• Bloobish [comrade/them]
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    288 months ago

    It’s horrifying when you realize a modern day country has legit thrown out an entire generation of their youth to the wolves to be eaten or die as they flee at the behest of western capital, freakin’ WWI all over again with empty towns that no one is coming to return to.

  • Florn [they/them]
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    278 months ago

    They died like human beings, doing something for themselves, instead of dying like pigs for someone else’s money.

  • मुक्त
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    118 months ago

    For two years the dominant propaganda has been : Russia is losing.

    Suddenly, we are expected to believe this?

    • @Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de
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      108 months ago

      ? How is that even related? Wether russia wins or loses, a lot of people (both in ukraine and in russia) dont want to participate in a war, so will try to fuck off to somewhere else.

  • atro_city
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    118 months ago

    Tough decisions all around. The army needs people for defense and they seem to only be able to get men (are women being conscribed?). But men also want to live. Their deaths would be less certain on the front lines if NATO countries hadn’t dragged their feet for a decade.

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      Oh yeah, to forcefully kidnap people from the streets/homes, put them into vans and send them to die a horrible death or not, a truly tough decision we got here…
      And please don’t forget, those people for whom this is a hard decision are the good guys trying to save the world, while those who see this as totally not fucking okay are fascists, Russian bots, “want to take our freedom away and kill us”, etc.

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          Thanks for all the links.
          Being called fascist (which happens a lot on Lemmy for some reason) when speaking out against Ukrainian government which ticks almost all the boxes from the fascism definition on the wikipedia (dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy), is a brand new level of irony… :/

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          I know, right?
          That damn lemmy.ml echo chamber where people continue parroting this extremist narration that it is not okay to murder people…
          Let’s get out of here, and head to something like lemmy.world where we can celebrate hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians getting murdered, cheer for continuation of war and call everyone who disagrees with us fascists!

          • atro_city
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            88 months ago

            The dumbest take possible of what I said.

            But men also want to live.

            we can celebrate hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians getting murdered

            JFC, no wonder people block lemmy.ml users.

            That damn lemmy.ml echo chamber where people continue parroting this extremist narration that it is not okay to murder people…

            So your solution is to lets Russia invade and not resist. I’m sure nobody will be murdered or end up a gulag. No. People will just defenestrate themselves or die of natural causes with 2 shots to the back of the head. That’s what double action means, right?

            Holy moly. It’s as if you didn’t have a slice of russian disinformation, you had the whole pie.

            • Bobr
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              So your solution is to lets Russia invade and not resist.

              My solution is to stop murdering people and let them decide for themselves.

              I’m sure nobody will be murdered or end up a gulag. No. People will just defenestrate themselves or die of natural causes with 2 shots to the back of the head. That’s what double action means, right?

              Well, if you are so sure in what you’re saying, then there’s definitely no reason to continue kidnapping people and sending them to die, they will all volunteer to fight because of the awful things that you’ve mentioned that await them if Russia wins, right?

              Holy moly. It’s as if you didn’t have a slice of russian disinformation, you had the whole pie.

              Please quote me saying one thing that is not true. Just one.

            • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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              88 months ago

              So your solution is to lets Russia invade and not resist. I’m sure nobody will be murdered or end up a gulag. No. People will just defenestrate themselves or die of natural causes with 2 shots to the back of the head. That’s what double action means, right?

              Ah yes, your fascist friends are going to end up in prison.

      • atro_city
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        108 months ago

        LOL. What are you talking about? Is this an LLM? That response made no sense.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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          158 months ago

          If you can’t understand how ghoulish it is for the western backed regime in Ukraine to force people into fighting against their will, what else is there to say to you.

            • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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              68 months ago

              Majority of Ukrainians fought with the Red Army against the fascists during the Great Patriotic War. People of USSR understood that fascists represented an existential threat to them, and that’s why they fought.

  • Ita crazy how most every post I come across expecting to see people fighting underneath it is posted by this person. It seems they’re only here to cause unrest.

    • @welldraught@lemmy.ml
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      128 months ago

      If you prefer to see posts and comments which only regurgitate one single opinion, literally all other social networks are better at that. Lemmy is not a good pick for the echo chambers. Reddit for example seems to have single orthodoxy on the Ukraine war.

      • @UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works
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        Ok yeah but this dudes whole gimmick is posting unpopular opinions without ever seeing the other side. I get having a differing opinion here and there but when you’re whole personality is just ‘what everyone else thinks is wrong’ is crazy to me. I genuinely have never seen this person post something the majority agrees with.

        Granted I’ve never just went through his profile, but when I go through my feed and see a post that’s trying to stir up people, 90% of the time it’s Y

        • @welldraught@lemmy.ml
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          I agree that these opinions seem unpopular. But I am not sure if they are. Most people oppose war and even in the Ukrainian war, they support some realistic way of stopping it. Its the job of popular media to make sure that these people feel alone in their opinion and that they believe that most hate the other side. Then there seems to be popular support and funding of the war effort. Good read that you might already know is Manufacturing consent by Noam Chomsky. The sole reason I’m on lemmy is because it still has some realistic community, unlike other sites which just have bots spamming the ‘popular’ opinion. For example where I’m from the correct opinion is to support Israel in all its efforts against Gaza. If one were to read the comments on common articles, which are trying to apologize or shift the blame to others for Israeli war crimes, he would find very strong hate of the clear victims. Yet Ukrainians, all not just the victims, have almost ideological support here. Again something found in Chomskys book regarding unworthy victims.

        • Cowbee [he/they]
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          What counts as a “majority?” If you mean the majority of sh.itjust.works users, then no, Communist opinions aren’t going to be popular. Lemmy.world? No. Outside of instances that are generally right-leaning? Depends, but usually more people agree than not.

    • Cowbee [he/they]
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      78 months ago

      Yogthos is a Communist that tends to post Agitprop, yes. The goal isn’t the unrest, but the outcome of that unrest.

  • HubertManne
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    58 months ago

    yeah its a tough decision. get killed in war or get killed by invaders. Do you fight or run when faced with invasion? I think much will depend on if you have wives or children but even single men have mothers and nieces and nephews. Ultimately some will not have such attachments or maybe already lost them to missiles or drones.