borari

joined 1 year ago
[–] borari@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

There’s a pretty strong contingent of Marxists, Leninists, and left-leaning people in the federated lemmy network, yes. I like it a lot more than Reddit and their coddling of the actually dangerous to society as a whole far-right, built I just found it ironic you came to lemmy to get away from the left lol.

[–] borari@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago (8 children)

leftist circle jerking

You are aware of where you ended up right?

[–] borari@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This will obviously not happen, so I don’t know why people keep repeating this as if it has any meaning.

Why does Ukraine bear all the responsibility in ending a war started by Russia?

Until the west starts holding itself accountable, it has no moral ground to judge others.

That’s rich, coming from someone who lives in the West. To be fair explicitly clear, I don’t agree with the lack of accountability in the west. I don’t agree with Bush’s foreign policy, I don’t agree with the expansion of drone strikes by Obama, I don’t agree with the Iranian assassination ordered by Trump, and I don’t agree with Biden’s use of drone strikes.

You seem to be under the impression that the sins of the US absolve Putin and his troops. It just makes them all terrible. I can see that we’ll never agree to anything here, so I’ll bring some clojure to it on my end at least and just stop responding. I can’t say I’ve enjoyed our conversation, but I’m appreciative of the opportunity to have had it.

[–] borari@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bruh.

Chinese complaints are legitimate, US complaints are the complaints of a bully.

The Chinese complaints of the US sending ships and planes into the South China Sea, because China claims they’re territorial waters?

The US shouldn’t be sailing around the South China Sea. China shouldn’t be making territorial claims on waters that aren’t theirs. I think the world would be a much better place if both China and the US stopped their aggression and bullshit. According to you it’s only the US that that postures in front of the poor, tiny defenseless China.

Maybe the governments of all the wealthy countries just trod on the backs of economically smaller countries that can’t afford to assert themselves as strongly.

[–] borari@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The military leaders who ordered troops to garrison in illegal areas should be arrested, charged, and tried in an impartial court.

Any Ukrainian soldiers who killed POWs should be arrested, charged, and tried in an impartial court.

War crimes are not ok, and have been committed by both sides. Any perpetrator of a war crime, regardless of allegiance, should be tried and appropriately punished if convicted.

Putin can end this war by pulling back his troops. I do not support the invasion of sovereign nations, just as I don’t support the violation of an individual’s sovereignty over themselves.

[–] borari@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Bro I never said China was the aggressor. I said that both the US and Chinese spokespeople are being whiny posturing removed.

This is an act of aggression

Ok bub. I know you’re just here to push your propaganda line, but if you want to talk about aggression in the South China Sea how about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_South_Reef_Skirmish.

Once again, there’s grey in the world and the countries we support can do bad things that we should call out, and it isn’t a flaw or a weakness to admit that.

[–] borari@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I’m not a friend of fascists. I actively work against fascists and the far right in my local community.

Also that might be one of the least credible websites I have ever seen in my life. It’s not even a news website, it’s nominally dedicated to the “strange trumpet sounds heralding the Rapture that have been heard in the skies throughout the world”. If you’re going to spout off misinformation at least take the time to stand up a website that looks professional and claims to be some sort of human rights watchdog or something, because that bit of bottled schizophrenia is not it.

[–] borari@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I’m just parroting back the exact same thing people are saying to me, but from the other side. I didn’t start insinuating support for one side or the other in the war in Ukraine made someone a friend of people they don’t know.

[–] borari@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Do I think those people will move in? No, I don’t. Apparently some had already tried and they got stamped out pretty quickly.

There’s a pretty strong Marxist/Leninist/far-left community on here as well, so that helps. They can be insufferable themselves (mostly just the authoritarian pro-Putin ones), but as long as it’s not facist bullshit I can deal.

[–] borari@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I came from using Apollo as my client for Reddit, so I whole-heartedly support adhering to the iOS design language, and ensuring the app’s aesthetic feels like it fits in the iOS ecosystem.

On the name note, I honestly thought it was “M” for mobile and “Lem” for Lemmy. The actual intent behind mlem makes so much more sense, and I like it so much more. Maybe stylizing it in all lower case would help people make that association faster? Idk.

[–] borari@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Is there some array that links a specific float value to a gender? Storing something like that as a float and having to look it up outside the object itself to determine it’s actual value seems like bad practice to mezcal but I’m not a developer by trade.

[–] borari@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

I never said relations between Vietnam and China weren't friendly overall. I said that when pretty much every country near the South China Sea, including Vietnam, say that China does not have territorial claim over the South China Sea, China is probably overstepping and the aggressor in this specific situation.

The context for the discussion is US flying spy planes in South China sea. Vietnam has nothing to do with that last I checked.

You should probably check again, because Vietnam has claims on areas of the South China Sea that overlap China's claims.

You do realize that even extremely friendly/allied countries can have disputes right? You also realize that there's nuance to everything, and no country/government is perfect right? Criticism can be levied at a government without invalidating everything that government has done.

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