Posts by flaviusb@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #ATeP9WFsf5B2gy9H6G by flaviusb@mastodon.social
2023-03-15T20:20:52Z
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@kravietz @anderspuck @knud Man, this is some bullshit. When painting with this kind of brush, it also applies to Americans, Chinese, the English, Australians, Canadians, and probably many others, and all to about the same approximate degree, with about the same amount of 'well those exceptions don't count'...
(DIR) Post #ATeVWjVi905sBj0P8y by flaviusb@mastodon.social
2023-03-15T21:09:15Z
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@joao @kravietz @anderspuck @knud Look, the US, The UK, China, Canada, and Australia are all currently doing and have all historically done atrocities with about the same level of 'broad support' from their populace as what Russia is doing. Like, there were anti-war protests in the US against the Iraq war, to the extent that there were mass arrests and torture by the police? Sure, and Russians were also doing anti-war protests and being mass arrested and tortured for it.
(DIR) Post #ATeVWk7zqeic6Suyoq by flaviusb@mastodon.social
2023-03-15T21:12:04Z
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@joao @kravietz @anderspuck @knud There is resistance to war everywhere, there is state repression everywhere - like, even the more extreme elements! During the Vietnam War in the US the Yippies did a bombing campaign and successfully took out the mainframes used for mass bombing logistics and targeting multiple times, resulting in some of the stalls in bombing of civilians. But that history is whitewashed, we only publicly remember the Yippies as 'trying to levitate the Pentagon'.
(DIR) Post #ATeVWkhRir4hsPVI4e by flaviusb@mastodon.social
2023-03-15T21:13:31Z
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@joao @kravietz @anderspuck @knud And in the same way, Russians are burning down and bombing military recruitment centers, they are trying to derail trains carrying military supplies, and they are trying to defect from the army en masse so they don't have to kill Ukranians.
(DIR) Post #ATeVWlTIqvM8GptVfU by flaviusb@mastodon.social
2023-03-15T21:15:42Z
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@joao @kravietz @anderspuck @knud The problem though is that non-democratic states (by which I mean basically all current states to a fairly large degree) can largely just ignore what people want and impose a 'will of the people' top-down, which they do in order to go to war as part of dealing with internal political problems or the internal psychological issues of some in the ruling class.
(DIR) Post #ATeVWm4AdqqY7B8x8K by flaviusb@mastodon.social
2023-03-15T21:19:52Z
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@joao @kravietz @anderspuck @knud *You are helping Russia to do this* when you play along and say 'so actually those Russians trying to resist don't count, Russians are actually All Just Like The Russian Government Says They Are because they all agree with the government and love war'.It makes it harder for Russians to resist the government when those outside of Russia help the Russian government with its internal propaganda that 'actually all Russians do believe this stuff'.
(DIR) Post #ATeVWmdGXMv3s1Yyps by flaviusb@mastodon.social
2023-03-15T21:26:59Z
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@joao @kravietz @anderspuck @knud And like, replying specifically to "that nearly religious respect of the authority", you do know that in the US almost all children are required to say a loyalty oath every weekday as part of schooling where they stand and salute the flag, and they have a special flag with a blue line in it for the ones who want to lick the boots of the state even harder.And re "complete political passiveness" we have all seen US politics man, don't lie to my fucking face.
(DIR) Post #ATeWeHysTxXV4roaGG by flaviusb@mastodon.social
2023-03-15T21:42:27Z
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@kravietz @anderspuck @knud @joao Cool story bro. I love how you showed that there have never been any other protests in Russia, and especially that the anti-war protests that I have seen never happened. That really makes me feel like you are actually reading what I'm writing and responding to it.
(DIR) Post #AnkitWZx6GfhPQXQSO by flaviusb@mastodon.social
2024-11-06T02:54:38Z
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@foone Or a USB cable multiplexer/arbitrator middlebox that takes n cables in × m cables out and electrically connects the two that would form a circuit.