I'm starting to see why America hasn't won a war in like 100 years.

It's pretty embarrassing when you starve your people just to have the world's most expensive army... only to constantly lose. Lmao.

    • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
      hexbear
      52
      9 months ago

      your ethnicity was already lowercase in my other native language, as are all ethnicities. soon we will be freed from the shackles of capital(ist) letters for good, comrade! have we learned nothing from toki pona? from palawa kani? from some third language i'm unfamiliar with, whose orthography only makes use of lowercase latin letters? we don't want uppercase, we don't need uppercase. all that capital letters do is force children to learn a second set of letters that do all the same shit as the first set but are used less often. what type of garbage is that!

  • AcidSmiley [she/her]
    hexbear
    91
    9 months ago

    I'm starting to see why America hasn't won a war in like 100 years.

    Because they've come to the conclusion they don't have to, and that plunging entire world regions into chaos is enough to secure their hegemony. When you've lost Korea and Vietnam and Iraq and Afghanistan and are still on top, you start to think "it doesn't matter, we just have to fuck shit up and it'll work in our favor". Amerika doesn't need all of Ukraine, they've already written off the losses. They've already gotten at least a decade worth of wartime production for the entire IMC of the Western world out of this, they've ended cheap Russian gas for their European allies-hostages-competitors and replaced some of the supply with their own gas shipments, they'll ultimately have a greater Eastern European sphere of influence than ever before, their stay behind nazi sleeper cells get free refills on military hardware and actual combat experience if they want to and Blackrock is buying finest Ukrainian farmland at bargain bin prices. A military victory where Russia doesn't get Crimea, Donbass and Luhansk means fucking nothing compared to all that, it'd be the cherry on top but it doesn't truly matter when all the other stuff is secure.

  • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]
    hexbear
    61
    9 months ago

    The royal academy of the Spanish language has always been run by the most reactionary, petty and self-important aristocratic geezers, as the name suggests, and considering Spain's history, they're VERY reactionary, petty and self-important.

    Not even they do this kinda bs. This is clown shoes.

    Also, if it's the Ukrainian spelling shouldn't it be in cyrillic?

  • Awoo [she/her]
    hexbear
    59
    9 months ago

    This radiates serious loser energy.

  • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
    hexbear
    52
    9 months ago

    Reminds me of tRump. Which I always thought was caused by lead exposure but it's apparently some dumb joke genX likes (probably due to all the lead exposure).

  • Zrc [she/her]
    hexbear
    46
    9 months ago

    least childish Ukraine supporter

  • RyanGosling [none/use name]
    hexbear
    45
    9 months ago

    Propaganda used to be beautiful, dramatic, or horrifying paintings of war, military, and ideology. Now it’s just 240p edits of squished dogs in adidas outfits, getting mad when someone says “the Ukraine” or “Kiev,” and lowercasing countries’ names

    • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
      hexbear
      27
      9 months ago

      It's only acceptable to get mad at someone for writing "the Ukraine" when it's in German and for a full-chest tattoo

  • Crowtee_Robot [he/him]
    hexbear
    41
    9 months ago

    The chapter where Sun Tzu stresses the importance of being insufferably and arbitrarily pedantic online is my favorite chapter in The Art of War.

  • FuckyWucky [none/use name]
    hexbear
    37
    edit-2
    9 months ago

    what are nouns even

    i remember when western media switched from Kiev to Kyiv, I think it was ~2019. even though Russian language is as much a part of Ukraine as Ukrainian is.