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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

YDI, I live in Ukraine.

You are a tankie! And we both know you are lying about your alleged concern for human rights.

Let's hope one day you will be on the recieving end of russian genocidal imperialism.

The story of Donbas Cowboy, Russell Bentley also comes to mind for some reason:

Bentley’s wife, Lyudmila, then claimed that Russian soldiers from a tank battalion abducted him.

According to the Investigative Committee, Vansyatsky, Agaltsev, and Iordanov tortured Bentley on April 8, and he died shortly afterward.

Vansyatsky and Agaltsev are suspected of blowing up a car with Bentley’s body in it and ordering Bazhin to get rid of what was left of his remains.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

"A tankie is anyone that defends authoritarian state-capitalist dictators and the atrocities they've committed and continue to commit. "

I'm not defending any authoritarian state or ruler. I'm pointing out the wrongdoings perpetrated by one.

And we both know you are lying about your alleged concern for human rights.

I'm not lying perhaps you are. There are credible source pointing out human rights are being violated starting with the rule that no male between 18-60 can leave the country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobilization_in_Ukraine#2024

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_conscription_crisis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANxo0gBM6GM

Let’s hope one day you will be on the recieving end of russian genocidal imperialism.

I hope that one day you and your people will be free from the russian empire and from your current authoritarian government.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You are a tankie! Don't play dumb with me, look at the age of my account, I've been using Lemmy for a while.

You think you are the first tankie to come up with the "I just care about human rights" shpeel.

Everything about your style and tone points to malicious behaviour.

It's transparent that you're using mandatory conscription (which is legal in a state of emergency) as a hook to promote key russian propaganda narratives.

You're not fooling anyone!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

I'm bringing up my argument and discussing it with people. Your behaviour of calling me out looks more scummy honestly

hook to promote key russian propaganda narratives.

It's actually defending the draft that is a key russian propaganda narrative because this invasion was made possible because russia has an army of conscripts.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You should be aware that despite his claims, Skiluros is not from Ukraine, and more precisely, not from the region he claims to be from. Most likely, he has never been there, as he fails to recognize some basic local jokes (check our conversation in this thread). He's just a NAFO troll who pretends to be Ukrainian so that some unaware people will take his crap more seriously.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Thanks for the warning. I don't think picking a fight with him is much useful, don't attack him personally for lying bur rather explain to him why lying is wrong.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

YDI. The first sentence of every comment is literal Russian propaganda. Clutching your pearls at forced conscription during an ongoing invasion speaks to a level of privilege I rarely see, even online. Zelenski is touring "the royal courts," because he's prostrating himself to beg for money, weapons and aid for his country. Wars aren't free, especially when you're up against a global power.

You're playing loose with the facts, and nobody is buying it.

Or would you rather they roll over and go, "Sorry, we're all outta gas. Russia just has more bodies to throw at us"? Become part of Russia? Good thing you weren't in charge of the country, or you would have run up the white flag years ago.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

YDI. The first sentence of every comment is literal Russian propaganda.

Russia is a country plagued with corrupted authorities and where the draft is mandatory, calling these things out goes against russia government interests too. Remember also that russia started this war, they don't want peace, they are fine with war or they would pull back.

Clutching your pearls at forced conscription during an ongoing invasion speaks to a level of privilege I rarely see, even online

Human rights shouldn't be abolish under any circumstance, there's no scenario under which slavery is tolerated. A government should never draft people by force and neither should arrest them if they want to leave the country.

Zelenski is touring “the royal courts,” because he’s prostrating himself to beg for money, weapons and aid for his country. Wars aren’t free, especially when you’re up against a global power.

Some of the countries he visit literally have royal palaces like Abu Dhabi. He's not prostrating, he's been invited by world leaders and having discussion with them to get more founds to his country and his government.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Russia is a country plagued with corrupted authorities and where the draft is mandatory, calling these things out goes against russia government interests too.

Not when your justification is their propaganda. You're just spreading their disinformation in ignorance, rather than malice. The effect is the same, regardless.

Human rights shouldn't be abolish under any circumstance, there's no scenario under which slavery is tolerated.

Human rights are not objective facts of reality. They're a social contrivance. Furthermore, conscription is not slavery, and virtually every country with a military has a draft available. I'm thankful that my country, the US, has not needed to use it in decades, but it is still there, and there are real punishments for trying to dodge it (unless you're rich).

Some of the countries he visit literally have royal palaces like Abu Dhabi.

So what? He doesn't get to choose the venues; that's just where they are. You think he can effectively beg for money over Zoom while in a bunker?

