I think a lot of people in the west have just never actually struggled in their entire life. Like you’ll ask them about their biggest struggle and they’ll mention some shit like a test in school or whatever. Meanwhile there’s people in the same country as them who like can’t afford to eat everyday. Who sleep in sewer drains. For the ones who have had it easy, and just have the worst takes ever. It’s very hard to not think they should actually suffer a bit, and that they’d probably be better people afterward if they did. So i totally get the feeling.

Yeah like having my food tray at lunch as a 9 year old ripped out of my hands and thrown in the trash in front of me because i couldn’t pay, and being given a cheese sandwich so that when i walked out with it everyone would know my family can’t afford to feed me. Even as a kid you know there is something fundamentally wrong with that.

I think it was like various things building on eachother. As i became educated in each area the contradictions led me to other areas until i got to a cohesive worldview.

I’m good at systems level thinking so all it took was one crack in the propaganda facade, and over time the rest of it came down too. Took me a few years tho to fully get there as i investigated different things, and educated myself. The first crack was just being born queer, and poor i gues.

How much do you know about the era prior to Russian intervention in Ukraine? As far as i understand it the Ukrainian backed neo-nazi groups were literally shelling ethnically Russian towns, and killing civilians long before Russia stepped in. So i don’t think portraying this as a black, and white agressor vs defender situation is correct. Donetsk, and Luhansk were actively asking Russia to intervene.

Now do i think that is why Russia intervened? Because they are just super nice, and wanted to help? Fuck no. They did it for geopolitical reasons like anything else. To secure the historically single most effective corridor for invading Russia. That doesn’t mean that context is irrelevant though.

This is also functionally a proxy war. It’s the US vs Russia, but the US is using Ukraine as its manpower pool, and bullet sponge. Ukraine doesn’t have the ability to defend itself like it’s done alone. Even with western backing it’s losing.

The war only happened because the US wanted it to happen. They played Russia, but it backfired on them. The US wanted Russia to come in, and get weakened by Ukraine. Didn’t really care how much damage Ukraine took in the process. But Russia is arguably better off militarily today than it was before this war started. It’s also strengthened the ties between China, and Russia since Russia relies on China to be its economic lifeline in spite of all the sanctions.

So to answer the question: Why critically support Russia?

Morally- Tie: Neither side is worth a damn. Ukrainian civilians and Russian civilians are both innocent, and leadership in both countries is irredeemably evil.

Strategically-Russia Wins: Russian victory weakens the US. Aids the long term goal of destroying US empire.

Pragmatically-Russia Wins: If Ukraine maintains its independence it will have a total lack of young people, destroyed infrastucture, and be economically insolvent. It will be turned into a resource extraction site for the west, and likely never recover. It’s neo-nazi government will be backed by the US, and impossible to overthrow via domestic rebellion. Another war could happen at any time. Not just with Russia, but with Turkey, Poland, etc. If conditions arise to allow it. As Ukraine will still not have nukes, and will be weakened significantly.

If Russia wins Ukraine will be taken over, and become part of Russia. Economically they’ll be better off. Likely with significant investment from both Russia, and China in rebuilding their infrastucture. Still used as a resource extraction site, but since manpower will be able to be brought in from the rest of Russia working conditions will likely be better. They’ll now be under the Russian nuclear umbrella. So unless WW3 happens another war isn’t likely. (Yeah WW3 isn’t exactly unlikely, but yknow.) Ukraine also has significant wheat production. To the west this is kind of a meh thing. They have plenty of farmland in the US, and are more interested in minerals. But Russia/China would be quite interested in maintaining wheat output, and would not risk it just to get some minerals. Not just for their own use, but to keep nations like Egypt stable. So the international food supply markets are likely to be more stable in this situation. Which helps not just Ukrainians themselves via jobs, and investment, but anyone in a food insecure region too.

