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Ah, sweet, we're doing Judeo-Bolshevism again. That one's a classic.

Uh, based alert?

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I don't know why but when I was younger the mental image I got whenever I read "slams" in a news article was the person in question actually, literally slamming the palm of their hand on a table.

No, for a few reasons.

The first is that military life just isn't for me. I figured this out back when I was still a patriotic lib and wanted to join the US military and ultimately didn't because I realized that just wasn't a lifestyle I could acclimatize to. The thought of potentially having to kill people while people try to kill me also didn't help.

Second is I'd probably have to learn Mandarin and I've heard it's very difficult for English speakers to pick up on which, y'know, makes sense. I struggled enough trying to learn Russian a few years ago. Learning a whole new language just requires so much more effort that I'm just not prepared to sink time & energy into. Especially if I have to undergo military service on top of that.

Third is as much as I love China it's unfortunately not very progressive on the queer rights front. There is a generally conservative attitude toward women and queers in China that is very disappointing. It's admittedly getting much better and I'm sure it will eventually outpace the West at some point but right now there are many places in the West that are still far ahead of China on these issues even if a lot of the West is regressing or in some cases never progressed at all. I just don't want to jump from the frying pan into the fire seeing as the biggest reason I'd want to leave the US is to escape the conservative hate cult.

It is of course absolutely horrible that people have to flee their homes in the face of war. I empathize with any Ukrainian family that has directly suffered as a direct consequence of the Russian invasion and the infliction of this suffering is why I can't be completely in support of Russia's actions, which I realize is a controversial take here.

But unlike this KKKlanadian whose view is clouded by racism & ignorance my empathy extends to all the victims of the conflict - including the ethnic Russians that were being slaughtered in the Donbas for the eight fucking years between the US-backed coup and the Russian intervention. See, I might not agree with Russia's decision to invade but I do understand why that decision was made and I can't fault them for it in the slightest even if it results in what I think is unnecessary amounts of death and destruction. The West may have baited Russia but Russia didn't need to take that bait. Regardless, when your own people are being massacred just across the border I can understand if it's hard to watch and not do anything. Honestly I'd probably have made the same decision if it had been me.

But of course the thought of them never crosses his mind because his entire worldview is filtered through the despotic Western narrative control of privatized media. The traumatization of an entire nation only matters when it's a Western-aligned nation; with no thought or care for those on the other side. Does he harbor the same resentment for America after the horrors we brought to Iraq and Afghanistan? Almost certainly not.

If you're going to have empathy for human suffering it can't be restricted by the borders of nations, the boundaries of cultures, or the extension of languages. That just makes you a fucking racist hypocrite.

PETA is to animal liberation what Anarchism is to proletarian liberation: passionate & well-intentioned but ultimately insufficient & misdirected.

Of course Anarchists don't kidnap people's pets out of their backyards to euthanize them, mass murder animals while calling it an action of 'mercy', lying about practices like sheep shearing and claiming they're harmful when they're not, trying to guilt-trip people out of eating meat by comparing meat eating to cannibalism, or having ties to the CIA as most US-based NGOs do.

Among many other things.

PETA as an idea is cool but the org in practice is hypocritical, moralistic, and it making a sudden branch out into terrorism wouldn't be all that far-fetched in the near future. Like with most things if we want to improve the lives & living conditions of animals we need theory & practice - not adventurism & shame campaigns.

"Venezuela is a distraction from the Epstein Files!" is just liberals betraying the fact they're ignorant of all the previous attempts at regime change in Venezuela since Chavez took power. They think this is a Trump plot and not an American one.

Putin is a Disney Princess, apparently.

I'm just completely unphased by this stuff by now tbh. The depths of depravity the ruling class go into behind closed doors really is just the worst thing you can imagine. The secret lives of the capitalist class are literally just Salò or A Serbian Film unironically. Like they're actually exactly that evil. These are literally the people who run the West and once you understand & internalize that you can't do anything but strengthen your resolve against these sadistic perverts and everything they stand for.

Once met a Polish nationalist who unironically thought Russians were Swedes LARPing as Slavs and using the Rurikids & the origins of Novgorod as evidence.

Racism really does make you dumb.

Russian: sneezes

Western Media: "RUSSIA ENGAGING IN BIOLOGICAL WARFARE"