Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

Another brilliant way to fight off the guilt of enjoying life (sometimes, not too often pls) is to donation-match! When I spend money on #MagicTheGathering, I donate as much to particular brigades and sometimes batallions in #UAF.

Finally, there is #stopify, if you're more into "fire-and-forget" mode of supporting #Ukraine: https://stopify.org.ua/

It's okay to have fun as long as you have #Ukraine in your heart.

It's infinitely easier for us than for them, but we too have to take care of our determination and moral strength to stay angry and DO SOMETHING FOR VICTORY EVERY DAY.

This #Haskell library looks like something I'd dig, but I don't want to use Haskell as the glue when I have #BEAM languages!

https://garnix.io/blog/announcing-cradle

More stuff for my russian friends: https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJpd75_x8yanmOp21H9OJ4zvjFFi_a9Qn?feature=shared

@prvrtl isn't profunctor optics yobanna rosnya? I left their telegram channel on Feb 24th because it was full of ne-vsyo-tak-odnoznatchniks.

AI drives humans to local maximum.

@calispera oh absolutely!

#Germany is a great example of that! In #Latvia we also had an anti-russian party which suddenly became quite hesitant to support #Ukraine. :)

I think that in the East being #leftist means being an advocate for social justice and better life for all. Because we have seen how quickly dictatorship of the proletariat turns into dictatorship of the central committee of the communist party. (Spolier: the time needed is negative!)

In the West being #leftist means trying to apply dubious ideas dreamt of by

- a 19th century thinker, which could have worked in 19th century perhaps,
- in 20th century

to 21st century, while being guided by parties backed by the state actors.

I know that fighting against state actors for "the minds of the youth" is a very unyielding job, so just accepting that in the West the #left thought has not evolved beyond "means of production go brr" is the best way to approach this sorry left-left dichotomy.

Okay, this person doesn't deserve my time, but one last observation about modern #American #leftists being #imperialist.

This person implies that the USA somehow is bijective with the use of English language. It isn't.

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

You brainless piece of shit x10.

Oh my, why are lefties such human trash!

Imagine calling a Latvian who is traumatised by the mass deportations and killing of Latvians "bigoted".

It's more or less like telling a black person from South Africa that they are bigoted for being traumatised by apartheid or an #Uyghur person being traumatised by Chinese occupation and "reeducation" camps.

It's also funny how imperialist they are! Every conversation degrades into #USPol. Guess what, not everyone cares about USPol beyond the presidential elections.

You brainless piece of shit.

Before coming to the Western countries, I was very strongly #left.

I assumed that the #leftists in the West have paid attention to cold war.

I beg you, if you're westerner and you aren't sure about how did the 50s, 60s and 70s went in your country, watch this fifty second clip!

https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxlTy3CNms_3WZaMH3YMCCGe5Gh0x3_7k5

As a #queer person, I'm getting even more upset about interactions like this.

So many queer people are brainwashed by russian-iran-chinese propaganda beyond being possible to be reasoned with (it's kinda of like conspiratorial thinking).

I guess it makes sense that malevolent actors target strong marginalised groups though, so gotta try to win back some minds where possible...

If you're interested in how exactly this subvesrsion of margnialised groups works, spend an hour of your life watching #Bezmenov's account[1]. If you don't have the time, only watch the clip[2].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9apDnRRSOCk
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxlTy3CNms_3WZaMH3YMCCGe5Gh0x3_7k5

@garbados your response, Diana, "smacks of base" (???) whataboutism.

Also, frankly, of idiocy. The degree to which losing loved ones to occupation, losing culture and connection to the family history is significantly more traumatic than a conceptual idea of injustice can't be overestimated.

I am fairly certain it's useless to reason with you.

Enjoy your bubble, tovarishtch.

@garbados yeah, ruskies has occuppied my and many other counties, killed a lot of natives, now they (you?) keep doing it in #Ukraine with popular support.

As you can imagine, it's pretty traumatic, and it trauma trigger is certainly not what people normally expect when they see what can be a cute video.

This sort of stuff should be CWed for mental health.

@wohali @garbados trigger warning ruzzian language 😠

@dch strongly agree on settlers, strongly disagree on the six-day war consequences.

It's really the same thing with the whole reason why Transjordan Kingdom was a thing.

Ottoman Empire fucked around and then found out; in 1967 Egypt fucked around and then found out.

But hey, the existance of #Israel is literally an act of #antisemitism by the double-dealing #British, where they got rid of "excess Jewish refugees" while appeasing the US.

At the end of the day, I'm very happy that we can talk about this and degrade into mutual hatred!