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General Discussion / Re: LGBTQ+ Thread
« on: March 08, 2023, 10:58:33 am »
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Points two and three strike me as.... condescending and gatekeeping, I suppose? Is the onus of proof on the believer, or the sceptic?

I heard variations of that calculus analogy so many times from... religious people. "You are a child in spiritual matters and try discussing things you can't possibly understand."

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General Discussion / Re: LGBTQ+ Thread
« on: March 07, 2023, 10:33:06 pm »
2. Likewise, understand that you are not an expert on this subject matter. Most cis people have a lot of learning to do on the basics of gender as applied to living in real life. If something seems weird and bizarre, it is most likely because you're the equivalent of a 3rd grader reading about calculus. You lack the context to make sense of it, rather than the thing itself being absurd and worthy of ridicule.

Here comes a simple problem. We don't even have a unified definition of the word "gender"

I regularly encounter variations of 4 major definitions.

1) Gender is exactly the same thing as sex but when talking about humans. It is binary. Can be either male or female.

2) Gender is a biochemically determined behavioral pattern that usually matches sex but not always. It is also a spectrum. Can be male, female, both(or neither).

3) Gender is (quoting WHO) characteristics of women, men, girls and boys that are socially constructed.  This includes norms, behaviors and roles associated with being a woman, man, girl or boy, as well as relationships with each other.

4) Gender is an internal feeling of being X. Usually it is male or female but can be both, neither, fluid, and more.

My problem is... those 4 are absolutely incompatible. Words stop functioning when different people assign different meanings to them. I am at the point where if someone will ask me what gender is, I'll shrug, this word is becoming meaningless (and when answering a stranger whatever answer I may choose, someone WILL be insulted and call me a bigot, narrow-minded, satanist, pervert, leftists, etc.)

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I have a feeling that instability is growing in the "Post-Soviet" space.

Armenia and Azerbaijan are close to an even bigger war than in 2020

Weird stuff is happening in Moldova, I think it is likely that it will be involved in the Ukrainian war in one way or another soon.

Georgia... The situation there reminds Ukraine 2014. A LOT. Corrupt Pro-Russian government pushes the country closer and closer to Russia while talking about wanting to move towards EU. There is even a direct parallel Saakashvili-Tymoshenko. Right now, there are clashes with riot police in Tbilisi and even if this episode won't explode into a major crisis, I am sure that it will come later. To make matter worse, many "anti-war" (aka I want to see Ukraine destroyed ASAP but I value my life and don't want to be drafted) Russians fled to Georgia. I would be shocked if FSB didn't infiltrate a lot of agents using this situation.

Don't know much about Central Asia, but I heard that they started to feel the effects of the Russian recession on their own economies

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I would prefer if we had more links, info, etc.
But yeah, that sucks.

I have created a backup Emotional thread, in case the primary is compromised.

There is not much info. A big Ukrainian blogger got a video of the execution of a Ukrainian POW.  It seems like all of Ukraine is trying to find the name of this guy ATM. He will be one of the symbols of the war...

If, for some reason, you have a need to watch an execution in which Russians unload a lot of bullets in an unarmed man (I advise not to, even if I did far too many times), then here it is - https://twitter.com/sternenko/status/1632724928448417792

We all know that it is very common (if anything, this guy is lucky to not be tortured to death) but such visuals... are a stark reminder of what this war really is.

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Moments before execution of POW by firing squad.
Last words: "Слава Україні."
Assumed executed by Russians, now war criminals.
Date and Location still unknown, presumed recent.

This one is all over Ukrainian social networks, a revitalizing dose of anger.

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https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/04/answering-call-heavy-weaponry-supplied.html

14 Leopard 2A4s [Delivered from February 2023 onwards]
30 PT-91s [To be delivered]
United Kingdom 14 Challenger 2s [To be delivered]
100+ Leopard 1A5s [To be delivered]
8 Leopard 2A4s [To be delivered]
8 Leopard 2A4s [To be delivered]
10 Leopard 2A4s [To be delivered]
18 Leopard 2A6s [To be delivered]
3 Leopard 2A6s [To be delivered]
10 Strv 122s [To be delivered]
31 M1 Abrams [To be delivered]


This list may be outdated a bit but I would hear about a hundred of challenger 2s or over a hundred of Leopard 2s

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So are we gonna start seeing decoy tanks and airplanes getting set up like they did in world war 1 and 2?

