Huh. I never read it that way. But then again, where I live it’s so common, I get surprised it’s considered folksy.

I say “ain’t” :(

Oh, looks interesting. I’ll keep an eye out.

I’ve been on a Warframe kick. I need to get back to playing Resident Evil IV, but just haven’t been in the mood.

My favorite genre is probably first-person anything, though I have to usually settle for third-person. I also like strategy and puzzle games.

I’m anticipating Warframe 1999, but that’s not coming out in 2025. I think. Idk, I don’t keep up with stuff.

I can’t remember where, but I have heard the Stalin-Hitler anti-liberal alliance myth before. I think I saw it in a series of books that broke down WWII in various volumes, from the 90s. It was in my middle school library years ago. Part of the narrative was that Stalin had plenty of warning about Hitler’s invasion, but refused to properly mobilize defenses because he was convinced the Allies would side with the Nazis against the USSR. They also mentioned how the Soviets trained Nazi soldiers in the 30s and had streets named after Hitler once the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was signed.

No idea how accurate any of that was.

You forget their mastery of necromancy.

They’re claiming Russia is losing 1,200 soldiers a day. They’re delusional.

Or that they hate themselves.

I wish I’d seen it. Sounds darkly funny.

Do you have the clip by chance? Or better still, is there a cache of all the videos, articles and posts of Ukraine being a “totally normal democracy”? I remember there was a giant shareable document breaking down and debunking the Uyghur genocide myth a few years ago.

I agree. When the Russian intervention began and Western media did a huge crackdown on the truth, the only people I saw allowed to tell the Russian side on mainstream were MAGA crackpots who looked crazy doing it. Can’t say there’s no censorship, because the narrative is allowed on mainstream media, but presented from the side progressives hate and distrust the most. It’s an insidious kind of manipulation.

Yeah… there’s always just enough self-awareness in their words that I have to wonder if they’re poor liars, or suffering some kind of ingrained mental block that keeps them from finishing the line of logic.

I love this game. I did well on my first playthrough, but of course I managed to get the two characters I wanted to save most killed :(

Did people even ask the easy questions (without being banned and censored)? Y’know… questions that would have been answered by looking at the photos of the Ukrainian soldiers and the symbols they wore? Or the posts and comments they frequently made? I’m actually curious what the “hard” questions could be, when a lot of the answers were pretty apparent.

And here I thought California would at least be a little better about maskers.

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I had forgotten about that.

I’ve been noticing the articles are saying he was a chaotic mess, a hindrance to the war in Ukraine, and acted like he was the personal representative of all American volunteers there. Not sure if any of that is true or if they’re just trying to distance themselves from him, but I could see it being true.

Doesn’t change the fact he’s a pro-Ukrainian who tried to assassinate Trump, and failed miserably. Kind of makes me wonder if the first assassin was also pro-Ukraine.

What’s funny is that I remember the original conspiracy they’re referring to. It was told to me as a funny story, about how a doctor found the best way to convince anti-vaxxers to get vaccinated was by telling an even more ridiculous conspiracy theory.

And then this dipshit immediately admits they’d believe the conspiracy theory, then proceeds to edit it with a dozen other conspiracy theories to justify sinophobia. The lack of self-awareness is astounding.

My understanding is they edited the guy out because he was responsible for excesses driven by personal prejudices, and then he was arrested and executed. That’s correct, isn’t it? Please excuse my ignorance.