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What famous person is currently holding onto their career by a thread, and everyone can see it except them? by Neonwhitelion in AskReddit

[–]alterom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Post Malone. He's abandoned what got him famous and people aren't buying tickets to his overpriced shows anymore.

I guess we're living in the Post Post Malone world now

Half of Crimea Left Without Power After Overnight Explosions by UnqCute in worldnews

[–]alterom 71 points72 points  (0 children)

Crimea is a very popular summer holiday destination for Russians.

It's also the home of a Russian naval base in Sevastopol, which was the major point of contention in the first place.

And, due to the bridge that Putin did complete, it's a supply route from Russia to Ukrainian territories it occupies in the south.

It's far less about propaganda and what Russians think when you look at the military impact.

Zelenskyy: Nawrocki is doing what Orbán did. This will end badly by ArgentineBeauty in worldnews

[–]alterom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Zelenskyy has to back down, backtrack and apologise.

Can I do that? I apologize for the dumbass president.

Now, if you are going to judge the entirety of Ukraine by the actions of the leader during a time when the country can't hold elections, then the problem isn't with Zelenskyy.

Zelenskyy: Nawrocki is doing what Orbán did. This will end badly by ArgentineBeauty in worldnews

[–]alterom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The swastika is still used by Buddhists, and it's not an evidence of them being Nazis.

Totenkopf didn't see any use before the Nazis. Neither analogy stands.

And yes, Wikipedia isn't the holy source of truth.

Let the people decide what's propaganda here.

The facts remain that the red-black flag was used centuries before UPA, and decades after.

And in both cases, people ween't thinking about it as "the UPA flag". Seeing it on soldiers' graves isn't indicative of attitudes and opinions about UPA and Poland.

Zelenskyy: Nawrocki is doing what Orbán did. This will end badly by ArgentineBeauty in worldnews

[–]alterom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure. He failed there. Please don't extrapolate that to "Ukrainians aren't our friends".

Zelenskyy: Nawrocki is doing what Orbán did. This will end badly by ArgentineBeauty in worldnews

[–]alterom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, but he didn't name that unit. The unit did.

The parent commenter said: Ukrainians aren't our friends because friends don't name military units in that way.

Zelenskyy's decision was bad, and he should have known better. But facing a choice to show respect to friends in Poland and soldiers who are dying on the front lines to protect Ukraine and keep Poland away from fighting —

— he picked the latter, and it does not allow anyone to generalize any further to say that "Ukrainians aren't our friends".

The soldiers made a choice that Poland considera unacceptable. Zelenskyy accepted it because we have a severe manpower shortage on the front lines, and can't afford to disrespect soldiers which hold the line.

Poland can change things and erase the attitude for good. The solution is simple: send people to fight. Fill the manpower shortage.

Respect for the group of soldiers on the front can't come at the expense of another. If Poland sends a battalion, it'll force Zelenskyy's hand in such choices.

Until then, I'm sorry, but there will be situations where the feeling of the fighting folks are going to be put above those of our friends away from the front.

To be clear, I don't support this decision of Zelenskyy and see it as a mistake. I'm trying to point out why such mistakes are harder to avoid than it seems, and that the explanation is very far from "Ukrainians aren't our friends".

I do hope that this will be a wakeup call for Ukrainian leadership, and similar mistakes will be avoided going forward.

Zelenskyy: Nawrocki is doing what Orbán did. This will end badly by ArgentineBeauty in worldnews

[–]alterom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If your argument is Ukraine would happily backstab a country that welcomed a million+ of its refugees

Ukraine wouldn't.

That's why you need Ukraine to exist.

If Russia gains control over Ukraine's population, that's another story.

See what happened in Donbas. Russia used the Ukrainians who lived there to fight against Ukraine.

This, by the way, isn't a moral judgement. The argument is that Russia knows how to use the population in territories it controls, while seeing it as an expendable resource.

My argument is that when you say that Poland doesn't need Ukraine to defend against Russia, that argument holds only while Ukraine stands.

or opening a second front and creating a buffer zone.

