Are you joking? A few days ago the dipshit Ukrainian nazis were claiming the Russians shot down their own plane, you know because they’re just evil like that. I don’t suppose you’re hoping for the investigators to grab and show you 70 Ukrainian skulls and measure them with scalps just to prove the point either hopefully.
I give you the benefit of doubt, maybe there is a tiny chance you are not aware about sex tourism is what this story is about.
Jesus fucking forget reading the article, fucking idiot didn’t even get beyond the first half of the headline lol.
As a hb user for a long time now I’ll just add my own experience some of you may not realize.
Even though downvotes are removed it is still quite easy to see at a glance what the majority opinion is just by looking at the vote count. If you see for example
Comment A: +15
Comment B: +13
Comment C(reply to b): +2
I personaly think it is pretty damn obvious still specialy if C is a “hot take” and even more so if made at the same/close time. You’ll get used to it and requires more diligence from the reader, honestly voting systems are not even close to perfect. You’ll still see the same takes getting high upvotes and bad takes getting low upvotes.
Downvotes were maybe useful on a large site like reddit where you may wonder between completely different communities and may not know whats the difference between good/bad content but in a centralized community you should learn that difference eventualy therefore a lot of the arguments I’m seeing here(they were made exactly like this back then for us too) do not actualy take into account the simple dynamic; outsiders/wreckers/libs will easily downvote stuff they disagree, but they’ll never upvote. Therefore it eventually becomes just as easy to see these differences. Even though downvotes were removed, the dynamic “moderation” aspect still remains.
Just my 2c have fun.
From where any logical and sane person is sitting, only one side commited a historical blunder of actualy admitting to the media that the Donbas war was a “frozen conflict” when in reality there were already peace agreements between both sides.
Go complain to Merkel for making you look bad. You don’t have to believe in Russian good faith if you don’t want to, all that is necessary is to admit the actual reality of what happened and what was admitted by the west already.
All Russian negotiations rely on the agreement for Ukrane to give up a part of invaded lands. That is not going to happen, especially after Crimea in 2014. Russia has no claim to the lands and any negotiations that require them are a joke.
What are you even talking about? Seriously what part of terms agreed by Ukraine you didn’t understand? Please for the love of god actualy read about the stuff you’re commenting before replying, thank you.
Are you aware there not one but two previous attempts at negotiations that Ukraine purposedly sabotaged on their own? Are you even aware Merkel literaly admitted the Minsk agreements were merely attempts to buy time and prepare Ukraine for war.
All the more remarkable is her admission that the Minsk agreement served to buy time for Ukraine’s rearmament. “It was clear to all of us that this was a frozen conflict, that the problem had not been solved, but that is precisely what gave Ukraine valuable time,” Merkel told Die Zeit.
Previously, the Minsk agreement, which Merkel signed together with then-French President François Hollande, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin in September 2014, had been portrayed as an effort towards peace that the Russian president had allegedly later thwarted.
Now, Merkel confirms that NATO wanted war from the start but needed time to prepare militarily—an assessment WSWS has long held.
Russia negotiated in good faith while NATO never had any intention of honoring negotiation terms agreed by Ukraine.
Yes quite literaly if NATO stayed the fuck out of Ukraine there wouldn’t be any war, literaly once again, they purposedly broke the agreements which were meant to prevent war and de-escalate.
Minsk 1 was in 2014. Then there was a second Minsk agreement in 2015.
Please for the love of god don’t parachute into this war as if history began in February 2022 I beg you.
Isn’t mensa some absolutely cringe techbro shit? Still outside of that this is great to see. Also goes against the myth women don’t like tech.
Yeah I just looked and you’re right.
But to be fair here all of what you mention is obfuscated away behind another discussion page and their own “policy” which no normal person would ever know or even care about.
They could make it far more transparent to the visitor and most of these things could be included in that header.
Only two genders, male and political.
Only two races, white and political.
I’m not sure if regular libs have been migrating to Lemmy leaving only the worst posters or if they are just becoming shittier.
Oh it is pretty clear now libs were never going to actually support real climate activism in the long run, anything that actualy threatens to disrupt their comfortable lives and treats.
