NATO pls help

We (citizens of other NATO countries) are about to get drafted into this bullshit aren’t we?

Wait he begged Xi? Why? Might as well beg Iran for help in invading Iran.

I think it’s more of a symptom of how narrow a view of the world you get from mainstream English language social media, even the view of other Western countries. Sites like Reddit are openly hostile to content in other languages since only English is allowed in the main subreddits and other languages are quarantined to dedicated language/country subreddits, while sites like Facebook/Twitter accept all languages but completely isolate different languages from each other to avoid the “bad UX” of seeing content in a language the user doesn’t know.

Alright if you think so

So are you saying Canada shouldn’t be sanctioning Russia because it hasn’t stopped the war in Ukraine? If not, what makes it okay for Canada to not sanction the US? How are the situations different where one warrants sanctioning yet me even suggesting sanctioning the other is a sign that I’m an idiot who needs to “wake up?” Also, spare me the “wake up” talk in general, we live in this shithole world because the most powerful countries in the world are in a cabal where they ignore each other’s atrocities while claiming to be a bastion of human rights. And no, I don’t think we can just magically solve it by talking it out, which is why I’m calling for sanctioning and economic/political isolation of the perpetrator because that is the step after talking. Canada and other Western governments went on record to say that part of the goal of sanctioning Russia is to make it as hard as possible for them to function in general, and by extension making the war effort difficult. Regardless of whether that works in practice, that’s not even a possibility being considered for one of the West’s own. Why?

Canada and every other Western country should be raising hell over this and isolating the US for its unprovoked invasion of another country. Canada got so high and mighty about sanctioning Russia for Ukraine, what makes this different? God forbid you expect moral standards your country has been on a high horse about for the last several years to be equally applied to the West.

Full political and economic support of the US’s invasion? Not even ruling out Canadian military involvement in the future? Oh sorry, “regrettable” full support. Like that makes it okay. As a Canadian, Canada’s response to this has been disgusting. And especially ironic for a country whose sovereignty the US is also threatening, but I’m sure if you help the leopard hunt other prey they won’t turn around and eat your face after.

The extreme version of this would be calling suicidal people “selfish.” Like what the hell goes through your mind to make you say that?

Is this not against GDPR? I feel like this would be a slam dunk case.

The AI started writing beyond their primary audience’s reading range /s

XD is pretty rare as an emoticon now.

Also abbreviating you as u, to as 2, for as 4, etc. Probably because we have full keyboards and not numpads anymore.

We had a campaign in Canada called “‘That’s so gay’ is so yesterday” when I was in school. A lot of classrooms had stickers or posters with that quote. IDK how well it worked in general but definitely had an effect on me, especially since I was at an age where I didn’t really understand what homosexuality even was, and one of my first exposures to the word was that it’s not okay to use it as an insult.

Wouldn’t go as far as to say it “traumatised” me but In the Night Garden was a surreal, creepy fever dream of a show that still lives rent free in my head. The thing kid me found most weird was that I first saw it in Canada, but when we went back to China to visit family they were airing it there too in the imported shows segment right next to Spongebob and Doraemon. At that point I was really confused because I assumed for a show to be imported it would have to be really well written and acclaimed, but In the Night Garden was such a nonsensical cacophony that it left me wondering what it is about it my stupid kid brain had missed. Still don’t know what was up with that show.

The show that really did traumatise me though was this ghost hunting show on Animal Planet about people’s pets acting weird because they were “detecting” ghosts in their home. Freaked me the hell out because I assumed anything that aired on a documentary channel was real, and the fact that they involved animals in their “justification” of why the place is haunted added to the realism for me at the time. Took until I was an adult to realize that ghost hunting shows are all fake. This was right at the start of documentary channels deciding to sell out to pseudoscience bullshit AFAIK, so they still had a significant air of authority especially for kids.

They really should teach about those in school. Like I learned how those work from Linus Tech Tips, when I was in high school. Why are we so against teaching how basic infrastructure our society relies on work?

Spain still supports the Western empire by being in it and benefiting from the exploitation of the periphery. The EU alone has done plenty to support the atrocities in the Middle East, and Spain has, at the very least, witnessed all of that (if not actively participated) and still sees fit to stay in the EU.

They don’t block .ml so they can spam “you’re on .ml lol everyone you’re talking to is an idiot/tankie/Sino-Russian bot” unprompted to anyone else who actually tries to engage in debate here. Acting like an edgelord with low effort dunks presumably also with a saviour complex of “guiding people who stumbled into the tankie zone back to the Western-liberal light” takes priority over actually blocking the people they hate and keep threatening to block.

Oh fuuuuuck off. People are being slaughtered in hones and schools and this, THIS is what the “experts” are warning of? The West deserves it and has exactly zero right to complain, and I say that as a Westerner so I’m including myself that assertion.

Really exposing how the US military isn’t the perfect war machine the US thinks it is.

Marx predicts and explains why stimulants that promote productivity at the expense of health will inevetably be forced by a capitalist society that endlessly demands more of workers. So capitalism drives more people to drug dependency essentially by design. The meme is kind of edgy but that what it’s trying to get at IMO.

Wouldn’t they just time out?