Ask yourself what the alternative is and what a successful outcome for Russia will enable for Putin!

Ask yourself if there is a possibility of Ukraine winning.

"I refuse to change my offensive language despite people telling me it is offensive. I think I am cool because I am using abusive language to make people feel uncomfortable. I am proud of being exclusionary and my self worth is tied to being offensive to others."

Is anyone really complaining

Yes. The op is bothered by the use of casual racism. Many people in this thread are saying that racism bothers them. Does racism not bother you?

Being open to other points of view is only good right?

No some points of view are not worth considering. Bigotry and racism, just like the viewpoint that its good to eat your own excrement, are view points of no value.

White knighting and telling others they are doing it wrong suppresses what should be a chill creative club.

Wanting to not be exposed to racism and racist slurs is not white knighting. Just because this specific racial slur doesn't target me doesn't mean I am unaffected by it. It is called empathy. Even if I was a sociopath I would be against all racism because I don't like to experience racism happening to me. I would be against the racist term "Ricer" because I don't want to normalize any racially slur because I may be the next target.

Racists and offensive language are suppressive and any community supporting those things is not chill.

"nothing is good if I'm not hurting someone."

I do think the balance is fine. My concern is the Time line. A bad take haver should have a comment or 2 to try to adjust their tone and prove they are open minded before getting drown in PPBs.

In the long run, it means revolution I guess. But in the meantime, how do we stop old ladies from getting murdered over pride flags (to use a recent example)? Cristofascists and those that profit from them winning elections legitimizes their hate. It empowers the twatknuckles that support them. Even dumb crap like calling COVID the "Chinese Virus" spurs on hate crime.

Has voting stopped this?

How do we deal with that?

Organize with other people who want a new system. Convince other people that nothing is going to get better by voting. Make connections with others groups who are doing the same. Build/join a network so that you/they know when critical mass is reached. While you wait for revolution, do what you can in your local community to make people's lives better. This will also help pull people to the cause.

Also be ready to be a partisan because fascism rides electoralism to power so things are likely to get worse before they get better.

85 meters That's about the size of an American football field. That's a bit more than a few meters, you inbred Tankie.

American education system really showing its worth here. An american football field is over 100 m if you are working with a margin of error of +/-15% at the start of your calculations your results will be dog shit. Do you know how many meters are in a KM? Do you know how many KM there are between the front line and the sea of azov? 85 is a few meters and in this context it is a drop in a bucket.

You'd need like 300 million dollars worth of missiles provided 1) a Tungsten BB is big enough to set off a Anti-Tank mine 2) they all work correctly and hit their target, 3) none of them get shot down by Anti Air defence, 4) the mines don't get redeployed and 5) USA has stock/makes that many of a specialty missile

Then once that is all done you have a single path that is 85 m wide to drive down and Russia knows exactly where to aim its artillery.

Its a stupid idea. Ukraine has the best minds the west can come up with. they don't need your smooth brain to come up with ways to send more Ukrainians to a sure death. They are doing fine without you coming up with multi million dollar flops like this one. Go back to losing at HOI 4 on easy while using cheats.

Well sure but if a lib reads a thread where everyone starts bullying someone for asking questions they are just going to think the community is a bunch of assholes.

You are stupid for saying this or even having the thought in your head.

A HIMARS blast is a few meters wide at best. Each rocket is about $240,000. There are probably dozens of km of mine fields between the front line and the sea of azov and Russia can deploy mines remotely to fill any gaps that Ukraine makes.

Is it wrong to pirate movies

NO

Don't hate us because we post like gods gift to the internet.

You just cant match the raw power of our posting skills and that makes you feel weak and pathetic. As it should.

Dude! that sucks. Have you tried telling her that gold and realestate are the only sure bet? Start telling her lies about a guy you talked to on the internet who invested in actual physical gold and used the profits to buy his house outright.

The people counting the votes see the dissent. Low voter turn out delegitimizes the system. If only 30% of people voted it is easy to say the system is corrupt and that outside pressure is justified. If 30% of ballots are being thrown out it calls into question the entire system.

If "bad country" reported that 30% of their ballots were discounted the USA would slap sanctions on them and start banging war drums.

If you aren't working for yourself you are getting ripped off.

Thanks for this. I saw a Lib get smashed pretty hard over on hexbear yesterday. They certainly didn't word their initial comment nicely but there were genuine questions that pointed to a lack of understanding. A few of the responses were just agro and started fights with the lib. A few of the replies were good faith answers to which the lib replied nicely.

It might feel frustrating but we need to start nice even when dealing with someone who starts in an aggressive tone. If they don't respond to calm reasoning then its fair to bring the hammer down and in some cases that is what they need.

Police and banks don't care about drug users. Crypto only makes things easier for dealers. I bet more crypto gets used for trading CSAM than for drugs.

Any legitimate vote is defacto consent for the system. The biggest stand you can take in a voting booth is spoiling your ballot with obscenities. It is abundantly clear that "harm minimization" doesnt work. Voting for a lesser of 2 evils is still voting for evil.

So you are against prostitution in practice but not in theory?

Crypto as an extralegal means of moving money is totally useful.

How is another way for billionaires to avoid paying taxes not a scam?