zephyrvs @ zephyrvs @lemmy.ml

just another anarchist

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I mean, it's an apartheid state killing and looting brown people, so that's typical US foreign policy.

The first uncensored variants are already on Huggingface though, look for The Bloke. :)

European countries are taking somewhat decent care of Ukrainian refugees, which can't be said for refugees that aren't white skinned.

And did you just collate military equipment with a humanitarian effort or am misreading that?

I'm in full support of any real humanitarian aid possible: Support their wounded and sick, support their people with basic needs (generators/energy, food, water, clothing, temporary housing, psych support etc).

Sometimes I'm really surprised at some of these questions you people come up with.

Edit: Typo.

Just the reply I was expecting, thanks for walking right into the trap where you conveniently failed to even mention the opposition part.

And I'm the troll.

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Even Foreign Policy isn't as one-sided as you are in their portrayal of the situation:

Concern over the decision to postpone Ukraine’s elections has come from both Ukraine’s friends and foes. [...] On the other hand, PACE President Tiny Kox said that while he recognizes the enormity of the struggle Ukraine faces, the country must uphold its obligations under international agreements to hold elections. “It is up to [Ukraine] how to solve this challenge,” he told a Council of Europe summit in May, adding that “there will be no complaints against Ukraine if the elections are not ideal. But if you do not hold elections, then everyone will have questions about you … without elections, democracy is impossible.”

Unless PACE is also just a Russian troll. 🤡

But indeed, elections during war/state of emergency are unconstitutional and highly impractible. Still funny you dodged the opposition point I made.

Can't organize forming Unions if all you can use is corporate services.

I'm in the same boat as you are. What has me really shocked is how my European friends are in full "support the troops" mode now. What's really surprising is how all their arguments almost always follow the same simplistic dualist thinking ("so you think Ukraine should just give up?", "but it's a democracy", "but pUtLeR will take Poland next", "you're just spurting Russian propaganda") and how people basically ignore all of your arguments just to call you a supporter of an "evil imperialist terror regime".

I wish people would've learned their lesson by abandoning the media that's obviously been lying to everyone for the past decades.

A democracy that recently announced that it postponed elections, a year after declaring the opposition parties as illegal.

This rhetoric reminds of the German military's questioning when pacifists refused mandatory military service. "You say you're against violence but what if someone threatened your family and you had a gun?" Great intellectual company you're keeping here.

The good thing about a 2-party system is that you can always point to the other party as to why things are the way they are. :)

A lot of people are propagandized as fuck (and I do not mean that as an insult on their intelligence or anyting, good propaganda works really well, even on smart people) and I don't think most of these comments would survive if the posters spent a bit more time thinking about what they're actually saying.

And you're not suspicious at all, as to why that's the case?

Who doesn't like their tax dollars being spent on killing people instead of socialist stuff like healthcare, education, social workers and government services that actually serve citizens.

As far as I know, the Kremlin stated that they never threatened South Africa with war in any way and they simply announced that Putin would participate remotely, so the question is moot.

Makes sense, though. Why escalate things unnecessarily if he can just attend remotely and have Lavrov take care of the backroom relationships?

I wasn't clear in my description. For me, Apple Music always kept on opening whenever I interacted with my headphones, e.g. by clicking on play/plause buttons, at least since macOS 10.5 in 2007. Might just be an issue on my side (doesn't look like it though), but I've been disabling iTunes/Apple Music for years by making it non-executable until Apple introduced System Integrity Protection, making it impossible to modify Apple's apps. And now I just keep NoTunes running. I can live with it eating 8MB of my RAM.

• Maccy for clipboard history management via simple shortcuts
• Stats for useful system metrics in the menubar
• LM Studio for easily exploring open source Large Language Models
• NoTunes to get rid of Apple Music launching when you connect your headphones
• Bitwarden for multi-platform password management
• Rectangle for keyboard-based window management
• Homebrew if you're a developer/sysadmin/command line user
• Fluent Reader to subscribe to RSS feeds

The CIA is not happy about the drop in US black budget funding.

I never disputed that.

More power to you comrade.