Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake

-Napoleon Bonaparte

Trump wants them to stop fighting and allow the US to start digging for Ukrainian minerals. The Russians keep winning in clear defiance of this goal.

Americans don’t know that there’s a world outside of the US. They genuinely believe that the world will cease to function without them.

Chinese Spy submarine.

I wish I got paid half as much as the people paid to post pro-US content.

I’ve been playing the communist birds in Stellaris. I haven’t played in a few years, and a big new patch is coming soon. I had a hankering for a 4X game, and figured it would be a good time to play a game. The patch will probably take a while to stabilise, and I also wanted to see what had happened to the game in the last couple of years before the rework. I’ve also been dabbling a bit with The Pale Beyond and SpaceVenture. I’m not that far in SpaceVenture yet, but it seems like a solid rebirth of Space Quest. The Pale Beyond is like a choose your own adventure version of The Terror Season 1. I’m also not too far in that one, but I can see it getting really bleak really fast. I like it so far.

I liked the Nintendo Direct. The hardware seems solid, if entirely too big. It’ll probably just sit plugged into my TV though, like my Switch, so it’s not the worst thing in the world. And I have some excitement about maybe getting to play Bayonetta 3 at full speed. I’m surprised that the only big 1st party launch title seems to be Mario Kart World though. I’ll probably pick that up, and maybe the upgrade pack for Tears of the Kingdom, which I still haven’t finished. I’m less than pleased about paid upgrades and the pricing in general, but I’ll live with it.

I’m honestly not sure what you’re trying to imply in the first paragraph. Russia shouldn’t have mobilised their troops before attacking? They shouldn’t have given Zelensky one last try to make things right? 8 years was too short of a time for negotiations? Zelensky needed to go to war so he could look tough? WTF?

The second paragraph is more clear, but just seems to be liberal talking points. Which is fair, because I posted liberal sources, but the primary complaint seems to be that liberals don’t support the Russian SMO, so I shouldn’t? The war crimes thing is just fluff based on liberal propaganda. I still support the US’ entry into World War 2. Despite them being most enthusiastic committer of war crimes on the planet, committing the most horrifying attack on civilians in human history.

In regards to one of his slaves who refused to work, and was whipped for it:

“Your treatment of Charlotte was very proper—and if she, or any other—of the Servants will not do their duty by fair means—or are impertinent, correction (as the only alternative) must be administered.”

– George Washington, slave owner and racist.

First of all, congratulations on opening your eyes and being willing to listen. That’s not a small step. Please start with cfgaussian’s post, as it’s comprehensive and detailed. But I like to keep these two links handy for my liberal friends who call anything written by non-western people propaganda. They both basically say the same thing, but the first is more historical, and the second is more geopolitical. The second one is written by a former assistant secretary general of the UN who “escaped” the USSR.

https://archive.is/20250319094957/https://thehill.com/opinion/5198022-ukraine-conflict-disinformation/

https://www.meer.com/en/74782-will-the-ukraine-war-be-the-undoing-for-the-european-union

Personally, I’m entirely on board with the Russian “invasion”, and my support for it is uncritical. The war should never have happened, but now that it’s here, Russia needs to see it through to the end. They were left with no other choice.

Verhoeven was too subtle for these people. They’re fascists. They’re unlikely to ever change. Stalin should have kept going.

Or they will later say that it was a senseless tragedy that shouldn’t have happened. Like Vietnam.

Vietnam was started with a false flag attack. Because they wanted to forcibly remove Ho Chi Minh. Because they knew that if an election were held, he would win. Because they couldn’t stand the idea of a country halfway around the world having a government that they didn’t like.

So millions of deaths later, they’re like “Oops! Those poor soldiers had to do terrible things.”

These people are so infuriating. They turn a blind eye to every war that the west starts (including Ukraine). But when someone dares to fight back, they all band together to condemn whoever dared to do so. And no amount of documentation will EVER change their minds. In this case even western media is starting to tell the truth, and they STILL won’t have it.

I hate liberals.

These people are in a cult. It’s all there clear as day. Hell, even Israel told them to stop being such Nazis.

Buy some beads. Then claim that you now own the store.

That was the line that irritated me the most too. Imagine travelling halfway around the world to kill people who don’t share your values. Assholes.

Is “The Hill” going to be labelled as a Russian asset now? The article does indeed contain a shocking amount of truth, and completely contradicts the western narrative for the last 3 years.

I feel the same way about Disney “classics”. But I’m not an editor for a major newspaper writing about it like a frickin conspiracy.

Yeah. It really is. I still have my doubts about whether I’m trans or not. They’re fading, but still there. But again, it was a shift in perspective that made me go through with it. Even if the hormones didn’t do anything at my age, I would still get some curves in the right places. I would still be happy with that, even if not the dramatic change I wanted. Worst case scenario sounded pretty good to me (totally cis thoughts, right?). If the best case happened, I would figure out what to do then.

It turns out I wasn’t too old, and jumped at the chance to switch completely as soon as I could. And what do you know? The dysphoria is gone now, and I don’t miss my old life. I’m starting to really believe that I might not be cis. And I think my 60 year old self is going to be proud of me.

What made me do it was a change of perspective. I was really kind of mad that my 20 year old self didn’t do it. I thought I was too old at that point. But then I followed that logic, and my 60 year old self would likely be just as angry at me for not doing it. I was never going to stop feeling this way. I couldn’t change the past, but I could change the future. There would never be a good time to do it. I may as well get it done today.

As it turned out, it was the perfect time for me to do it. The pandemic lockdown made the early years so much easier. But I didn’t know that was coming.

In my case, I called the LGBT hotline at a local LGBT clinic and asked them how I got started on it. (Well, actually I didn’t come right out and say it. I just awkwardly said I didn’t know what I was doing. but the person on the phone clued in when I got excited she mentioned informed consent). She directed me to call a specific doctor who only dealt with trans issues, and told me that people would know what I wanted just by booking the appointment with her.

I booked the appointment, and somehow managed to get HRT without ever saying the word trans, or even really admitting to it. It was one of the scariest days of my life. But also one of the best.