do_something
7mo ago
Poland alone had more Ukrainian refugees, with about one million still staying right now (depending on how you count you will get different numbers).
Total count of Ukrainian refugees was about 5-6 million, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_refugee_crisis_(2022%E2%80%93present)
Obviously, refugee count is far from only impact. Palestinians are not going to Europe. Unless someone plays 7D chess and really wants right across Europe to win elections.
do_something
9mo ago
I yearn for brutality and its reality.
rejecting this giant daycare
Feel free to travel to Somalia, Syria or Ukraine with brutality available to experience. Personally I am entirely not looking for more brutality in my life, thank you very much.
or have more agency than a medieval serf
They have. (for "happier" I do not really have enough knowledge to answer, but I also expect that)
Claiming that typical people nowadays have less agency than medieval serf is a quite wild claim. What kind of serfdom you compare to modern life?
do_something
21d ago
they went out of their way to say hypnosis porn is banned, what the fuck
I am not so surprised that someone wants rape via mind control be kicked out of their platform (or is it somehow something else?)
If the west is unwilling to respect your security concerns.
If Russia would invade and conquer Spain they would complain about security concerns posed by Portugal.
Russia's problem is that they want to be treated as superpower. They are not. That is why West refused to treat their demands seriously (and they demanded for example demilitarization of Poland and similar nonstarters).
Given the events leading up to the crisis, if you were Putin, what would you have done?
Try to unfuck Russia. Starting from stealing less.
Definitely avoid speedrunning population collapse in Ukraine and Russia by increasing scope of ongoing war.
Interesting that you seem to suggest coups can be justified in light of this logic.
Yes, for example I am 100% fine with couping genocidal leaders, also when they were elected as long as there is plausible less murderous alternative. (note: not claiming that this specific one was genocidal, just giving a clear example where it would be blatantly correct if alternatives were exhausted)
I am not treating democracy procedures as the highest virtue. Note that in this specific cases current ruler had no support from population. Whether Maidan was a coup or not is an interesting question BTW.
do_something
29d ago
I am curious, have they bothered to explain why temperature is growing? Or at least leave it as an open question?
Or are they denying that Earth gets warmer?
In normal sensate reality, heat only flows from hot to cold, but the greenhouse effect appears to involve an inverted heat flow within this system.
Nope. It is about how efficient energy transfer from Sun (hot) to Earth (cold) is and how it happens. Second law of thermodynamics is not violated.
This is an article written by someone that used to strongly believe in anthropogenic global warming
This is not a strong credentials at all.
do_something
3mo ago
Ditto for Obama's administration intentionally supplying arms to Mexican drug cartels
link for more info would be appreciated
do_something
2mo ago
Computers and robots will literally have 100% of the jobs.
No they will not.
source: the same as yours
do_something
7mo ago
the issue of AI and future technology transforming everything does seem to eat every other ethical concern if you think enough about it
If someone things that whatever goal is so important that all tool are justified and ethical concerns are unimportant, then it will not go well
do_something
10mo ago
Not the least considering Poland could have been much better for it, along with all of Europe, if they had aligned themselves with Germany against communism
No, it would not go better for Poland given that Germans genuinely consider Poles as subhumans.
what National Socialists recognized as capitalism in the hands of the international jew.
that particular stupidity solved nothing, was mistaken and resulted in several millions of innocent people being murdered
You pro-slavery, pro-mass-murder and pro-Hitler (ok, that is redundant a bit) apologia is spectacularly stupid and evil.
do_something
4mo ago
If we couldn't, there would be conscription.
but there is not, so there is substantial difference between USA and Russia here (and elsewhere)
fault the west for Russia taking drastic measures in securing its own national security interests.
Russia being imperialist and neighbours preferring to not be in Russia is not West fault.
In the same way if France would get silly, started desiring empire again and invaded Spain it would not automatically be Russia's fault.
Russia is not entitled to empire.
do_something
7mo ago
Hanania
Not sure how it generalizes but I read single thing written by Hanania. It was on topic that I know relatively well and what Hanania wrote was atrociously offensively bad take and extreme misinterpretation of reality.
do_something
7mo ago
cause prioritization is entirely fine, deciding that anything is justified to reach goal X is not
How many years of manual labor do you need to buy a dwelling for you and your family?
Dwelling of quality matching one that serf had? Zero, better is available for free and abandoned. I prefer to pay for superior standard.
How much free time do you have per day? Per year?
Much more than serfs. Much much more than median, but that is also higher than what serfs had.
How much control do other humans have on the way you live your daily life?
For start, I am allowed to leave settlement where I was born. I guess you can find axis on which serfs had more freedom but overall this claim seems extremely shaky.
Can you be more specific? Freedom of selecting how I will work, freedom of movement are fairly important to me and would not switch to serfdom unless forced.
Can you be conscripted in an army against your will?
Are you under impression that serfs could not be? And I am vastly less likely to die in war than serf and vastly less likely to be conscripted. And in case of conscription I am vastly more likely to survive.
How much do you pay in taxes?
Less than serfs, unless you mean some nonsense metrics like absolute tax value. Or you do not count mandatory work as taxes.
On any meaningful metric like tax burden I pay less.
How many hours do you have away from anybody?
As much as I want, unlike serfs (though if anything I would focus on family/meaningful connections with others - that seems much better target if you want to go "we are in worse situation than serfs")
do_something
28d ago
But why would Putin attack the Baltics?
