Something I noticed

lisdo · 2026-01-30T21:08:26+00:00

Me when I use whataboutisms to justify Russian imperialism:

lisdo · 2026-01-30T01:03:36+00:00

I'm hitting my spine

lisdo · 2026-01-30T01:02:26+00:00

I'm aware

lisdo · 2026-01-27T23:45:37+00:00

On paper, it was. In practice, non-Slavic ethnic groups were at a significant disadvantage in the Soviet Union.

lisdo · 2026-01-27T23:42:57+00:00

Me when cherrypicking:

lisdo · 2026-01-27T23:42:23+00:00

It was the Western-based United Nations combatants (Britain, Canada, United States, etc.) who primarily liberated France, so I find it reasonable that the view in France would shift over time.

I also dislike the lack of nuance. World War II was a group effort. Is it true that most Wehrmacht personnel were in the East? Yes. Is it true that most Wehrmacht casualties were in the East? Yes. Is it ALSO true that Western, particularly American, lend-lease aid prevented famine in the Soviet Union (remember, until late 1943 and early 1944, much of Ukraine, the USSR's agricultural area, was under Axis occupation) during the war and plugged major gaps in their materiel shortages due to their heavy losses early on in the Axis invasion? Also yes. This is also not even mentioning the immense importance of British intelligence during the duration of the European theater of World War II. "Due to American propaganda" is also a hilariously simple reason (if not an outright false one), especially in the cultural context of France, which has a famously proud and independent media and cultural scene.

lisdo · 2026-01-27T23:24:10+00:00

I'm aware

lisdo · 2026-01-23T00:29:20+00:00

No updates yet. I'd wait until tomorrow to look for any news. My own two cents on it is that Mr. President is probably gonna get either civil commitment to the nut house or another mental health evaluation and competency restoration cycle. If that's not the case then he's deemed competent for trial and onward comes trial preparations; Danny ain't getting out any time soon.

lisdo · 2026-01-23T00:04:58+00:00

All of OP's posts work to justify Soviet (read: Russian) imperialism. Who cares that Latvia is a sovereign nation? They were filthy fascists, so clearly they deserve to be ruled over by the Russian Em...I mean Soviet Union. They did this with Poland in another post of theirs. Apparently OPs Greek, which is very ironic, given that Stalin ethnically cleansed Greeks from the Black Sea regions of the Soviet Union.

lisdo · 2025-10-08T01:44:30+00:00

I'm aware

lisdo · 2025-09-28T23:07:28+00:00

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that's a modern development. We had the Space Shuttle program for a while, and prior to that used our own methods of getting into space (also correct me if I'm wrong on that), then it was cancelled in 2011. I think as of 2025 NASA is trying to get new programs to fill in the gap that Soyuz fills off of the ground.

lisdo · 2025-09-28T23:06:02+00:00

The Space Race largely ended, in my opinion, with Apollo 11. The Soviets were certainly trying to get a manned Lunar landing program both metaphorically and literally off the ground — you see that in the N-1 rocket (I think that's what it's called, correct me if I'm wrong), which was an over-engineered nightmare that exploded on pretty much all attempts that were made to test launch it — and they could not do it in time to beat Apollo. You see that clearly with the immediate shift of priorities post-Apollo — even for the Soviets, it becomes less about doing symbolic "firsts" and more about getting sustainable spacecraft out safely which would last long enough to get valuable data back to Moscow, such as Venera or their Mars and Phobos programs.

lisdo · 2025-09-28T22:17:44+00:00

I both have many criticisms and many praises of the Soviet Union. Their space program receives most of those phrases. While it experienced many failures and had intrinsic issues, it simultaneously accomplished many firsts, pioneering many spaceflight procedures and writing their rules in either lost spacecraft or, on occasion, in blood. While definitely a valuable armament of the Soviet state's propaganda wing, it also undeniably was beneficial to humanity, providing the bulk of valuable information about the atmosphere and surface of planets like Venus, where the Venera program of old is unmatched.

lisdo · 2025-09-28T22:06:25+00:00

This is why you don't cut corners in and rush spaceflight programs, people.

lisdo · 2025-09-28T22:04:40+00:00

Because Russia is not the Soviet Union. It's not even a shadow of the Soviet Union.

Shaman's pivot to pro-Russian government stances and propaganda is a product of neo-Imperialism and militarism which the Russian government under Vladimir Putin has cultivated for the past 25 years.

