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7 months agoI actually speak 4 languages
Congratulations.
You’re on a Marxist forum with users all over the world, not Reddit.
Being multilingual isn’t fucking special, most of the world is, and most of our users are.
KarlBarqs [he/him, they/them]
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Starting to think the ML in Lemmy.ml stands for machine learning, because there’s no way an adult human writes like this
The President of China hasn’t changed in ten years
Germany had the same president for 16 years. Canada had the same one for 9.
Maximum term limits in the US is eight years
What the fuck are you talking about? Free democracy is when your leader changes every two years?
Two Philistine soyjacks pointing at a literal giant of a man sprawled dead on the floor
93·10 months agoGreat ideas like what?
Great ideas like what??
16·10 months agoWhen it comes to these Wunderwaffen, remember that Western media surrounding war for the last 40 years or more has been about how incredibly superior NATO tech is to Russian tech in every aspect.
Take the Challenger 2 tanks that recently got sent to Ukraine. As someone who used to really be too into military stuff, any time you read about the Challenger 2 there was always talk about how invincible it was, how it has never been destroyed in battle, how the armour is so advanced that even what it’s made out of is a classified state secret. When you hear stuff like this for decades on end, it’s difficult to shake it even when one sees Challenger 2s torched in a field, and often these NAFO types will justify it by saying sure, it was destroyed, but that tank probably took down 30 T-90s before it was taken out.
In some places I’ve been in, the liberal rationale is that the governments are cowards for not providing more arms to Ukraine and should be giving at least double what’s already given, and that - at least in the US - they’re being blocked by the “pro-Putin” GOP from sending more.
It’s purely nonsensical.
The Lib has been scratched
In what way was the Khmer Rouge not a Communist party?
In literally every way that matters. A name is just a name, a political party can call themselves anything they want, and none of their politics were communist in any way.
Granted, you’re probably one of those dipshits who thinks the Nazis were socialist, given your fixation on names.
they would support somebody equally if not more bloodthirsty as Putin, so long as he was following the rules based international order while bombing a non-European country
They fucking do, he’s called Navalny, a man who had a campaign ad where he essentially called for the expulsion of all Muslims from Russia, and someone who I’m fairly sure also supports this war.
lost just six of their 105 Western-made tanks: five of 71 Leopard 2s and one of 14 Challenger 2s.
I love how they frame this as positive. The Leopard 2 and Challenger 2 are the current frontline tanks for the entirety of Western Europe, tanks that were constantly thought to be invincible compared to Russian tanks, and they got clowned on by significantly older Russian tanks. And these EU bozos still think they could win handily against Russia?
Edit: I’m also calling bullshit on this article for another reason. A comrade posted pictures of the burnt out tank lower down, and that turret is not still attached. It’s canted at an abnormal angle. The ammo cooked off and likely caused a relatively small detonation that lifted the turret just a bit, rather than a more spectacular turret flying through the air, but it absolutely sheared the turret off.
Worse, it’s part of a myth that if someone living in China ever reads about or becomes aware of the grievances in that copypasta, the government will send a goon squad to disappear that person immediately.
Which I always found just the perfect distillation of liberal ideology: China is bad for being a repressive police state, and so we’ll use that to ruin the lives of random Chinese people
Why would the USSR deliberately starve a fellow socialist Republic? Why would Stalin, a Georgian, have some kind of Russian chauvinist grudge against Ukrainians? Why would Lenin (Donbass), Stalin (Lviv), and Khruschev (Crimea) all expand the territory of the Ukrainian SSR while also trying to kill off the people inside of it?
My key question: Why would Stalin stop? If the Holodomor was a deliberate attempt to genocide the Ukrainian people, it would be to my knowledge the only genocide in the history of the world where the perpetrator just randomly decided to stop the genocidal actions and never again make any attempt to restart it for the next 30 years of his life.
My favourite bit about the video is that the tank column is leaving Tiananmen when this guy stops them, and I always get the impression he’s essentially asking the tankers to go back to the Square.
Naturally the lib framing is that he’s blocking them from entering the Square
I’m all for transgender rights.
I’m all for trans rights/
I’ve got pride flags in my yard/
I support those brave souls who step out of the closet/
But when it comes to trans athletes, I think that’s a step too far/
So love me, love me, love me, I’m a liberal
Yes, it is a complicated issue.
What’s complicated about it, name one single aspect about the issue that cannot be solved with “yes or no”.
What if an issue is genuinely complicated and cannot be resolved by a three word statement of position? Can there be no discussion around that?
That’s fine if it’s an issue that is worthy of debate.
We’re talking here specifically about the rights and survival of human beings, and in that kind of case, no. There is no room for debate. There is no complexity. You either support people’s right to live, or you don’t. There fundamentally cannot be a grey area here; any response that includes the words “yes, but” automatically cedes ground to fascists.
At the end of the day they’re still armed aircraft, so they will present some form of potential trouble to the Russians. Even if all you get is one sortie per aircraft, that’s still a good number of potential bombed vehicles/tanks or helicopters shot down.
As for countermeasures, the F-16 has been a known quantity since its inception in the 70s, and it was considered a wunderwaffen back then. The Soviets quite literally designed their modern jets and air defence to take out the F-16 and its contemporaries, so an F-16 wouldn’t be much trouble for literally any Russian SAM system, and would be eaten alive by any modern Russian jets.
Unfortunately I’m not much of an expert, just used to be one of those kids interested in military equipment and some quick and dirty Wikipedia and Google searches for some information.
If I do come across some particularly good information though I’ll definitely look into posting some!
China hasn’t made a single actual step towards invading Taiwan for reunification since the end of the Chinese Civil War.
It has been like 70 years of the US telling us they’re gonna invade any second now, and China has continued to not invade and maintain the policy of waiting for reunification to happen naturally.
But y’know go off, king