TankovayaDiviziya

joined 11 months ago
[–] TankovayaDiviziya 4 points 3 hours ago

In no way I am minimising and justifying the innumerable deaths, but Hitler wreaking havoc weakened European powers which forced them to give up their colonies. It was an opportunity for independence movements across the world. Granted European powers still tried to retain their colonies, but they could never re-establish their moral authority without being called hypocrites after rallying the world to fight for independence against fascism. European in-fighting was a boon for colonies.

It would leave a bad taste in one's mouth for saying this, but colonialism is arguably the bigger evil due to its longer legacy because it had been happening far longer than Nazis had been in existence, and long before the group came into existence. One may also argue that fascism is an evolution from colonialism. One of Hitler's motivation after all to conquer land was the fact that Western powers have their colonies. Germany did request for their ex-colonies in the Pacific to be returned from Australian administration but was of course rebuffed. And everyone knows Hitler openly admit drawing inspiration for genocide and euthanasia from the United States.

Additionally, without the Allied values of liberal democracy, there would not have been inspiration for the American civil rights movement to forward social justice and equality.

This is why I think it is such a Western-centric meme to try to kill baby Hitler. Without the war, it would not have opened the eyes of the West from hypocrisy and many of the things we take for granted today would not have been possible.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya 2 points 5 hours ago

Imagine killing your beloved president in the middle of the war. It would be the most embarrassing recognition on you, for the nation, and to the president himself being killed by friendly fire.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya 4 points 6 hours ago

I can hear kurwa in every single faces.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

"There are no dead protestors. Only thousands of paid agitators."

The cold war is over, you can stop simping.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya 11 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

The most middle of the road opinion on Israel-Palestine issue is the two state solution. It worked on Northern Ireland with the Good Friday Agreement and it should work between Israel and Palestine. Many scholars from both sides also want to use NI peace deal as the blueprint. Compromise is the key just like with Protestants and Catholics did in Northern Ireland.

The problem is, of course radicals from both Palestine and Israel do not want this because-- well-- they're radical.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya 8 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

Yeah, the 1950s was still full of Nazis that the Soviets rolled tanks to crush Prague citizens. And the communist Afghan government was somehow CIA/Nazi-stooge, which made the Soviets invade and topple the ruling communist government, which proceeded to basically annex the country against the will of Afghans.

The cold war is over. You can stop simping and doing PR for a dead empire.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya 3 points 16 hours ago

I also think that humans tend to destroy themselves before improving. It's part of learning after all, not just for individuals but also for society. Peace and progress tend to be born from chaos, when people make mistakes and then learn from it. But I don't agree with the accelerationism of accelerating the growing chaos just to get on with it. I mean, there is no growing from nuclear war and climate change.

Well, if nuclear war happens, I hope it's not destructive enough to wipe out all life on earth. And that the utopia that may come from it, as imagined in Star Trek, is what will happen for humanity.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya 15 points 16 hours ago

Not just Philippines. Vietnam is being pushed out of the region.

See, the sea (pun intended) has always been fished by amongst many nationalities for thousands of years with absolutely no fighting whatsoever. Filipino fishermen themselves mentioned they even share some of their catch to Vietnamese and Chinese fishermen; until the Chinese government just laid claim to South China Sea unilaterally.

There was no problem at all to begin with. It is only the government attempting to brainwash their citizens to hate on other people.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Indonesia renamed it as North Natuna Sea. Philippines renamed it as West Philippine Sea.

Place your bet on which country will be next to rename the sea and what it would be.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya 1 points 17 hours ago

On the one hand, there is little to no racial tension in Japan. I'm not saying I agree with their policies, but it's on them even if it means their population becomes 80 million from 120 million in the next two generations.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Don't most politicians have degrees even if unrelated to politics? They could fall back to the career relating to their degrees or at least close to it. There are some, however, who don't have college degrees or trade before becoming a politician. Bernie Sanders haven't had a proper career and did many jobs before becoming a politician.

Although if the politician retires at ripe old age between 60-70, they could live off the pension anyway.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya 20 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

In one of Bernie Sander's response video in regards to the shutdown, he said that Musk threatened to withdraw support from Republicans who would vote for the proposed budget.

Money is power in politics, and the politicians are greedy for more of it. The billionaire class is the one paying for the politicians' salary. Ours is only a drop in the ocean for them.

 

And unfortunately lemmy.ml is getting more online traffic recently.

 

I saw plenty of kintsugi kits available in my area (to those who do not know what kintsugi is, it is the art of fixing broken ceramic/pottery items using lacquer). However, I do not know if the quality is good for the price presented by these shops. Could anyone knowledgeable or experienced in kintsugi give some tips? I'd appreciate any help and thank you in advance.

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by TankovayaDiviziya to c/fallout
 

I got hyped by the TV series so I will play the game for the first time (yes, I know, it took this long). I usually prefer to buy GOG version of a game but I saw the rating of FO4 GOG at 3.9/5. Why is that? I have read somewhere that there is technical issue of some sort which includes modding for GOG version? I expected higher gamer rating for FO4 in GOG but a lower rating typically indicates for me some genuine issues.

Edit: also the GOG Version says it does not include the Creation Club. What is it and is it in some way better than using Nexus mods?

 

Ignoring the lack of updates if the game is buggy, games back then were also more focused on quality and make gamers replay the game with unlockable features based on skills, not money. I can't count the number of times I played Metal Gear Solid games over and over to unlock new features playing the hardest difficulty and with handicap features, and also to find Easter eggs. Speaking of Easter eggs, you'd lose a number of hours exploring every nook and cranny finding them!

 

I was watching a video on Willem Dafoe on his iconic roles, and his passion to craft and life, and positivity, exudes from him immensely. In that video, I am surprised he remembers from which of his movies the lines came from. It made me love him more as an actor because he loves life and his job.

But then during the interview, I remembered too when I watched Kevin Spacey's interview before, admiring him and it turned out he is a creep. I was telling to myself about Willem Dafoe "please don't be a creep, please don't be a creep."

Willem seems like a genuinely nice guy though but I hope I don't get proven wrong!

Edit: clarified the title

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