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Comment Re:Why DVDs are better (Score 1) 20

While I appreciate the benefits of DVD that you highlight, I couldn't in good conscience recommend it as a solution. There's just too much unnecessary waste to deliver media/software via physical media. The DVD itself plus the packaging and then additional pollution from distribution (and driving to the store to buy it).

One thing that could help with many of your complaints is to drastically shorten copyrights.

Comment Re:less of a barrier than their terrible UI (Score 1) 59

I've been using LO pretty much constantly for the last two years (even wrote a novel on it). Like any interface, it just takes time to become familiar. In fact, I like the way Writer organizes styles and style configuration far better than Word, and often, even for DOCX files, do initial style set up and layout in Writer and then move to Word if I have to (which is seldom enough).

LO is a damned good office system. Its default UI is older, but since I used MS-Edit and Word pretty extensively back in the 1990s, it feels familiar to me. There is a ribbon interface, but I've only tried it a few times before remembering why it is I actually don't like the Word ribbon.

Comment Re:Bottle receivers... (Score 0) 164

The fact that they are literal, not neo Nazis. Western media used to be awash with reports on their Nazi problem before it was time to memory hole that to pretend Russia took unprovoked action. Even NATO got in on the action with a report on literal Hitler Youth camps:

https://www.atlanticcouncil.or...

Comment Re:Azov Brigade (Score -1, Flamebait) 164

I went ahead and looked, but could not find any credible evidence of anybody associated with Azov threatening to assassinate Zelensky, who ran more on normalizing and expanding relations with the west, while relations with Russia was more a thing for his political opponent.

Yeah, that happened, and no, Zelensky's entire platform was on restoring relations with Russia. Zelensky offered to go to his knees rather than any of his countrymen suffer in a war against Russia. But that all got memory holed to pretend Russia bad, by the same western media that was awash in reports on Ukraine's Nazi problem.

I already addressed the Nazi symbology

It was a lot of words about Ukraine's Nazi problem without dealing with the fact they have a real Nazi problem.

For example, take the picture, which your video isn't actually a video of the patch, but a talk radio guy talking about the patch.

The patch is in the video.

The Totenkopf actually predates the Nazis almost as much as the swastika does.

So?

The difference here is that The Wagner group was named that by Prigozhin because he admired Hitler

And Saddam threw babies out of incubators. Bad western propaganda is bad.

In either case, like I said, Ukraine had the group under control

Snort. Yeah, because rewarding and promoting them is bringing them "under control". The Feds broke the Klan in the US, they didn't nominate their leaders to positions of power.

Ah, here we go, gullibility

FTFY. Famines happened on the regular under the Tsars but you DGAF about that because you weren't propagandized from childhood to hate it. Plus a side order of willful obtuseness when you whistle right past engineered western famines. You simply have no answer to the fact Stalin ruled into the 50's but there was no second famine in Ukraine. The one and only time famines mattered was in a brief time and place in Ukraine.

You have nothing to lose but your (propagandized) chains.

Basically, you're engaging in Whataboutism.

Ah, the "W" word. Whipped out by hypocritical western hacks when confronted with the fact you are infinitely worse than those you are wagging your fingers at. Back to you being a propaganzied muppet, the British killed 165 million Indians in 40 years but again you don't hate them. Because you've been propganzied to hate selected groups.

Comment Re:Bottle receivers... (Score 0) 164

Noooooo, like "socialist", "Nazi" has a well defined definition. I'm not some shitlib who's been abusing the term for a full decade now on Trump and his supporters. Ukraine has a literal, not neo, Nazi problem. The country openly worships Stepan Bandera who helped Hitler kill hundreds of thousands of Poles and Jews in WWII. Nazis who openly guard Zelensky while wearing Nazi patches. Even NATO warned you of Ukraine's Nazi problem and literal Hitler Youth camps via their Altantic Council think tank:

https://www.atlanticcouncil.or...

In this context, for example, "Azov" did a lot of good in protecting the freedom of Ukraine.

The time to protect Ukraine's freedom was in 2014 when Obama and Victoria Nuland were overthrowing it to use against Russia.

"Wagner" did a lot of good in killing ISIS, Al Queda in Syria and Nazis in Ukraine

Fixed.

Comment Re:Calling it "denazification" makes no sense (Score 0) 164

Weak sauce cope is weak sauce. Zelensky is right there, on video, with one of his guards openly wearing a Nazi patch.

Fact is Russia invaded Ukraine. Do you dispute that?

Fact is the US threatened WWIII during the Turkish Missile Crisis if the Soviets stationed nukes in Cuba. That's what it should be called as the only reason the USSR tried to do so was to counter US nukes first placed in Turkey. Now imagine the American response if the Soviets overthrew Mexico or Canada, filling them with billions in weapons, biolabs and spy stations. While Soviet supported forces slaughtered over 10,000 Mexicans/Canadians with US citizenship.

That's what you did to Russia with Ukraine.

Now, do you think the US would have tried peace for eight years as Russia did before putting their foot down? Or would the Pentagon had bombers in the air within eight minutes?

Comment Re:Azov Brigade (Score -1, Flamebait) 164

just elected a Jewish president

A Jewish president promptly threatened with assassination by Azovites if Zelensky made good on his campign platform, which was entirely based around restoring peace and relations with Russia. Azovites who guard Zelensky while openly wearing Nazi patches. When was the last time you saw one of Obama's or Kamela's Secret Service detail openly wearing a Klan hood while on duty?

while having the Wagner group(named after Hitler's favorite composer

Do you like dogs? WELL SO DID HITLER. Most idiotic argument in the history of the human race.

Russians actually pulled a lot of shit with Ukraine and the region (See Holodomor, and more)

Holodomor is a fairy tale for capitalist children you should have outgrown before Santa. And you never thought it was weird you weren't taught to hate Americans, British or capitalism? Given the fact the US exterminated the buffalo to starve the plains indians, and that Ireland produced a surplus of food throughout the potato blight, but it was taken by British landlords so a million Irish starved to death. Also weird how Stalin ruled into the 50's, but Ukraine wasn't subjected to another famine after so many Ukrainians like Stepan Bandera fought on the side of the Nazis, including rounding up Jews for the Holocoast.

Weird.

The Wagner group ended up revolting against Russia and Putin. Oops.

Wagner got folded into the military and their leader retired. Yeah, he then died in a plane crash, but so did Paul Wellstone.

Comment Re:Bottle receivers... (Score 0) 164

since their previouslty favorite mercenary group was literally run by a neo-nazi

Literal nonsense as that claim is based entirely around one photo of a dude who looked nothing at all like the Wagner leader aside from hair style, and that Wagner was hItLerS faVoRitE coMPoseR. But by that logic ever one who own's a dog is also a Nazi, because Hitler loved dogs. Derp derp derp.

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