also be careful you might be arrested or fined for insinuating poland ever collaborated with hitler on anything

OP @SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net it's Pridnestrovie, not 'Transnistria.' 'Transnistria' is what the imperialist and neo-colonials in "the west" call it, to refuse the status of the country because it just means "[the Moldovan territory] past the Dneister (river)," as well as to treat it as simply a historical legacy, not of the USSR, but of its previous administrators: the Nazis.

Pridnestrovians don't want to be called that, consider it a grave insult actually, because it's literally the name the Romanian and German Nazis used for their occupation government when they carried out the Holocaust there (Transnistria Governorate). Pridnestrovie was deeply impacted and affected by the Holocaust, and the Nazi-occupied administrative territory of the "Transnistria Governorate" served as a junction point where Jews from surrounding areas were deported to in 'processing' for enslavement or liquidation or later transfer elsewhere.

It is a point of deep national consciousness, this experience, and of national pride that they did as much as they did to resist Nazism and to shield Jews in the territory ^[^^sci-hub^ ^link^^]^; an uncommon phenomenon in most of Europe which saw huge collaborations and pogroms against Jews.

They by and large do not connect with the legacy of their previous occupiers who lay claim to them. During Catastroika and fashnost leading to the breakdown of the USSR, which caused the vicious resurgence of right wing nationalism, there grew large radical movements of Moldavian and "Greater Romania" fascists, who began demanding things such as the removal of all languages but Moldovan/Romanian, change to latin script, and expulsion of Slavs from the country and eventually in 1990 acquired power in the central government of the Moldavian SSR and started to implement their policies. It is in this environment that the Pridnestrovians had organized ad-hoc independence referendums, which were met with violent resistance by these fascist groups (just as we saw a much more drawn-out version of in the DNR/LNR in Ukraine) and declared independence

because they feared an independent Moldova led by these people would not only directly abuse them as they had already begun to, but also align and possibly even unite with the core country of their previous occupiers and exterminationists in Romania. Pizzachev annulled their independence but they in practicality maintained it and after the failure of the August coup in 1991 they declared independence in secession from the USSR as well as Moldova. They even fought a 2 year long low-intensity war from 1990-1992 to maintain their independence (and in which Ukrainian Nazi volunteers fought against Moldova, but for trying to annex Pridnestrovie into Ukraine) resulting in the death of over a thousand people.

And so they do not wish to be called anything but Pridnestrovie, or the full name Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic.

Colonel Ehsan Daqsa, 41, was killed after his tank and another tank were hit by explosive devices during military operations in Jabalia refugee camp

I feel like I've seen this one. quite a few times, even! Let me guess: literally no infantry were around protecting the armor at all, and so some guy in flipflops was able climb out of a hole dug into the ground, run up, put a on it, and then jump back into the hole in the ground, while taking no fire in doing so.

How close was I?

in fairness this just says a DM from a kamala supporter. I thought it was a voter campaign text thing too at first because a lot of those get posted but double checked. So it's a random on social media essentially

The Washington Post being egregiously orientalist racist? That's despicable. That's why I only get my news from respectable US news organizations like the Wall Street Journal!

excuse me its not against communism its just against redfash tankies

the social democrats dident want authoritarianism so made agroup to fight the fascists by *opens history book* teaming up with the fascists to kill the communists, then all getting shot by the fascists once the way was cleared for them

so there, tankie

Harris has run a remarkable race, one truncated by the historic route by which she became her party’s nominee. But now she must finish it in the way many longer campaigns begin: by prioritizing retail politics that win over the reluctant.

historic route? you mean the whole country and world watching the sitting president and incumbent candidate have his brain be shit out of his nose and ears on live television? and then him throw geriatric tantrums about dropping out for weeks until their billionaire financiers pulled their funds, and her being jimmied into his place so they wouldn't run afoul to campaign finance laws?

