You're right that it was in 2014 not 2015 as I said in my comment, but to say that Russia "first invaded" and started the war then is also incorrect. The ethnic Russians in Crimea who asked for Russia to intervene were responding to the Euromaidan coup which was a significant escalation from the far right in Ukraine. If there had been no intervention from Russia there would probably have been massacres of ethnic Russians.
FunkyStuff
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It's understandable to think Russia just started the war in 2022 out of nowhere if you lived on the regular internet this whole time and had nothing but mainstream liberal sources. If this was Instagram or a more "normie" website, for lack of a better term, I'd be totally empathetic with libs who think Ukraine and Palestine are comparable. But being so incurious as to still believe that's the only version of events despite being on Lemmy, where it's pretty easy to spend 5 minutes reading what the "tankies" have to say and understand there's a different historical narrative where the war started in 2015, is just so sad.
Or another way to think about it: having borders and ports instantly means "minding your own business" implies minding other countries' business.
There's no elaborate argument here, it really is as simple as "the term Cowbee said is vague and gets applied selectively has a clear definition" and the definition may as well just be "a tankie is a communist who supports bad things"
it's the principle of the thing
now if only there was someone around who could unionize that brewery...
What's a good one to use now then? I have been on DDG just because I know it's better for privacy than Google and lets me mostly turn off the AI garbage.
I wonder what % of people who still use Google are tech literate enough to switch to DDG or some other search engine once Google decides to fully start putting the ads inside the AI results.
guys I'm thinking maybe any attempt at talking about human rights or duties that isn't firmly grounded on the world as it actually exists and its material conditions is prone to producing silly statements like this 
The Kingdom of Heaven will be exactly as it is now. Heavensgaters don't really have beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like on a child's toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded. Heaven isn't change -- not even incremental change. It is control. Over yourself and the world. Exercise it. Look up at the sky, at the dark shapes of UFOs trailing Comet Hale-Bopp flying across. Ask yourself: is there something sinister in Heavensgate? And then answer: no. God is in his heaven. Everything is normal on Earth.
French pervert sub: but actually my libido is part of the basic relations of production
Update is out next Thursday.
They added act 4.
They're removing the cruel difficulty (previously you had to run through acts 1-3 twice consecutively, now you run 1-4 + 3 small "interlude acts" that serve as fodder to level you up)
They added new tiers to support gems and removed the restriction that stopped you from having multiple of the same type supporting different skills.
They added a new auction house system that allows trading buying items from other players with no need for them to accept the trade, so if an item is listed on the trade site you may always buy it instantly.
There's a lot of balance changes and additions to the crafting system, too. It's looking like a biiiiig patch.
time to line up for the slop!
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(obviously it's ok that this user got banned, it's just the switch2boycott/andjusticeforall/basedball or whatever person who has said transphobic things in the past, that's not my point)
In the post in question, there was never any indication that the girlfriend character was not a girl, and I hope that the Hexbear mod team can at least recognize that it's possible for a person to both be a girl and nonbinary at the same time.
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