avalonne.bsky.social
Certified 🏴 basard™. Knows some things.
If you do not respect others, do not expect to be respected.
Human rights are for all. 🏳️🌈 Any.
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If Syria is any indication (it is, a good one), all it takes is Iran having a setback, russia having another, and the fairweather "friendship" collapses, leaving Iran to the Iranians.
I hope that, unlike Syria, it falls in the hands of the civilians who can steer it away from dictatorship.
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That's right.
What we know is the present is a result of the past.
How we act now, how we build for tomorrow and how we seize the opportunities will help shape the future, even if it's always uncertain, it can be slightly less so.
Iran has the backing of oil, but also of russia and others.
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The Soviet union played the long game. Time erased most evidence, especially if no records were kept.
Iranians have militias, that's something Europe doesn't, so I get that it seems like they fight harder.
But look at Syria: out of the pan into the fire.
The militias took control.
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I don't think it's /worse/. It's out in the open, almost brazen in its cruelty. The Soviet occupation is veiled, hidden. I have no doubt the same things were done.
We tend to disregard things we don't know, rather than consider that it may have happened, but we don't have definite proof.
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But to think that just protesting changes things is to fall into the kind of inactivity that autocracies love. Self-labeling helps them single you out and jail you, and the lack of decisive action allows them to carry on just like any day ending in -y.
More is needed.
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We don't get to see the larger picture because the regime monopolised every facet of communication to the point the only rethoric that counts is the chief's.
So by omission, we the public, fall into the cognitive cesspit of thinking the public has no voice. It does gave a voice, it's just silenced.
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Technology played a part, no doubt. But are we so willing to suspend our belief and accept that a regime that rejects technology due to pseudoreligious reasons is the same regime that plays Big Brother?
It's inconsistent thinking at best.
I think it's just very autocratic and centralised.
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Pardon my philosophising—
Given the region's convoluted history of revolts, revolutions, attempts at regime and regime change, why was this one different?
Why did this one only achieve a stalemate until one of the pillars of the regime had a convulsive cough and it all crumbled away?
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It's insane of you to assume I haven't sacrificed anything for rights, freedom or self-determination, but I can see how you use anonimity to build strawmen.
Perhaps if you read the whole post you'd see the last line— the most important of it all.
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Well you say that but we also have examples of success such as the Warsaw and Prague revolutions.
It's not through protesting that you get your way, obviously.
You can't be democratic in an anti-democtatic environ.
You can, however, cripple the hand of oppression. Often with success.
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Idk how you do it but you carry the grace and composure of fae folk!
Earthy, but whimsy! Tricky, but fun!
I wish you the very best and hope you have lots of fun moments and memories! 🤩
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The same as the student protests over the past 10-ish years.
Question: Have they achieved anything, or simply waited for someone else to topple the regime for them?
This is why Iran will never be free. The people don't work towards that goal.
As a pessimist, I hope I'm wrong though.
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Moscow does what it always has, funnels money from state coffers of occupied/controlled countries into Moscow.
Sarah Paine from the NWI described it best: Soviet Union is a donut empire.
The capital is a hole and all else is produced outside of it.
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Don't filter yourself because of some bad eggs. Better put, we're in the era of people grossly overestimating their comprehension, of greedily wanting to be part of every conversation yet having only noise to contribute.
Ignore them.
Continue your work, we appreciate and thank you for it.
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Especially the concentration camps. They admire nothing but power, and they see power in everything. Torture, rape, theft, they all see it as a powerful superiour human exerting their strength on the powerless, inferior one.
It's a country full of very very sick terrible people.
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They are concentration camp survivors.
Nazism never really ended with WW2, russia adopted it when they stole every bit of nazi paraphernalia from homes, buildings.
They took banners, uniforms, obscene quantities of Mein Kampfs, bkueprints, projects, people.
With time, they idolised it all.
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Sodom and Gomorrah being party towns and some boring christian outsider comes in to moralise them during their twin-city festival
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I cannot imagine the horror of being in russian captivity but I see it plain in every single face of the returned heroes: profound and vast relief.
Welcome home,
Welcome back to the free world,
Welcome home Hero.
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With friends like these who rob you of the tools you need to stay alive, who needs enemies?
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You need to know fact from fiction, and figure out what happened through this old jiggly jello thing behind your eyes called "brain".
Primary sources are king, and a top comedian'main source.