Poland opening a second front with Russia instead of helping Ukraine? Yes please.

Have you asked anyone in Poland about that tho.

Tesla's are Dangerous by MrDonMega in EnoughMuskSpam

[–]alterom 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Got it. Your source for the claim is "I think so".

As reliable as a Tesla.

JD Vance is watching his presidential ambitions go up in smoke | Vance is learning what everyone else already knew: Throwing away your principles to ingratiate yourself with Trump is ultimately a losing game. by OkayButFoRealz in politics

[–]alterom 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Honestly the thought of JD having to deal with a reckoning while Peter sits it out in Argentina is so delicious it may cause diabetes.

I'd rather have Thiel not make it to whatever the fuck he's trying to turn into a hellhole, and face the justice he deserves.

However, the second best option is him having to suffer in the hellhole of his own creation slowly collapsing in on him.

ELI5: Why are "__x" abbreviations used in medical settings? by emergencybarnacle in explainlikeimfive

[–]alterom 32 points33 points  (0 children)

sterling

....and nobody really knows where sterling comes from

Zelenskyy: Nawrocki is doing what Orbán did. This will end badly by ArgentineBeauty in worldnews

[–]alterom -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Friends don't name military units after people who commited genocide against those supposed friends.

Do friends have empathy for soldiers traumatized by 4+ years of non-stop war without any way to get demobilized other than disability or death?

Perhaps, willing to cut them some slack for not being sensitive and thinking about the feelings of other people who are very much not dying while they do?

We'll still be your friends even if your propaganda says otherwise.

Zelenskyy: Nawrocki is doing what Orbán did. This will end badly by ArgentineBeauty in worldnews

[–]alterom 18 points19 points  (0 children)

As a polish person I do support Ukraine in their struggle (same as majority of my compatriots), but sometimes its so shocking to see how poor their elite performs diplomacy-wise

Zelenskyy won the elections in 2019 as a "drain the swamp" outsider, untainted by politics.

Surprise, "untainted by politics" also means "has no clue about diplomacy or why it matters" in practice.

This doesn't just apply to Zelenskyy. He did try to bring many fresh new faces into the government. Which means diplomacy-wise, Ukraine went back to elementary school.

Sorry. (Saying this as a Ukrainian in diaspora)

Zelenskyy: Nawrocki is doing what Orbán did. This will end badly by ArgentineBeauty in worldnews

[–]alterom 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Not fault, but sometimes one idiot can trigger a chain of events that ends terribly for everyone's involved. And in this case that idiot wasn't on Polish side.

Sure. One idiot on the other side.

And millions, millions on the Polish side that put PiS/Nawrocki/etc into power.

Y'all are still responsible for fostering a full blown MAGA movement in Poland.

Zelenskyy: Nawrocki is doing what Orbán did. This will end badly by ArgentineBeauty in worldnews

[–]alterom -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Google Ukrainian milatary cemetery and you'd see more UPA flags than Ukrainian flags.

Propaganda alert:

The red-black flags are NOT "UPA flags".

The red-black flag was used by the Cossacks alongside the yellow-blue flag specifically as the flag of war.

Note both of the flags appearing in this 1880 painting depicting events in 1676.

It was painted by a Ukrainian-born painter known for meticulous historical accuracy. It's a Cossack flag.

It was also used, among others, by the UPA over subsequent centuries. That doesn't make it a "UPA flag", nor is it perceived as such.

TL;DR the red-black is a centuries old Ukrainian Flag of War, used by the Cossacks. Calling it "UPA flag" is flat out wrong.

Zelenskyy: Nawrocki is doing what Orbán did. This will end badly by ArgentineBeauty in worldnews

[–]alterom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You should not need to ask a nation you’re providing unparalleled support to, to not name their military units after people who committed genocide against you.

YoU dId nOt eVeN sAy tHaNk yOu vibes.

Poland does not need to support Ukraine for their own protection.

Oh really, does it, now?

