Billiam

I’ve been relistening to the Hardcore History episodes about World War 1, and Dan Carlin makes an interesting observation: Türkiye gets so pissy when you call what the Young Turks did the “Armenian genocide” but genocides are so common throughout history that it would be notable if a country didn’t commit one. Israel is also mad about calling what they’re doing in Gaza as a genocide, insisting that the 40,000 Gazans who have been killed were obviously Hamas, even 70% of which were women and children.

“Genocide” and “Nazi” are now odd words in English- they’re concepts that certain deplorable people have no qualms with idealizing and adhering to, as long as you don’t call them that.

If it doesn’t come from the Armenian region of Türkiye it’s not a genocide, it’s sparkling ethnic cleansing.

I mean, once all the work that immigrants do now stops getting done, someone is gonna have to do it. And slaves are cheaper than Americans who might demand a livable wage.

Typical right-wing rhetoric:

Go back to the country you came from!

Also:

If you don’t love this country, leave it!

Not everything has been proven to be true, but nothing has been proven to be false.

Look, if all those cultures didn’t want the British to safeguard their stuff, they shouldn’t have let themselves be invaded by a technologically superior colonizer who drained them of their resources and enslaved their populations for the glory of a metal hat worn by inbred tea-drinking assholes.

It’s all their fault, really.

Hey, at least one Nazi did go to prison.

…of course, things went real bad for France not long after that.

Okay, we won’t.

…wait, you meant Russia!?

For people who hate the greed of the pharma industry, it’s really amazing to see just how little logic it takes to destroy their arguments:

You know how we know ground-up rhino horn doesn’t cure your dick problems? Because Pfizer or GlaxoSmithKline or Bayer aren’t spending billions on rhino sanctuaries.

Turns out, when people have information, they can make informed choices!

Brazil is not banning the Internet.

Brazil is revoking the permission of a company to do business in Brazil because it refuses to follow Brazilian law and is openly defying a court order.

God, you techno-feudalists are fucking weird.

Why not have the cameras on a VLAN that has no Internet access?

The article isn’t really clear. It says a 100-man “brigade” who are a PMC and aren’t Russian military went to BF last year, but that there are 300 Russian troops there now.

I don’t think a 100-man “brigade” is going to make too much difference, trained or not.

He only said it once though. The second time was just a crater where he stood.

Yeah, it’s not like Russia has ever illegally detained foreigners before!

For the first time in a long time, sunflowers have been spotted there recently.

Stop sending people to kill me. We’ve already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle… If you don’t stop sending killers, I’ll send one to Moscow, and I won’t have to send a second.