Reuters: Meta's Oversight Board tells company to allow 'death to Khamenei' posts
WaPo: Facebook breaks its own rules to allow for some calls to violence against Russia
BBC: War in Ukraine: Facebook to allow calls for violence against Putin
The Intercept: Facebook Allows Praise of Neo-Nazi Ukrainian Battalion If It Fights Russian Invasion
TIME: Like, Share, Recruit: How a White-Supremacist Militia Uses Facebook to Radicalize and Train New Members

cute policy, you nazi-loving neo-colonialist silicon valley ghouls

It's like the whole "Ukraine" vs "the Ukraine" in English that the media did the same thing for. Russian and Ukrainian don't have definite articles. There is no such thing as "the" in either language. The thing they argue over between Russian and Ukrainian is what preposition to use when talking about something in the territory of Ukraine saying 'на украине' (~"na ookrayeenye") versus 'в украине' (~"v ookrayeenye") meaning essentially "on Ukraine" vs "in Ukraine."

Presumed to be a legacy of an assumed origin of the name Ukraine coming from

• 'у' particle/prefix in certain contexts meaning kind of by/at/of/near
• and край (~"krai" similar to English "cry") in contexts meaning 'ridge/edge/side,' with its adjective form крайний (~krainee) meaning 'outermost'

so Украина ("Ookrayeenah") under this assumed origin meaning something akin to 'of the outer-edge (of the Russian empire)' kind of like "borderland." It is common place especially with older generations to use на украине instead of в украине, though it also often both get used interchangeably.

That's its own whole mess of history, but US English doesn't have, at all, the historical quirk of "on Ukraine" so it would've always been normal and proper to just say "in Ukraine;" and by making a thing about "Ukraine" vs "the Ukraine" they invented a new problem to then argue about that has no corollary in Russian or Ukrainian to start with.

Probably "the Ukraine" started in English because some anglo dipshit heard the preposition "na" as similar enough to "the" (and la/le for other romance languages if they even knew that) to just assume it was a definite article, and now they won't shut up about it. It's like the origin I heard from a Korean friend that yanks originally made the g*** slur for Koreans because anglos are so unworldly and pig-ignorant they heard "miguk" from Koreans, which literally means "USA/American," and thought it was the Koreans calling themselves the slur, because they assumed "mi" part is like English "me" because, and I can not stress this enough, they are dumb as hell.

honestly it's really cool they agreed no guns on the conflict border. I'm sure there's been funny business, but it's such a rare example of genuine good-faith deescalation-assurance between states even in the context of an active inter-state territorial dispute/conflict and the inherent hostility of that scenario

why are news giving this sentient bag of wasps the podium for anything other than confessionary last words before her sentence is carried out??

The old and tired "outside agitators" shtick they always use in the past and today, for maligning uprisings against repression in order to justify crushing people with more extreme repression, to the raucous celebration by the "white moderate." The amount of weasel words

"it seemed to me" ... "I still to this day don't know all what went on there [BUT LET ME TELL YOU HOW THIS WAS FINANCED BY EXTERNAL POWERS]"

and then her saying "theyre foreign agents but also theyre ignorant so don't listen to them"

"I'd talk to anybody but they meet me with slogans and inflammatory remarks"

Probably because Youre a mass murderer and a criminal and the proportions of your crimes are such that they can never be absolved

"Do they know what happened in 1947? No"

interesting your history starts there, you wicked vampire; and erases everything before it and all context in a blatant attempt to justify the Nakba

"Do you know how complicated those relationships are?"

They're only complicated if you take the colonial existence of the Israeli occupation as an immutable fact which means you have to spend the rest of eternity trying to desperately navigate and contain, and manipulate/manage narratives of, the inherently antagonistic and irreconcilable contradictions between the colonist and colonized that is inescapable as long as settler-colonialism exists. If you don't take the continued existence of the colonialist and their colonial relation as fact, it becomes much, much simpler actually

one of Clinton's political moves during his 92 campaign was to go back to his home state to sit and watch a mentally-disabled man be executed to show he was "tough on crime."