What’s the point?

“You better believe we have weapons you can’t defend from, like, at all! We could totally take on NATO, easily. So like, don’t, like, even think about helping Ukraine any more!”

Russia (and/or the Soviet Union) has been doing variations of that to Finland since WWII.

That’s basically why it took us so fucking long to join NATO, because the argument used to be “uuuh, we can’t afford to piss off Russia!”

But since they obviously don’t care about their own capacity for war and invaded Ukraine, we thought, “fuck it, why not”.

So Russia used to have a bit of a buffer with Finland but since we joined, Putler is having even more heatenings.

Thus this sort of saber rattling.

Seeing as we’re on .ml I wouldn’t be surprised if Davel or Dessalines or one of the others just deletes this as some sort of anti-Russian discrimination and bans me.

Oh and just to remind Vanja. Don’t try to come over our Eastern border. #(Unless you’re alone and escaping Putlerism, but you should do that before the remining is done.)*

The Way is Shut!

A bit of a tangent but just today I watched a short about the history of what British colonialist did to the Hijra in India.

Basically they went over there and went “more than two genders? THAT’S ILLEGAL.”

Yet nowadays we have transphobes always reciting how it’s somehow a woke new thing to not have the sexual sensibilities of a Victorian British person.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexuality_in_India#Colonial-era

earned through their labor

The people who are on hourly rarely have yachts. Fishing boats, perhaps. Sailboats are more rare, but the random fanatic boatbuilder? I’ve seen it on occasion. But yachts? Nah. That’s some intergenerational wealth going there, inherited something or rich parents back loans which enable the person to start their own company to rip off the labour of others. I know a bunch of them, born with a golden spoon up their arses.

People don’t get rich working hard. They get rich by stealing the profit from the hard work of others. I’m sure you know this.

It is very arbitrary, sure.

I think a main thing is people who describe their boats as yachts usually aren’t going from paycheck to paycheck.

Sure, man. Sure.

Boats are typically considered yachts when they are or exceed 24 meters.

A potential buyer of a superyacht with a net worth of around €25,000,000 might consider that 10-30% of their net worth invested in a used superyacht is something that they can reasonably afford, whereas potential buyers of new yachts might want to have a net worth in excess of €50,000,000 to feel comfortable.

It is estimated that around 130,000 people may have this level of wealth worldwide although experts reckon that only a few thousand individuals are actively involved in owning, building, buying and selling the approximately 8,700 motor and 1,750 sailing superyachts over 24 metres that have been built.

I think the earlier guy was asking if he’s ever left the US because “travel widens the mind”, but when people like that leave the country, they don’t even really need to “leave the country”. A private plane, constantly driven by his own people, eating his own food, etc etc etc.

Like Trump can go anywhere in the world and still not leave his cosy little McD and Fox&Friends bubble.

The initiative was first proposed by Charlie Weimers, an MEP from the right-wing European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), as a symbolic measure “to declare that our right to freedom of speech cannot be extinguished,”

Well no, right to free speech isn’t curbed here. The people are just reserving their right to kill off hypocritical dogwhistling would-be fascists.

Yeah it’s kinda annoying that the “real things” happening this world all have to be treated that way.

Like on a tangent, Trump lies incessantly, we know it. But… we still pretend like that’s going to have any repercussions for him, just because lies often (but not that often) do in our every day lives. You can’t just make deals with businesses and then tell them to fuck off. That’s a rich people prerogative.

It’s just so annoying that the “highest class” of geopolitical discussion is "well i can’t actually be sure that smelly guy in the elevator with us is the one who farted, even though there was only two of us in there, but like, he’d get mad if I told him straight up and people would question me probably so I’ll just probably not say anything. "

Or even if one did say “yo dude stop farting” the farter would just keep shitting his pants out loud while saying “idk what you’re talking about, fake news”. And then there’d be a rush of tankies yelling at you about how it isn’t actually that smelly at all and no-one can be sure that it wasn’t actually me who’s shitting my pants, even when the shit is leaking out from the other guy’s pant leg, pooling by his shoe.

And then when you speak up against it you’re put down as “being too sensitive. That’s just how things are”

Fkin normies eff

Cameras? Hamas.

#/s

I respect any Russian choosing to leave Putlerism behind. Hopefully they are.

If I had dollar for every time I read about how “Russian propaganda doesn’t exist btw (also reality has a well known Russian propaganda bias)” or something along those lines, I’d be a rich man.

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-disrupts-covert-russian-government-sponsored-foreign-malign-influence

If you’re a bad actor, ofc you’re gonna gravitate towards platforms without a centralised authority who could stop you from spreading your bullshit.

But you already know this. ;>

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Fuck Putlerites and Russian minions. Cowards the lot of them. Like Davel@lemmy.ml for instance

Honestly, are you on krokodil or something? Do you now know how references work?

The Yle article has no quote “disproving” any “chosen narrative”.

First off, what fucking “narrative”, you schizoid fuck?

Secondly, I’m sharing news from trusted national news sources. I’ve repeated that like a dozen times. You still do not understand journalistic credibility? Is it just that you can’t understand the concept of credibility, or does that not translate from your native language?

You’re like a toddler, screeching “NO NO NO NO NO NOT TRUE BECAUSE I DONT LIKE IT I HATE IT ITS NOT TRUE AND ITS NOT TRUE BECAUSE I SAY SO”

While I show you reports from the most trusted newspapers in Sweden and Finland, which just quote reports from the actual library from which these works were banned.

And you say that didn’t happen, because… you don’t like it.

You can probably see why people would be laughing at you. :D

The sources are the trusted nationals newspapers.

Several of them.

Yle and Hufvudstadsbladet.

Are you getting a bit flustered? 😘

Sure yeah, make it about America. It’s not as if it gets enough attention.