The narrative that Russia has been losing is grade A propaganda.

When you take something like 20% (numbers could be wrong, I don’t have a lot of time to research and most of what I could find were western and outdated sources) of a country and have been consistently making major advances for the last few months, while your enemy hasn’t even broken 50km in a month (again numbers could be wrong). That’s what you call losing, of course.

And, mind you, this peace plan dropped just after Pokrovsk had fallen and Ukraine stopped being able to hold Russia back whatsoever across the front.

-Palpatine’s goal is to create the empire

-How do?

-Have a career as a Nabooian politician and a strong advocate for Galactic Republicanism

-Create a plot to assassinate the Queen of Naboo, when it fails unleash an attempted takeover of Naboo using the Trade Federation.

-When that fails, convince the Queen of Naboo to abdicate the throne and become a senator.

-Convince people associated with the events on Naboo to support your rise to Chancellor.

-By golly it worked.

-Need more power in government

-Get the dumbass Gungan to argue for emergency powers for the Chancellor after you start the clone wars (Galactic Civil War).

-Use the Galactic Civil War to keep prying more and more power into your position.

-Also Use the Galactic Civil War to keep the Jedi distracted, so other parts of the plan can go into effect

-When the Jedi realize you’ve been a sithlord the whole time, because you told the guy you groomed since he was a child, kill off the Jedi and the leadership of the CIS, and declare yourself as the sole leader of the Republic under even more special, even more emergency situations.

-Empire? Created. Jedi? Dead. Hotel? Trivago.

It’s a story about the rise of Fascism.

That there’s a person who’s only familiar with the movies, and flat out does not understand the point of Palpetine’s slow rise to power.

what could they possibly mean? all I see is a fire? Are the liberals at it again?

That is unironically evil.

They probably think it’s the funniest shit ever, but it’s just heartless behaviour. The kind of shit a cartoon villain would do.

This reads like a man who is grasping for anything.

This reads like a man who is slowly losing his mind.

“woe is me, because we legally gave up our nuclear weapons as part of international treaties Russia is liberating ethnic Russians who we were bombing en-mass. why us? pls give us membership in NATO and turn this into a world war, I promise you’ll benefit”

Everyone gets at least a little bit of nerves.

Try to remember that you’re surrounded by people who will render help if something happens, and any injuries sustained will heal in time.

There’s not really “good” advice to give, because everyone’s different. Take some time to find something that works for you whether that’s a pre-protest warmup, meditation before or after, breathing exercises, ideological or philosophical motivation, etc. Something is going to help you slow your heart rate and keep your head about you.

Atomic, Biological, Chemical.

Though I’m more familiar with that as NBC (N being nuclear), so it’s possible that I’m misinterpreting what REEEEvolution meant.

All of this time they’ve been telling us that Russia, China, The DPRK, etc. are all “paranoid nations”. Turns out, it’s just projection, it’s the west that’s paranoid.

Russia’s main goal in geopolitics is the ending of American dominance in international politics.

To be blunt, if you’re not a Western imperialist, this is something that should not only be supported, but actively worked towards.

So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that China and the DPRK both want the same thing, and are both willing to work with Russia to achieve it. And it’s no surpirse that the only governments that oppose a multi-polar world are the US and its puppets.

Despite having a capitalist government and reactionary policies, Russia is deserving of critical support.

the term “woke” comes from African-American Vernacular English (AAVE), for someone who is aware of social issues. There is an inherently racist tinge to being “woke-free” or “anti-woke”. There is no Socialist tense, by definition all Socialists should be “woke”.

do you think that we shouldn’t be able to criticize both parties?

Everyone on this site does that regularly. At no point did ShiningWing say or illude to the contrary. If you want to do that, we already have communities for it.

And isn’t every account that signs up, a “brand new” account?

Yes, true. Every new account is a new account. But the issue is that you founded your account, and then immediately created communities without engaging much across the site first. That looks suspect and might make longer-term members of the community uncomfortable. You didn’t do anything objectively wrong, but it’s worth considering how it looks.

You’ve had comments removed before for fascist apologia and hate speech. That’s not what you’ve done here, but let’s get this straight.

The Vietnamese wars started in 1946 against the French Colonialist government, and American involvement began in 1955 with their illegal invasion beginning in 1965. That uncle, regardless of where he’s placed in time, would’ve been a Colonial policeman. I.E. A supporter of the French government and opposed Ho Chi Minh’s revolution. It would not, therefore, be unlikely for the rest of his family to be of the same opinion. If they got harsh treatment - and I don’t believe they did without evidence - it would likely have been on the basis of their counter-revolutionary nature.