I think also its just the fact any real climate action is inherently against the liberal democracy that continues to fail despite constantly promising e.g all the climate accords. The libs will naturally see protests against this inaction as a protest against democracy therefore everyone will be declared eco-fascists/tankies or worse.
Respectfuly, it is painful to read shit like this from uninformed people.
Here try googling this “Ukraine counter offensive goal crimea before:2023-07-01”(without quotes), just 3 random examples.
Zelensky signaled Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russia is underway. Here’s what to expect
In terms of its goals, Kyiv has consistently said that it wants to recapture all of the territory controlled by Russia. In an address earlier this year Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that included Crimea.
“It is not an intention, it is our land. Crimea is our sea and our mountains,” Zelensky said.
Ukraine ‘ready’ to talk to Russia on Crimea if counteroffensive succeeds lol lmao
Ukraine’s counteroffensive: Goals, opportunities, risks
In September 2022, in his only programmatic paper so far, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Lieutenant General Valeriy Zaluzhnyi offered only a rough sketch of how a Ukrainian counteroffensive might look. In the paper, he spoke of “several resolute, ideally simultaneous counterattacks.” One strategically crucial target Zaluzhnyi mentioned was the Crimean peninsula, which Russia illegally annexed in 2014. In Kyiv, all agree this is the main direction Ukraine should focus its efforts. But they are also expecting surprises and deceptive maneuvers. Many, however, doubt Ukraine has enough equipment and fighting power to regain the peninsula.
Even western media tried to downplay it casting doubt from the beginning but the point I highlight is undeniably the planned goal was not achieved and it wont be achieved. Everyone would call that a failure.
But even the fucking Nazis can’t agree on their own narrative and they’re just coping now
Ukraine counteroffensive creeps ahead, measured in blood exactly 2 months ago, July 1st 2023
Last week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the counteroffensive was “slower than desired”, without getting too specific. Ukraine says it has recaptured a cluster of villages in operations that liberated 130 square km (50 square miles) in the south, but this is a small percentage of the total territory held by Russia.
Go tell Zelensky to shut the fuck up, oh wait.
Saying that she pushed the democratic party leftward makes no sense when Biden is continuing Trump’s policies.
You don’t even need to go too deep into the narrative honestly, just headlines like this are memorable enough to me.
April '20New York City reports a record 800-plus coronavirus deaths in one day
May '21 Bodies of Covid-19 victims are still stored in refrigerated trucks in NYC
Anyone that thinks the US handling wasn’t a humanitarian disaster just deserves to suffer the same kind of death honestly, fuck these idiots when the reality as reported by own western MSM isn’t enough to convince them. Libs that believe China COVID narrative are just as stupid as chuds and deserve the same fate.
I guess I have a low bar but TNG Q episodes were all very funny, Deja Q if I were to say #1.
I’m an atheist though so I wont get scared by ghosts/horror stuff, but I guess the “worst feeling” moment was actualy TNG Best of Both worlds. I think the realization that the doomsday scenario is actually coming, it is real and inevitable, our chances are extremely low, the very moody soundtrack made it a very sober experience for me the first few times I watched it.
In Trek we were lucky that our little corner had friendly/tolerable aliens and specifically that it was the Vulcan first contact.
Unfortunately in our reality we are 99.99999% for sure alone and the end result of all that suffering, if we manage to achieve near FTL travel we will just devolve into some nihilistic hyper capitalism, those stupid articles “this asteroid is worth 1 trillion USD in minerals” are already being published unironically.
I wasn’t too bothered about tech bros shanking each other in name of ethics in tech YouTubing.
That is a weird way to try and sound superior and dismissive about the original issue(GN video), like I too couldn’t care less about the smol cute business shit behind that waterblock company but even then the psychopathic behavior behind pretending you have an agreement, then screwing it up, then auctioning it and then still having the narcissism of “we auctioned not sold it” BS alone is enough to put him out of any serious business for life and honestly probably even legal action.
It was far beyond just “drama”.
The Brazilian Who Trolled North Korea During the World Cup - Tales From the Internet
Portuguese
The fake channel video ending
One video where the guy tells the whole story again at the very end he talks about the letter, how the DPRK embassy laughed and said it proves western media is shit. “In the end they even managed to take the high road” -“oof” their words lol.