Red_Ass_Badger

Not him. The establishment kicked me out.

Thanks for the info. As an American, even using open source software, I just assume my whole shit is compromised. I have stopped hiding my tracks and recently begun being very vocal about my positions both at home and abroad. I have turned off VPNs and I have welcomed them to my home with the caveat that I will make Ruby Ridge look like a trust worthy day care center.

I respect the need for privacy. I demand it for myself and my children. But I know that I don't have it and that the only way I will ever get it again is talked about in this video. I speak in 'code' kind of. Not because i want to be alluring. But, because I have learned to when facing the algorithms on the front I am used to.

Also you can play it directly in the site. No need to go to youtube. Edit: I stand corrected.

It is about the fact that non violence has never been successful in resistance and even those people that preach non violence use violent revolution to defend their position.

Fascinating. This reminds me of a conversation I have with "pearl-clutchers" sometimes. There is a concept in science fiction of the "scapegoated child" in which some utopian or striving civilization sacrifices a child to a higher power/entity and essentially lives in absolute paradise for it. This can happen in a vareity of ways. I.E. Strange New Worlds: "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach" Or a Darker version, "Torchwood: Children of Earth." I try to remind them That far from sacrificing a single child, we sacrifice hundreds if not thousands daily to merely maintain the hellscape nightmare that is capitalism.

So presumably, This will be the wests candidate for regime change? They may not have given it to Trump but they did give it to colonization.

Thank you! I will check it out.

No no, I mean just because Ukraine never stated they were "this thing" That joining a western cause is by extension a colonial cause. So the difference to some extent, from Ukraine and From Israel, is saying the quiet part out loud and of course. That Russia can fight back.

To be completely honest I don't know what I viable source would be. I for sure do not have it from the horses mouth the way I thought I did. I know that I read that number on RT, however, it looks to me like RT might have been running a story from a British source because when I look now I see this one. And unless it's coming from an officers mouth it's gonna be hard to defend as a source.

https://www.rt.com/russia/588507-british-estimate-russia-casualties/

Lots of claims from both sides regarding "leaks"

But I suspect that is all just backdoor misdirection and propaganda games.

There is this org that is clearly run by western institutions but they do seem to be intent on providing a counter narrative to the standard American one.

https://www.russiamatters.org/news/russia-ukraine-war-report-card/russia-ukraine-war-report-card-oct-8-2025

Could you point me to information or sources that you trust regarding the conflict? I have found it increasingly difficult to trust anything I hear these days.

Something that always fucks with me about this is that even by Russia's own admission something like 1 million Russian soldiers have died in the war. Those are WW2 numbers! A million casualties in a modern fight is absolutely insane. And the only reason we don't call it a genocide is that they are armed and share cultural and blood ties to the people they are fighting. I say that Hamas was fighting for freedom when it did what it did and now an asymmetric power dynamic is leading to their destruction. That has a lot of the same characteristics as how the Russian/Ukrainian conflict started and why it continues. I am devastated by the 400 thousand or more dead now in Gaza. But somehow, for some reason that I can only conclude is, "Well they're Russian, it's how they do it." excuses it as merely war and not "war crimes" True Gaza is a concentration camp and Russia is not. True that Russia is in the fight and not merely "resisting." which is all the Gaza can do anymore. But Jesus H. 1 MILLION!

Boxer can't catch a break. I really loved this movie. I'm gonna have to sit on my thoughts with it for a while. It definitely sparked some joy and sorrow, and I have questions about other's interpretations. But, it struck one cord for me in particular that has been weighing heavily on me as I continue to seek revolution at home. People fundamentally suck. No matter what one might do to try to help them they'll kick you into the dirt and dumb your body in a shallow grave. It's is supremely ironic to me that America managed to convince it's working class, people for whom their job is often their entire identity, that a party literally "for the people, by the people." is their worst enemy.