democracy.

Interesting how dronies keep saying that the east is forcing Donbas to keep fighting. But when Russia suggests they give some land to Ukraine to stop the war, Donbas gets offended and want to keep fighting.

You’re having a hard time because you’re realizing you’re closer to being a bot than we are.

I think the Lancets themselves are slightly too crude. They’re so light (12 to 20kg depending on the type of warhead) and have so much lifting surface that even moderate winds lower their accuracy too much. Even in a lot of the videos the Russians post online, they’re actually in effect missing their targets in the final moments due to wind drift or insufficient yaw control. Often in the video’s it’s enough to look like a hit for propaganda purposes without actually damaging the target.

The concept they have is golden. Not everything needs to be hyper advanced, sometimes you just need a kamikaze lawnmover that’s good enough to get the job done. The problem with the Lancet is it isn’t always quite good enough to reliably get the job done in all weather conditions. Drifting a meter either side of a truck can fail to destroy it. Drifting a meter either side of a trench can turn a mass casualty incident into a nuisance. A breezey day is more effective than the entire remaining Ukrainian air-defense arsenal.

The Russians are constantly advancing and iterating their designs. The new glide bomb kits that they’ve been strapping onto existing FAB-500M62 bombs seem very effective and very accurate. Half a ton of glide bomb doesn’t care about wind drift.

currently trying to genocide

This piqued my interest, since a lot of the Uyghur genocide narrative collapsed years ago to the point that even the journalists that were reporting it began walking it back.

Taking a look at who is currently reporting on “Uyghur genocide” in 2023, and it’s all organisations like Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, United States Institute of Peace - basically (literal) US government propaganda agencies reporting on the US congress proceedings.

Moon of Alabama is conservative yes, but their analysis also comes from the same starting point as ours; that we are interested in figuring out what is actually going on rather than the narrative the stenographers that call themselves journalists would like us to follow.

It’s the same reason you’ll see articles from Forbes, Business Insider and such here. They’re publications that will incidentally report elements of inconvenient truth since their business isn’t purely about fabricating reality.

No one here goes to MoA for the comments section.

Ask in the news thread. Different thread culture.

Moon of Alabama is conservative yes, but their analysis also comes from the same starting point as ours; that we are interested in figuring out what is actually going on rather than the narrative the stenographers that call themselves journalists would like us to follow.

It’s the same reason you’ll see business news sources here. Theyre publications that will report elements of inconvenient truth since they aren’t just about fabricating reality.

If the Armenian’s weren’t so horny for genocide I’d support them, but they’re no better than the Azeri’s. Why should I be upset at the Armenian’s being slowly choked out of Nagorno-Karabakh after they forcefully ejected the Azeri’s only a couple of decades ago??

Edit: Like no, really, why should I weep for the coercive removal of a bunch of genocidal people who destroyed the homes of others to force them to leave within my own lifetime?