The also really hurts the “Russia is indiscriminately bombing civilians” narrative. If this many missiles are getting through, then the numbers of civilian casualties would be way higher than it is if they were aimed at civilian targets.

I always love seeing .su in a URL

This is great timing, my mom keeps trying to use his videos as evidence whenever I mention liking the DPRK.

It doesn’t matter how perfectly you play the part of US stooge, if you sell soy beans to China you’re out. Apparently.

I personally am much more comfortable when people’s love for me is conditional. I like to know that it is based on real aspects of who I am, and thus would not be guaranteed to stay if those things changed in a way the other person was not happy with. If love is truly “unconditional,” if there is no change in myself that would make you revoke it, then do you really love me, or do you love the abstracted idea of me?

So… speaking as someone who is trans myself, I think the part of this that makes it difficult to make that last assertaion is… how do we know that there is an innate sense of gender (in the self) that is separate from the social construction of gender? I have a very strong sense of what my gender is but… how do I know that didn’t develop it at least partially from my interactions with the society I live in? I don’t know where my “sense of gender” came from, and I don’t know if it’s innate or learned. Either way it’s a very real experience.

Gotta love the nonsense combination of flags here.

Yeah, honestly I agree. I mean I kinda get it, but it’s a huge amount of posting for a (relatively) minor event. I logged in today mostly to see if anyone was talking about Poland and I was met with a barrage of posts about a guy in the US getting shot. I dunno, I’m not convinced he deserves the fanfare.

“Inspired by Ukraine’s scrappy resistance to Russia’s invasion in the early years of the war, veterans from America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan turned up to fight alongside Ukrainians.” Hm. Interesting.

I love how every article somehow similatinously mentions how “fast evolving” or “advanced” Ukriane’s drones are and then immidiately continues to say they are achieving basically nothing with them.

I’ve also been feeling this lately. That podcast was what originally pushed me to be ML, but over time I have noticed that they avoid taking firm stances on anything too controversial. I think they still have a bit of value for getting people started, but they also have the risk of getting people stuck in a sort of watered-down marxism.

That’s also a common way to say USA in Russian, although it’s pronounced “Ssha” (США). Maybe I’ll start saying СШАский.

Honestly I think this is the thing I needed to hear. Thank you.

I’ve noticed that ever since I started learning Russian people seem to trust me less when I talk about politics. As if knowing the language makes me inherently compromised as a source of information/analysis.

In a functioning post-capitslist society, people should be expected to work if they are reasonably able. (I’m not sure if this is really even right wing but I know a lot of people who would say that it is).

That’s true. I think broadly speaking it’s harder to overcome with liberals though, because they’re often less self-aware about having that bias, and not very used to thinking critically about their own perspective.

Appriacte the responses so far, they all seem pretty sound to me. Unfortunately I think that I had vastly underestimated how deep in the muck of western propaganda this particular group is (I just got sent a very long message about the terror of the soviet union and how everyone is still afraid of Russia because of it), so I think I’m not going to put any more energy into this discussion right now.