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Dmitri Smirnov, KGB.

That post is literally just saying that material conditions influence people’s politics, a point he himself has made.

NATO is seeking to take control of decision-making powers on future aid packages — normally led by the US — in an effort to limit the impact of a potential second Donald Trump presidency on the ongoing conflict.

This is wild. It’s bad enough that the US president has the power to start wars wherever he wants with no congressional approval. But now they’re trying to make it so that the only people with the authority to withdraw from a conflict are unelected NATO officials accountable to no one.

Dronies will support this, because they love endless war across the globe and want to remove any potential for popular support to achieve peace.

Le average redditor is probably a native English speaker

Also i don’t think i like the suggestion that Chinese don’t know english.

“Knowing English” and “making subtle references that only work if everyone thinks of a cartoon character’s English name” are very different things. I assume that most people seeing Tigger will think of whatever his name is in their native language, regardless of how many languages they speak. You generally don’t cycle through different words in every language you know every time you see an image looking to find a pun.

It’s possible but it’s a really big stretch. It’s definitely not the main thing to be criticizing when people are painting an Asian person’s skin yellow.

I’m not really convinced that they would be making a reference like that that only works in English (and is a bit of stretch even then imo).

The Vietnam War? You mean the one where a rebel faction backed by Russia rose up against a smaller, recently established pro-Western government, and the US came to the defense of that government, because if they lost the enemy would surely keep expanding more and more across the entire region, and all the peace advocates were dismissed as supporting appeasement? That Vietnam war?

Yes, we take a similar position on that as we do to this, do you?

Correct.

Ukrainians are dying too, including ones drafted against their will. Maybe you should fight in their place before asking them to die on your behalf.

I’m not sure what that has to do with shelling cities, are you suggesting he was hiding in one of the buildings or what?

“Fighting corruption” is an interesting way to describe sustained artillery bombardments of civilian targets.

The war was already going on before Russia sent troops in.

It’s not supporting Russia to be critical of one-sided narratives or to call for peace for the sake of minimizing loss of life.

Is criticism of the use of that word against 196’s rules? Here are articles from the Chicago Tribune and the Anchorage Press, and a definition from the Cambridge English Dictionary which say:

Taking the R-word and adding “lib” to it doesn’t make it any less offensive. And what bothers me is that those who combine “liberal” with that word are not insulting their intended targets — they’re insulting an entire group of people who have done nothing wrong, all while perpetuating a term that simply needs to go away.

Combining the R-word with liberal makes it no less offensive.

an offensive word used by some people on the extreme right of politics to refer to someone who holds left-wing political beliefs

While I understand that you’re using it ironically, I believe that being critical of the ironic use of offensive language is valid and contributes to discussion. I find it concerning that Nakoichi’s post was removed without any explanation other than calling him, “braindead.”

Leftists: The US doesn’t care how many Ukrainians get shoved into the meat grinder, they just want war because it’s profitable for the defense industry

Libs: Fuck off with your Russian disinformation, tankie!

Mitch McConnell: We don’t care how many Ukrainians get shoved into the meat grinder, we just want war because it’s profitable for the defense industry

Either way, they tend to make themselves scarce when that link is dropped on them.

This is either a bit or a masochist lol, just straight up inviting the dogpile.

The nefarious Chinese are tricking people into supporting them by checks notes improving their material conditions.

Thank God I live in America where I’ll never have to worry about the government doing that.