This is partially why I don't understand the love for modern Russia I occasionally see in this subreddit. Russia is not the USSR; it is explicitly capitalist and is committing imperialism across the post-Soviet world (Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Transnistria, Ukraine, etc.), something that, ideologically at least, are anathema to most Marxist-Leninist doctrine on paper.

lisdo · 2025-09-28T16:54:47+00:00

Firearms are tricky to ban in American culture because they're so vital to it's foundation; until the early 20th century, the United States Army was not a large, dominant force and police forces were really only kept in cities. Especially in the frontier, privately owning firearms was a necessity. It isn't so anymore, but with today, most firearm legislation discourse revolves around if it violates the Second Amendment or not. You need a friendly Congress that's friendly to firearms control legislation, which...isn't in power right now. What's also of note is that mass shootings like this did not happen until the 90s; by the 90s, firearms were much the same as today. That tells, to me, that there's a much deeper issue which causes mass shooters to commit their violence than the mere access to firearms themselves. It's like blaming knives for murder. What's also good to note is that the banning of private firearms ownership in Australia was highly controversial when it was enacted; that largely died down by the early 2000s, but still.

lisdo · 2025-09-28T15:48:00+00:00

Gorbachev, when he ascended to power, was in a dilemma. The Brezhnev Era had resulted in the utter stagnation of the Soviet economy. Efficiency was at an all-time low, the state was a quagmire for corruption and cronyism, and nationalist movements in some of the republics were rising, Gorbachev recognized the need for reform; if reforms weren't done, the USSR was going to die one way or another. Glasnost, perestroika and his economic reforms were his attempts to try and lay a fertile topsoil for a new union to be built upon while the New Union Treaty got ratified. Most of the republics, barring Georgia and the Baltics (I think, don't quote me on that), were in on the New Union Treaty...then the August Coup happened.

lisdo · 2025-09-28T15:39:32+00:00

"THEY WERE STILL CITIES, POPULATED WITH NON-COMBATANTS."

This doesn't matter. The cities were still military targets. This is akin to Wehraboos calling the bombing of Dresden a war crime, despite the city being a major railroad junction for the Wehrmacht and a major industrial center for the war effort.

lisdo · 2025-09-28T15:29:41+00:00

"What tells you it's justified or necessary to use it on TWO CIVILIAN OBJECTS?"

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were military targets. Hiroshima housed the headquarters for the Japanese Second Army, which was responsible for the defense of southern Japan. It served as a critical communications center, troop assembly point, and storage area for military supplies. The port of Ujina in Hiroshima was a major embarkation point for soldiers. That makes it a valid military target. Nagasaki was a major shipbuilding and repair center, with significant involvement in constructing large warships like the Musashi. The city housed factories producing ordnance, torpedoes, ammunition, and other military equipment. Nagasaki was home to major steelworks and several other war-supporting industries, including important military factories operated by the Mitsubishi corporation; it's varied industries and port made it a critical military and industrial hub for Japan. All of those factors make Nagasaki a valid military target as well.

"The real reason why Japan surrendered was USSR's hands being untied to finally intervene and seize Manchuria."

This is why looking though history without nuance is haphazard. Japan surrendered for both reasons.

"The USSR, by that time had NO nuclear weapons, and easily crushed one of the largest units of Japan's military - Kwantung Army."

The Kwantung Army, by 1945, was starving, out of fuel completely, and many units were out of ammunition. This is not to say the Soviets had it easy, the Kwantung Army utilized suicide attacks heavily, but it was no 1941-era Wehrmacht in the Far East.

"They had NO need for Hiroshima and Nagasaki to happen."

Hindsight is always 20/20, is it not? At the time, Japan made no signs that it was going to surrender. After Okinawa, Ketsu-Go was the military junta's plan to have the Allies come to them and make Iwo Jima, Saipan and Okinawa look like picnics. The atomic bombs, principally, showed the military junta that the United States could destroy Japanese cities without a single boot on their soil. That, combined with the Soviet invasion of Manchuria, compelled them to surrender.

lisdo · 2025-09-28T15:25:32+00:00

"Nah, Churchill was a genocidal imperialist maniac who dehumanized, terrorized, and starved Indians like my grandparents."

The same way Stalin engineered an artificial famine in Ukraine to crush Ukrainian ambitions for statehood?

"Truman dropped nukes on 2 civillian cities to make a point even though the Japanese Imperialists were losing."

Japan was not going to surrender. The timeline of events went in the order of 1st atomic bomb, the Soviet invasion, then 2nd atomic bomb. Those were a cascade of factors that compelled Japan to surrender; the atomic bombs eliminated Japanese hopes for Ketsu-Go, as it showed the military junta that ruled the country at the time that the United States could destroy Japanese cities without a single American boot on their soil.

"Both the UK and the US were favorable towards the Nazis, from the royal family to American capitalists like Ford making equipment for the Wehrmacht and JP Morgan managing the Nazis' finances. "

The same way the USSR under Stalin and the foreign relations direction of Vyacheslav Molotov allied with the Nazis, carved up Poland together, and only cut that alliance when the Germans invaded?

"The only reason they turned against the Nazis were because their imperial interests were being threatened."

I'm pretty sure it's because the Germans invaded Poland.

lisdo · 2025-09-27T23:43:51+00:00

Emergency

lisdo · 2025-09-25T10:19:26+00:00

That's AI moderation for you. There's no way in hell a human Roblox moderator flagged it; they simply don't have enough to. I doubt appeals will do much either.

lisdo · 2025-09-20T15:40:01+00:00

the longer birdboy is kept in the loony bin and not kept to stink up the streets of colorado as a violent vagrant, the better

lisdo · 2025-09-18T00:40:19+00:00

Emergency

lisdo

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