[-] mashbooq@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

Does your changing the subject mean you agree that you don't support free speech?

[-] mashbooq@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

That isn't remotely what happened bucko

[-] mashbooq@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

There isn't a single slogan used by Democrats that Republicans don't find a way to use back, incorrectly

[-] mashbooq@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago

The question of why specific immigrants are here isn't relevant to the topic of how they should be treated once they're legally here. Some are here bc of bad US foreign policy, others aren't, but all should be treated with respect.

[-] mashbooq@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

Cluster munitions are bad when you're an invading army bc some of the explosives fail to fire, endangering civilians who come across them later. Ukraine, however, is using them on its own territory to combat russia who 1) is already using cluster munitions with a greater fail rate than the ones the US is providing Ukraine, and 2) deliberately mines the areas they invade in a way to kill civilians (e.g. setting up a mine to explode if you try to move the corpse of a beloved family dog). So in this case, using the US's cluster munitions to get russia out is a net positive.

[-] mashbooq@lemmy.world 79 points 2 weeks ago

After I saw that issue, I attempted to build Ventoy from source. After making numerous modifications and getting only the first couple components built, I got tired of it and quit. I've made some modifications to glim and use that instead, although it's still not as easy as Ventoy. But I don't trust Ventoy if I can't build it myself.

Further, when @vkc@linuxmom.net made some criticisms of Ventoy in one of her YouTube videos, she was subjected to a harassment campaign, and others told her the same happened to them. That pushed me from not trusting Ventoy to actively distrusting it.

[-] mashbooq@lemmy.world 150 points 1 month ago

I lost all confidence in it when it rated Jerusalem Post and Euronews (associated with Viktor Orban) as "highly reliable". Both push the pro-fascist narratives of their associated governments. It's better to have no labeling than to label fascist propaganda as "highly reliable"

[-] mashbooq@lemmy.world 47 points 2 months ago

This same "discovery" gets reported on once or twice a year; it's starting to feel like a FUD campaign rather than actual research

[-] mashbooq@lemmy.world 51 points 5 months ago

Ukraine isn't asking anyone to go to the front and fight for them. They're asking for this aid. Anyone who cares about Ukraine as much as they claim will listen to what Ukraine asks for.

[-] mashbooq@lemmy.world 36 points 7 months ago

you guys make this same brain-dead comment every time someone shows support for Ukraine defending itself from torture, murder, and genocide. what military intelligence and analysis do you have to base this conclusion on? if it's none, then stfu already

[-] mashbooq@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago

Maybe the WSJ has a point; we could save a lot of money if we stopped buying breakfast and just ate the WSJ staff instead

[-] mashbooq@lemmy.world 68 points 1 year ago

It's only political if you think human rights are political. For normal people who care about other people, it's a light hearted comedy

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Russian propaganda spreads the false narrative that Crimea has belonged to Russia for most of its existence and that its indigenous people, the Qırımtatarlar, or more commonly known as the Qirimli, have always been a small part of the Crimean population and have mixed with Russians.

Despite Russia's numerous attempts to wipe them off the map to fulfill this narrative, today, the Qırımtatarlar are alive and fighting for their homeland on the peninsula and on the other side of the Russian front as part of the Ukrainian Army.

Today, Yuliia and Alim Aliiev, Deputy Director General of the Institute of Ukraine, member of PEN Ukraine, and founder of the Crimean Fig literary project, will discuss the most disputed peninsula in the world — Qirim, or Krym in Ukrainian. Who does it really belong to? Was it really originally Russian land? What happened there between 1918 and 2014, when it became known worldwide after the Russian occupation?

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Linnea and Yewleea bring you up to speed on the War in Ukraine in about 20 minutes or less. In today's brief, Yewleea talks about NATO, the counteroffensive, and Russian Meltdowns.

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In 2014, Western media took a liking to frequent reporting on what they deemed to be the Ukrainian conflict, labeling the paid-by-Russia militia and their Russian troops as separatists. Through that perception of an independent group of people in the region of Donbas, whose culture and identity were supposedly persecuted, the narrative was formed that they wanted nothing more than to cease being Ukrainian and form their own sub-republics adjacent to Mother Russia.

Today we'll discuss what really happened in Donetsk in 2014 from the perspective of a then 16-year-old born and raised in the city. Were there really pro-Russian crowds yearning to separate from Ukraine, so much that they decided to create their own independent republics?

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For Story Saturday on the Ukraine War Brief Podcast (with Yewleea and Linnea), an interview with Harley Whitehead, a logistical support and explosive ordinance disposal volunteer in Ukraine.

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