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Post by miscmisc on Mar 9, 2022 14:18:50 GMT 1
Almost like information blackout in Mariupol. But I just can't imagine the city *not* being largely ruined. If you asked Russian nationalists which city they would like to attack the most, the top answer would be most likely Mariupol.
I mean, it's a strategically important city of course, but also the stronghold of the Azov battalion. The Russians, and Chechens too, should be super motivated.
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Post by miscmisc on Mar 9, 2022 14:30:32 GMT 1
Yeah, this is true.
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Post by miscmisc on Mar 9, 2022 15:27:16 GMT 1
In any war there are so-called "forgotten people". They are victims of the war, but just not the most visible "main" ones. Few shed any tears for them since they aren't even aware of the existence of those people.
I resisted and tried to push back the mainstream narrative on Syria mostly because there were a large, large number of "forgotten people" in it, such as the Alawites/Shiites, and of course the Kurds. The status quo narrative/position in the West, with its single-minded devotion to destroying the Assad regime, acted like the lives of those people didn't matter at all, like they could simply shrug off the losses if they were to be massacred by ISIS or/and the Sunni Islamists that the West was directly and indirectly supporting. When they talked about "Syrian people", those people were clearly not included. What they actually meant by "Syrian people" was the Sunni majority. That was absolutely unacceptable for me especially since I personally cared a lot about the Kurds in particular.
There are forgotten people in this war in Ukraine too. But this is certainly not a Syria in terms of that. The structure of the conflict is a lot simpler. To be honest, that has made it easier for me so far.
But I'm pretty sure that even in this war there will be a point where I have to face something in the mainstream narrative that I can't possibly abide. I don't know exactly when or about what, but I'm pretty sure.
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Post by miscmisc on Mar 9, 2022 16:14:43 GMT 1
Should I even mention that I watched the batman movie yesterday?
No? OK.
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Post by miscmisc on Mar 9, 2022 16:30:40 GMT 1
So, to summarize what they are saying, Russia is a highly capable global Disinformation Central that can significantly influence the political discourses in multiple languages, infiltrating both the media and academia in various places through backdoor funding and moles, conducting large-scale operations on social media platforms like Facebook. And it's also an archaic military power incapable of even forming a robust supply line for the invasion, a silly confused dinosaur who bombs civilians for no reason, without a care in the world about the consequences.
I guess these two things aren't exactly mutually exclusive, but how old do they think I am? They never stop insulting my intelligence. I wasn't born yesterday, man.
The Russiagate absolutely fried so many people's minds. So, yes, that is the part of the narrative that I can't possibly abide, but I'm tired of this shit already. You don't know how much crap I had to endure because of the whole liberal mass freakout called the Russiagate.
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Post by miscmisc on Mar 9, 2022 16:56:25 GMT 1
It's just tragic that almost all the things behind which those liberals seem to see shadows of Russians are objectively as American as apple pie. You fail to see why there needs to be any elaborate Russian hands/help at all when Occam's razor says that it's just Americans being very American.
I guess the silliness is a whole lot more obvious to someone like me than to a regular American. Native-born Americans tend to have a very funny idea about America after all, and that phenomenon isn't exclusive American either.
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Post by miscmisc on Mar 9, 2022 17:30:57 GMT 1
Unfortunately you might see a lot of this kind of headlines ahead. But I've been warning for more than a week now, and you know the context. Ideally the civilians should've evacuated as soon as the war broke out. Mariupol was never going to be spared.
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Post by K1power on Mar 9, 2022 17:45:37 GMT 1
Should I even mention that I watched the batman movie yesterday? No? OK. By all means, please do. With how much of a shitshow everything is right now, occasional little back and forths about film and other escapism are my only positive throughline in this thread. Going to the theather is one of the things I've missed most these past two years and as much as people tend to annoy me, seeing a film on the big screen again is a real treat. Anyway, I went last Saturday and it was everything I hoped for; a detective noir with hints of Se7en, a film I can't enjoy anymore, because of that fuckwad Kevin Spacey. |
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Post by miscmisc on Mar 10, 2022 16:13:48 GMT 1
I KNEW you'd love it.
