Russia’s border with Ukraine is its most vulnerable land border, and Ukraine in NATO means a hostile military alliance with direct access to said border with the ability to militarize it with nuclear capable cruise missiles: https://www.eurasiantimes.com/analysis-us-withdrawal-from-anti-ballistic-missile-treaty-continues-to-haunt-world-20-years-later/

This was not a revanchist land grab nor was it resource motivated, the regions Russia annexed were for the most part already in a several years long civil war against the post Maidan coup government which was carrying out a campaign to ethnically cleanse eastern Ukraine of Russian speakers. By 2022 Ukraine had broken both Minsk treaties in which it promised to cease these ethnic cleansing campaigns. https://orinocotribune.com/former-german-chancellor-merkel-admits-that-minsk-peace-agreements-were-part-of-scheme-for-ukraine-to-buy-time-to-prepare-for-war-with-russia/

As for why the US is fickle with military support, I imagine it’s because the US is very aware by now Ukraine will lose this war and simply does not see a reason to continue wasting weaponry when the war has already served its purpose in destroying Russian relations with Europe and putting a newly minted failed state on Russia’s border for it to deal with in perpetuity.

Ukraine joining NATO has been Russia’s clearly stated red line for decades, guarantees for the non-expansion of NATO into the former Eastern Bloc, Ukraine chief among them, was even a major condition for the Soviet Union to agree to dissolve. Then NATO and the US organized the Maidan coup, and Ukraine started ethnically cleansing Eastern Ukraine of Russian speakers to the point that Ukraine was in a civil war with the breakaway republics.

Russia tried to deal with this diplomatically for many years through every channel at their disposal, but as it turned out NATO, the US, and Ukraine were negotiating entirely in bad faith to give Ukraine time to militarize. This war was several decades in the making and Russia was not at all the aggressor, even if they severely miscalculated what the cost of the war would be.

Honestly, if you have someone you trust to tripsit for you, then shrooms might not be a bad idea as a supplement to actual counseling.

For me personally, psychedelics have been perfect for this sort of thing. They turn your default mode network to soup for a few hours. In my own experience, this results in honest and useful introspection because it enables you to think about things from perspectives you’ve previously trained your sober mind to never give fair consideration to.

hell is fucking empty and all the demons are in Israel

I can’t help but wonder whether this guy has just been a cynical liar from the start, if all the Democratic operatives running his general election campaign are just exceptionally good at performing rapid brainworm installations, or if the CIA simply took him into a room and explained what they’d do to him and his family if he doesn’t toe the line.

That last one is particularly scary because I had the same thought when Bernie actually somehow got worse on Palestine than he was during his 2020 campaign. That was despite him having no intention of running for president again and also having the safest senate seat in this country. What was he afraid of?

Like maybe every left leaning politician in this country receives credible death threats from the CIA as par for the course on certain matters of foreign policy.

nah, this is just the appetizer to a big bowl of pasta made out of antimatter.

No, I read what you wrote. I am upset about exactly what you wrote. I want you to listen to trans people and their experience. I want you to realize your experience as a cis person makes your opinions irrelevant on the matter and if you want to be a good ally you need to purge transphobia from the spaces you moderate.

Why should we engage in good faith on your “ideas” of wanting to fucking murder us with your bigotry? Unironically, the world would be better off without you.

Yeah like wtf is this lmao, apparently “war crime” is now when bad country does bad thing

It honestly sounds a lot like Hexbear. Made a rednote account today, but I’ve never used tiktok or instagram before, so the entire thing was kinda inscrutable for me lol, but I’m so glad that this is where the tiktok exodus is heading.

Right and the point of defining this number as a non-repeating sequence 0s and 1s is just to show that non-repetition of digits alone is not sufficient to say a number contains all finite sequences.

Math kind of relies on assumptions, you really can’t get anywhere in math without an assumption at the beginning of your thought process.

Implicitly defining a number via it’s decimal form typically relies on their being a pattern to follow after the ellipsis. You can define a different number with twos in it, but if you put an ellipsis at the end you’re implying there’s a different pattern to follow for the rest of the decimal expansion, hence your number is not the same number as the one without twos in it.

It’s implicitly defined here by its decimal form:

0.101001000100001000001 . . .

The definition of this number is that the number of 0s after each 1 is given by the total previous number of 1s in the sequence. That’s why it can’t contain 2 despite being infinite and non-repeating.

One way it could make sense is if the Adjuster initially intended to lay low and move on, but once he saw how positive the social media reception was he decided he’d take credit for it and try his luck convincing one of twelve jurors to nullify.

I found some under the couch cushions!

And yet the United States continues to slide into fascism despite having elected Biden. What horrific Trump era policies did the Democrats even bother to repeal after they won in 2020 and held both the senate and the house?

They are still funding the construction of border wall segments. They never repealed the Republican tax cuts. They have done nothing about the concentration camps on the southern border for fuck’s sake. They never codified Roe v. Wade, we literally lost the right to abortions while Biden was in office. They could have stacked the supreme court but they didn’t.

The Democrats and the Republicans form an obfuscated one party system in the US. Republican leadership aggressively ramps up the oppression of marginalized people, then Democratic leadership does nothing to restore our rights nor proactively prevent the same thing from happening again. Instead they just use their time in office to suck all of the energy out of people’s movements that could actually effect change.

And much more importantly than all of that, Republicans and Democrats are virtually identically evil when it comes to foreign policy. When the US is dropping bombs on you and destroying your country, you’ll tend not to care whether it was a Red MAGA or Blue MAGA administration pulling the trigger.

In some specific cases it might be worthwhile to vote for Democrats in local elections where there exists much more leeway for politicians to stray from the party line, but voting for them in national elections is just lending your voice to legitimizing their bullshit good cop/bad cop routine they play with the Republicans.

My thoughts exactly when it comes to people who don’t seem to mind advertising in general. They come in a couple varieties. On the one hand you have all the “i just tune out the ads” or the “im too smart to be influenced by marketing” types. The cope involved in these cases is sad more than anything else. On the other hand, you have the truly deranged who find advertisements useful. The kind of people who somehow appreciate trackers and spyware because it means they get advertisements “more relevant to their interests” as if that’s a good thing. Those types fucking scare the shit out of me.

I have ads so thoroughly purged out of my life that it is legitimately fucking mind blowing to me whenever I visit someone who watches tv. Every single time I’m just repeatedly blindsided by the fact that this atrocity is the norm. They are bombarded with the same annoying-ass commercials every five to ten minutes continuously, 24/7. It’s as if they have an IV setup pushing pure corporate propaganda straight into their veins. They can’t watch a single episode of a tv show without incessantly being interrupted by a dozen car insurance ads per hour. Worse yet are the fucking prescription drug advertisements.

In a just world this type of shit would be thoroughly outlawed. Anyone involved in creating ads should be charged with crimes against humanity. They are doing actual mass brainwashing. There is no way sitting through this day in and day out doesn’t cause significant psychological damage.