ChocoboRocket @ ChocoboRocket @lemmy.world

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The best way to tell if it's a false flag operation is to see how much this event will be spread in the Russian media.

They've lost tons of equipment and had bombings deep in Russian territory, mostly affecting their oil production which could be perceived locally as Russian military inferiority.

So when this starts being on blast for every channel and frequency - you can be sure it's a false flag.

If they bury this like any other Russian military failing, then it's probably real.

Edit: ISIS claims responsibility, but Russia is still trying to blame Ukraine, which is kind of a false flag?

If the US wasn't largely compromised by Russian assets, Tucker being one of them, would this war have even started?

Even from a non-American central viewpoint, anything that takes away from Russia asset pool is a positive, no?

This is looking more and more like a Ruzzian inside job to drum up war support, as is Ruzzian tradition

Should have done this when Traitor Tucker was in the neighbourhood smh

What do you mean?

Haven't you heard that any organization that doesn't heavily lean into racial and sexual hierarchy and oppression as it's entire operational mandate is now woke?!

Oh, you want a competent army that actually can focus on warfare, refining military doctrine, logistics, and training? Typical woke mind virus mentality, you don't even have the core ideology of oppressing women or minority preventing actual progress on anything. I bet you don't even know how gay your weapons are.

The only way to win a war nowadays is by being more anti - woke than your opponent.

Big fat /s if it's not obvious yet.

Rent doubles in 2022, then eventually drops by 7% by 2024.

Doesn't sound like lower-middle classes are winning to me.

Don't get me wrong, it's trending in the correct direction (finally). But people need to push hard until either the average/median workers wages raise, or rents fall until all the costs of shelter are 30% or less of salary.

Ideally there is a strong public housing presence that heavily depresses the profitability of being a landlord.

I gotta say to all the people whining about the free Palestine protesters

THIS IS EXACTLY HOW YOU GET A RESULT

Yes, Canada not selling arms to Israel isn't going to do much of anything on the ground - but that's not entirely the point.

The point is, when you know your government is doing something horrible (that they still want to do) protesting the individuals who make up government absolutely has tangible results.

If we want our politicians to actually prioritize healthcare, education, infrastructure, cost of living, national defence, unions, wage gaps, break up monopolies/oligopoly there is only one path.

Take a page out of Palestinian playbook and collectively organize against government officials. Where they live, their meetings, events, their families etc. Protest the politicians existence and go after them in court constantly

Make the individual politicians and their families lives miserable until they act like they give enough of a shit about you that you're satisfied with their efforts.

Canada is one of the most politically apathetic yet wealthy countries on earth. We collectively let ourselves be robbed and crushed by neoliberalism, and have next to 0 civic comprehension or participation.

The belief that voting or paying attention to politics and government action is useless is blatantly wrong.

Every current problem is a direct result of intentional action by politicians and government policy, and the only way it happens is voter apathy.

We deserve the government we have because we allow them to act unchecked.

Nokia invents patented technology they use in their products (hint, not a cellphone)

Another company illegally uses this technology without a license

Nokia sues them for using their proprietary systems without permission

"Nokia is such a parasite"

I have no problems with anyone who doesn't force or coerce their beliefs on anyone else

Regardless of your personal actions or beliefs, you are being lumped in with extremists. If that confuses you because you personally feel innocent, there is an expression that goes something like

"If there are 9 people at a table and a Nazi sits and eats with them, there are 10 Nazis as the table."

Tolerating or being indifferent to abhorrent behaviour is the same as rewarding/endorsing abhorrent behaviour.

As for the definition of evangelicals, there's the literal definition

"Evangelicalism (/ˌiːvænˈdʒɛlɪkəlɪzəm, ˌɛvæn-, -ən-/), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that emphasizes the centrality of sharing the "good news" of Christianity, being "born again" in which an individual experiences personal conversion, as authoritatively guided by the Bible, God's revelation to humanity.[1][2][3][4][5] The word evangelical comes from the Greek word for "good news" (euangelion).[6]"

And then there is the applied practice of evangelicals who spend considerable wealth influencing politics to turn America (and the world) into a theocratic state with the goal of converting everyone and doing away with anyone who resists their goals.

They are uncompromising because they believe they act on God's will giving them unquestionable holy authority to act as they see fit as long as it pushes their narrative and goals.

It's not my job to educate you on your own religion, if you're lost as to why anyone would despise evangelicals even though "they're not all like that" that is up to you to reconcile.

