No but their landleeches might. The guy who found this out works for Amazon hosting and lived in an apartment complex that installed them. He investigated and complained about this and was brushed off.

Imagine if a Chinese company did this. Liberals would be hooting and hollering about Xi Jinping personally breaking into your apartment to rearrange your anime collection and take pictures of the files on your computer. There’d be immediate calls to ban the company from all business dealings within the US. But because it’s a US private corporation that abuses the shit out of the proletariat there’ll be a some pressure to fix it and they’ll maybe eventually get around to doing it and get a slap on the wrist if anything for this and a slap on the wrist for the rent fixing collusion.

Oh wow do not reverse image search the source of this image. It looks like it’s from some anti-feminist book. Complete cringe.

one side wants to quit NATO

Lmao you really believed Trump wants to do that? It’s just rhetoric to buddy up with Russia against China like how the US allied with China against the USSR.

I believe personally it’s him playing the part of tough dealing CEO man (one of his personas and his most popular one TBH) and doing this with the explicit intent of forcing European countries to meet or exceed their NATO funding commitments which they’ve always gotten a free ride on and that upsets him. It doesn’t upset the CIA because they know for instance that the reason they get a free ride is because NATO makes them vassals, NATO means they can be pulled into our wars at our whims and that generates more value for us than making them pay the full share but Trump doesn’t understand that, that’s too complex for him in terms of reasoning. He thinks you can have your cake and eat it too.

He makes this threat, gets into office, makes it again, says if they want protection they have to pay. From a business-minded man it makes perfect sense. If you don’t pay taxes for the fire department they stand by and watch your house burn down, if you don’t pay insurance premiums they don’t pay out for your treatment when you get cancer. It’s all perfectly logical to him and he sees these countries as non-paying riders.

Would not surprise me.

Though Lemmy world is obviously awful and full of fascist-boot-licking reddit left-libs, getting banned there for -that- and getting angry is pretty sad if true. I’d rather be upset with their support of Nazis in Ukraine or their hatred of China and Sino and Russo-phobia that goes far beyond “hating the government”. For their weak stance on Palestine and the zionist fascists and so on.

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Maybe, then again considering they’ve been spamming memes about reclaiming god from capitalists I think there may be another reason. I don’t mind religious people in Marxist spaces one bit. I mind when they start punching me in the face and telling me I need to be more tolerant unprovoked which is what this is.

Conflating atheism with radical liberalism. In a Marxist space?

I happen to be an atheist. In fact you’ll find us all over the place in Marxist parties. Guess communism is cancelled because we’re all just rad-libs.

Regulators: And you promise you won’t be evil this time Microsoft if we grant the application to acquire Activision?

Microsoft: Of course not, what would give you the idea we would be evil, look, we’re even going to allow those using our competitor’s platform of PlayStation the option to buy the Call of Duty

Regulators: Well alright since you promise.

Microsoft: taps head They can’t buy our games on a competitor’s console if we kill off the physical media division and then engineer a spat over fees Sony charges for their digital store in a few years and they’ll be seen as the unreasonable ones!

Title is questionable. Article itself is fairly informative.

because westerners don’t know the language or care enough to check the policies

Maybe your common internet commentator does not check. But the western intelligence agencies check. They want someone like him in power in Russia over Putin. For 1) they’d own him, clearly they’ve done a lot for him and he would likely work with them, for 2) because he is a Nazi and ethnonationalist he would do for them what they’ve long sought to do which is break up Russia into smaller manageable ethnic chunks they can color revolution and control, his policies would drive and allow their intelligence agencies to further instigate into independence movements or at least long-burning terrorism that bogs down the state these tensions he’d create with the many ethnic groups in Russia. He’s perfect for their aims. His views perfect.

