Moved back to my small Ontario town after like a decade away a couple years back and it’s all virtually the same (except with way more empty storefronts downtown, thank god we give landlords a tax break for letting them stand vacant!).

Zelensky’s government? Not really (bc that’s who they are). Zelensky personally? Probably.

They’ve spent generations alienating and atomizing us to extract more profit, more rent, more income, neglecting our basic needs, but now suddenly we’re supposed to believe we’re all in this together? I’m going to laugh my ass off when this place crumbles lol I’ve been waiting for it my whole life.

I think this quote is a mealy-mouthed way of saying that basically every Canadian is up to their asses in debt and struggling to get the bare minimum they need out of life so no, they really don’t care what NATO wants. We’re not “divided”, we’re broke af and have bigger concerns. CBC journos really are something else. Do THEY know the “strategic realities”? If they did maybe they wouldn’t write pro-war puff pieces like this.

So many people I know here are either sick or chronically ill because they have no family doctor. Hell, most people I know my age want to LEAVE Canada altogether because we loathe it here despite being born here. There are certainly old geezers here and spoiled bougies flying Ukraine flags who would be fine with war and death because they already got what they needed out of life and watch propaganda 24/7.

For the rest of us who have already sacrificed and settled for so little (even having my own place to myself while working full time is a fairy tale now), we aren’t going to just happily sacrifice more so that Trudeau and parliament can sit around some more and eat bonbons and play war games. We’re going to be pissed and resist in any way possible. I think it would politically push a lot of people over the edge, possibly into communism, but I think we all know it’s more likely to be fascism. It’s not like the NDP are going to put up any kind of actual fight lol, they’re a worthless lib party now. Canada can go fuck itself in other words.

I see your point and will try and exercise a bit more patience in the future, but I do think that part of what helped me develop from a radlib into a leftist was the occasional cold reminder when I stepped out of line without doing any investigation.

If one enters a conversation about a conflict in a leftist space where the stakes are as high as they are (WW3, really) and tries to disprove facts by doing ad hominem stuff, you deserve a bit of ridicule because that’s not a real analysis. Acting haughty and doubling down on it and pouting when others besides myself directly ask for some proof is also not really a good look. Nor is tattling to the mods when you’re losing the room.

Please just have some facts if you’re going to walk directly into a thread and confidently say that it’s all bullshit and don’t take it personally when people lose patience when you do not. It’s not asking much.

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Is it brusque? Sure. But what exactly is factually wrong with what I’m saying? I AM criticizing what they’re saying because it’s just moralism. They make an emotionally charged statement where the gist is simply that they think the source has had other bad takes (thanks, we’ll take that into consideration) and then takes it personally when others point out that the factual essence of what the source is saying is correct so their supposed character is irrelevant.

It really is not my responsibility to spare the feelings of those who charge in with emotionally and morally charged “arguments” and then martyr themselves when there is pushback from people who honestly just want to know what they’re getting at. They still have not made a single factual claim here!

lmao right?? I feel like I’ve been hearing this one every week since 2021. I sometimes wonder how aware he actually is

I suppose it’s one of those paradoxes that makes your cross your eyes thinking about it; if they didn’t buy the bs about The West being superior, they wouldn’t have made it to a position of power at all. They live in glamour and splendor and are surrounded by people whose job it is to use scientific-sounding terms to assure them that their empire is secure. Of course you’d think Everything Is Fine in that environment.

Yeah 10 years ago (when I was a lib) it was maybe debatable that western leaders could sober up and turn things around but the past 4 years alone have informed me that they are in fact high on their own supply and truly think they’re enlightened individuals who deserve the power they wield, rather than mere puppets (or collaborators) who will stick to the script no matter what.

wtf does my “disgust” have to do with the facts presented? You’re just another shrill lib moralist who demands moral purity instead of, y’know, facts. Other people here have already politely pointed out how the facts here line up… how is it not naive to demand that everyone you’re getting info from pass your own personal idpol litmus test before accepting the facts? Just debunk the claims with facts or move on.

this isn’t a struggle session btw lol none of us are terribly interested in your “struggles” after showing your ass like this.

When their stupid ass plans don’t work out domestically they can just shrug and blame it on an external factor and move on, or shuffle the deck electorally. They’re not accustomed to being in a situation where they physically, materially cannot get what they want and no amount of reality warping and coddling by their institutions can change that. It does not compute.

It seems like this is the answer. The shipment that came in 5 months ago was contaminated with the explosive, which was detonated when the hack turned the temperature of the device up to the ignition point.

This type of thing will absolutely, undoubtedly boomerang back to the imperial core. And when it does all the libbies who shrugged at the genocide and ignored our warnings that the violence will end up blowing back at them will just move the goalposts again. I hope other enemies of the state are observing all of this and triple-checking their supply chains.

Yes, I’m curious as well as to how this exploit happened. Supply chain contamination? An extremely specific firmware vulnerability that was discovered via research and saved for later? Keep in mind that the mossad helped make Pegasus w/ the NSA so they likely have all sorts of sinister APTs to terrorize us with.

they can hack all sorts of things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7

geez I forgot to actually add the reuters link :/ edited now, sorry comrade I’m sort of new to this platform lol

Western society has done a fantastic job at creating a narrative that the west recognized the nazis as a threat early on but wasn’t prepared for another world war and was in denial or something. The truth is that westerners loved the nazis lol. Churchill went gaga over how they ruthlessly crushed labour and physically attacked communists. The New Orc Times did the best it could to muddy the waters and give them the benefit of the doubt, and our own prime minister at the time wrote that he was a “mystic” and “liberator of his people”. And that was in his private diary, not even some kind of official communique where you could argue that diplomacy was needed.

Liberals (at best) always think that fascism is something they can hold in their hands, harness, and use to get what they want. But more often they’re functionally just fascists who are embarrassed by the label.

it looks like one of those amalgamation pictures of every man in scandinavia made into an average