porcupine

joined 11 months ago
[–] porcupine@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 10 months ago

A cursory Wikipedia search for Jenkins and LaHaye confirms both were evangelical Christians from an early age.

[–] porcupine@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The Republican Party hasn’t needed voters to win for at least the last 30 years.

[–] porcupine@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The former definition is being openly stated by the Israeli president, prime minister, and senior government officials as explicit justification for years of illegal settlements and apartheid.

The latter definition is a purely speculative excuse from Euro-American liberals that ignores that Palestinian Jews existed before Zionism in order to pretend that Jews can’t exist as part of a multiethnic society.

[–] porcupine@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 10 months ago

I’ve had 3 ereaders and the only real changes I noticed between my oldest and newest is water resistance, lighting, and barely noticeable resolution improvements. Upgrading won’t fundamentally change your reading experience.

[–] porcupine@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 10 months ago

HSAs are mentioned towards the middle in listing the complications of FSA variants

[–] porcupine@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 10 months ago (4 children)

you based your entire opinion here on “whatever the opposite of America is”

Pure projection. I treat Russia as an ordinary liberal democratic state led by ordinary human people with rational self-interested motives rather than a cartoon villain with an army of mindless robots. My refusal to treat them as fundamentally evil, irrational, or inhuman doesn't suggest that I think they're "good", selfless, or beyond criticism. It means I judge them by the same standards I'd use to judge any similar state with a similar political and economic system in similar circumstances.

I don’t need to like how America acts to also not like how Russia acts.

If you're an American as I am, then your taxes funded the 2014 coup of Ukraine, the ongoing war on Donetsk and Luhansk, sabotaging the Minsk agreements, and prohibiting a negotiated end to the ongoing conflict. You're not some unbiased neutral observer if you're pretending to claim "both sides bad" while actively funding and voting to maintain the war and block every local attempt at peace. Absent continuous US intervention for over a decade, this war never happens.

I don't care where Russia and Ukraine decide to put lines on a map between them. That's exclusively up to the people that actually live there, and Euro-Americans like me aren't entitled to an opinion about it. I care that my government stop using money generated by my community's labor to murder the people that live there.

[–] porcupine@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (8 children)

Believe it or not, history didn't actually start in 2021, and Nazi collaborators didn't all suddenly disappear in 1945 after enthusiastically carrying out the holocaust. Many German Nazis went right back to work at NATO, the West German government, and various US intelligence and military projects. The Ukrainian fascist organizations, Stepan Bandera's Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists among them, that directly participated in the murder of over a million Jews, Poles, and communists operated continuously through the 2014 coup where they overthrew the democratically elected Ukrainian government with the backing of the United States. The coup government had been waging continuous open war on Russians living in Luhansk and Donetsk for 8 years before Russia came to their defense at the explicit request of their democratically elected governments.

Of course, you either already know this and don't care, or you're going to choose to ignore it to substitute with some cartoon fantasy about how there was peace in the world until Putin and his orcs arbitrarily decided to blacken the land with their unclean hordes and wipe out the good, clean, pure Men of the West for absolutely no reason and with no strategic objective beyond embodying the metaphysical concept of evil.

[–] porcupine@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 10 months ago (10 children)

“Suddenly the Fuhrer is fascist just because he supports the Vichy government’s right to sovereignty over France?”

[–] porcupine@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 10 months ago (40 children)

Germany continuing their longstanding tradition of funding Nazi collaborators to kill Russians.

[–] porcupine@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 10 months ago

"love it or leave it" says the "anti-authoritarian"

[–] porcupine@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Weird, monarchies traditionally love dissent

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