War isn't fair, and drafts supercede some of people's rights. You can feel whatever you're going to feel about it, but the reality is that we wouldn't need drafts if there weren't any authoritarians with delusions of grandeur.

But there are, and so even well-militarized countries with lots of volunteers still have drafts for times of emergency.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You’re just spreading their disinformation

Can you point out the disinformation? Mostly of what i'm saying is that the ukranian government is drafting people by force and not allowing men 18-60 to leave the country with the result that people trying to cross the border are getting arrested and some died trying. As a result i'm pointing out ukrainian government ceo to be an authoritarian ruler rather than a hero that should deserve monuments.

and virtually every country with a military has a draft available.

Most countries are police states rooted in violence. US and any other should have no draft, it is not normal or good just because it's there.

So what? He doesn’t get to choose the venues; that’s just where they are.

I'm just highlighting that meeting the world most powerful rulers in their headquarters is not the same as rooting in a trench.

but the reality is that we wouldn’t need drafts if there weren’t any authoritarians with delusions of grandeur.

Indeed if it wasn't for deluded maniacs with power ambitions we wouldn't have the draft, that's why i'm calling them out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can you point out the disinformation?

I did. Read my first comment. I specified where the disinformation is, and you would be wise to heed that these are almost verbatim Russian propaganda talking points they use to justify why they should just be allowed to take Ukraine.

Whether you think it's fair for the draft to exist is irrelevant when you're staring down the barrel of an invading country. They're coming, and the draft exists to ensure the country does as well. I am sorry for them that people are trying to escape the draft, but again: war is not fair.

If the draft didn't exist, the end result would be might makes right. The countries who didn't have enough volunteers would lose, and the country with the bigger stick would always be the victor. Human lives would be spared, sure, but at what cost? Living as a conquered people is not defacto better just because you're alive. One need only look at history to see that fact.

I'm just highlighting that meeting the world most powerful rulers in their headquarters is not the same as rooting in a trench.

Nobody said it was. But that doesn't mean he's never been in the trenches or that what he's doing isn't still vital. War isn't fair.

Indeed if it wasn't for deluded maniacs with power ambitions we wouldn't have the draft, that's why i'm calling them out.

Since you said "them," I'm going to assume you're including Zelenski. The draft isn't a grab for power. It's not some method of controlling the population. It's a last resort method of survival, and last resorts of any kind usually come with heavy costs, or else they would be first resorts.

So you're not "calling anyone out" or saying anything particularly novel or relevant to human rights when "rights" are a privilege you get from a society that is not at war. War is not fair.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

I did. Read my first comment.

I already replied to your first comment and the others. I'm not posting any disinformation, just because you don't like it or the russian are saying it doesn't imply that what i'm saying is false or wrong.

and the draft exists to ensure the country does as well.

A country does not exist because of forced conscription. People can defend themself even without authoritarian leaders drafting them by force. Your claim is that ukraine still exist only because they drafted people against their will, you are basically implying ukraine people are cowards and should be forced to fight.

If the draft didn’t exist, the end result would be might makes right. The countries who didn’t have enough volunteers would lose, and the country with the bigger stick would always be the victor. Human lives would be spared, sure, but at what cost? Living as a conquered people is not defacto better just because you’re alive. One need only look at history to see that fact.

You talk like a villain, wars are fought by real people who die in the most miserable way. I encourage you to watch the combat footage out of this war to look at what is happening.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Human rights shouldn't be abolish under any circumstance, there's no scenario under which slavery is tolerated. A government should never draft people by force and neither should arrest them if they want to leave the country.

Your intentions are good... but very naive. Majority of people do not want to go to the front lines and die or watch their friends die. So most are going to flee if they have the opportunity, and thus the country will fall right into the hands of an agessor who cares nothing about these 'human rights'. It is indeed unfortunate the circumstances has forced the Ukrainian government to rely on conscription to maintain its sovereignity. What exactly would you do about such a predicament?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

YDI for being a useful idiot.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

explain how this is idiotic

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"useful idiot" is the term the Soviets had for people like you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Defending forced conscription and praising authoritarian leaders is being a useful idiot for the russia government because that's what they want to hear.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You're posts weren't removed because you're against forced conscription.

They were removed because you spread Russian propaganda and misnformation. Just like the mod said.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Russia propaganda persuade people that the draft is good and to join the army. Arguing against forced conscription and human rights violations does not benefit authoritarian dictatorships like russia or any other. You are wrongly labeling this as propaganda simply because i'm pointing out the finger at the side you like.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is PTB, sure, but you're not new to Lemmy and you should already know that the average .world user has no problem with Ukrainians being used as proxy cannon fodder, so there's a strong BPR vibe here too. You're literally diving into the cesspool of Western narratives and then being shocked that it stinks.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Proxy cannon fodder? Get fucked you piece of shit.

