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Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to this if you can, thank you.
Links
Time/Map: https://time.is/Ukraine
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ukraine/@49.1162725,31.7993839,7z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x40d1d9c154700e8f:0x1068488f64010!8m2!3d48.379433!4d31.1655799?hl=en
Leftist discussion threads:
https://hexbear.net/post/177324
https://old.reddit.com/r/GenZedong/comments/t03foy/genzedong_russiaukraine_master_discussion_thread/
https://lemmygrad.ml/
Twitter military updaters:
https://nitter.net/ASBMilitary
https://nitter.net/Militarylandnet
https://nitter.net/MihajlovicMike
https://nitter.net/KofmanMichael
https://nitter.net/TadeuszGiczan/status/1498673348183744518
Global South Perspective: https://nitter.net/kiranopal_/status/1498723206496145413
Better war/propaganda analysis:
https://www.understandingwar.org
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
News updates:
https://www.cgtn.com/special/UkraineCrisis.html
Live: https://www.cgtn.com/special/Live-update-Ukraine-Russia-border-crisis.html
YT/Video in Ukraine:
https://www.youtube.com/c/PatrickLancasterNewsToday/videos
https://www.youtube.com/c/RussellBentleyTe
Had to shut my liberal professor up today in sociology 101, he kept going on about how wonderful Putin is and that he's doing communism. I said "sir, SIR, I served 2 tours in Afghanistan. I know a thing or two about communism and it's no good. And I quote albert einstein when he said "socialism is when there's no food" end quote". That shut him up real fast. I will NEVER let Ukraine or the USA become communist fascists, mark my words.
ASBmilitary account on Twitter is now suspended. Was an ambiguously leftish and pro-Russian (but not uncritically) account with decent updates. Apparently such groups are still on telegram but damnit I don't want to use telegram.
my favorite part was where he complained about how fighting a modern army (Russia) was harder than murdering people that can barely fight back (Iraq and Afghanistan). the only thing that could have topped this off is this limey merc :british-maw: getting yeeted.
A lot of Chinese billionaires that move their asset abroad are going to do a hard thinking after this event is over, lmao. Also, who going to dare invest into the west, especially the UK and US in the future.
I wouldn't be surprised if the stream of shady money funding the Swiss banks will dry up as well, now that they've broken their neutrality and sided with "the international community".
Why are there a lot of Chinese billionaires again?
Seems like an easy fix
National Bourgeois that dont hold the legislative or decision making power in China arent the primary contradiction China faces as it tries to built its socialist project, its a secondary one that was and is used to help resolve and navigate the primary contradictions. Imperialism ,US world hegemony and domestic undeveloped productiove and technological forces
And since when do billionaires add to productivity fight imperialism or help in any way?
Their companies absorb western/foreign capital from investors trying to get rich, and it keeps accumulation out in the open where it can be controlled and monitored instead of underground.
There is less incentive to infiltrate the Communist party to get rich and destroy it from within when they can just go off into their islands or whatever, and in return Chinese national bourgeoisie are protected from competition by Western companies, i.e Baidu and Ali from Google and Facebook.
You know how there's a lot of Chinese owners invest in foreign football club, like EPL (UK) or in Italy, that's how they move their assets, including invest in foreign real estate.
There are a couple reasons, but there has been alot of theory spilled over this topic. One of the theories is that it is better to have billionaires as an outlet than allows people to blame someone other than the government when stuff goes wrong. This only works if they are not allowed to cultivate cults of personality, which it seems is generally curtailed in China (though I can't tell to what extent as I haven't been there).
how do we stop western billionaires from cultivating cults of personality?
Well, for one they don't allow them to do wealth-posting. As well, they don't allow them to self advertise, outside of published interviews (and maybe like a book deal). They get to be a billionaire but their free speech privileges are curtailed. Basically, it's 'Congratulations, you have managed to make yourself an important part of the economy, now you will be treated as such with more scrutiny'. It goes without saying that there are certainly abuses, though its hard to say if there are more or less that the West.
However, in the West the problem is that there are a substantial amount of people who are bazinga brained enough to do this on their own, which there is not much you can do outside of re-education on economic theory and history.
If you are asking how 'we' as in Hexbearians stop this from happening? The horses are outta the barn on that one. Watch, wait, read and counter when people push on the propoganda hard irl.
However, in the West the problem is that there are a substantial amount of people who are bazinga brained enough to do this on their own, which there is not much you can do outside of re-education on economic theory and history.
So the call is coming from inside the house. Frankly, I'm terrified of what it will take to make Americans stop worshipping rich people with above average PR campaigns.
