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   of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 12:15:51 JST of nothing
   Lawyers:
   1. if the facts are on your side, pound the facts
   2. if the law is on your side, pound the law
   3. if neither is on your side, pound the table
   
   In international relations, everyone is always reducing every claim from every hostile party to misinformation and propaganda and dismissing it as such. But for it to be dismissable, it would have to be of case 3 - pound the table, and it's ludicrous to argue as if on every disagreement the other side is never right about ANYTHING. This
   >everything I don't like is Russian propaganda
   is deliberate and tactical stupidity, coming from professional lawyers who definitely understand the facts/law/table pounding hierarchy.
   
   But also, I think it's pretty easy to see when people are pounding the table vs. pounding the facts or the law. This is what so rapidly set me against the western narrative on Ukraine. Even before I'd heard any arguments from the other side, I'd gotten tons of extremely obvious and extremely underhanded high-energy propaganda from the west.
   
   In this and in many other areas in life, I'd be somewhat open to a frank assertion or frank request, but immediately become wary and distant as more effort is put into persuading me. If you're right, you don't need that kind of effort to get your point across.
   
   This attitude has served me well but it fails in the case that people are right but lacking confidence. People can also be right while arguing completely ineptly. And as a kid, when I was sick I would always play up being sick, because I was always worried that my sickness would be doubted.
   
   But for western propaganda, I think the terrible nature of it comes not from a lack of confidence but from an abundance of contempt: of course these psychos, who believe that white people are a dangerous racist mob, would switch from trying to restrain that racism (patting themselves on the back all the way for narrowly averting all the lynchings that would happen) to encouraging extremism in the direction of an enemy once an enemy appears. The cry was: hey all you knuckle-draggigng patriotard rubes, the stupid subhuman orcs are here and they're going to human-wave all over you with their crude stolen-washing-machine weaponry!
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 12:15:48 JST Hoss Delgado

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     I notice a lot of parallels between how modern shitlibs talk about Russians and how conservatives talked about "sandniggers" during the height of the GWOT in the 00's.
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     Christmas Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 12:15:48 JST Christmas Sun

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     @Hoss @apropos propaganda is good, actually.
     nationalism is good, actually.
     nazis are good, actually.
     ethnic hatred is good, actually.
     war crimes are good, actually.
     autonomous ai drones are good, actually.
     
     have I missed anything this mess has normalized
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 12:15:50 JST Hoss Delgado

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     When the war started, I was not particularly well read on the situation in Ukraine and found myself moderately sympathetic to the Ukrainian side, seeing as they were the ones invaded. As the war dragged on, I began to understand how the entire situation was a product of American meddling in the first place and how we were dragging out a meat grinder for the interests of a handful of elites who stand to profit greatly from it.
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     of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 12:15:50 JST of nothing

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     @Hoss yeah, I knew nothing at all about Ukraine, not even finding it interesting after Trump got impeached over it. I also didn't have an especially warm view of Russia, mostly thinking of it as a former peer adversary that's been going through hard times for a while. So it should've been very easy to get me to at least think well of western support for the friendlier nation that was getting invaded by the unfriendlier nation. But instead the persuasion was
     
     Q: don't you FUCKING HATE Russia?
     A: not really?
     Q: WHY NOT? They should all die! They're not even human! They're too DUMB to have a democracy!
     A: you know, I remember 9/11 very well, and I remember being disgusted by how extremely careful everyone was with sentiments like this. And 9/11 happened in NYC, on American soil.
     Q: shouldn't Russians be banned from EVERYTHING? Why are Russians allowed to play Eve Online??? Maybe when millions of Russians are STARVING TO DEATH they'll finally kick Putin out
     A: -- what I'm saying is, your tone is kinda weird.
     Q: ISN'T ZELENSKYY A VERY SEXY MAN?
     Q: IF PUTIN WINS HE'LL INVADE THE REST OF THE WORLD. HE'S JUST EVIL
     
     I think it might be generational. Older than me and you get cold warriors who enjoyed hating the Soviets. Younger than me and you get people who don't remember 9/11 and were more credulous of the last decade of Hillary's "Russia Russia Russia" revenge on the country for not voting for her.
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     John Fediverse (mrsaturday@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 12:19:21 JST John Fediverse

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     • Hoss Delgado
     @apropos @Hoss To be fair Gary Johnson was making a shitty dad joke "Aleppo? What's a leppo?" but it made him look like a buffoon because it was a horrible, horrible time to make one.
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     of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 12:19:22 JST of nothing

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     @mrsaturday @Hoss the millennial antiwar movement didn't seem that effective, but they did seem to get lots of vindication with how things went. And now we have
     a. Senator Bloodfeast (radical pro-war)
     b. Where's Aleppo? (radical who-cars)
     c. I just super love defending Democracy, OK? (radically compromised and interested in money laundering)
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     John Fediverse (mrsaturday@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 12:19:23 JST John Fediverse

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     @Hoss @apropos I miss this country having a legitimate anti-war movement
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 12:19:24 JST Hoss Delgado

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     Remember in 2012 when Romney said the biggest threat to the world was Russia and everybody deservedly mocked him for it? It was a different world. Now that the Dems have taken up Bolton-esque interventionist rhetoric I feel like I'm taking fucking crazy pills.
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     Christmas Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 13:05:57 JST Christmas Sun

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     • ergo
     @Hoss @apropos @egirlyuumimain @Nudhul @ergo al qaeda tried to bomb wtc in 1993, afghanistan openly hosted their military training bases. al qaeda was there because we paid and trained them to keep out the soviets
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 13:05:58 JST Hoss Delgado

