The army psychologist at Nuremburg would have something to say about that

Rip Bozo

If liberals didn’t have meaningless smug platitudes with no substance, they would have nothing whatsoever with which to drown out their denial.

Get bent

You know you’re allowed to swear on the internet, right? Cry louder, white supremacist propagandist, I think there are still some people who’s eyes aren’t rolling.

In the depressingly binary Marvel movie worldview of the liberal, the only reason not to uncritically kneel down and start kissing the sonnenrad is if you’re already kissing a framed photo of Vladmir Putin instead. Really goes to show why the US “Defense” Department was so eager to sponsor those flicks.

You and your type

When your worldview has no fascist undertones baked into it whatsoever and you’re definitely the good guys

Being a nutjob is when you don’t erase all your pre-2022 memories of all the western reporting about Ukraine’s Nazi problem

Propaganda is when you assert that Asian people are people

One more round of sanctions bro

And there’s that western heel turn, right on schedule. Between this and that “Ukraine is testing the patience of it’s allies” article yesterday, it’s pretty clear that US media has now begun manufacturing consent to decouple from Ukraine. We’ve been shipping them insufficient quantities of ammo for a while now, so I guess with the stalling out of the counteroffensive, the Pentagon has evidently decided that the battle lines have solidified, and the final closing of the money spigot, at least militarily, is at hand.

Most likely some diplomatic deal will be struck in the coming months to preserve the remaining Ukranian territory in a stable enough state for Blackrock and all the other speculators to reap the profit of all their new acqusitions. My heart goes out to the common people of Ukraine, the last ten years have been brutal for them (the coup, the Banderite resurgence, the killing of dissidents and labor organizers, and this meat grinder of a war), and it looks like with “radical privatization” on the horizon, the next ten years are gonna be even worse. I hope they can organize for some quality of life against the megacorporations planning to turn them into a banana republic after the war.

My second concern, and it’s a concern that’s never talked about until it’s too late, is the blowback. Intervention is never without consequences. America’ funding of fundamentalist militants against the USSR in Afghanistan created Al Queda. Western intervention against Saddamn Hussein (who’s Baath party itself served as a western intervention against pan-Arab nationalism during the Cold War) sparked the Gulf War. The Gulf War set the stage for our invasion of Iraq, and our invasion of Iraq created ISIS. So what happens after the war, when all the leftover Azov guys, these staunch nationalists, look back at the west and see (correctly) the political bloc that put their government into power, sent them juust not quite enough materiel to win the war, and then abandoned their military to the Russian Federation and their people to venture capital? Much has already been written about the dissapearing of American weapons in Ukraine into Europe’s various black markets, and when you combine that with the deluge of newly impoverished, traumatized and radicalized Ukranian combat veterans with an axe to grind against the west, you’ve got a hundred European 9/11s just waiting to happen. Pretty solid chance that 5 years from now, someone shoots down a passenger jet with a secondhand Javelin.

I like to take a two-pronged approach to trolls when we have the numbers: one person responds in exaggerated good faith for the benefit of the audience, while the rest swarm like pirannha. I try to fill whatever role is unfilled in the moment. If it’s already a shitfest, I become Communism Morpheus, explainer of worlds. If someone is already explaining worlds, I become another harpy in the swarm. For them, arguing becomes like trying to do a math test while 10 people take turns snapping rubberbands at you.

At that point I like to drill into the uncomfortable logistics of their maximalist opinions (are Russian people themselves evil? Why? How about their kids?) but yeah, it usually goes nowhere good

Depends on the subject and my mood. I generally like persuading and arguing though, a lifetime of experience has created a little diseased segment of my brain that’s always itching for a fight

“You are testing our patience by neither killing nor dying fast enough.”

Every conceivable social arrangement is slavery except actual slavery which is fine

There’s no such thing as marital rape because when you marry a person you have a martial obligation to give your spouse sex whenever they want it. It’s literally Catholic doctrine

Critical support to checks notes Nick Fuentes for publicly coming right out and saying that rape is Catholic doctrine

Top tier answer lmao

Hexbear’s a good and active left unity instance

I have some bad news for you about the current condition and borders of Ukraine