I don't think it will take that much. Most of the people I know who are like this are PMC liberals (think IT and engineering nerds) who are reddit-brained and while they are substantial in the posting wars, their actual physical presence is limited. Most people I know that actually work for and deal with billionaires (being one of them at one point) do not have such rose-colored lenses on the subject. The problem is that D.C. and most state capitals and economics centers are full of these types of PMC liberals.
The issue is getting these people to actually engage with historical critiques, which can only occur if they want it to occur.
a lot of Chinese also hope the west govt do that to those two face gangster in the event of China retaking Taiwan, lmao
saw redditors today absolutely coping about no one will invent in russia ever again after they nationalize businesses that leave, as if the western capitalists didnt start it, did they think russia would be stopped by the hard science of property rights?
So let me get this straight, Ukraine can stop the war by:
- Pledging not to join a military bloc that doesn't want them as members
- Stop trying to rule over areas where the people living there doesn't want to be part of Ukraine.
Exactly what justifies not accepting these terms? Are these two things really worth getting thousands of people killed over?
at this point I'm just assuming that there's a neo-Nazi holding Zelensky at gunpoint at all times, like I know we shouldn't assume rational actors are controlling sovereign nations but this is just ridiculous
assume rational actors are controlling sovereign nations
I mean Putin initiating this invasion in the first place is some evidence of that at minimum.
Ukraine surrendering would prevent the forever insurgency the West has planned for Ukraine
Oh, it's simple, they don't want to be owned, they don't want to take the L, because they're powerful strong big boys like their ancestors and what are anyone's lives worth compared to this
Zelensky wants to make more videos where he’s sitting behind a desk looking angry
Stop trying to rule over areas where the people living there doesn’t want to be part of Ukraine.
I mean nation states dont rly take kindly to secessionism. That's kind of their thing
I despise the West and hope our humbling has only just begun
I don't despise the west. Look at the wonderful things it's given us: fascism, iphone, iphone, iphone, avocado toast, starbucks, sneakers.
don't forget industrialized genocide :sadness-abysmal:
Genocide, Hitler's Ideas for genocide, genocide, genocide, genocide, prison industrial complex, Xbox
I have that fancy new Xbox and I mostly play Tetris on it.
USSR wins again. Checkmate Microsoft.
:only-good-gamer: :USSR:
Bring back the xbox blade style interface, but every blade is a different style of mall ninja bullshit
I think south and central America gave us Avacado toast. Someone was bemoaning that avacado on bread used to be a cheap healthy breakfast but then white people started eating avacados and the price skyrocketed.
Your hope kind of feels like watching the start of a marathon and hoping the runners will run one more meter. There's nothing morally wrong with hoping that, but you shouldn't be worried about it. Everyone involved is already agreed that this will go on for quite a few meters.
where were you wen ASB News die
i was at house eating dorito when phone ring
“ASB News is kil”
“no”
Increase the rent on your side-hustle properties, it’s simple :liberalism:
Danish state media DR had an article on their website where they told that rising prices on necessities was no big problem as Danish families could dig into the significant savings they had amassed during covid because they were stuck at home and couldn't spend money on restaurants or big holidays.
Bourgeois journalists write exclusively for comfy PMC's like themselves.
Maybe Russia should have thought twice about this invasion, now you can't eat pizza hut while playing playstation and wearing victoria secret underwear.
It's easy, just eat tombstone pizza, wear hanes underwear and play xbox.
Better yet, they took away Putin's taekwondo/judo belts.
Pull the troops out, these sanctions have gone too far. :agony-soviet:
This is all so obscene and bizarre. Bush murdered at least one million people and he's been completely rehabilitated in just a few years. He went from being the antichrist to giving people warm fuzzies when he shares a werther's original with Michelle Obama. Seeing this massive, massive reaction to a fairly limited military incursion is just... I don't know if kafkaseque is the right word or what, but it feels unreal. How could people care this much about an invasion this limited? They've never cared before. I mean the US and Saudi are literally trying to genocide the Houthis and have been fore years. But no one cares, or even knows there's a war in Yemen.
Yeah I agree, it definitely felt surreal to me as well several times. Like I literally could not believe what I was reading about the complete BS stories just gobbled up by people, the absolute hate for regular Russians (not even against Putin/military/politicians but like genuinely wishing suffering and death to regular russian civilians), completely unsourced or poorly sourced "stories" being blasted by every major outlet and then you find out "oh it all came from just some rumour on twitter".
Wtf is taking away mcdonalds, banning paralympic athletes and a breed of cat with 'russian' in its name going to do to better the situation?
twitter fucking banned ASB military, I'm guessing because they weren't pro-Ukraine enough
