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   mcv (mcv@friendica.opensocial.space)'s status on Thursday, 05-Mar-2026 09:01:39 JST mcv

   in reply to

   @lxo @randahl @genziana @benroyce

   There is a massive, massive difference between facts and lies. You're suggestion that it's all the same is post-truth propaganda. Very popular in the age of Trump, but it has no place here. You may want to believe that your feelings trump facts, but they don't.
   

   dismissing entirely any one side's narratives is also a propaganda narrative

   
   Debunking lies is something else, though. And your narrative hangs together from easily debunked lies.

   You can try to weasel your way out of that, but that's not going to work here.
   

   I, being somewhat distant from them all, and being the kind of autistic person who's insensitive to the most common kinds of propaganda, feel at a vantage point to detect and contrast these made-up narratives.

   
   Ha, you're the one making up these narratives. Either you're paid to spread Kremlin propaganda, or you fell for it. You're not insensitive to it at all; you're gullible to it. You lack critical thinking.

   Let me show you some examples of what you said:
   

   both Russia an US are actual threats to the EU, though I'm not so sure how much of the former is a product of propaganda from the latter

   
   You're suggesting (though cowardly not literally claiming) that the reason Russia wants to control eastern Europe is because of US propaganda. That makes no sense, but is also blatantly untrue. It's Russia itself that's openly beating the war drum, and being explicit about wanting to control other countries. And that's nothing new; it was like that even before the US existed.

   the smarter way to defeat both bullies is to maneuver so that they fight each other. meanwhile, ally with the other victims. even other weaker bullies. even if they bullied you before. after you deal with the stronger bully, you turn to the weaker ones.

   
   This is actually exactly what Europe is doing: keeping the US from bullying Europe and opposed to Russia. And Europe allies with other victims of Russian bullying, like Ukraine.

   But what you're trying to suggest here is that Europe should ally with Russia against the US. You know very well that Europe is not that stupid. Russia has a history of bullying and attacking its allies. You're not safe as Russia's ally. You're not even safe as Russia's vassal. Russia is openly hostile to Europe. The only situation in which you can ally with a country like that, is when you're in an existential war against a third power that's invading you both, as was the case in WW2. But that alliance came at the very steep cost of sacrificing eastern Europe to Russian opression. Never again.
   

   surely you're not implying that the West's motives to provoke and remain in this conflict are pure

   
   Here you're implying that the West provoked this war. That is blatantly untrue. The West could have done more to dissuade Putin by hard guarantees to defend Ukraine. They failed to do that, but that's not the same as provoking.

   Or this piece of bullshit:
   

   if I were European, I wouldn't be spending resources and weakening myself by supporting a fight against Russia, because I might need them to fend off the US. Ukrainians would be left to their own bad luck, and that would hurt because I'm 50% Ukrainian blood, but we're speaking of strategies and countries' interests here. I'd probably be allying with Russia and China and Brazil and India to try to mount a credible balance against the dangerously decadent but still by far strongest empire. those may not be the greatest and most trustworthy partners, but then, the US aren't either.

   
   You imply that Europe is weakening itself by helping Ukraine (it's not), or that it makes us vulnerable to US aggression (unimaginable before Trump, but we were already vulnerable and are actually strengthening ourselves by getting more organised without the US), that we should ally with Russia (a ludicrous suggestion; they are our primary enemy, and not interested in allies, only in vassals). And besides, NATO without the US is already the second strongest military in the world. The only thing we need is to get more organised, to integrate our military, and put up a united front. An alliance with Russia accomplishes none of those things, but rather the opposite.

   Every argument you make comes down to suggesting that Europe should abandon Ukraine and support Russia, despite their aggression against European countries.

   In the late 1990s, it actually did look like Russia might become our ally. The Cold War was over, Russia participated in a NATO exercise, the US and Russia, together with many other countries, were cooperating on the ISS. And then Putin came to power, and made it clear he didn't respect European countries as equals. Europe still desperately tried to treat Russia as an equal trading partner, even after their invasion of Crimea and Donbas (which should really have been a massive warning, but western Europe was naive). It only got us more hostility.

   Our words against Putin are not propaganda, they're experience. You're a fool if you trust Putin.

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   HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Sep-2025 06:07:45 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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   @tofugolem

   #USpol

   That might be said about many countries.

   In these #US, however, it is not an epidemic, but a grand plan:

   👉The #DumbingOfAmerica: The #StultificationOfThePeople👈, partof #Reagonomics:

   @HistoPol 🔗 https://mastodon.social/users/HistoPol/statuses/114826006212505439

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   HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Sep-2025 06:06:17 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

   in reply to

   @tofugolem

   #USpol

   That might be said about many countries.

   In these #US, however, it is not an epidemic, but a grand plan:

   👉The #DumbingOfAmerica: The #StultificationOfThePeople👈, part of #Reagonomics:

   @HistoPol 🔗 https://mastodon.social/users/HistoPol/statuses/114826006212505439

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   paul (amiserabilist@beige.party)'s status on Monday, 23-Jun-2025 08:55:08 JST paul

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   @wendinoakland

   those were the lines i was thinking along.

   i love the background of it.

   Wendy is a given name generally given to girls in English-speaking countries.

   In Britain during the English Civil War in the mid-1600s, a male Captain Wendy Oxford was identified by the Leveller John Lilburne as a spy reporting on his activities.[1][2] It was also used as a surname in Britain from at least the 17th century.[3] Its popularity in Britain as a feminine name is owed to the character Wendy Darling from the 1904 play Peter Pan and its 1911 novelisation Peter and Wendy, both by J. M. Barrie.[4][5][6] Its popularity reached a peak in the 1960s, and subsequently declined.[7] The name was inspired by young Margaret Henley, daughter of Barrie's poet friend W. E. Henley. Margaret reportedly used to call Barrie "my friendy", with the common childhood difficulty pronouncing Rs this came out as "my fwendy" and "my fwendy-wendy".[8][9]

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy

   Wendy Darling

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfDfcsMkAoo

   @glasspusher @cachondo @FreakyFwoof

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   mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 07:25:36 JST mekka okereke :verified:

   in reply to

   @carlosrodriguez

   Vulture capitalists praying for the downfall of a legitimate central banking system, pretend that Bitcoin is widely useful in those countries.

   In those situations, I say "Do what you need to survive." 👍🏿

   But what would you use Bitcoin for in a stable country with a fast, free, open, and zero cost micro transaction system like UPI?

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   Hanse Mina (hanse_mina@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Sep-2024 18:44:11 JST Hanse Mina

   #Germany's domestic intelligence agency has warned against a cyber group belonging to Russian military intelligence (#GRU) Unit 29155, saying it has carried out cyberattacks against #NATO and #EU countries.

   In its warning, the intelligence agency said the group, also known as Cadet Blizzard or Ember Bear, conducts activities for the purpose of espionage and sabotage that often involve defacing websites and publishing stolen data.

   https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/german-intelligence-says-russian-gru-group-behind-nato-eu-cyberattacks-2024-09-09/

   #Ukraine #Russia