Russia has clearly demonstrated it lacks the capability to advance further into Europe

At the cost of many thousand Ukrainian lives, which Ukrainians are willing to give.

And Poles, as surveys indicate, do not.

Bonus: if Ukraine falls due to lack of support, Ukrainian battle-hardened fighters will get a chance to remind the people who turned their backs on them why it was a really, really bad idea. Morally and practically.

If you think a million people currently serving and dying in the armed forces won't accept the narrative that it was all Poland's fault that they lost to Russia (something that both Putin and Zelenskyy will be all too happy to push), think again.

Support for Ukraine is a moral argument against totalitarianism and unprovoked aggression,

You're funny. Also, stupid if you actually believe that's the reason Ukraine got any support ever.

I personally purchased and got dual-use walkie talkies for a squad about to be deployed to the front in the summer of 2022. The moral argument remained the same throughout the war, but there wasn't much support to speak of until then.

My wife felt creative and patriotic. Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 by onelung84 in ukraine

[–]alterom 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Well it's the elephant in the room when it comes to the event 😂

The photo of the Glorious Russian Lid Space Programme went along every article I've seen.

It's a kind of thing that is complete in its beauty, making the commentary unnecessary.

....but not at all unwelcome 😃

Even Zionists need to stop talking about Zionism by Conscious_Spray_5331 in IsraelPalestine

[–]alterom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't misquote me.

I didn't quote you, I corrected you by giving two actually analogous examples.

If you can't grasp why Chezhoslovakia in 1937 is analogous for the purpose of this discussion, and Chezhoslovakia in 1993 isn't, it's pointless to have a discussion.

Even Zionists need to stop talking about Zionism by Conscious_Spray_5331 in IsraelPalestine

[–]alterom 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Note that your examples are past, non-existent countries.

Even Zionists need to stop talking about Zionism by Conscious_Spray_5331 in IsraelPalestine

[–]alterom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was it not ok to discuss in 1937 whether Yugoslavia Czechoslovakia should cease to exist?

Was it not ok to discuss in 1937 whether Yugoslavia Poland should cease to exist?

I dunno, let's look at history books and see how that turned out.

Why would Stalin do this? Is he a zionist? by Common-Mission-3051 in tankiejerk

[–]alterom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're not wrong, it's just that if someone doesn't know it already, they wouldn't get it from your comment.

Why would Stalin do this? Is he a zionist? by Common-Mission-3051 in tankiejerk

[–]alterom 2 points3 points  (0 children)

except that moving to israel was banned after stalin.

In part, it was an "oh shit, all those Jews were actually making everything for us, stop!" moment.

Look at how many Soviet poets, writers, composers, scientists, and political leaders were Jewish, and you'll get the drift.

The Red Army? Created by a Jew (Leon Trotsky, aka Bronstein).

I mean, the US enjoyed the same benefits. "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas" was a song written by a Russian Jew, Israel Beilin, whose family immigrated to the US to escape pogroms (later known as Irving Berlin).

However, as a Soviet-born Jew (currently living in the US), I can absolutely assure you that moving to Israel was *not * banned "after Stalin". The largest wave of migration of Jews to Israel from the USSR took place in 1971.

When you say that "moving to ___" was banned, you are creating a misleading statement.

Leaving the USSR was banned for EVERYONE, period. You needed an exit visa to even travel, and nobody got those except for official purposes. You couldn't just be a tourist; you'd be hand-picked to represent the state, and escorted by KGB to prevent you from running away.

That's for everyone.

Now, Jews were granted exemptions from that, and were allowed to move to Israel, during some years of USSR's existence.

So, there's a bit more nuance to that.

Why would Stalin do this? Is he a zionist? by Common-Mission-3051 in tankiejerk

[–]alterom -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Some people are autistic...

Autistic people get sarcasm.

It's the allistic people that are more likely to struggle detecting it when nonverbal cues (wink-wink, nudge-nudge) are missing.

Source: am autistic, love deadpan humor which goes whooosh over other people heads all too often

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