For the same reasons as Russia invaded Ukraine? Both actual reasons and claimed reasons would be recycled.
do_something
2mo ago
I'm not totally a skeptic. I think the Fermi Paradox is a real, interesting problem. So maybe it is UFOs! I just don't know.
Without very strong evidence it does not make sense to treat aliens as a serious possibility.
do_something
6mo ago
Put millions of mines behind your barrier wall. So only people who breached it are going to explode.
Do not put random mines in Gaza or on fields.
There are also just pretty high upper limits to the utility of landmines in an open environment where your sappers would be near-constantly observed.
Just dump massive amounts of them?
do_something
7mo ago
What are you willing to call success, such that we can move on, job well done, no more entanglements and expenditures needed?
It is not a board game. USA will continue to have relations with all involved parties, it does not end.
...Like, what's your actual conception of how this is all going to roll out? Putin is couped by the competent, democratic statesmen who form his opposition and then Russia reforms into a functional capitalist democracy, thereby nullifying the threat of their considerable nuclear arsenal? Is that the road you're looking for?
No, not expecting that. I would settle for Russia defanged enough that they shut up about USSR-sized sphere of influence. And will stop thinking they can take on NATO or countries supported by NATO.
It appears that going through ginormous stockpiles produced by USSR may be needed before that will happen.
(obviously, settling for being corrupt and internally violent and sort-of-useful as sort-of counterbalance against China would be nice, but sadly they actually believed that they are still superpower entitled to rule over central and eastern Europe...)
do_something
10mo ago
The Germans considered West-Poles to be aryans. Hitler said of slavs that they were docile so long they had food and drink.
Are you now in full scale denial? Germans proceeded to murder people who were not docile.
Germans considered West-Poles to be aryans
Only some of them, and that was only subgroup anyway. And you were eligible if you cooperated with mass-murdering nazis.
do_something
28d ago
People saying "if we don't stop him now, he'll take Poland" are fabulists. This is not a realistic scenario.
Why you think that it is not plausible at all? If Russia invades Baltics and NATO effectively does nothing - why you think that Russia invading Poland is not a viable scenario?
I think that it is not very likely (fortunately) but it seems likely enough for me to justify supporting Ukraine.
do_something
1mo ago
I guess what I'm asking is: where the liberals at? Or alternatively, why has the proportion of racists increased dramatically since moving off Reddit?
I may kind of qualify?
While I appear on themotte: I have limited amount of time that I can spend on "someone is wrong on the internet".
And there is only so much that I will spend on arguing with handle abbreviated to SS about holocaust denial. It can be sort of interesting but only in low doses. (the same goes for other witchy topics)
Many other topics seems to be equally witchy in noninteresting way, where I have no competence or interest or are extremely USA-specific in a boring way.
And when something is on topic, it is often of so low quality that it is eyerolling.
do_something
1mo ago
by genociding them all (and we know that by this point he was evil enough to do so) and replacing them with Uruk-Hai
With what forces? Saruman was not keeping spare army in case he would lose.
And when Lotho sent his Men they got no change out of him. Tooks are lucky, they’ve got those deep holes in the Green Hills, the Great Smials and all, and the ruffians can’t come at ’em; and they won’t let the ruffians come on their land. If they do, Tooks hunt ’em. Tooks shot three for prowling and robbing. After that the ruffians turned nastier. And they keep a pretty close watch on Tookland. No one gets in nor out of it now.’
do_something
4mo ago
You want people to stay out of your backyard, stay out of others backyards.
well, Russia should not have meddled in Ukraine's backyard then.
There is overwhelming evidence that aliens are here observing Earth, and have been for some time.
No, it is not overwhelming.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
What if anything do you make of the fact that we are not alone in the universe, much less alone on this planet?
First is likely true but of limited practicality as we are unlikely to ever interact, for second we have no strong evidence for that.
We have evidence that they observed UFOs. This is entirely normal as in "it is normal to fail to identify some flying objects". But software bug, visual artefact, commercial plane are all more likely than literal aliens. Widespread conspiracy is more likely than aliens.
Show me investigation(s) by say USA, China, Germany, Russia (feel free to switch Germany to UK, France or something, and Russia for Iran or similar) and then I will treat it seriously. Or at least official announcement by USA president about aliens, not mumbling by some faction. Then I can treat it seriously.
do_something
7mo ago
Anyone with eyes can see that Western (American) media is a much bigger threat to native cultures than anything coming out of Russia or China.
That is quite wild claim, given outright attempts to destroy cultures run by both (see also "Ukrainians and Ukraine are fake and never really existed"). Chinese managed to run quite hard destruction attempt on themself and are busy speed running deliberately exploding population pyramid (recently they tried to reverse it, with poor results).
Still less terrible population pyramid than Poland, but we at least have not tried to achieve it deliberately.
And yes, Russia is corrupt and ineffective - but not so much to make them harmless. And Russification was repeatedly attempted by them with various degrees of success.
I doubt Belgians will exist as an ethnic group in the next 50 years
I am not sure whether they ever existed as ethnic group :)
Meanwhile Poland is just as white as the Nazi ethnic cleansing left it.
And that is both false and misleading (Nazis in Poland had very limited opportunity to murder non-white people on account of Poland having even less of them than nowadays - they murdered millions of white people). Hmm, now I wonder how many were murdered due to this.
Can anyone who is not Holocaust denier, with SS-man as nickname, can confirm is this summary above is true and accurate?
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