The national security threat is purely hyped up because western companies spy on you for western intelligence and allow western intelligence manipulation of the feed of someone in the US or Finland but also importantly allow spying on and manipulation by psyops of someone in Vietnam, in Cuba, in Russia, in China, in Africa. Chinese companies will not do that. They will not give them global back-doors. They will cooperate to the extent required within the US or other NATO nations on spying on their users or manipulation as required by law but they will not allow global manipulation and dominance which is what this and the freak-out about Chinese 5G is all about. It’s about making sure western intelligence controlled software, platforms, hardware is the global standard to compromise everyone everywhere, not about keeping the west secure from spying or influence.

See you next year comrade (hopefully a month or so)!

Projection.

What were the Minsk accords I wonder and why were they lies. How many times did Russia try and present an off-ramp to the situation?

What about the murder of civilians and oppression of those of Russian descent in the east of the country by these Nazi paramilitaries who the sitting president himself once personally went to ask to stand down (they didn’t)?

They haven’t taken any amount of gas or oil according to anything I’ve seen. In fact they’ve lost sales over this after the US blew up in an act of aggression and violation of international law the Nord Stream gas pipeline which was also German property.

That’s projection again on your part. The US actually is stealing Syrian oil. https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202209/1275233.shtml

Russia did not want this war. They tried hard to avoid it but your sanctions will never break them. They were supposed to run out of ammo after all within the first six months, then the same was said after 12 months, only now does the west admit they’ll never run out and that Russian production far outstrips the combined production capabilities of the US.

If they wanted to seize the country whole they wouldn’t have stopped for peace talks with their troops outside Kiev. They wouldn’t have pushed hard, they wouldn’t have bothered to show up and the US wouldn’t have had to send their stooge Boris Johnson there to torpedo those talks so they can continue to use the Ukrainian people as fodder to bleed Russia in an ill conceived and now we know doomed to fail attempt at weakening and isolating them.

Russia may be forced to take the whole country to stop the fanatical Nazi regime there that refuses to be reasonable (many of us suspect Zelenskyy’s life would be forfeit if he did surrender or attempted to negotiate) but that was not their intention or choice. They have stated many times their wants are simple and that is removal of the Nazis, demilitarization so Ukraine can’t be used against them (that was the whole point of the Minsk lies by the way according to Angela Merkel, giving the Ukrainians time to build up powerful forces to fight Russia), and Ukraine not being part of the offensive, explicitly anti-Russian terrorist organization known as NATO.

Da, I mean, oh no how did you find out!?!

Please delete this. Yogthos has a family to support. If Putin finds out they’ve been discovered they’ll be fired from their posting job and their children will starve. Have a heart, come on.

HOWEVER ONLY RUSSIAN INVADE OTHER COUNTRIES.

Korea, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya would like a word.

Also they’re literally still occupying Cuba in Guantanamo Bay under an illegal, coerced agreement with the Batista regime for a trivial couch money rent which since the Castro revolution has been rejected and demanded to be returned. They need to leave Cuba and stop using it to extrajudicially torture people.

Yes, a country can have nazis.

Careful you’re near paraphrasing a Putin speech where he said yes many countries have Nazis, but only Ukraine integrates them into their regular army, venerates Nazi war criminals as national heroes, teaches revisionist education that downplays such crimes, has regular units full of people wearing Nazi symbols, tears down monuments to those who defeated Nazism, etc.

The US refused to honor its word not to encroach NATO up to Russia. Refused to allow Russia into NATO. Refused to stop expanding east and has shown again and again that NATO is an offensive alliance as if its founding including many literal third reich members wasn’t a clue that it was kind of problematic.

Good. Bye bye loser and fascist apologist.

If by socialist policies you mean ruled by a communist party then hell yes. It would be a dream come true to live in for example China.

Wtf are you on about? I see a lot of bizarre takes from your instance but it’s documented, admitted fact that the US and UK have sent depleted uranium shells to Ukraine. There was this whole thing about it.

Literally search depleted uranium Ukraine and the first page is full of results.

“Export controlled”. LMAO.

Noticing a fair amount of pictures making other clients crash as well lately.

No idea. I’d personally rip it with YT-DLP with subs and put it on plex or similar but if you don’t have such a setup that may be more work than it’s worth.