Those are already quite common on both sides.

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T’be fair, given Putin’s background as an intelligence agent and the fact we’re getting to the end of Winter, and Russia’s failure to roflstomp an “inferior” (by military strength) nation, it would not surprise me if it was a false flag operation to engender further support from the Russian populace.

No, it is legit. It is Russian Volunteer Corps (don't confuse with the Free Russia Legion). Those guys are real and they filmed a video with their faces open and everything checks out.

As I said their status is blurry but formally they are a part of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Legion_of_Territorial_Defence_of_Ukraine along with other curious units like Karelian\Bashkir separatists

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Dear Russians who are anal raped by fake news on a daily / hourly basis.
Your facsist Hitler government might have tried to tell you that the attack on Brjansk was a terrorist attack by Ukrainian forces.
It was not.
It was a rebel attack by Russian neo nazis. Your own fucking nazi extreme right people fucked your mother in the arse. And I applaud them, I hope they do more attacks on Russian soil. It's sad that it have to be the nazis who dare to do that. I'd rather have seen it to be the general Russian population but, hey, it has to start somewhere

But stop the fuck blaming Ukraine for that shite. They didn't do that. It was your own extreme right brothers, mothers and sisters who did that bombing run. I hope many of you died.

1) You are a bit... extreme in your wording

2) Those are Russian Neo-nazi\white supermatists but they are not maniacs who would randomly kill civilians as Russian propaganda tries to claim.

3) Their de jure status is muddy, but they are de facto part of the Ukrainian armed forces and this operation was clearly approved and supported by Ukraine (not that it will be ever admitted officially). Am I happy about that? Not really. I am worried that we may be raising our own Bin Ladens. In the long run, racist pan-slavs can't be allies of Ukraine. Ideologies just don't match. But during a war for survival... enemy of my enemy works

4) If we want a civil war in Russia (and I do want it, I see it is the only realistic way to victory as I define it) guys like this may contribute a lot

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This temple is one of my favorite examples to argue that a huge majority of Christians don't give an F about what their particular cult will push. What matters for people without critical thinking is what their favorite authority says, no matter how disgusting and evil (and even contradicting their own religion) it is.

I feel like lumping together the probably small number of people who had this built, the people in their area and particular denomination of that religion who didn't have a choice about it being built, the people in their denomination of that religion elsewhere who also didn't have a choice about it being built, and people of entirely different denominations who ALSO also didn't have a choice about it being built is reductive in the extreme and not a good argument about anything. It does demonstrate that you know much less than you think about both Christians and Christianity, though.

Of course, Christians of other denominations don't like this temple, their authorities didn't say that it is great\fine. So, nothing stops them from seeing it as what it is - blasphemy and a mockery of a Christian church. It is the point.

Devout Russian Christians who regularly go to the Orthodox Russian Church do like (or at least don't mind) this temple and see nothing wrong it because their authorities (aka KGB priests) say it is fine. I asked them. And they discard any arguments that this is blasphemous. Gundyaev blessed it = it is fine. Period

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Something exploded in the Moscow region, close to the place where a Ukrainian drone fell a few days ago.

Must be smoking...

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To be honest, if I had an infiltration group that was taking pictures inside Russia, I'd have all pictures be of exactly one guy, and I'd pretend it's just the one guy doing it all alone.

Just to maximize humiliation value while making Russia seem more incompetent.

Of course, I support Ukraine, so..

I am on the fence regarding those ones. Enemy of my enemy is my friend a temporary ally and any dissent in Russia is good but those guys are the closest to actual neo-nazi one can find... Who am I kidding? They are neo-nazi. They glorify this scumbag - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_Martsinkevich

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This temple is one of my favorite examples to argue that a huge majority of Christians don't give an F about what their particular cult will push. What matters for people without critical thinking is what their favorite authority says, no matter how disgusting and evil (and even contradicting their own religion) it is.

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So, according to Russian media, a group of Ukrainian soldiers crossed the Russian and killed some civilians.

*Yawns*. They could invent something more plausible for the next wave of mobilization or whatever they want to do.


Curiously, only the "killed some civilians" part is a lie.

~50 members of the Russian volunteer corps (part of Ukrainian armed forces and also actual far-rights) did cross the border, did some stuff, and successfully retreated.


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