mashbooq

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[–] mashbooq@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Everyone will call you friend as long as you agree with them. And libs punch Nazis. Are you a Nazi?

[–] mashbooq@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

You mean like "shitlib"?

[–] mashbooq@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because there's nothing to understand. Have the day you deserve!

[–] mashbooq@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

No, it doesn't. Just repeating a statement, slightly modified, doesn't mean it makes sense.

[–] mashbooq@lemmy.world 69 points 1 day ago (6 children)

After I saw that issue, I attempted to build Ventoy from source. After making numerous modifications and getting only the first couple components built, I got tired of it and quit. I've made some modifications to glim and use that instead, although it's still not as easy as Ventoy. But I don't trust Ventoy if I can't build it myself.

Further, when @vkc@linuxmom.net made some criticisms of Ventoy in one of her YouTube videos, she was subjected to a harassment campaign, and others told her the same happened to them. That pushed me from not trusting Ventoy to actively distrusting it.

[–] mashbooq@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (5 children)

That makes no sense

[–] mashbooq@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

I guess it was too soon for me to put my cope ear bandage back on

[–] mashbooq@lemmy.world -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Then the likely outcome of your actions is at odds with your stated goal of forcing the two major parties to shift their platforms over time.

[–] mashbooq@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

AIPAC is funded by Israel, Republicans, and Democrats, so you can't draw any strong conclusions about party affiliation from involvement in AIPAC alone. Further, AIPAC isn't the only, or even the biggest, donor to Biden and Harris, so claiming they're "bought and paid for" strains credulity.

MAGA isn't solely characterized by Zionism, and not all Zionists are MAGA, so going from "Zionism" to "MAGA" is an unsubstantiated leap.

Finally, receiving donations from a death cult does not make one part of a death cult. Morally reprehensible? Yes.

[–] mashbooq@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (3 children)

That's easy for you to fix

[–] mashbooq@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (6 children)

That's laudable, but the way to do that is to vote in primaries, not to vote third party in the general election

[–] mashbooq@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

They might label some people incorrectly as russian agents, but the reality is that there is a concerted effort by russia to undermine the US democracy, mostly directed at the Democratic Party, and making some mistakes doesn't make them delusional.

It's pretty hard to prosecute propaganda in the US due to the First Amendment, so it's not accurate to say that just because the Greens can run, they must not be russian agents.

The concern about the Greens is eminently logical: they are never going to win, so the best they can do is take votes from the Democrats, allowing the fascists to win. This is in fact what happened in the election of Polk, leading to the Mexican-American war and the theft of Texas from Mexico, which was then admitted as an additional slave state. Further, the Greens do little to nothing other than run in big national races, so it's not a leap to think they're deliberately running a spoiler campaign.

Finally, none of that has anything to do with the silly attempt to label Democrats as "Blue MAGA", since MAGA is a quasi-religious fascist personality cult, none of which can be credibly attributed to Democrats.

 

Russian propaganda spreads the false narrative that Crimea has belonged to Russia for most of its existence and that its indigenous people, the Qırımtatarlar, or more commonly known as the Qirimli, have always been a small part of the Crimean population and have mixed with Russians.

Despite Russia's numerous attempts to wipe them off the map to fulfill this narrative, today, the Qırımtatarlar are alive and fighting for their homeland on the peninsula and on the other side of the Russian front as part of the Ukrainian Army.

Today, Yuliia and Alim Aliiev, Deputy Director General of the Institute of Ukraine, member of PEN Ukraine, and founder of the Crimean Fig literary project, will discuss the most disputed peninsula in the world — Qirim, or Krym in Ukrainian. Who does it really belong to? Was it really originally Russian land? What happened there between 1918 and 2014, when it became known worldwide after the Russian occupation?

 

Linnea and Yewleea bring you up to speed on the War in Ukraine in about 20 minutes or less. In today's brief, Yewleea talks about NATO, the counteroffensive, and Russian Meltdowns.

 

In 2014, Western media took a liking to frequent reporting on what they deemed to be the Ukrainian conflict, labeling the paid-by-Russia militia and their Russian troops as separatists. Through that perception of an independent group of people in the region of Donbas, whose culture and identity were supposedly persecuted, the narrative was formed that they wanted nothing more than to cease being Ukrainian and form their own sub-republics adjacent to Mother Russia.

Today we'll discuss what really happened in Donetsk in 2014 from the perspective of a then 16-year-old born and raised in the city. Were there really pro-Russian crowds yearning to separate from Ukraine, so much that they decided to create their own independent republics?

 

For Story Saturday on the Ukraine War Brief Podcast (with Yewleea and Linnea), an interview with Harley Whitehead, a logistical support and explosive ordinance disposal volunteer in Ukraine.

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