Anecdotally-Russia wins: Idk how much this matters to other people, but personally when it comes to foreign policy stuff I recognize that the info we as civilians have access to is limited. So i look to the positions of organizations i believe have similar long term goals to my own, communist orgs, and also have access to more information. Intelligence agencies, etc.

China: Officially neutral, but leans toward Russian support.

DPRK: Openly supports Russia.

Vietnam: Neutral, Abstains from UN votes about the conflict.

Cuba: Leans pro-Russia.

These have a clear trend. When 0 AES states are supporting the side of Ukraine that tells me all i need to know. The situation isn’t black, and white clearly. But critical support for Russia is the choice that makes the most sense for me. Not that my random poor person trying to survive opinion does much of anything.

If your looking for one that would be the most effective for actually convincing regular people probably Imperialist.

Idk if this even has anything specific to do with being disabled except that people for some reason feel the need to get in disabled peoples business. Like just treat disabled people like youd treat anyone else. Unsolicited advice is usually not something someones wants. A disabled person isnt gonna suddenly want it because theyre disabled.

Like for example if i told someone “I got food poisoning” and they were like “Have you considered…” Id be like dude shut the fuck up im shitting my brains out over here. Just leave me alone.

Thats something people generally understand. If you think you have advice that could help you can say “Oh i know a good home remedy wanna hear it?” You dont just start throwing advice at people.

People just need to treat disabled people with the same respect theyd give to a non-disabled person. Thats the way i see it anyway.

I was thinking of looking for a gym with a good queer community figure if they advertise as queer friendly it probably turns off Nazis from signing up.

I wouldn’t really be doing MMA to socialize anyway. I’d just learn what i need to learn, and cancel the membership after.

yeah i was just being cheeky even libs would probably freak out about that. I wouldn’t wear something like that somewhere i didn’t know people already and know atleast some would be fine with it.

Is it Passiflora Edulis, or Passiflora Incarnata? Incarnata is the non-tropical one and native to the southeast US among other places while edulis is native to the tropics.

Maypop passion fruit

Now i need to buy a shirt with stalins face on it so i can wear it when i start going lol

My native fruit vines i planted last year just came up again. I was getting worried they were a bit behind schedule. Looking forward to having some in a few months. :)

Ooo i had been thinking about getting into MMA does this mean if i do I’ll get to beat up Nazi’s legally?

I find i to look on forums for solutions less and less anyway. Once you’ve been using a distro long enough unless your trying to do something you’ve never done before it’s usually pretty simple to know what’s wrong, and fix it. Because you’ll get the same things popping up over and over again.

I also like to keep like a little doc of fixes I’ve done on each computer so that if a year later i need to do a version upgrade or reinstall i can look back to it, and see what i did last time if i get repeat issues. Especially useful on stuff like laptops where you’ll have really specific hardware issues that reappear years later, and normally take hours and hours of trying to figure out what is broken.

“Jailbreaking AI” is still a thing people talk about? I’ve literally had ChatGPT tell me “Hmmm this might violate OpenAIs terms of service. Unless its hypothetical. It’s hypothetical right?” and i said “Yeah it’s hypothetical.” And it said “Great! So anyway…”

China had even larger flooding which effected even more people at around the same time, and they had much better outcomes. If research could be done on both, and a comparative chart made it could be decent agitprop

If they do that then theyre not worth talking to anyway. If someones just asking what do you do cuz its like the thing people say and theyre trying to start small talk they’ll be perfectly happy with the hobby response. If someones trying to find out how much money you make/your social class they wont be. And in that case they can fuck off anyway. It’s a good way to weed out the shitty ones, and still get to talk to the people who are chill, and just trying to chat.

So I’m not disabled but i also hate this question because it’s like what i do to make sure i don’t starve tells you nothing about me as a person. So what i do is purposefully misunderstand. I’ll start telling them about my hobbies. Like oh i like to write, or i garden, or something.

Funny how she thinks she can be president of Chile when Juan Guido already is.

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