Many immigrants from “enemy” nations will feel compelled to lie about conditions in their home countries, in an effort to be accepted by our white supremacist culture. And that one reads exactly like the kind of stuff someone in that position would say.

it’s wild to me how liberals seem to be incapable of considering what kind of person would flee a proletarian revolution.

So often when I’ve heard of immigrants who left an AES country, it’s because they were fundamentally against the point of the revolutions. I.E. members of the bourgeois class, members of the dominant colonialist ethnicity, etc.

They’ll be like “My grandfather fled Cuba because the Revolutionaries threatened his life ;-;”, then you look at their ancestry and see multiple direct lines to Spanish nobility and lots of wealth.

Or “My grandfather left China because the Communists were repressive”, then you research their grandfather and find that he was a soldier in the Nationalist army for the entire duration of both the Civil War and the war with Japan, and only left once the Nationalists were pushed out of the mainland. Meaning the man would’ve been convinced to his core that Communism was evil, and no amount of convincing would break the guy of that idea.

Or “Stalinists took my grandfather’s family farm and tried to lock him up”, but they’re Ukrainians from the middle class in the 1930s. They probably hoarded grain during the famine, then fled when consequences came to their entitled asses.

I swear to god that this channel and all of the ones like it are a fuckin psyop.

Every time I see one of these videos pop into my feed, it’s always the most brain-dead filth. It just feels like the US’s propaganda wing.

“Russia’s new alliance is dumb actually, and we’re going to use language that subconsciously makes you believe that it’s evil too.” “Russia and China hate each other actually, and will go to war because we want to believe that they will”, so on, so forth.

Not a lot on a large scale, our news publications will always demonize the enemies of the state.

But, you can talk to the people around you and try to convince them that China’s not at all what Western propagandists tell us about. Some people will be receptive, but others will cut contact with you for so much as implying that China isn’t an evil dictatorship that steals organs and imprisons Muslims.

So play it by ear, if it seems like a person might listen about certain things, they might be convincible. But the people who’ll argue and fight with everything you say (or even just start to say) are not going to come around on anything, so conserve your energy with those sort. Your mental health will thank you.

This advice stretches to anything else we’re propagandized about. Most people will prefer to believe what’s widely available to them, simply because that’s what we’re supposed to conform with. But some will be willing to learn more.

NATO keeps claiming things “aren’t escalation” right after Russian officials bluntly state that it is.

It’s like poking a wasp nest with a stick and saying “It’s okay, this won’t anger them” while the nest loudly buzzes with the noise of hundreds of angry wasps.

all of the people who were part of Anonymous who were worth a damn at hacking back in the day work for the state department now. The movement could very likely have been a psyop, given how many high-level hackers from that era there are on government payroll.

I stand in solidarity with the gay furry hackers.

your quotation is wrong. I said “legitimate”, not rightful.

“Legitimate”, as in they’re the dominant governing body within the country and have been accepted by nearly every country as the genuine government of Afghanistan.

And it is fear-mongering. I was in kindergarten when 9/11 happened, I grew up seeing the US villainize Islam and Arabs in real time. In my youth, we were told that the Taliban were the greatest evil to ever walk the planet. There is a lot to criticise about the Taliban, they’re not leftist and their interpretation of Islam is heretical. But they’re not the human embodiment of the devil Americans so desperately want to believe they are.

In the instance of this headline, western news publications want people to think “Taliban = hate”, then think “if Putin works with the Taliban, that means he endorses them”. Thus stoking anti-Russia sentiments by using the decades of anti-Muslim fear-mongering they’ve been giving us since the 1990s.

Loathesome Dongeater mentioned it, but it’s important to realize that the Taliban existed as they did for 20 years to fight against American (and western) Imperialism in Afghanistan, and when the US pulled out of their country they became the dominant political force.

Though the Taliban isn’t a group MLs should be rooting for, they are the legitimate government of Afghanistan, and they have been committed to fighting ISIS - a US-grown insurgency in the Middle East & Northern Africa.

Western publications benefit more from just putting “the Taliban” into their headlines than they do from posting “the Afghani government”. The fear-mongering associated with two decades of imperialist war in Afghanistan helps their arguments monumentally.

thank fuck