bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 @bonifartius@social.cleverlibre.org

@thor no you don't explicitly said that you wish for taxes to be raised.

point is: homeowners complaining about taxes is as valid as saying the rents are inflated (which would get more inflated because the landlords would also be taxed). in the end everyone loses.

@thor so it's better if everyone (except the state) is off worse? wouldn't it be better for the precariat to limit the price for renting?

@serotonin@mstdn.io
azov battalion even has a wikipedia page saying there are nazis in there which are tolerated. headstamp publishing got shitstorm because they wanted to publish memoirs of an azov member because that would be platforming nazis.

you know, you can be against putins war _and_ acknowledge that there are nazis in part of the ukrainian armed forces. it isn't mutually exclusive.
@alexl@mstdn.io

ah, and back.. magic!

oh, seems some people on 4chan were right about stuff, it's down :)

and don't be mistaken, the war is the best thing that could happen for the west. another enemy to keep for the rest of our lives, right after omicron more or less fixed covid.

this will be the reason for everything in the forseeablle future, it already always were "russian hackers". it might be russian cyber-ops, but attribution is always vague at best for stuff on the net.

oil and gas getting expensive? russia to blame. internet and cryptography (and cryptocurrency) gets heavily regulated? only because russia! etc. ad nauseam. western governments can literally do anything now and blame it on the new old enemy.

@thor i always wonder if those newspapers check the ads they run.. this article and below it "5 positions for a small penis" -.-

"russian misinformation". lol, lmao.

_any_ news outlet is misinformation, that's the job of news. everything is agitprop.

e.g. i wonder what things happen just now in the west that get buried by war in the ukraine news.

@valhalla
bit of rambling answer:

ukraine, certainly it's people, is the victim here.

i don't think that the narrative we get in the west is the truth though. azov battalion is just ignored, because it would mean that putin is at least partially right about denazification.

essentially the west fucked up big times and now hasn't got the balls to admit it.

we build north stream pipelines despite the gas imports to middle and western europe were a kind of life insurance for ukraine. we could just have not done that. gas would be a bit more expensive.

parallel to that we always provoked russia by adding more nato members (essentially cuban missile crisis in reverse), sanctions, accusations of meddling in votes, etc. while the west happily led wars for 20 years in the middle east. because "war on terror".

i think it's mistaken to think that "the west" as construct is in any way more noble in the big picture. we just fuck our own people over in other ways. our wars are in a more comfortable distance and are rainbow colored.

it's not that the war in ukraine is right in any sense, it's that the west is corrupt and evil as well. the west never had any interest in ukraine being a stable democracy. it has interest in getting cheap gas from russia. it's all lies and bullshit and i can't really stand that shit anymore.

@Elfie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duga_radar

> The duga at Chernobyl was the focus of the 2015 documentary film, The Russian Woodpecker, by Chad Gracia. The film includes interviews with the commander of the duga, Vladimir Musiets, as well as the Vice-Commander, the Head of the Data Center, and others involved in building and operating the radar. The documentary, which won numerous awards, also includes drone video footage of the array and handheld video footage of the surroundings as well as a climb to the top by the cinematographer, Artem Ryzhykov. The film also proposes a conspiracy theory that the Chernobyl disaster was engineered to cover up failures in the radar's design.

@shibao you mean getting shot while your spouse watches? very romantic, yes.

you know, i'd really like to believe the "russia evil - west good" memery of our media. would be much more comfortable not having to question the narrative all the time (it at least happens automatically as inner monologue).

the problem is the west has fucked up so many times by doing evil things and lying about it that i consider every version 100% bullshit by now.

allende? killed by us goons for actually building a not shitty socialist country.

weapons of mass destruction in irak? well, sorry, we must have shelled that region back to stone age for nothing!

german NSU? whoops sorry, agencies were involved all the time.

gladio? don't worry about the right wing sleeper cells all over europe!

literally goes on forever. i might as well believe the other sides version and certainly would be not farther from the truth than with believing western media.

@thor never set up mastodon, but can't you run it from a git clone? should be possible with a ruby program.