Notices by Ben Royce 🇺🇦 (benroyce@mastodon.social), page 2

@eva_chaos @bjeelka @humanhorseshoes @mattdm @n_dimension @Gorfram @Mikal

in normal, nonwar environments, you are right

but considering the stakes in a late war/ postwar period, budanov can just assassinate such interference

and then, in the most idealistic scenario, ukraine can plot a course to slowly democratize the orcs in their new world of little states. which would take decades. but its what the world needs, and what ukraine needs to secure its future

@eva_chaos @bjeelka @humanhorseshoes @mattdm @n_dimension @Gorfram @Mikal

germany's heart used to be war mongering prussian military ethos

now look at germany

of course, it took a massive hit to change that

and i think that's what we're just beginning to do to russia

everything changes in this world. nothing is static

@eva_chaos @bjeelka @humanhorseshoes @mattdm @n_dimension @Gorfram @Mikal

which is fine

as long as they are carved up into little pieces

and then we get to work on them on the order of decades

and change their nature

@mattdm @n_dimension @Gorfram @Mikal

we can't say europe is to blame for russia invading ukraine. or britain for usa genociding native americans. or usa for iran killing women. etc

history is not empty cause and effect. there is blame for every actor for *their* choices

example:

if you walk by and scuff my shoe i can

ignore it
yell obscenities
say "no problem"
shoot you in the face
etc

how i act is my fault alone

i can't say it's your fault because you were in the cause and effect chain

@humanhorseshoes @mattdm @n_dimension @Gorfram @Mikal

right

but that's like saying we blame the mother of a drunk, because the drunk killed a pedestrian

of course there's formative reasons for every crime, that are external to the actor that committed the crime

but that actor still shoulders full blame for that crime

so europe should have known russia never lost its imperialism. and europe should have changed its attitude by knowing that. but russia is still 100% to blame

@bjeelka @humanhorseshoes @mattdm @n_dimension @Gorfram @Mikal

i got blocked from a server for saying navalny was a hero for what he did in russia, but he's disliked in ukraine because he shared ethnofascist instincts towards ukraine

nuance is dead

that being said, i don't blame average russians for anything

even though there's millions of vatniks

simply because when change comes to russia, it will be russians doing it

future allies

why throw them out for the sake of blanket prejudice?

@eva_chaos @bjeelka @humanhorseshoes @mattdm @n_dimension @Gorfram @Mikal

what flag is that in your profile?

i squint and i see philippines but that's not it

is it a eastern european flag?

i'm not going to hold it against eastern europeans for russophobia, because of history

but i'm not eastern european

russia will dissolve or revolt, someday, and when that day comes russians will need to be worked with. i'm aiming for that day

after we give ukraine everything they need to punish russia

@eva_chaos @bjeelka @humanhorseshoes @mattdm @n_dimension @Gorfram @Mikal

well said and agreed

and russia has a lot of suffering ahead before russians finally wake the fuck up

but they will wake up

the trick is to prevent them from exporting their suffering in the meantime

@bjeelka @eva_chaos @humanhorseshoes @mattdm @n_dimension @Gorfram @Mikal

no! listen to a dumb american lecture a ukrainian on how to deal with russia!

(/s)

let me ask you:

i view russia as the last holdover from the colonial era. russia isn't a country, it's a colonial empire from 1824 in 2024

do you think dissolution would be the final stake in the heart of russian imperial monster?

not even on the terms of internal dissolution but like: china take sakha republic, something like that

@bjeelka @eva_chaos @humanhorseshoes @mattdm @n_dimension @Gorfram @Mikal

something like 1917 might be possible

countries rush in, like the insane odyssey of the czechoslovak legions, under the cover of "securing nukes" and "restoring order", genuine or a ruse

finland to karelia, turkey to circassia, japan to sakhalin, usa to kamchatka, china to sakha, ukraine all the way to the volga, etc

some secure puppet govts, like sakha. others absorb, like sakhalin

some call it temporary

@bjeelka @eva_chaos @humanhorseshoes @mattdm @n_dimension @Gorfram @Mikal

a question:

do you remember when prigozhin showed up in rostov-on-don?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWD2VKba9Qg

he was hailed with devotion and love

not because russians love him

but because supplicating yourself to the current strong man is what they know as a survival mechanism

could ukraine could have its own puppet states out to volga, ruled by a russian to satisfy russian racism, while the real levers of control are in kyiv?

@bjeelka @eva_chaos @humanhorseshoes @mattdm @n_dimension @Gorfram @Mikal

there's no need for any country to physically control previous russian territory

just support and create breakaway sections, carve it up, and install friendly govts. the common russian hews to that local strongman. no need for ukrainian troops to be shot at

you might notice my sly inference that this is what russia does to other countries, now

and could be russia's own ironic fate

@AmandaMarcotte

there is a problem here

#MAGA #trump supporters are extremely insecure (not in economic terms, but personality). there is an odd phenomenon where self-destruction, with a caveat, is appealing to them. the caveat is: as long as others suffer more

they don't want to better themselves

they want nonwhite, nonmale, nonhetero nonchristians to suffer

and they are happy to suffer as well for that

they think they suffer less. that's a lie. but this is their "rationale"

it's #sadism

whatever her situation today, the day after, i would tend to believe it's quite grim

also "#azad" in "Islamic Azad University" means "#freedom" in Farsi

what a fucking joke

fuck you govt of #Iran

Edit:

Her name has been found, thank you @ProjectFearlessness

> #AhooDaryaei <

fucking brutal

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202411025012

'...a student group on Telegram, reported details of the incident, saying that the student disrobed after being harassed for not wearing a headscarf and having her clothing torn by security forces.

During the student's arrest, she was subjected to severe physical assault, including her head striking either a car door or a pillar, which caused heavy bleeding. “Blood stains from the student were reportedly seen on the car’s tires,” the report noted.'

@killy_ann

Sag ihren Namen

#AhooDaryaei

vergiss es nie

I'm not content warning this, it's just a #woman in her underwear. Also, that would be irony

This is #Tehran’s Islamic Azad University on Nov 2

She was assaulted by #Iran's #morality #police because her #hijab was "improper"

So she just stripped

She was arrested and I don't think it will go well for her. Iran's weak, insecure, moronic hangups over #women's clothing is vicious cruel and violent. They kill women for showing their hair. It's all so fucking stupid

#womensrights #bodilyautonomy

@eva_chaos @NeonPurpleStar @jawarajabbi @Raccoon

the fool was muted on their own server

👏 👏 👏

@eva_chaos @NeonPurpleStar @jawarajabbi @Raccoon

normally you ignore these pathetic airheads

but not now so close to an election

now, you hound them

because they're delivering the usa to putin

they either know that is what they are doing, and thus fuck them

or they are just that fucking stupid, they don't even understand how the usa's fptp voting system works and all that they are achieving is more of the genocide they say they stand against by dividing the left and giving trump a win

@dansup @Gargron

Rochester NY here

thanks for keeping the shadow of the once mighty Kodak empire alive