CommunistCuddlefish [she/her]

Thing about material reality is that it always wins in the end. You can spin a narrative for a while, but sooner or later you have to reconcile it with what’s actually happening in the world.

Well said

So all the escalations and violence from NATO that preceded the official start of the war don’t count?

If you do a thing that you know is going to lead to war then you’re starting the war. And NATO knew its brinkmanship with Ukraine was very likely to force Russia’s hand – analysts across the political spectrum were screaming it for years trying to sound the alarm. The mistake they made was assuming NATO would care to avoid war.

NATO led Ukraine into war, has fed Ukrainians into the abattoir of Russian artillery, sabotaged peace talks, and just generally clearly gives 0 fucks about Ukrainian lives.

Before I go off on you, are you serious or are you doing a bit? I don’t want to friendly fire

Clearly not a bit. Go fuck yourself.

Incorrect. The correct answer is C, NATO expansionism, something you should know because a bunch of people have already explained it to you

Pop quiz time: Who started the war? Was it

A. Russia?

B. Ukraine?

C. NATO on behalf of the US Empire

Go fuck yourself, plague rat

What did Audacity do?

Yep. We in the west never even had a thorough lockdown and the capitalists acted like it was the end of the world. The Covid pandemic is still raging, killing people and leaving the survivors with debilitating Long Covid, but the capitalists just want to let it rip because actually addressing the pandemic requires too much change. Some of us will die, but that’s a price the overlords are willing to pay to keep themselves on top.

There’s no way they take bird flu seriously

I use cracked software and I am interested in using more, tbh. The only “suspicious sites” I visit are torrenting sites, with adblocking. I do keep manual backups of important files but I have never gotten malware to my knowledge.

I didn’t know about the link between alphabet agencies and US antivirus companies. I’ve been using Malwarebytes; do you thinkKaspersky would be better?

Oh awesome! Yeah more options is handy.

Is there a problem with VeraCrypt?

Yes. Ultimately both parties serve Capital and Capital alone, and Capital decided that killing and disabling workers was more profitable than protecting us. It was going to happen either way. I hate them so much

As for what Biden is running on, he is running on Fascism-with-better-optics-than-trump. Biden’s domestic policy is to inflict death, disability and poverty on people. Biden’s foreign policy is genocide. Biden’s immigration policy is to let migrant children starve to death in detention centers. He does it all without eliciting as strong a popular response. These are things his rich, racist, white supremacist base loves.

Materially, Biden did worse on covid than Trump. And Trump did awfully. Under Trump some people got to stay home on boosted unemployment and not risk dying. More people wore masks, and the material result of libs pretending to take covid seriously was that more people took precautions. Biden ended that, and now that libs need (for electoral reasons) Biden to have solved the ongoing pandemic, I hardly ever see anyone masking at the grocery store, even though wearing a respirator is the best strategy for staying safe. The liberal “vaxxed and relaxed” approach has doomed many people to a lifetime of chronic pain from long covid.

The virus is spreading unchecked at this point. I don’t know how Trump could have done worse, because Biden already did as bad as is possible to get. I almost wish Trump had won instead so that liberals at least had kept masking as a form of resistance, because at this point only widespread masking can curtail the spread and mutation.