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     • ergo
     They've been that way for centuries. Afghans had nothing to do with us until Israel decided they needed to fabricate a reason for us to start a forever war in their dust bowl.
     wormthen repeated this.
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     • ergo
     That was the west coast of Africa, and we solved that problem by kicking their shit in for being niggers. I'm not saying conflict is unavoidable, I'm just saying use it solely in response to provocation.
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     Nudhul (nudhul@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 13:05:59 JST Nudhul

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     @Hoss @apropos @egirlyuumimain @ergo they were muslims tho which is something the afghans share
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     • ergo
     Afghanistan never did shit to us.
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     Nudhul (nudhul@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 13:06:00 JST Nudhul

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     @Hoss @apropos @egirlyuumimain @ergo pilgrims were enslaved by barbary purates for centuries tho
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 13:06:02 JST Hoss Delgado

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     • Nudhul
     As racist as I am, I don't even think that. I see brown people in Afghanistan and think "You live your life, and I live mine. Our cultures are completely incompatible, but there's no reason we can't just leave each other alone."
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     ergo (ergo@social.ergo-research.org)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 13:06:02 JST ergo

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     • Nudhul
     @Hoss @apropos @egirlyuumimain @Nudhul I mean sooner or later they are gonna try to steal from you or something, so I don't think that mentality really works.
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 13:06:03 JST Hoss Delgado

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     • Nudhul
     Liberalism lost its moral high ground the moment it decided it needed to wage an eternal crusade on every nation that refused to adopt liberal ideology.
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     @Hoss @apropos @egirlyuumimain normal people see a brown savage and think "wow you're disgusting. stay the fuck away frim me"
     
     thevliberal sees a brown savage and thinks "you dont have to be disgusting. with proper training i can turn you into me, the pinnacle of civility."
     
     meanwhile no amount of nuture will ever change the nature of a person.
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     egirlyuumimain (egirlyuumimain@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 13:06:04 JST egirlyuumimain

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     @Hoss @apropos Our politicians really think the US is the world police sadly and that Liberalism will save the world
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     @egirlyuumimain @apropos @Hoss liberalism is retarded. all of the liberal enlightenment philosphers are stupid inbred fuckass dipshits. they're all wrong about everything.
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     @Hoss @apropos I think he was right that they were our biggest geopolitical adversary at the time. Mostly because as you said we were prodding them.
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 13:06:05 JST Hoss Delgado

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     If we just stopped Ukraine would still control Crimea and be leasing the port to Russia. But no, we couldn't just let Ukraine be neutral like both sides promised, we had to stir up conflict because a few fucking billionaire ghouls decided they weren't getting rich enough fast enough.
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     egirlyuumimain (egirlyuumimain@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 13:06:06 JST egirlyuumimain

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     @Hoss @apropos Funnily enough Romney was arguably right and Obama just laughed at him
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 13:06:06 JST Hoss Delgado

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     Romney wasn't right, this never would've happened if NATO just stopped prodding Russia like it was still the height of the fucking Cold War.
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 13:50:00 JST Hoss Delgado

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     It's funny how almost nobody is actually barred from jumping into discussion on this side of Fedi, but it's gatekept purely by whether or not you can handle the bantz.
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     Goalkeeper (goalkeeper@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 13:50:01 JST Goalkeeper

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     He's literally the only pajeet here.

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     Dudebro (dudebro@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 13:50:01 JST Dudebro

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     He is also super vocal when you hit the pajeet button.
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 13:50:02 JST Hoss Delgado

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     Lol I was just trying to make a casual demographic observation without actually starting shit with the guy, but everybody already knows who I'm talking about.
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 13:50:03 JST Hoss Delgado

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     Case and point: Fedi has a bunch of beaner bros who are even more extreme than I am, but only like one jeet who is a Libertardian-type I only agree with about a third of the time.
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     Goalkeeper (goalkeeper@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 13:50:03 JST Goalkeeper

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     The Indian dude blocked me for telling him he doesn't have a right to my country just because he took advantage of a system that is using him to replace me. It's why they are so pro Big Corporation: Those are the people who bring them over and give them succor. They can't actually build anything themselves.

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     They are also just smart enough to follow a flowchart without supervision. You have to watch mexicans like a hawk and the Chinese will just steal all your tech.

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     See also: unlimited importation of Pajeets

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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 13:50:05 JST Hoss Delgado

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     I think that's why they're starting to seem to prefer jeets over beaners now. It appears the South Asians produce far less system-questioners than Latinos do.
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     pyrate (pyrate@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 13:50:07 JST pyrate

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     The economic model we currently live under is a soft form of eugenics with the goal of creating a slave race.
     
     See also; mulatto stud farm
     See also; deracination
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     egirlyuumimain (egirlyuumimain@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 13:50:08 JST egirlyuumimain

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     @Nudhul @apropos @Hoss well you see Mr hitler did an eugenics so it's an icky science now and icky science just can't be true
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 13:50:08 JST Hoss Delgado

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     Don't tell them about where Hitler got his influences on eugenics, it might cause cognitive dissonance. I don't even think something like that should be enforced at a state level because the idea is barbaric even if it is grounded in objectivity, but the Germans didn't invent it.
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     egirlyuumimain (egirlyuumimain@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 13:50:09 JST egirlyuumimain

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     @Nudhul @Hoss @apropos They just think people are blank slates and can be taught to not be a savage
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     @egirlyuumimain @apropos @Hoss they've tricked themselves into thinking genetics are some nonfunctional vestige from prehistoric times, and that evolution stops at the neck
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     Oneesan succubus (lain@pleroma.soykaf.com)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 17:12:09 JST Oneesan succubus

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     @sun @apropos @Hoss yeah, giving people reddit gold for posting drone videos of russian kids begging for their lives before being exploded and commenting "that's what we do with fascists" on it.
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     @apropos what should i do if an attractive woman is on my side