Incase anyone tells you that lemmy.ml is not a tankie instance.
They love to pick and choose who to enforce their rules against.
this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2024
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Sure I'm a NATO apologist: I'm sorry NATO is necessary because Russia is such an antagonistic fuckwad.
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The most recent intervention they could find that supports their argument happened OVER 30 YEARS AGO.
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Boo fucking hoo, you were wrong and come crying here about "tankies"? You are the exact same, just on the opposite side of the political spectrum. Get some self awareness. NATO is a bunch of warmongers who managed to get Putin to do the greatest PR coup for them just as they were losing significance - and now they could be important because at this moment Russian regime is the greater evil. But instead they do fuck all in helping Ukraine to a decisive victor, proving again that those shitstains just want to prolongue the conflict to line the pockets of their buddies in the military industrial complex. Disgusting fucks, all of them!
It's funny how NATO members continue to throw more and more money into the alliance like they're about to be attacked tomorrow. Russia can't even conquer a third of Ukraine, so they're hardly going to be much of a threat to everyone else.
If NATO is indeed a defensive alliance and the deterrent works, then there's no need to put so much money into it at the expense of domestic needs for each member state.
It's a fantastic revenue stream for arms manufacturers who can keep getting fat contracts to make more equipment. The day the war ends it will be a disaster for them.
That is indeed the way it appears that the west is viewing this conflict. A great way to make extort a lot of money from taxpayers for "not enough to live but too much to die" support for Ukraine, and it's perverse that the powers that be don't even blink at sacrificing the lives of tens of thousands of Ukrainians for that.
And come to think of it - a shorter conflict would also mean less Russian lives lost.
Capitalism is murderous. :(
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Yeah You indeed are a disgusting fuck
they tricked Putin into genocide 😤😭
How weak is your position if the only "argument" you have is pretending to quote something that you invented yourself?
I have no interest in debating you. Enjoy your blood money.
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Time to block an instance :p
Hard agree. The Fediverse would be much healthier if more instances defederated Hexbear, lemmygrad, and lemmy.ml. They constantly spread propaganda for violent dictators.
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Time for other instances to defederate. Blocking an instance on the user-level unfortunately isn't the same as instance-level defederation.
Yea, lemmy is a bit of a mess. And from some interactions I've had with mods and devs, it would seem they like their platform a bit derailed
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Why? I'd prefer to make the decision on an individual basis, genuinely.
Then host your own instance or join a different one. You're free to do that. Defederating from instances that consistently produce trolls, authoritarian apologists, and mods who pick and choose who is bound by their rules based on their ideology is well within the rights of the instance owner.
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So what is nato then?
It's a list of words for each letter in the English alphabet so they they can be spelled unambiguously over the radio.
Real answer or NCD answer?
I've literally never heard of the word "real", NCD it is.
On your phone, you have an app called Safari/Chrome/Firefox. Try opening it and then typing the 4 letters “nato” into the text box at the top. Once you’ve finished, hit enter.
There you will find the answer.
That was a rethorical question, but thank you!
I figured it was and wanted to play along with the joke. Seems like others didn’t take kindly to my attempt.
Have a great day 😎
Folks don't take kindly to people takin' kindly around here...
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I'd be glad if NATO didn't exist.
It would mean countries wouldn't feel threatened by their neighbors, and no invasions would happen.
But until that is the case, NATO is necessary.
I would much prefer every country in the planet being in NATO.
Any country attacks any other country? Literally the whole world goes to defend it. So no invasions are possible.
It wouldn't work though. Wouldn't take much time for alliances to form that agree to not follow NATO'S rules.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bologna_massacre#False_leads
NATO isn't there to defend you, it's there to serve the interests of a bunch of rulers and elites
I can't hear you with that imperialist cock brushing against your tonsils.
That might be hard to grasp but sometimes the interests or rulers and elites do align to some degree with the average person in their country. Most rich and powerful people have a lot of investments that are worth significantly less when unpredictable things such as invasions happen that disrupt trade.
Humanity is literally on the verge of extinction due to global warming and you still believe rulers gives a single shit to anything that isn't money or power? War is a business.
Extinction would kind of interfere with the whole power and money thing.
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