Shitposts ain't it. A-hyucks and tee-hees over someone desperate to be funny at best.
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Russia through socialist parties accomplished that.
Sweden isn't the only country in Europe to almost dismantle its armed forces either through willing cuts or negligence.
For the short term this means we'll have very elite and small fighting forces.
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Consider the inverse.
They created proxies exactly because they cannot wage war directly.
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You're right. Iran is somehow more of a palace guard army than Saddam's Iraq. Smaller, less capable, less competent.
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Diplomatic dimwittery, dear Anton.
It would be hypocrisy if they were aware of the contradiction, but as they are, unaware of the world around them or at large, such a contradiction comes as naturally as every word out of their mouth being a lie, a hallucination, or both.
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Then you have the direct opposite where it's vlogs of 20-40minutes of them doing nothing but analysing every little thing about a movie or video, but the analysis is surface level at best.
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China, for all the fanfare, can mass produce with some very obvious and clear shortcomings, these won't be enough for the war effort to balance against the attrition rate.
As it is, even with Chinese, DPRK, Iran's aid, Russia keeps losing. Their allies won't appreciate failure very soon.
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Strategically:
Iran's retaliatory capability, drone manufacture, oil sales will plummet. Russia's defensive alliance with them, as seen, is unraveling as-is. They are nowhere to be seen nor do they comment on the situation they created.
Russia loses capability.
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In the public eye:
More spectacle, more debating about pointless trivialities, headlines galore and front and center stage for a great majority of the month.
Ukraine will take a backseat or footnote as the media gear to sweep it under the rug (pressure so they don't).
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Always did. Soviet/Russian command is ATC-bound, so they treat it like flying RC planes, but with real people at the commands.
As expected, the pilots have no autonomy and are dumber than a bag of bricks, with the planes being barely literate levels of technological advancement.
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I love allireration!
I meant to write casserole of crock— was afraid the message wouldn't come through.
Also bowlful of bull.
Litany of lies.
Tirade of trite.
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A lot of people get the two wars mixed up SOMEHOW.
I guess some critical knowledge is lacking here.
Also there's something incredibly poetic and human about ending it at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
Feels hopeful in an almost Tolkien-esque way.
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World War 1 (Great War) did not have the Battle of Britain.
The Germans did, however, bomb Britain with airships.
In this illustration by W. Malchin, shows the German airship bombing of Elswick, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in June 1915.
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Wrong war.
World War I was between the Central Powers (German Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Italy) and the Entente Powers (France, Russian Empire, British Empire).
The US was not officially involved.
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His useage of "insurrectionists" is exactly so he can bring up the insurrectionist act against his political enemies — namely and principally, the fact he considers anyone not knee-bending loyal to him an enemy, and will use the regime to enact his vengeance.
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To think that they said Biden was demented, then every other statement from this guy's mouth is a casserole of nonsense....
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"Confirmed" is now a mediatic buzzword that does not mean actually verifying what happened and what's just narrative. I hate how people butcher the language for grift.
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Even god strikes orcistan.
Even if I'm not religious, it's ironic.
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Trump and Cohort, who campaigned on "taking down snowflakes" and "owning the libs" is exactly the most snowflake, feel-driven bunch of incompetent, violent, idiots.
They only run on emotion, and voting them into power enabled and gave power to fickleness.
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US media is inevitably sycophantic as it does not report facts nor research their topics, so it defaults to readily-available "information" i.e. russian propaganda which pays the networks to feature their articles, a total inversion of how the market operates (reporters paid for their work).
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Chonky McChonkerson Mouse!
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russians came up with a new technology that repairs ashes into nothing.
They truly are pioneers in advancing backwards!
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The one smart thing he's proposed since 2016.
If he goes ahead with it, that gives room for NASA, Blue Origin et al. to actually healthily compete instead of being rugpulled for yet another Musk monopoly pyramid scheme.
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Restored to their original state: scrap!
I have to say, scrap is a much better look.
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I'll continue looking but here's the artstation with concept art: www.artstation.com/artwork/2EPVx
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"Smartly".
This is what the White House is reduced to?
The lowest of lowest adverbs, the ones ending in Y?
That's kindergarten speech.....
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So basically they're trying to go back to the 1800s without all the addenda made to amendments for due reason.
That's like going back to 1900s lack of industrial safety regulations, clearly misunderstanding that the most expensive thing is the worker, not the machine.
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I love that you incorporated this historical meme in the model.
Biiig props