wayfarer
10d ago
I think the issue is that a lot of the history as taught and then used as propaganda are exaggerated and weaponized to create a propaganda machine that uses the mythology to demonize even relatively harmless ideas or to justify wars to destroy movements or to prop up bad ideas.
this seems remarkably optimistic view, that only "a lot of" is affected
It furthermore creates an idea that there was only one major genocide in human history and it was uniquely evil.
oh that is definitely silly AND happening
It gets worse when someone tries to define Holocaust as limited to murder of Jews.
It means that any ideology that you can connect to something the Nazis said or did is now to be suppressed and if possible eliminated by “right thinking people” everywhere.
which has side-effect of whitewashing Nazis, it took quite a lot of time for it to happen but dedicated effort managed to push it and continues to push
(Neither of above implies or agrees with fact that Holocaust was faked, WW II was used to absurd degree in Russian propaganda and absurdly twisted to the point where it detached from reality, see convenient forgetfulness that Soviet Russia entered war as ally of Nazi Germany. This does not mean either that WW II has not happened.)
wayfarer
11d ago
Because of course the alternative is to figure out the correct, respectful way to tiptoe around the conversation over whether Jews control the American government/assassinated Kennedy
I admit that primary use of themotte for me is to remind me that replacing leftists with rightists likely will not reduce overall stupidity levels at all.
wayfarer
11d ago
Are you as doubtful about other mass murder? Hutu/Tutsi? Circassian genocide? Polish Operation of the NKVD? Are you also doubtful about Holocaust part where they murderer millions of people who were not Jews? Was Wola massacre also faked?
Yes, uniqueness and speciallness of Holocaust is overstated. At the same time
industrial state putting huge resources into mechanically killing a slave labor force while it's in the middle of an existential war for existence just doesn't add up
is easily explained by people sometimes irrationally hating others. What Hamas would do if they would industrial state and nearby Jews? Do you really think that either Third Reich or USSR was close to optimal use of human resources (even taking account solely economic benefits)?
Do you think that also gulag system and Great Chinese Famine was also faked? Do you think that Great Chinese Famine was result of things smarter than Holocaust?
wayfarer
11d ago
As Temple Mount is part of Jerusalem you cannot target Temple Mount without targeting Jerusalem.
wayfarer
13d ago
In some cases it was not result of well meaning people.
It was result of some idiots angry that fallible system failed to predict storm/earthquake and suing operators of alert system. Obvious response is to flood system with false positives to avoid false negatives.
Not sure how to solve it.
wayfarer
13d ago
Basically, I would be fine with being woken up by an alert which has a 10% chance to save my life.
I would be fine with 0.1% Definitely with 1%.
But I got so far thousands of warnings and none was even close to that.
wayfarer
13d ago
Hence the recent proliferation of militarist neocon feminist girlboss politicians all around the EU, for example
which ones? nothing obvious comes to my mind. Sanna Marin and Kaja Kallas were mentioned in other post - any more? Or is it all
It never turns out great.
Yes, underestimating enemy is idiotic (for latest local example see invasion of Ukraine, where it repeated multiple times in various fashion, starting from attempt to have a quick victorious invasion)
wayfarer
14d ago
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AFAIK noone claims that fireworks are deadly for dogs - rather that they are distressing and unpleasant
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AFAIK Ukrainians (1) care about people hurt in attacks (2) they took serious actions to reduce rate of this happening
I smell a psy-op.
likely it is not psy-op but deranged dog-lovers treating them as children and/or people caring about dogs and valuing them over enjoyment of fireworks
plus impotent and ineffective attempt to target assholes launching fireworks at utterly random hours
why you expect psy-op?
wayfarer
14d ago
IMHO neither of people looks repulsive (taking into account that maximally uncharitable stills were taken)
I can assure you that less flattering Trump/Putin/Macron/erc images can be found it and it also proves nothing.
wayfarer
14d ago
This would act as deterrence in a way that targeting a major city would not
last time I checked Temple Mount was in Jerusalem, a major city
wayfarer
14d ago
"has no arms production" is distinctly different from "has arms production not relying at all on imported components"
"has no arms production" is distinctly different from "has no large scale industry" (which was not true either last time I checked)
You claimed "has no arms production" which is simply a misleading mendacious lie that you put there on assumptions that people reading it are idiots that will believe you.
wayfarer
14d ago
that has no arms production
this is simply a blatant lie or reveals you have zero knowledge of situation
Ukraine in fact produces weapons. Ranging from "lets zip grenade to civilian drone" through various boring but crucial stuff like ammo and ending on robots, drones and long-range missiles.
