Crimea is exactly why nobody* is willing to take anything Putin says about his invasion of Ukraine as anything other than a deliberate lie. We know for certain that's what he does.
* Except, of course, white supremacists who support everything he is doing
You are simply spouting hawkish propaganda.
You are shitting Russian propaganda. Brush your teeth.
all this blather and hand wringing over arming our own militaries which quite literally protect us all from death, destruction, and the madness that exists in the rest of the planet
Our military is fostering the death, destruction, and madness that exists in the rest of the planet. We have supported coups, assassinated leaders, founded colonies and armed them so they can commit genocide...
Stupidity is not an excuse. If it was, we would spend our time saving the stupid and lazy.
You mean with education? What a terrible thing to spend time on.
Facebook was already known to be a member of PRISM
There's a big difference from the panopticon of digital price fixing and cyberstalking VS. the panopticon of drones (human or artificial) with guns.
Tell us you don't know enough to participate in this conversation without telling us.
That was not very many words to say "I am a cowardly cuck", but it was still more than necessary.
Don't know if it will do any good, but... https://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=metamod
P.S. I got there with the old URL (slashdot.org/metamod.pl) and it redirected. I guess having been here forever is finally good for something.
Policies that were certain to impoverish the new fledgling democracy and turn it into the degenerate oil state it is today!
Yeah, they impoverished Russia by buying its oil and gas. The impoverishment certainly wasn't caused by the Russian Oligarchs who ran off with all of the profit and left the Russians starving in a ditch as per usual.
I am simply say we created the conditions that put him there and allowed him to retain his grip on power and that our ability to peacefully co-exist with Russia and former USSR powers has as much to do with our own behavior as Putin's.
You are simply talk bullshit.
What are ballistic robots?
At a guess, smart bombs or shells. They are ballistic, and they are robots.
What about people who have been systematically and deliberately dumbed down, do they get what they deserve?
Then the riots can begin, no matter who wins.
Are you suggesting that the MAGAts will riot even if they win? Or are you just forgetting relevant facts?
Guess we know what Meta has in store then. Fuckerburg just sold out everyone to the traditional panopticon.
Facebook was already known to be a member of PRISM like Apple and Microsoft, so we already knew they were part of the panopticon. This is only confirmation, not news. Facebook was absolutely never going to restrict these models from military use.
I wonder why this has not been fixed and better *enforced*: you can't vote if you don't post regularly at a positive level, and you can't vote if you don't meta-mod regularly as well.
The least cynical explanation I can come up with is that the owners can't figure out the code.
The middle explanation is that they benefit from the bad moderation which causes more posts and more impressions.
The highly cynical explanation is that the staff benefits from bad moderation hiding THEIR bad moderation, because they are acting in bad faith.
No knowing which of these it is, and there's no trusting cryptocurrency hawks even if they made a statement.
Russia's assumption that NATO is not really a "defensive alliance" and an independent Ukraine joining NATO really is a serious threat to their security.
It is not. Nobody wants to invade Russia, history is full of examples of why that's a bad idea. The only thing they have that you can't easily get more of elsewhere besides borscht is fossil fuels, which we have to use less of anyway due to the existential threat of AGW. So AGW is a threat to Russian profit at the same time. The oligarchs who run off with all of the profit in Russia couldn't bear to see themselves become normally wealthy people instead of spectacularly, so they supported Putin's invasion. They need the USSR reformed so that there is a market for their products. Big Oil from any nation is okay with causing deaths all day (that's really their whole thing, selling out human life so that the execs can live large) and Russia is no exception.
Left versus right is clearly just divide and conquer while all our political parties are owned and controlled by upper class influences based on campaign contributions and political lobbying.
It's not "just" that.
There are real human rights issues at play.
As such, who you vote for matters a lot day-to-day, though not so much in the long run. However, day-to-day matters a lot to me.
Yes, both parties are selling us out to corporations, but they are not both expecting us to give up all of our rights.
Avoid strange women and temporary variables.
