The bill bans any “medical interventions aimed at changing the sex of a person,” as well as changing one’s gender in official documents and public records.
The bill bans any “medical interventions aimed at changing the sex of a person,” as well as changing one’s gender in official documents and public records.
I would pretty much just be copy-pasting everything you've said so far on the topic and then have to type up a paragraph per sentence and I'm not interested in doing that, but I'll try to respond to just a couple things since you asked. Like the fact that you think Russia has been "eating shit" without any understanding of what attrition warfare is, or how Russia has had the upper hand through almost the entirety of the conflict and does even more so now after a completely failed joke of a counteroffensive. The fact you think NATO is stronger now even though its member states are now shown to be constantly bickering, paper tiger liars to the global south, are coming apart at the seams as an empire, and most of their members have lost the ability to wage war because they've depleted their respective military's equipment, plus totally undermined their productive ability to replenish it, and this isn't even getting into the boomerang effect their sanctions have had in wreaking havoc on their own economies while strengthening Russia's.
Let's see, this statement is part of why I responded in the first place:
?? That's just nonsensical on its face. Russia stepping into an already 8-year old civil war in the Donbas shows that their goal had nothing to do with the Donbas?
Since you seem specifically hung up on the first couple weeks of the conflict and Russia's attack on Kiev and other cities not in east/south Ukraine (the 200k part of your comment)... You have heard of a feint, right? Do you know anything about the history of the USSR and how they used that concept, also to fight Nazis? You understand that the military of a country will have warehouses with supplies and munitions in places that aren't on the front? And that there will be logistic networks to move equipment and personnel around a very large country? As has been said elsewhere, why would one military attack another and only hit the things on the front and ignore the reinforcements behind it? Also stuff like how Russia "flattened" Mariupol. They have been doing great work rebuilding that city after ousting the Nazis who were trying to do a little ethnic cleansing there. Russia has been remarkably restrained in not damaging infrastructure or causing civilian casualties, but this is one of the many things you will think the opposite is true if you believe CNN, BBC, etc.
Yes? Everything you've said has been western liberal media talking points.
@GarbageShoot@hexbear.net and @Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net were pointing out some of this, but it's like a Gish Gallop of bad takes and US propaganda, trying to respond to everything you're saying. I'm not going to reply any more partly because I have to go to bed.but also because I'm tired of trying to argue with people unwilling to learn. I'm not sure if that's the case with you, but your "lol, go on then" reply to my innocuous comment doesn't fill me with hope. If you do actually want to learn something, and curing yourself of some imperialist brainworms (which should be an ongoing project for any leftist) then I would strongly suggest bringing these things up in the news megathread. There are people there who are much more knowledgeable and have been closely following the conflict from the start, including all the ways western media has been spinning it that you clearly have taken to be true.
the news megathread
Yeah you know, the place where the people of hexbear post news articles from all over the web, with indigenous and global south sources strongly encouraged and where reactionary news is called out and dunked on. Yeah, that sure is a knee-slapper 🙄. Maybe you should stay away since it seems like you have zero interest in challenging US state department narrative. It would make sense for anyone committed to a "rules based order" to try to distance themselves from non-western news and actually engaging and learning something like the other commenter suggested.
Any one with even a remotely different view from you is state department. Lol
Vlads a piece of shit who single handily speed up nato expansion and started a never ending war. That I will be paying for the rest of my life.
Russia has ate their share of shit since Antonov Airport all the way up to their own nazi mercs marching on Moscow. Pretending any different is crazy.
Consent manufacturing for this conflict has been happening for 4 generations. The only off ramp would be for Russia to have another Boris Yelstin for president that would let the west pillage the country essentially for free. Russian peace with the west meant people were so emmiserated that life expectancy collapsed.
I'm a little older. I watched the collapse and subsequent looting of the USSR as it happened. I still have a couple connections with some of its refugees, and even in America everyone's lives from at least my grandparents on has been shaped by limited political possibilities because so many resources go into preparing the military for war with Russia (and now China too). People are dying in the streets here but the military grows.
Russia intervening in what certainly appears to be a genocide in Ukraine (based on western reporting, even if they never call it that), hasn't changed anything. Also, it's not like Sweden's NATO membership really changes anything either.