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That’s why they say “full-scale invasion”. Precisely because the war did begin 12 years ago, but the full-scale invasion began in 2022.

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Neither would anybody in their right mind.

But, my grandma saw both cities through the goggles of her religion. Those were tanks of peace.

In 2015 I spent some days in East Türkestan – in Qulja, in Ürümqi, in Khorgos. I’ve been wondering how the tankies would have interpreted if they visited there and saw what I saw. I noticed people avoiding certain themes, I saw them getting scared if I tried speaking Uyghur near Han children, I saw heavily armed policemen on top of APCs. I saw a dystopy.

But a person for whom CCP counts as high clergy… They would see all that differently.

I believe that a pious communist would be a horrible bother for a person who has fled the USSR. They’d get no more out of it than my grandmother got out of visiting both sides or Berlin back then. You’d get a very pissed off survivor of USSR and a pious person who is feeling good and righteous for proving once again that all people opposing his thoughts are nazis. Except for those who actually are, because they have such similar thought patterns to those Pure in Faith that they would feel like friends to such a pious person. Unless, of course, they’d outright show a swastika tattoo to them.

My grandma has that same religion. In the late 1980 she was visiting Berlin, and coming back she had said: “On the western side the wall was full of graffitis and really ugly, but the eastern side of the wall was completely clean. That shows where people are happy and where not.”

They would definitely manage to protect their mind from any information contradicting their religion. Once the brain’s gone, the brain’s gone. There’s a small chance that a new one will grow to fill the hollow, but that’s not something that can be influenced from outside the brain.

Confucius? What four?

It’s a religion. Such an extremely pious person will see what they want to see, no matter what. They’d probably be disgusted by seeing people who have voluntarily left the paradise that was USSR, and that view would shape the interpretation of whatever those people might say.

It’s been half an hour now, and the above comment still has not produced a mention for my alt on piefed.social!

They are just hoping that they can prolong the war by a week or two.

Maybe, just maaaaybe they will be lucky and something happens that makes the west force Ukraine to cede all of the currently occupied territory to the Orc-Roaches. The only thing the Russia can do is to try to prolong the war and hope for an act of gods.

The comment in question is this one. In case that someone else is as curious as I am, so they won’t need to search for it :)

Bring this headline to year 2019 and see how people there react.

The country is not refusing the return of its own citizens. It is refusing bringing its citizen from one country to another against their own will in a situation where there is no unavoidable and pressing need to do so.

Why is it not a legitimate move? A country is supposed to protect its citizens from harm.

Most deportations are unjust, and if the only efficient way to stop unfair deportations by us is to block them wholesale, then a country has the responsibility towards its citizens to do so.

Anything else would be madness.

Sudan genocide is very largely supported by the Russian Federation.

Pterodactyls were long gone at that point, though!

(Something related to triceratops was probably still around, but not the kind depicted here.)

But if you follow enough users, won’t you start getting quite a good amount of that? Plus, you can probably just browse the local of some Misskey instance and then, if you want to comment or upvote, open it from within your own instance? It won’t be perfect, but I would imagine it will do the job just fine for a student.

If it federates, what does that matter? Just read the Japanese Misskey content.

Iceshrimp and Sharkey are forks of Misskey with more features. Are they still able to federate with it? How does Misskey federation work?

Except not that much in Ukraine. Hungarians in Hungary took it personally, and a fraction of Hungarians in Ukraine. But most Hungarians in Ukraine were on the same page as Kyiv on what the point of that law is.

But also: Yeah, the law was thoughtlessly formulated. It should not have hurt the minorities like that.

I hope there’s a way for their children to relay a message to them.

Yes.

But, it’s also a country that has been trying to gain territories from Ukraine and Romania for several decades already. In the end of World War I, Hungary had to let many of its old areas gain independence, and pockets of Hungarians ended up living in Romania. Then, during World War II, Soviet Union took parts of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Romania. Poland was given parts of Germany as compensation, but Romania and Hungary got nothing to compensate – largely because they had been allied with Germany.

Hungary wants to undo the part of the peace agreement ending WWII that changed the ownership of the Zakarpattja area to Ukraine, and that has kept Hungary hostile to Ukraine.

Basically Hungary sees that it was unfair that its side lost the war in 1945 and wants that reversed. When the Russia attacked Ukraine, Orbán saw this as a way to “fixing” the “unfairness”.

And then there’s all the stuff that Orbán did with “women” sent to him by the Russians, using a network led by a certain J.E.
There are apparently videos or photos of him with his victims, and those are so damning that Orbán will anyways do anything to stop them from surfacing.