A 🧵 about how I got blocked by @kevinrothrock, managing editor of @meduza_en on not 1 but 2 social media platforms. This will be a familiar tale for other #fellas in the #Fediverse, but isn't just a story of a #NAFO#ShibaInu piling on someone for an unfortunate post.
Rather I'm sharing this as a lesson for other folks who are here to follow #news about #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine. This isn't an attack on Kevin, even if I say some mean things about him, but about bias expertise & trust 1/n
New video from @anderspuck about #Wagner forces in #Belarus & the chances they might attack #Poland & #HybridWar
And here I was half expecting a(nother) video from him about #Ukraine hitting the #Russia'n #Navy in the#BlackSea (again). Things are happening so fast #YouTube'rs can hardly keep up! 😄
He explains how minimal #Russia'n war demands are incompatible with anything #Ukraine or its allies would accept, so the war will likely last as long as #Putin is still president.
Keep this video in your back pocket for "peaceniks" & "realists" (who somehow continue to get platforms & airtime despite its now obvious failures).
The "as long as it takes" messaging from UA's allies makes more sense with this perspective.
🧵I know I mostly toot about #Ukraine here, but the #SCOTUS has got me annoyed. More than they usually irritate me. People in my generation (elder #millennial), #GenX'ers, and #Boomers, mostly grew up with a court that's legacy was in many ways progressive. As a result, most folks respected & trusted the SCOTUS as an institution, especially when compared to the other branches of #government. #Watergate, #Clinton's #impeachment, & various #bribery & #misconduct scandals in #congress 1/n
A quick 🧵 on some #YouTube videos addressing various aspects of #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine that came out today & over the weekend. They're all pretty good, hence why I'm writing about them!
First up is the latest #VatnikSoup.
In this quick episode, Chef Pekka explains the "Firehose of falsehood" method of Russian #propaganda, wherein propagandists saturate the information space with often contradictory narratives to overwhelm the audience.
Given the excellent video @anderspuck put out yesterday about the stakes for #Europe and the #US to defeat #Russia in #Ukraine, I wonder if he'd be so kind as to comment on this article by Mark Galeotti, who seems to have a slightly different outlook about both #Putin's ambitions & military potential.
#VladVexler knocks it out of the park with a #YouTube video on his main channel in which he dismantles the so-called #antiimperialist#left & #AltLeft arguments against #American aid to #Ukraine & #NATO blame for #Russia's invasion. TL;DR they fundamentally misunderstand #Putin's reasons for starting the war & are thus unable to grasp how to end it:
Good video from @anderspuck about #genocide both in the context of #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine and #Israel's invasion of #Gaza. Lots of dead civilians doesn't always mean genocide, while genocide can be committed without killing anyone.
I'm curious whether #HAMAS could credibly be accused of genocide against Israel. I also wonder about how some of the allusions #Netanyahu & his ministers have made about displacing #Palestinians should be taken into consideration. https://youtu.be/L9n77DPJ7AE?si=L3YRRMtsjrDfAsfA
🧵I usually love #NPR, but this #BothSides framing of the disaster at #NovaKakhovka#Dam in #Ukraine is SOOO frustrating. Now I have to give credit to them for at least reporting on the issue. NPR was also one of the only US media reporting concerns about the level of the reservoir going back months. But this report borders on #malpractice of #jouralism as it literally presents #Russia'n denials of culpability with almost no context beyond "Ukraine blames Russia" 1/N
There was a video that stirred outrage last year when one of these horrible incidents made it to the web.
What appeared to be the work of a small group of sick sadistic fucks was actually part of a pattern of institutionalized torture. We've all seen UA #POW's come back emaciated, with injuries from physical abuse, now this literal #Nazi shit.
🧵 @gwynnion has blocked me for calling out this 💩 take.
I get that politics is disappointing. No one ever gets everything they want from any politician.
That said, we should be EXTREMELY critical (dare I say suspicious, even) of anyone who'd trivialize voting in a constitutional republic, especially in one where people died for the right to do so within living memory. Let's also not forget that our foreign adversaries are amplifying these kinds of messages to weaken our societies from...
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🧵I can't stand fucking #tankie's. #Vatnik's & #MAGA'ts definitely annoy me, but nothing irritates me more than these pompous #farleft windbags who seem to revel in nothing but reminding everyone that #AmericaBad™️ & sniffing their own farts. #TheDailyBeast, which normally publishes decent coverage of #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine, likes to send me into occasional fits of rage by publishing hot takes from 4th rate tankie Ben Burgis 1/n
Please keep up the great work you & your team are doing covering the #Russia'n invasion of #Ukraine. The #Journalism you folks are doing is invaluable. Glad I could support.
Now if we can just get the #US#Congress to get off their rear ends & pass the aid package!
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Yesterday the #NewOrcTimes claimed that 100s of #Ukraine'ian soldiers were captured by #Russia in a retreat from #Avdiivka so chaotic & poorly executed that even #Kremlin#propaganda couldn't keep up (so far behind, RU Mil blogger Murz decided to kill himself!)
