God, reading that was painful. They really do try to spin the narrative in the most obnoxious ways. I'm not holding my breath a peace deal will be made based on how Ukraine and its backers are talking. Feels like more posturing by the West to try and paint Russia as unreasonable for not surrendering unconditionally while winning.

You forget their mastery of necromancy.

God I miss China. I got to live there for 5 months while teaching English, and the only thing I hated was my job and the other Americans. Insufferable libs to a man. Not being able to speak or understand Mandarin, I couldn't make friends with the locals, sadly. There was this place I'd always eat. 14 yuan for a massive bowl of pork, peppers, and noodles. I think that's, like... $2.

If I could go back and do a job I'd like, I'd take it in a heartbeat. Thank you for sharing your experience. It brings back good memories.

They're irrelevant because the Ghost of Kyiv is single handedly trashing Russia's air force. /s

Don't forget the old chestnut about how nuking Japan saved more lives than it took, and we had to do it/didn't know better. I still remember that one. I think some teachers still teach that.

I tried using it only as a tool for hobbies, but anti-communism infects damn near everything. Couldn't go a week without some dumbass take about China randomly worming its way into just about anything. Glad I quit.

The wildest thing about libs is that they love the novel 1984, and love to project this idea onto the USSR, China, and North Korea. It's wild to me because of the emphasis on information control, censorship, propaganda, etc. that they love to go on about regarding AES countries, but then they do the same thing without a single iota of self-awareness.

Attended a local protest and it was great. We had way more than we expected there, no counter-protestors, and so many people honking their support and waving flags as they drove by. A guy "thanked" me for protesting and said something about his cousin dying at "the music concert on the 7th," and I'd never heard of that (and his sarcasm was so poor) I think I just kinda thanked him in confusion, lol. Other than that, there was apparently one guy who flipped us off and that was all the heckling we got. Everyone else was supportive or neutral.

It's great to hear the national protest went so well, too!

If we're timestamping WWIII based on current events, where the US isn't even at war with rival superpowers but simply ravaging the world through proxy wars, attacks on smaller countries, and coups, then we might as well say WWIII started during the Cold War when the US began doing all this in the first place. It's really all just been one long war of the US trying to maintain the European hegemony it took over after the other "World Wars". Of course, the definition of World War has always been kinda odd, anyway, lol.

I'm under the suspicion it's not pointless, but an intentional effort to manufacture as high a death toll as possible. I don't think the fascists ever expected or planned for a Ukrainian victory, but rather to sacrifice as many as possible in order to justify a new era of russophobic fascism in Europe.

Something that's darkly amusing about that, living here, is that the election results are almost a 50/50 split every time on the national level, and sometimes even when one candidate has more than the other guy, the other guy wins anyway. So, even if everyone had faith in the system and that the numbers are accurate (which politicians do cheat, so they really aren't), that still means that: a) roughly half the country is going to be against the winner and support any effort to undermine them, and b) even getting a majority doesn't really mean much if the Electoral College can just support the other candidate.

But yeah, I just gotta keep voting Blue for that harm reduction they can't deliver on, while living in a state that's consistently 2/3 Republican in every election, and which passes laws that make it difficult to vote for anything else.

I'm not bitter in the slightest.

I'm sure racism is a component, but to me it reads more like the arrogant self-righteousness the West engages in, mixed with falling for their own propaganda. Americans, at least, still think the stories from the beginning of the war of massive Russian losses and Ukrainian farmers taking out battalions of tanks are still true. When you try so hard to create this image of the invincible underdog, you shouldn't be surprised when your own side plans for that kind of impossible prowess. Everyone in the West was stirred up into a frenzy about the righteousness of the Ukrainian cause, the tenacity of the Ukrainian people, and the miraculous heroics they allegedly pulled off. I'm not surprised that, at some point, someone actually fell for their own lies. They're paying for it. Or rather, the Ukrainian people are paying for it, sadly.