There might be a subtle difference between a front lines Nazi and Hitler on the 'innocence scale' if you want to split hairs, but to everyone outside that group, a Nazi is a Nazi (who were all essentially evangelicals as well, surprise surprises)

if you don't believe me, here's something to read since you like proof/evidence so much, but I doubt you'll ever challenge your own beliefs.

You can absolutely explain the ending.

It's just that you will also be wrong

That's because it is the closest thing to fascism. Especially when religion bleeds into politics.

Don't be shocked that your faith of complete, uncompromising, control of human behaviour based on a collective, personal conclusion that you have all the answers to everything is perceived for what it is.

Believe whatever you want in your own head, and live your life according to whatever belief system you want. The second you try to extend the control you place on yourself to anyone else is the line between faith and fascism

If you don't believe in abortions? Fine.

If you believe others should follow your example? Fine.

If you force others to follow your idealogies through control of legal/political systems? not fine

Y'all never seem to understand, nobody cares what you do as long as you keep self imposed control to yourself. But apparently the whole point is to "spread the love" through non-optional participation, which is what makes you so dangerous.

If your faith really was all that goodness you claim, people would actually want to join! But they don't. So you force them. Jesus would be so proud ❤️

Totally fair point - there's more than one type of Christian and not everyone in the faith has homogeneous opinions or actions.

Unfortunately (fortunately?) for your faith - the ones steering the ship politically are hyper right wing convert /submit or die types.

Until Christian denominations meaningfully split or works against the goals from evangelicals/Christian nationalists, you're effectively sitting at the same table and will be judged accordingly.

I'm pretty sure religious groups think every other group is as focused and dedicated to conversation as they are.

If they were left alone in a room with a child (or anyone really), their immediate action would be to determine how Christian the child is, test and ensure their faith is all consuming, or immediately begin the conversion process if they aren't already their personal brand of Christian.

They assume this is absolutely normal, expected behaviour. so any group that is different from them, must be doing the exact same thing, but with other idealogies.

Like how they hate Islam and Sharia law while endorsing 99% of Sharia law practices under a different name. Or they think every gay person has a gay agenda and needs to make every child gay because religion knows children are the easiest to manipulate.

They are obsessed with someone else being a groomer while being the most organized and dedicated groomers on the planet.

Full quote for visibility

"Defense lawyers for Trump and the others argued, among other things, that the indictment charging them with that specific count did "not detail the exact term of the oaths that are alleged to have been violated,” McAfee noted in his order.

McAfee agreed, saying that the language in the indictment accusing the defendants of soliciting elected officials to violate their oaths to the U.S. and Georgia constitutions “is so generic as to compel” dismissal of the charges."

I understand dismissing a charge of "failure to uphold and oath" when the accuser cannot establish which part of an oath was broken through specific actions in a legal case.

I'm not exactly familiar with the law, or the oath in question.

Hopefully oaths become more legally binding with updated, specific, terminology and do away with generic, vague platitudes that are entirely open to interpretation.

I originally typed 'Arguably the worst thing we've done' but the more I think on it, humans are generally terrible.

If it wasn't religion, it'd be racism, sexisim, geography based hate, abilisim, left handedness, phrenology, etc etc etc. Religion is just another lubricant to placate docile individuals, and justify the actions of hate focused individuals

I'm certain we could all live together in peace, but we're so tribalistic that the second anyone says their group is better than X because Y the majority of the population seems to lap it up at nearly any expense.

I wish we could spring forward forever!

Lots of states and provinces are already aligned, afaik once it passes the US house and Biden signs it, Canada tags along and we all spring forward forever, which would be amazing IMO

From google

The bill raises the threshold for which the executive branch can approve an arms sale of major defense equipment without congressional notification from $14 million to $23 million

So assuming they maxed it out and only did exactly 100 transactions, that's 2.3 billion going to IDF

23,000,000 * 100 = 2,300,000,000

Hopefully the white house is doing this for Ukraine 10fold and running a circuit around the current Russian-American Congress

No, no, no. Dig up stupid

I received one for a dormant account, but am Canadian so I couldn't use their IPO insider advantage even if I wanted to

Makes me think this thing is gonna Drill immediately after launch, take everyone's lunch, and eventually rebound (or get bought by Meta/Alphabet/Microsoft/Apple on the cheap)

First Harambe, now Flaco.

We're two already horsemen deep and nobody seems to notice