Dolores [love/loves] @ Dolores @hexbear.net

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i straight up used ukraine's violence against civilians as an example earlier in the thread

Russia has attacked civilian targets and infrastructure.

"OHCHR verified a total of 9,444 civilian deaths during Russia's invasion of Ukraine as of August 13, 2023. Furthermore, 16,940 people were reported to have been injured"

you're still making a legalistic distinction "attacks on civilians" vs. "attacks on combatants" these attacks on "combatants" clearly contain civilian deaths, so what actually is the difference to you besides who's doing the murder? e: this is combative, not how i intended it. but i think the fact of civilian deaths emerging from the category of 'attack on combatant' is very destabilizing for using that as a discrete category from 'attack on civilian', is it not?

this is not materialist. numbers & scale matters. a murder is not the same as a mass murder. a different legal framework doesn't magically make a many times increase in human suffering and death irrelevant and incomparable to the smaller-scale violence earlier in the same conflict.

we're leftists, right? we agree that social murder is an aspect of capitalist society, but the capitalist legal system does not recognize this. we're capable of separating material effects of policy from their legal definitions. i'd urge you to focus less on the legal character of the war and more on material effects on people. legalism is a tool the ruling class uses that obscures & excuses human suffering in our society. the civilians in the donbass were excused by the ukrainians with legal definitions of traitors or dissidents, as russians who were not part of the state & not deserving protections. i don't accept that and i won't accept fictions about scopes of operation and who is technically aggressing whom, when a kid gets their leg blown off by a mine that is a life permanently changed or erased whichever legalese you slap on it.

ah sorry i had no idea i have to spell out exact numbers of combatants, casualties, displaced persons, and length/area of combat zones or it's "subjective". don't be obtuse, this isn't western spin to say more people are getting hurt in the expanded war than were in the Donbass.

when the separatists you arm & operate your military alongside hit a civilian target with those weapons you do have a measure of culpability. just like NATO has responsibility for the weapons they've given ukriane.

it's factual the separatists did cease-fire violations, we shouldn't sweep inconvenient facts aside & tarring everyone pointing them out as banderites. the rhetoric around here is getting way too dogmatic to start denialism because it slightly complicates the overall narrative of NATO aggression

no reasonable person would ever think a dozen LPR guys taking some potshots at ukrainian positions justifies NATO arming neonazis but putting our fingers in our ears about separatist/russian misbehavior makes us look like idiots

dont show me Russia funding separatists as evidence, the DPR and LPR have the right to defend their right to self determination

this is a ridiculous double standard. if we're going to talk about NATO pulling the strings of Ukraine, we don't get to pretend the separatists were authentic grassroots movements unaffected by Russian military involvement in their affairs. and whether or not you 'count' the separatists as russian-proxy, they did kill civilians. the ceasefire & it's breaking are still pertinent details but it's wrong to characterize the warfare as one-sided

yet now they have been subjected to far worse horrors than in the 2014-2022 period

this is true and obvious, it's a much larger and more intense war. western propaganda does emphasis on russia's crimes, denies ukraines, & spins tales of russia's 'genocidal' intentions, but the wide scale suffering & thousands of civilian deaths are real. it's why the war needs to end as quickly as possible.

fuck no

nothing like reading a report you had done and straight up thinking a word you'd used was not a real word

but it actually was what the fuck

in some sense; scalper was a generic term for "con man, cheater" in late 19c. Or perhaps the connecting sense is the bounty offered for scalps of certain destructive animals (attested in New England from 1703) and the notion is "one who holds only part of something, but still gets a reward." Some, though, see a connection rather to scalpel, the surgical instrument.

Of the approximately 500 bodies at the Crow Creek massacre site, 90 percent of the skulls show evidence of scalping. The event took place circa 1325 AD

Massachusetts created a scalp bounty during King William's War in July 1689, and continued doing so during Queen Anne's War in 1703

i think broadly probably, but it's pretty murky and muddled. couldn't find a smoking gun connection from scalper (tickets) to scalper (of heads), it is terminology very associated with genocidal warfare tho

i don't know esperanto but i tried to do a Hexbear-user plural for a bit. came up with 'Sesursoj'---is this acceptable? places that ended in o got the j ending. and i thought hex- from hexagon & ses- from seslatero, not perfect because it's like 'sixbear' but idk how else to do it.

paging the one user on here that knows esperanto

Mexico will win but okay. i hope they annex my state and i can afford to go to school & a doctor 👍

i want our built environments to be duels between brutalism, nouveau, and deco

8 million americans must die for a student loan credit to vets who lost left hands and make less than 30k a year, but are not on disability

what if there were actually a US civil war between blues and reds with no more extreme policy on either side? like literally joe biden and trump, and instead of libs telling you to vote they're demanding you go die in the war

i'd be the Oppenheimer defender, the suggestion you made is one i liked so much it'd overcome the intense ill will i feel toward other parts of the film

you don't have to self-flagellate & justify about why you liked it, i'm not accusing you of anything and if i was, why would it matter if you liked it? it's freak behavior to act like appreciating a work of art is an automatic endorsement of every bad thing about a creator and every problematic element of the art

sounds yummy

gang created from inmates of yankee prisons/detention camps

foreign boogeyman