Only thing you enlisted in is ribs night at Golden Corral.

That only changes if people fight which is why it is important that the world stand with Ukraine against Putin and the fascists of this world.

And there’s the rub. You can’t just stick your fingers in your ears when Ukrainians are aiming to end combat and pursue negotiations, and then turn around and say you are “standing with Ukraine”.

Put simply: to stand with Ukraine means to affirm the hopes and agency of common Ukrainians - which is definitively not what you’re doing.

Consider this thought experiment:

In 5 years, supposing the grueling combat has continued, and 95% of Ukrainians definitively and undoubtedly wish to end combat, is it really “standing with Ukraine” if you reject this number and insist they continue to fight to “save the world from fascism” while you yourself have not enlisted?

Maybe you can cede your home and all your possessions to Putin? You realize that is what you are defending right?

Nope, it’s actually a simple question:

Do you think the Ukrainian common people should be the primary agents in determining whether or not to continue combat?

The fact that they want the war to end doesn’t mean they want to surrender.

How does this follow or relate to anything we’ve discussed so far?

It’s like asking "would you like peace?

It’s actually not like that at all. It’s actually pretty simple:

Which of the following statements about the war with Russia comes closest to your personal views?

Ukraine should continue fighting until it wins the war

Ukraine should seek to negotiate an ending to the war as soon as possible

Don’t know/Refused

What is it with yall refusing to believe any opposing viewpoints are organic?

Those 69% of Ukranians who want to end the war via negotiation - are they Russian bots as well?

You know you can go enlist, right?

I think what you meant to say was,

I for one prefer Ukrainians continue throwing themselves in the grinder

Despite the fact that,

More than three years into the war, Ukrainians’ support for continuing to fight until victory has hit a new low. In Gallup’s most recent poll of Ukraine — conducted in early July — 69% say they favor a negotiated end to the war as soon as possible, compared with 24% who support continuing to fight until victory.

This marks a nearly complete reversal from public opinion in 2022, when 73% favored Ukraine fighting until victory and 22% preferred that Ukraine seek a negotiated end as soon as possible.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/693203/ukrainian-support-war-effort-collapses.aspx

Edit: grammar

Also this goes to prove again that Steam/Valve is not a monopoly

How does a company announcing a new item for later release disprove its status as a monopoly? How does a game company designing a better product than a bumbling social media company disprove its status as a monopoly? Can you explain?

Some 73% of developers see Steam as a monopoly

Steam satisfies the FTC’s definition of a monopolist

I’m not taking a stance on whether or not valve is a monopoly, but claiming that a press release for upcoming items (that have yet to even hit the market) disproves its monopoly status seems wrong.

The fact that customers enjoy the products that a monopoly makes doesn’t disprove its monopoly status. It just proves there is still some ounce of good engineering winning over shortsighted financial decisions in Valve’s leadership.

Damn girl, you shit with that ass?

let me tongue punch that fart box

i see youre a fellow arborist, what’s your favorite thing about [tree in pic]

Or really anything other than a milquetoast expression of horniness. Could try to be funny, could try to be genuine… honestly “nice ass” is very low effort. This person is probably getting 20 of those a day. You need to stand out.

I think of the German people who did nothing

Yup… It’s painful. I’m with you. There was a great answer below.

https://lemmy.ca/comment/19861394

How do you think fascism happens? Voter apathy?

ample evidence

a single, one minute facebook Radio Free Asia Clip

Utterly laughable. Try harder. This is “ample evidence” to you?

I think you might start getting flustered looking for more evidence as you realize that all of these ample “sources” cite this 1 minute RFA clip.

There is ample evidence for this.

Please share the ample evidence of the operation purportedly being carried out by Chinese officials to increase their lifespan to 150 years.

Search bubble? I get pages of results.

Please share your sources since they are so ample.

[you are] posting exclusively propaganda sources

https://theindiaobserver.com/islamic-delegation-visiting-chinas-xinjiang-region-says-all-is-well-here/

The Western media narrative is, “China’s Xinjiang policy has included intrusive surveillance, religious restrictions, the destruction of mosques, arbitrary arrests, and the detention of an estimated 1.8 million mostly Muslim Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples in a vast network of internment camps and prisons. Some have been subjected to sexual assaults, forced labor, and forced sterilizations.”

In order to counter this narrative an Islamic delegation that compromised of members from Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Tunisia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina visited the Xingjiang region.

Dr. Osama Sayyid Al Azhari, the Egyptian President’s Advisor on Religious Affairs said “I believe that this visit demonstrates that China has attached great significance to preserving the ethnic culture with racial distinctions of many nationalities in Xinjiang province.”

Dr. Mustafa Ceric, former Mufti of Bosnia and Herzegovina said “What we’ve heard outside China surely has a bias. I’d say Muslim communities in China include more than Uygurs and there’re more than ten Muslim groups such as Hui and Mongolian and others in the region.”

Lol at the cope

Americans fuck up American aircraft on an American carrier, Americanly

hur dur, Chinese ineptitude

The three sources you posted are all the same. They all come from the ICIJ report - whose contents was originally shared by Adrien Zenz. You know, the Christian Findamentalist who said Hitler was an effective crime fighter? It’s laughable with all of these anti China hit pieces. You never need to go more than one or two sources back before youre hitting radio free Asia or adrien zenz. What you assumed were three sources was actually the same regurgitated slop that’s been juggled between sources for the past 5 years.

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202509/1342692.shtml

GT: You visited China’s Xinjiang region in 2019, 2023 and again this August. Looking back, how would you compare your impressions from these trips? What changes stood out to you most in terms of development and social stability?

Al Nuaimi: In all three visits I met officials, community representatives, religious leaders, and visited mosques and families, especially during the first trip. I see progress, I see real development. The government has a plan for reducing poverty, and I witnessed the results on the ground, not just what officials told me.

It’s important to appreciate this achievement, to acknowledge it and to show the world that while many countries face challenges, in China, especially in this region, there has been remarkable progress. People outside China cannot imagine the lifestyle here or the services provided to the people of Xinjiang.

https://www.mfa.gov.cn/eng/xw/wjbxw/202405/t20240530_11343216.html

It is especially strange how the article pushes this conspiracy theory

However, he claimed, the overall practice is driven by a programme called Project 981, which aims to increase the life expectancy of CCP leaders to 150 years and includes free access to organ transplants. “It explains why this hideous crime exists and why it is flourishing. It needs to flourish so the leaders will have a pool of organs to choose from.”

I found one single reference to a “project 981” on the internet, and it comes back to a Radio Free source. Laughable conspiracy theories with zero backing. Par for the course for these anti China hit pieces.

Youd need to be an effective sniper who leaves the area immediately after firing

Either that, or sheer numbers.

Browncoats are here, folks. Shit only gets more violent from here.

You know the empire is scared when their scathing anti-China hit pieces claiming massive brainwashing have banger pictures such as:

Seriously? Is anyone buying this?

It’s pretty clear given China’s massive successes in elevating people out of poverty, solving homelessness, and electricity generation, that the American empire has fallen woefully behind, and hit pieces like these serve no purpose other than to manufacture consent for anti-China narratives. I encourage any skeptics to join Rednote for literally just one day.