Oh for fuck's sake

Hey Ukrainian and American news,

Regulation air force bombing a military base is not terrorism. If you classify that as a "terrorist attack", then literally everything that the U.S. military has carried out on foreign soil has been a terrorist attack. Ukraine's military resistance of Russian invasion can now be classified as a terrorist attack.

You see how this is totally backfiring logic? Stop calling it a terrorist attack.

Also, if you weren't expecting a military base to get bombed in a war, I...I don't know what to say anymore. Quite frankly, I'm surprised it took so long for a military base to get bombed. Really speaks to Russian incompetence more than anything.

Also, also, I'm not buying your moral hand-wringing over the indiscriminate alienation of Russian-speaking immigrants in the U.S., because if you really were worried about this kind of Russophobic backlash, you would've been more restrained with your reporting instead of constantly comparing Putin to Hitler. Don't fucking fan the flames of xenophobia then act all surprised when the masses start to indiscriminately attack immigrants.

(On a sidenote: stop calling it a Blitzkrieg. What kind of blitz takes over two weeks to make inroads? Do you know how long it took Lithuania to capitulate? Less than a day. Do you know how long it took the Netherlands to capitulate? 7 days. This is not a Blitzkrieg.)

— cashew

And to the crazed Americans out there,

Your boycott of Vodka does shit. Most Vodka isn't even produced in Russia. You're not helping. Stop giving Putin more justification about how the West is Russophobic so it's clearly in Russia's national interest to attack pro-U.S. regimes.

BTW, do you even realize that Ukraine is not a U.S. ally? Before you start getting all "oh poor Ukraine", maybe remember that Ukraine is not in fact a part of NATO and if you keep shipping military arms to Ukraine, you might be starting a nuclear war with Russia, which is definitely bad for Ukrainians. (And the rest of the world, but we're talking about what helps Ukrainians right now, and this ain't it.)

If you wanted to help Ukrainians, open up borders and start accepting Ukrainian refugees. Bring Ukrainian refugees into the U.S. so they can escape the bombing. Organize with the U.N. to form humanitarian escape routes and figure out how to logistically evacuate the Ukrainian citizens. That will help Ukrainians. Shipping more military arms will only give Putin yet more excuse to bomb the fuck away.

I mean, at the very least if you're going to ship arms, do it quietly instead of broadcasting how much you're shipping. This is not helping.

Stop virtue signaling and do something.

— cashew

Shaun hits the nail on the head

It's been nearly two decades since I last wrangled the Harry Potter stuff (was trying to convince friends that Harry Potter is a bad person and that the story is a bad story with bad morals, but I was young and inexperienced at arguing and friends kept telling me to chill). So I'm glad to see that at least someone is out there is eviscerating the books on the narrative level. Shaun makes the argument that I wish I could've made 20 years ago when I was trying to convince my peers that Harry Potter is a poorly written series with ethically questionable morals.

Watch on YouTube

It's a long watch, but so worth it.

Now, back to leveling my party in Another Eden.