And some funky stuff, like what recently took out multiple Russian bombers in long range attacks. No matter how you call it, things that result in multiple burning bombers are weapons and AFAIK these special containers are neither produced by NATO nor orderable on Temu or provided to them by Mossad.
Have you really missed naval remote-controlled boats that resulted in Russia losing naval war to navy that has no active traditional surface vessels?
Please stop commenting on things where you lack basic knowledge. Or, if you are at al qualified in this area: please stop lying and trying to be propaganda repeater. At least find better propaganda materials or learn to add qualifiers so your claims are not obvious lies.
wayfarer
14d ago
When it was fighting somewhat competently last time?
WW II was won by them but it is debatable whether it counts as somewhat competently overall (lower-level generals were sometimes really good but Stalin's track record is hardly stellar as military leader and Russian approach in general was hard to me to describe as competent - with death toll so high it is hard to describe it as anything else than fuck-up). 1920 war against Poland was shitshow. Chechnya ended in victory but it was hard to describe as fighting somewhat competently. Afghanistan has not even ended in victory. Their recent adventures in Syria were extremely competent if you care about war crime high score or as provider of hilarious failures.
I guess that anti-guerilla pacifications in occupied Poland were competent militarily, but debatable whether outcome was overall good even if you care solely about Russia. Circassian genocide was AFAIK fairly competently done but it is debatable whether it really counts as fighting.
wayfarer
14d ago
the equptment is NATO
Ukraine mostly fights with USSR leftovers and NATO spares. And unwilling Russian donations are in many areas comparable to what NATO supplied.
They are fighting an enemy in which every operation is run by NATO,
drop "every" absurdity and we can start to talk
thousands of NATO mercs are running things on the ground.
really? really?
They have effectively beaten NATO in a conventional land war.
They have problem beating one of the most corrupt and poorest countries in Europe. Yes, Ukraine has small-scale help from NATO countries that gave in the same comparable amount of money to Russia via energy supplies payment and some equipment, but nowhere at scale that should have been done.
If we would have Russia vs NATO in conventional land war, they would be stomped.
If you look for more balanced matchmaking, go for Russia vs Ukraine and Poland. Given how close Ukraine vs Russia is, that should have been far more hilarious.
wayfarer
14d ago
wanting to reduce the enemy people to servitude or slavery is common
I think that this counts as genocidal
wayfarer
14d ago
Yes, whether Ukraine and other parts of former USSR are actually really part of Russia is quite central to this conflict.
wayfarer
21d ago
There's some rationalization later about how bribing kids does not render them incapable of doing things without external motivation as adults, and indeed it might be a solid way to push them more towards having intrinsic motivation later.
I am doing my job mostly because I am being paid. Without this external motivation I would be doing something else.
wayfarer
27d ago
Offered, not gave. He also offered gold statues of himself and night clubs with Palestinian woman providing sexual services (see that Gaza strip AI video posted by Trump).
wayfarer
27d ago
Yes, I know it does not exactly make sense whether you have this ritual step, but that is how it was treated for long time.
Vietnam war was weirder, if that is any help. For some bizarre reason USA decided to outright not attack SAM sites because Russian soldiers were shooting at them from there.
AFAIK this was perpetrated largely by locals but induced by certain Belgians - it is not like death rate without them would be the same as in modern Europe, but certain Leopold definitely made things worse in quest to enrich himself
I am perfectly happy to blame him for this mess (with disclaimer that baseline number of deaths would be quite high, applying noble savage myth here is a bad idea)
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