HomerianSymphony @ HomerianSymphony @lemmy.world

Goodbye. I"ve discovered Bluesky and it is 1000% less toxic and CIA-infeste

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Not until 2063.

What does it tell you that those are the same side?

Thirty-three countries have recognized it as a genocide, and we’re waiting for a ruling from the International Court of Justice (in a case brought by South Africa).

the second statement of yours doesn't work.

So you’re arguing against self-determination for the inhabitants of the Donbas on the grounds that the territory historically belonged to Ukraine. (Which does seem to be the attitude of the Ukrainian government.)

I don’t think that’s a good argument against self-determination. And that’s how you end up with separatist violence.

What if the cereal is committing genocide?

It was a rhetorical question

It wasn't rhetorical.

Ah, cool. I'll check out that app. (I think it must be specific to that app. I'm on desktop right now and I don't see any option for tagging people.)

I used to use RES Reddit Enhancement Suite back in the day, and it had support for tagging people. I found it quite useful.

(I mean, I get it. We live in a 1984-style dystopia where I can’t question our very questionable government without being accused of being a traitor and secretly loyal to whichever foreign power is considered the enemy this week, and I should consider myself lucky that I don’t end up in Room 101, or Guantanamo Bay, or the Embassy of Ecuador in London. Yeah, I know.)

Well, I specifically said I don't have any particular sympathy for the Russian government, but whatever.

How are you tagging people? Is there a third-party software for that? I'm not very good at using Lemmy.

I can’t access the link you posted. So I’ll take your word for it. But I can’t see how many votes it has or what their reasoning is.

You might have the poster blocked. You can see it if you open the link in an Incognito window. It has 15 upvotes.

I definitely have you marked as maybe pro-Russia

First of all, even if I was pro-Russia, that doesn't mean I'm a Russian asset. Assets operate under instructions and get paid for it (I assume).

Secondly, I'm not pro-Russia. I mean, I'd like to think I appreciate Russian culture in the same way I appreciate all world cultures, but I have no particular loyalty or sympathy for the Russian government. (And I don't even know much about Russian culture. I've never read Tolstoy or Pushkin. I don't think I could name a single Russian dish apart from borscht.)

I think that Ukraine is a puppet of the Western powers, and I think that the US and NATO provoked the war in the Donbas. I don't think that makes me pro-Russia. If I was pro-Russia, then I would want Russia to win the war, and truth is I don't care which side wins the war. I just want it to be over. Ideally, I'd like the people of the Donbas to have a referendum about which country they'd like to be a part of, but neither Ukraine or Russia are going to let that happen.

I also think a lot of the information we're getting about the war in the Ukraine is blatant propaganda. Like, we're supposed to believe they killed 10,000 Russian troops last week? Then why are they freaking out about 1,500 troops coming from North Korea? (Even if North Korea sent 10,000 troops, that's still only one week's worth, right?) Again, I don't think that makes me pro-Russia. That makes me pro-truth.

I am also pro-BRICS, because I support a multi-polar future for our world. I don't think that makes me pro-Russia anymore than it makes more pro-Brazil or pro-Ethiopia. (I don't see BRICS as an anti-Western alliance. Also, Brazil is a Western country.)

I will be upfront about all of this. I am not hiding any of it.

"[...] No leftist/proper radical/cool tough guy who is very cool and tough like me would ever accuse Tlaib of being a Russian asset, so if you do, I am drawing myself as the Chad Leftist and you as the Soyjack Centrist” It’s the kind of openly silly opinion that, if you say it openly, people laugh at you, so OP simply assumes it

Are you saying that I'm (sneakily) assuming that's it's ridiculous to accuse Tlaib of being a Russian asset? (I'm not trying to paraphrase you, I'm just genuinely not exactly sure of what you're saying.)

I do believe it would be ridiculous to accuse Tlaib of being a Russian asset. I am not being sneaky about that. I will openly say it. Here, listen to me say it:

No leftist/proper radical/cool tough guy who is very cool and tough like me would ever accuse Tlaib of being a Russian asset.

Which comment? Perhaps you could link to it.

OP is also pushing the assumption: “Everyone is either 100% paid by Putin directly, or 100% totally fine.”

That's not something I believe, and I don't see how anything I've said assumes that.

I haven’t seen that response unless someone has credible connections to Russia, like Trump or Stein.

I've seen people on Lemmy suggest that the Pope is a Russian asset.

https://lemmy.world/comment/12053409

Also, I've been called a Russian asset plenty of times, and I'm even banned from some subs for supposedly being a Russian asset, and I have no connections to Russia at all. I've never been to Russia, I have no family from Russia, and I don't speak Russian.

It was a question.

I'm familiar with what that is. I just don't think I'm doing that.