What a strange response.

I can’t tell if you’re just unconstrained by objective reality or a not particularly well oriented LLM but either way, you do you.

There’s not much to be gained by someone/something doing the equivalent of “nononononononononononono I’m not listening!”

Wow… You really think the above happened? Russia was supposed to walk into Kyiev in a couple of weeks. Instead, Russia’s taken a miserable amount of territory at an insane cost of men, had to reorient the economy, beg Iran and China for drones and clearly is the subservient partner behind China.

You might note that the author’s first defeat scenario is a peace treaty that would let Putin have some trifling territory like Crimea. (Admittedly, as the article is more than 2.5 years old, battlefield conditions changed and there’ll likely be more territorial concessions but the basic shape of the agreememnt is similar.)

But if you want to pretend that the Ukraine debacle has been the glorious adventure outlined above, well, I guess enough RT, or a childish refusal to acknowledge being wrong on the internet, will do that to someone.

Good words to remember!

On this one, it’s a little fun to kinda bully someone being a silly Billy. But I’ve got a note on him so if I encounter in the wild, I just ignore, giggle and move on.

When you say you read and comprehend, are you talking about just the tagline, or are you really claiming you read this article and think it supports your claim that

For three whole years western media promised that Russia was on the verge of collapse both militarily and economically.

Maybe reread the first four paragraphs and try again? Or, double down but, uhhh, that seems pretty silly.

Even just a casual glance through some of these shows they do not say what you think they do.

Choose one, your favourite or whatever, tell me exactly why you think it means Russia’s military was collapsing and I’m happy to explain what the article is actually saying.

Edit: best hurry if you want a response soon. Once my build is deployed, I’m done here for the night. And you are not interesting enough to bother with in my free time.

Lol, show me an article that said Russia was on the brink of military collapse and I’ll show you an article you’ve misunderstood (or some non reremovedble journalism.)

Oddly enough, saying you comprehend different from actual comprehension.

Most Western media has been “well, Ukraine’s fucked.” “Long term, can Ukraine survive this war?”

Are you getting confused between individual battlefield/operational success versus the strategic reality?

Show me you don’t read without telling me so.

This feels like one of my trailer park boys exchanges:

Julian: Ricky, do you know how stupid you sound right now?

Ricky: Yes I do!

Thanks for the giggles.

If you really don’t understand the difference between a news organization with which you disagree and a state actor in all but name, that’s on you.

Multiple points of view are useful, the Kremlin’s mouthpiece is not. If you practiced that media literacy you’re talking about, you’d understand the difference.

And the blocking myself is to be polite so I don’t keep scolding you goofs for choosing the dumbest possible source of “information.”

Believe me, I know how to find propoganda like RT or trump’s truth social feed, there’s just no value to be gained from them.

Don’t know much about instances (I’m just a benighted .ca user) but I suppose I should work out how to self defederate from this one if this is the usual.

Thanks!

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To paraphrase the Simpsons:

_To shut these down now would be twisted

I just learned these places existed… _

(yeah, the song doesn’t quite scan now but I stand by it.)

This user feels like a bot or troll farm. A few innocuous memes, then another weird China Ukraine etc one, kinda like clockwork.

If you can’t read a paragraph without calling it word salad, that says a lot about you.

Though, I do enjoy how you’ve just randomly added in some random “ists.”

Edit: If you are having difficulty or aren’t understanding a word or something, I can walk you through I guess?

“the adults in the room” angle doesn’t even encompass you considering your defense for western “democracies”, fucking ageist.

It’s more that the take being espoused, that there’s no difference between a state that disappears journalists and citizens compared to a Western democracy is a childish take, and to argue it makes you seem a child.

It’s like when my friend’s adorable toddler asked why she can’t have ice cream “an a broccli” every meal (as she understands vegetables are important.) It’s a reasonable question for a child as we don’t expect her to understand all the nutrition etc that makes that a terrible plan. If she asks it, no worries. If a teenager or older asks, I immediately assume they’re kind of a child.

Arguing a place that locks up journalists and ‘suspected’ citizens is in the same realm as a western democracy with some laws you don’t like, is a childish position, that you expect from someone with little to no understanding of the role/importance of a judiciary, checks and balances between branches of government or the fourth branch. They likely know and understand little about the many regimes where this has happened and the horrific tragedies that ensue. And fair, not everyone has time to read or the fortune of knowing people who have come from those places. But it is still childishly ignorant.

Let me guess, GenZ/Y drawing a hard red line on and being vocal about genocide and western interventionism is attributed to their “youthful fervor” that will wane away in time too?

Huh, where are you getting this from?

Is your position that you are not categorically different than a child rapist? That difference in the harms you both cause to children is of degree, not kind? And thus should be treated or considered the same?