As for me, well, I'm such a film noir fanboy, with an extensive collection of 1940-50s Hollywood films in my shelves, both virtual and real, that I was actually against the idea of a dude wearing a silly costume pretending to be a Humphrey Bogart in some emotional ethical dilemma over justice, politics and love. I mean, no matter what, Batman is a silly-looking guy. I *like* Batman, perhaps my second favorite superhero, but he's a very silly-looking guy, a cosplayer. There's no way around it.
So while I was watching it, I was torn between one part of me who simply wanted to enjoy a decent film noir pastiche, and the other part of me who kept thinking of Robert Pattinson as an Akihabara cosplayer who is cosplaying Batman who is cosplaying a film noir detective. I hope this makes sense to you.
I just couldn't focus on it for that reason. My mind was all over the place. I think... I liked it? Maybe? I don't even know!
I think I'm going to go watch it again in a week or so. So to cut the long story short, I don't really have anything to say at this point, LOL.
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Post by miscmisc on Mar 10, 2022 16:22:33 GMT 1
Needless to say, in the Winter Paralympics one sport is heads and shoulders above the rest, and it's... wheelchair curling.
I know, I know you are sick and tired of me saying this, but I can't help it. It's just true.
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Post by miscmisc on Mar 10, 2022 16:36:47 GMT 1
OK, I ranted about the same thing, but at the end of the day, the British immigration office is absolutely infamous for its incredible inflexibility and obnoxiousness in the first place. They basically treat every foreigner like a criminal at the border, and make a big deal out of the tiniest mistake and most insignificant ambiguity on the documents etc.
I've never applied for a British visa. I have visited the country several times, but always as a tourist (I did work and make some money illegally as a "tourist" a couple of times like a Typical Bloody Foreigner though). And every single time they treated me like I was trying to steal their lunch money.
Everyone knows that, but perhaps Shaun, being from England, hasn't really thought about it before. I know he's talking about how the UK government is behaving *now* despite the emergency situation, but for us, well, it is what it is, kinda. I'm just glad that I won't have to apply for any British visa in a foreseeable future.
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Post by miscmisc on Mar 10, 2022 17:21:19 GMT 1
This is still not conclusive at all, but remember I kept telling you to do as best you could to avoid getting Covid. Fuck "It's not going to kill me anyway", fuck "mild", just try not to get it, especially when you were unvaccinated and defenseless.
I had exactly this kind of stuff on my mind as I was saying that repeatedly. Covid is a novel viral disease. Something you should never casually fuck with.
I know a lady who 10 years ago lost her smell all of a sudden after she got sick for a few days. "In hindsight it was most likely a virus, but we don't know which one," she told me back then. She waited and waited for the smell to come back, but it never did. And then she got dementia.
It is very likely to be post hoc, so I'm not saying the dementia was *caused* by that mystery virus (which was definitely not SARS-CoV-2, mind you). I'm just saying that we should be cautious just in case.
As I learned SARS-CoV-2 causes the loss of smell, and I did lose it too, I found that absolutely ominous. Bad feeling.
Just don't fuck with a novel viral disease. You never know what kind of a surprise you get.
Anyway, read the whole thread.
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Post by miscmisc on Mar 11, 2022 1:18:11 GMT 1
LOL, no kidding.
If the hostility between the US and China goes to eleven, *I* will probably have to leave the US even though Japan will have to be firmly on the US side, and so will my Korean friends in America. Racism against "Asians" is fairly deep-seated in the US, just in a different way from the way it manifests itself against African Americans. Yellow Peril has always been a strong feature of Americanism, which was also evident with the way Americans reacted to Japan in the 80-90s. You'd be kinda amazed how much crude racism people got away with even in the mainstream media back then if you watched the footage from the era. You should start with Donald Trump's actually, lol.
And no, that shit isn't gone. It's still there underneath, and would come back with a vengeance in a concrete form any minute.
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Post by miscmisc on Mar 11, 2022 1:35:14 GMT 1
Yes, it's always fucking London. Always. It's a great city, but we should call this obsession, some kind of a Russian mental disease.
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Post by miscmisc on Mar 11, 2022 1:38:02 GMT 1
I'm not advocating confiscating their wealth or any such thing here. I'm just saying, LONDON! Every Russian flees for London when they are the persecuted in Russia, and also goes to London when they are the persecutor. And they bump into each other at a posh pub in the 'hood. It's just fucking bizarre. It's always London ANYWAY.
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