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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The self fellatiating "superior" pacifists in here bragging that they would never think of doing something so horrible as to defend themselves violently from a group actively trying to murder you or your fellow citizens and kidnap your children are a special sort of disconnexted from reality.

Abusers will continue to push what they can get away with and you are the types that would tell women to stay with their husbands that beat them and children to accept being raped because to fight back might make a mess of your peaceful idea of reality.

Also this isn't boring you nonce.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Lmao the environmentalist take was my favorite. Some people are unbelievably sheltered.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Atechnologicallyproficientdystopia

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I hate Putin and any Russian war sympathizer as much as the next guy, but...

My grandfather got a white phosphorus burn during WW2. He told me it was the most terrible pain he ever felt in his entire life, you can't extinguish it, and he wouldn't wish it on his worst enemy. I heard the same kind of stories from people who got napalm burns in Vietnam.

I'm pretty sure thermite munitions are in the same category of basically inhumane weapons regardless of the circumstances, right up there with NBCs, mines, napalm and white phosphorus, and I can't say I fully side with the Ukrainians on this one. I mean I understand why they do it, but I also remember my grandfather's leg and the horror of what he told me.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (14 children)

Russia is welcome to withdraw from its genocidal, imperialist, unilateral invasion at any time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

"it's not a war crime if we're defending ourselves"

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (21 children)

Do you put "sitting in the comfort of the first world trying to be the moral arbiter of a people desperately defending themselves from a fascist war of extermination" as one of your hobbies on your dating profile?

Edit: This reply was so ridiculous that I actually completely forgot to mention that this isn't a war crime under international law.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (4 children)

It's not even a war crime. It's only a war crime specifically if it's used where civilians are.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Honestly the Ukrainian brutality has been pretty constrained over time compared to the civil war. Russia started full 1865.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

After seeing countless attacks on Ukrainian civilians, I really don't care what happens to the invading forces anymore. Remove them from Ukrainian territory however you want, I really don't care.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It does sound borderline war crime, but then again the US buried thousands of Iraqi soldiers alive in the first gulf war, but our lawyers also did the mental gymnastics to justify it not being one beforehand so presumably they have some justification so its just barely legal. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-09-12-mn-2959-story.html

That being said, its not like Russia is being super careful about its rules of engagement.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Don't want to get war crimed, don't do war crimes first.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (8 children)

The sad thing is that Putin doesn’t care about war crimes. He will sacrifice as many soldiers or civilians as necessary to get his way.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (6 children)

What if the Russians didn't start a war?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's awful! Please keep doing that.

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