Big if true. Is there a link to the original?
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Still interesting.
If one could invest in slogans that will soon be in every history book, I would go all in on this one :-)
2. Facebook banning individual accounts for violation of selectively interpreted „community guidelines“
3. Facebook manually tweaking the recommendation algorithm to promote some topics and not others
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Still on a completely different level than Russian state-based propaganda, of course, but Facebook is not „just a neutral platform“
Ridiculous, victim-blaming statement
Whoever formulated this is a PR genius.
The West will read it as "the [Russian aggression] war in Ukraine".
Putin can be made believe it meant "the [Ukrainian nazi government] war in [the Donbas region of] Ukraine".
> 1. Pilots that have family back home probably won't be eager to take the offer
Russia has not been known to do North-Korea-style family executions (so far)
> 2. Russia has shown no qualms about targeted assassinations in foreign lands.
Russia might be too weak after all this is over to still have these capabilities.
Time will tell!
Note that while I oppose the seizing of people‘s bank accounts by Trudeau with every fibre of my body, this whataboutism is easily defused:
Using these kind of soft power moves (basically doing things in the non-meat space) is precisely why Canada is still a liberal democracy.
Even if you became the state‘s enemy #1, the worst that happens is… your bank account is temporarily disabled, overtly (not a clandestine operation, so you can challenge it legally, protest it, etc).
This is completely different from Russia, where you just… disappear (ie you get killed).
One of these two so casually mentioned in the same sentence is literally bombing civilians.
If bombing civilians will not stop you from defending a murderous regime with whataboutisms, what will?
Why did you assume the gender of the software engineer?
Imagine you are Asian, let‘s say Han Chinese. Nobody alive in Shanghai today has ever had to witness other Chinese people being fire bombed in their cities by a foreign aggressor.
Of course it does happen every day in other parts of the world, mostly in the middle east, but seeing people like you, peope that could be your neighbours, or even literally you, die in a cluster bomb attack is… completely new and shocking.
Of course people are gonna point that out, and surely Chinese media would be underlining „it‘s Chinese people like you and me dying!“.
There is no implication that 3rd world citizen‘s are „lesser“ people or that they deserve war.
Quite the opposite: opposition to war in the Middle East has been a very common sentiment especially in Europe, so you can't even complain that people are now „tasting their own medicine“ etc.
Especially since Europe accepted millions of refugees with mostly very open hands.
So basically what all the people in the videos in that Twitter thread are saying is „the situation in Europe has deteriorated to a state comparable with the worst places to be on earth right now.“
> overdoses on css instead
US intel is doing a pristine job so far in this conflict.
Then it basically becomes one big game of chess or soccer, just between intelligence agencies. The trophy is power and influence. I am fine with this as long as no humans are physically harmed.
Therefore the 2014 coup was OK, but the 2022 war is not.