GarbageShoot [he/him] @ GarbageShoot @hexbear.net

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Zelensky has openly declared many times that the war would not end until Crimea (a territory Ukraine did not control when Zelensky was elected) was taken back, despite there being no hope of such a victory for the Ukrainian government. He has created a set of parameters where, if he is consistent with what he says, there will never be an election for as long as he survives.

For someone who was elected on the basis of promising to take a more conciliatory stance to the breakaway states, perhaps to avoid exactly the conflict he lead Ukraine into, this shit cannot be reasonable.

Would you be surprised to find out there weren't WMDs either? If you want an extensive set of answers, I'd recommend using the search feature, but secondarily there are many different "askX" comms to source it from

It's literally quoting WSJ. Some liberal thinktank complaining about it is not relevant, even less so a think tank so vapid as to tacitly equate centrism with objectivity.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-CJB-22543

Really? A No True Scotsman is really bad style.

NTS is close to the opposite of what you are talking about. Asserting that words have definitions is not, in fact, a fallscy.

Wall Street Journal, a notorious Hexbear front to push sissypee lies

Hexbear at least does not have the ability to downvote

Idk, it seems like OP is working on a pretty flimsy epistemology

These are literally reports, what the fuck are you on about?

Can you make a coherent argument from their position, or do you not understand your own boogeyman?

Nations are a sociological formation that objectively exist in the world. Even fucking fascists have better education than you, and not because their education is impressive.

You are not immune to propaganda

Are you telling me you have never in your life heard the term "Yellow Peril"?

Pretending western media isn't censored, for one

I think ultimately your problem is that ideas that were normalized to you on

If you deny something that's actually not a real thing, you're not a genocide denialist. So...no.

You're just completely ignoring the epistemological problem here.

Are you familiar with the case of the Nayira Testimony?

English seems to be their second language, tbf

"Viva la vida" meanwhile is "ball the ball", which just sounds like someone trying to remember that Kid Rock song

I think balling for playing basketball is pretty old slang too

This is functionally a case of affirming the consequent or something similar. "Ball is life" is really expressing something more like "there is no life worth living except one involving ball", so "fuck it we ball" is needed to keep living a worthwhile life if you assume that, but it's not really an endorsement of living itself.

It's like how, if I believe "drinking is the only reason I live", saying "I want to drink" only endorses "I want to live" incidentally at best, rather than the two statements being equivalent. It's like, in a mundane context, saying you want to eat. Eating is a condition of living, but the desire to eat is not identical to the desire to live, and a suicidal person can still be hungry and eat not to live but merely to relieve the pain of hunger. So too can the alcoholic lifestylist drink and the baller ball for the sake of their enjoyment of the respective activity (or aversion to how they feel without it) without there being a direct desire to live as such.

For me, definitely this essay:

https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/

But if you demand a book:

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/Engels_Socialism_Utopian_and_Scientific.pdf