This is a gencodial russian invasion, not a proxy war.

You don't speak russian or Ukrainian, you've never lived in russia or Ukraine. This is just an online roleplay session for you.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Чому не державною, лайно?

I bet that at best you are a troll posing as a Ukrainian, and at worst one of those shithead clowns who managed to cross the border and are now gathering in the centres of Western capitals, protesting against ending war through negotiations so that other Ukrainians would continue to die while they are chilling in Berlin, Paris or Warsaw. Or worse, you're one of those guys who wears a woman's wig when going grocery shopping to avoid getting caught by TCC, and then returns home to continue his crusade in the comments of Telegram or Facebook for the glory of the Great Democratic Leader Bonevtik Zelensky. Anyway, you're shit in either case.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You have very elaborate fantasies you tankie piece of shit.

Keep LARPing with your "western narratives" and other bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Що, не розумієш рідної мови, рагуль?

Well the fact here is that you don't speak Ukrainian (while i do) and you've never lived in Ukraine (while I did as a kid). You're just NAFO scum from some other country posing as Ukrainian to promote your bullshit propaganda. It's obvious that all your knowledge of Ukraine comes from the media, not from your own life experience. Now, once you were exposed, you can get fucked.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Keep telling yourself that.

I am not buying your use of web translation tools.

You don't actually need to know Ukrainian to write what you write. The funny thing is Ukrainians in Ukraine don't speak that way.

The fact of the matter is you don't live in Ukraine, you don't have any idea of what people think here. And you are tankie scum.

You are willing to support genocidal imperialism for some online roleplay.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I freely admit that I (luckily) don't live in Ukraine now - and neither do you, but you've never lived there either, and are now trying to hide that fact.

After your rants about web translators, I'm sure of it, because the very first time I asked about a pretty specific thing in a pretty specific way. If you really are from one of the cities that are currently under Russian control (as you've been trying to claim in posts in other communities where no one has been able to call your bluff), you'd recognize it easily. Moreover, I used some other local political memes that you didn't catch. Since you're not from Ukraine, you can't speak Ukrainian, you don't know common local stuff and you have no connection to Ukraine at all. You're doing your "online roleplay", but you're failing miserably at the most easiest checks.

I have no idea where you actually live - in the EU or the US, in any case, for you, Ukrainians are some random aboriginals from a country that you couldn't point out on a map a few years ago, you don't really care how many Ukrainians will die tomorrow, as for you it's no more than a some online moniker, and that's why your comments at all instances are full of some kind of shithead warmongering propaganda.

And the funniest thing is that if you would start your roleplay at .world or shitJW, their users would happily upvote your crap and eagerly consume misinformation from fake Ukrainian. Because they are not at all against the misinformation if it suits their tastes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Bugger off. First of all, I never claimed I lived in the occupied territory. I said I am from Donbas and my family is from there. Learn to read, you turd.

Secondly, you wouldn't know anything about local political memes since you don't live here (which you yourself admitted). Only a degenerate tankie would claim to know local political meme's better than someone who actually lives in the country.

You wrote two simple sentences and they sound fucking awkward. No one speaks like that be it online or in IRL conversations.

Fuck right off with your faux-pacificism and genocide white-washing. Wherever you are, it would be in the interest of the locals to cancel your citizenship and ship you off to russia.

You are a net loss for society and therefore a perfect candidate to go russia. The champagne bottles are waiting for you! ;)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

No one speaks like that be it online or in IRL conversations.

Yeah, literally no one speaks like that be it online or in IRL conversations. You've just failed to recognize a fairly popular local meme (especially popular in previously predominantly Russian-speaking regions like Donbass). That's okay, because the country you actually live in isn't Ukraine.

Wherever you are

Wherever I am, I support an immediate end to the war through peace negotiations. Wherever you are, you preach the continuation of the war until your "hometown" too becomes the occupied (and bombed to the ground) territory. This is simply because you have nothing to do with Donbass, you have no relatives or acquaintances there who could die in the process, these are just some random words you read on Wikipedia. You are just some shithead troll sitting thousands of kilometers away.

The champagne bottles are waiting for you!

Ты же знаешь теорему Тарана, желаешь мне одну, а по итогу сам получишь две. Не знаешь, конечно, как и русский, как и украинский, как и ничего про Донбасс. Не страшно, через Google Translate переведешь. В общем, иди на хуй, я уже понял, что ты просто пиздобол.