100%. i could even argue the US has extorted them into that position and that the infamous “could you do us a favor though” call was not the first or last time that a US political entity has used Ukrainian lives to manipulate politics in the US. i cannot, however, bring myself to condemn a people trying to survive, as two northern empires manipulate them, for any specific choice they make as a collective to survive. i see a lot of parallels in the choices they make to the Irish Republicans and to my own experiences coalition building as corporations slowly poison the land me and my neighbors live on. sometimes you make choices you don’t like because it gets you through to tomorrow.

i do not anger at Ukraine for taking the allies they take, i anger at the empires of the global north exploiting a people for their own gain.

Free Palestine, Ukraine, Sudan, the Congo, and Latin America

soviet/post-soviet special forces. they do dangerous forward operations before infantry comes in to secure an area. their US equivalents would be like the Green Berets

https://powerpantsrock.bandcamp.com/track/fuck-ice

!confidently_incorrect@lemmy.world

!ukraine@sopuli.xyz is in an interesting (bad) place right now, i think. i was accused there of calling for a genocide against russians when i was actually trying to discourage another user, who expressed fascist tendencies elsewhere on the net, from encouraging exactly that while ALSO not suggesting that Ukrainians don’t have a right to resistance. another admin around here was also banned for posting an analysis of how russian propaganda mechanisms work to manufacture consent to continue their illegal invasion, with the mod saying that this was sympathy for russia.

i am empathetic to that maintaining a community about Ukraine and centering Ukrainian perspectives is hard, nearing impossible, right now. i would even go so far as to say that the moderation team there is doing a fair to good job, and that those challenges are compounded by the prevalence of people on the threadiverse who take an unnuanced “anything the US does, i take the opposite position.” however, in cases like these i think they hit a wrongheaded position, leading me to conclude with a mixture of CLM and PTB.

the world outside our little digital network here is filled with shades and colors that are not conducive to black and white thinking. the Ukrainians i talk to want, first and foremost, to exist in a state of freedom where there is peace and justice. they however feel that given their standing within the world economic order, that means finding safe haven amongst one of the three northern imperiums. for over a century, that meant alignment with russia. following the murder of Georgiy Gongadze, this was no longer viewed as a position that could be sustained. thus began a process finding alignment with another northern power, the US, the EU, and NATO. this arrangement has not been ideal, or even at all times favorable, but it was the path the people i talk to felt gave them the most chance at eventually finding some degree of independence from any of the northern empires.

i think you are QUITE right to assess Ukraine’s position in priority alongside israel and Iran. many of the people in the Black Sea Basin and southwest Asia view these as deeply interrelated world events, with the US’s support for Ukraine vastly drying up as it shifted its focus to helping israel conduct a higher degree of genocide in Gaza, and evaporating entirely to conduct a war of choice against Iran. that Ukraine’s government aligns itself with israel and against Iran is not a universally popular position, and is with the people i talk to seen as an expedient for short term survival that must be adjusted for in the long term.

idk how to wrap up this long rambly comment.

i guess just All Power to All the Motherfuckin’ People

google gives you this data in one week blocks if i remember correctly

which is why i wish they wouldn’t label one paradigm “natural”

it’s become the default on mac, windows, and gnome, much to my dismay. i even had to install a gnome plugin to get sanity back

the most common strain of anarchism these days is anarchocommunism, which is by and large a movement that is defined by defiance of all hierarchy and broad agreement with Karl Marx on matters of economics as they apply to hierarchical violence

One point of order, you lost slrpnk.net’s defederation of hexbear.net

G O O D

Geriatric Oligarchic Paedophiles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crappie

apparently it’s spelled with an “ie”

there’s a long history of cops making petty abuses of the power over others they’re granted, and of those additional powers not making their communities any safer. to me this headline reads as “most predictable thing imaginable has come to pass”

here’s my advice:

1. dismantle the surveillance state
2. abolish the institution of prison
3. abolish the police

i thought this was gonna be “he was feeling crappy”

and just in case anyone doesn’t know, this is what he’s done all through his real estate career. he was well known for playing games of chicken with potential business partners by coming to a quasi sense of agreement and then reneg. the only thing that kept him afloat there for a while were his ties to organized crime

Dr Fauci killed 1 million americans by creating the concept of cold. Also, cold doesn’t kill people so the advice we wear coats was irresponsible

just so people know, in case this is unfamiliar, cops have been doing this to indigenous women for decades, particularly in the Pacific Northwest, Western Canada, and near the black hills (Montana, the Dakotas). what ICE is doing is not new, it is an expansion of this violence to more target groups. i advocate for the abolishment of ICE because the USA’s modern day slave catchers cannot be reformed. their existence has been engaged in the latin american genocide since they were established. further, though, i need people to understand that the abolishment of ICE will not represent an end but a beginning. we need societal reform beyond the elimination of just one racist police force

Nestor Makhno identified as a Zaporozhian Cossack. The legacy of the Cossacks in modern Ukraine has been significant to both the left and right wing movements in the region with ultra-nationalists placing emphasis solely on the aesthetics of the self governing military nomads, and anarchists placing an emphasis on the governance structures innovated by Cossack groups, particularly surrounding the settlement of Lviv and the Bug river basin where Cossack identity was divorced from ethnic heritage and instead placed into notions of mutual aid through fraternal orders and community defense. Given the events that followed in The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic after the crushing of both the Ukrainian People’s Republic and the Makhnovshchina i can sympathize with the people there having a distrust of the man who sponsored the Red Cossacks to do that crushing. I can also understand the warriness of uplifting Cossack identity since the ultra-nationalists place such a heavy emphasis on the aesthetics of those groups and their concerted efforts to erase, in particular, the Galitzyen Cossacks and the Zaporozhian Cossacks’ legacies

i’m going to say the 7th generation, but for a different reason. you chose it for community, i choose it for continuity. those consoles were the standard targets for games companies for an uncommonly long time. consoles that came before and since haven’t matched that. some of this, i think, is due to them kind of being architectural dead ends. that was the last console generation where the hardware wasn’t just PC hardware but a little bit different. the PS3 in particular is an incredible feat of human ingenuity with second hand PS3s being hard to find at reasonable prices since the US military depends on them for nuclear research. but all this cleverness made them too expensive to develop for corporations seeking to design hardware to sell at a loss to play games sold at a markup.

but during the era of the 7th generation? it was incredible. whichever console you chose you would have so many options for games that would give you incredible and unique experiences. and the hardware exclusivity was an actual real constraint sometimes with developers knowing they were making a PS3 exclusive or a 360 exclusive targeting that hardware to get every drop of performance out of the hardware, whereas now it’s just a form of manufactured scarcity since new consoles are on the same architecture as PCs nowadays.

the games that have come since that generation also haven’t had any fundamental paradigm shifts in how they’re played that makes them more fun either. there have been some paradigm shifts that have made gaming less safe and healthy to engage in with companies shifting the brain chemistry of their players by creating addictive structures in the rulesets and paradigms of the games.

in conclusion: 7th generation good, industry bad