Reminds me of the shit job he did with his Uyghur episode three years ago.

  • Idliketothinkimsmart@lemmygrad.ml
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    20 days ago

    Didn’t watch the entirety yet, but I’d say most of this is pretty tame. Like yeah, I don’t think Russia’s invasion necessarily needs to be cheer leaded, but one can also recognize it didn’t happen for no reason. He also made a point about the Nazis in Ukraine being solidified only because of the war, but I mean…they existed well before that and were instrumental in the creation of Ukraine Post-Maidan Coup. They wouldn’t have been there to begin with had the NATO bloc not emboldened them.

    One of the initial points he brought up as well was that there was no organic resistance to the Kiev regime in the DPR and LPR, which is just not true. Is is that surprising that a smaller force aligned with the people who were willing to help them not be shelled every day? Also, he says there was no genocide of ethnic russians in Eastern Ukraine…okay, so killing thousands of people is then okay and people shouldn’t rise up against that? Like nah, Russia and the US are not just two imperialist powers trying to fight it out here. That being said, I’m not going to publicly stage rallies about denouncing Russia, but I’m not gonna go around telling people Russia is great.

  • SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml
    16·
    20 days ago

    I was wondering if someone posted this. The disclaimer of top 3 things made me a bit weirded out. I mean death count doesn’t make a genocide, it’s mostly based on methods and intent (although I believe genocide can take place unintentionally). While there isn’t a consensus yet on the Donbas since it’s so recent and facts on the situation are often steeped in misinformation or just straight up inaccessible, it is still a case worth study regarding the crime of genocide. In the end time will tell as always.

    • King_Simp@lemmygrad.ml
      13·
      20 days ago

      Well also using deaths is not useful here because the people in the Donbas rebelled against the coup and initial stages of cultural genocide. Then the war started because Ukraine specifically began to formulate an attack on the region. It’s like saying I shouldn’t intervene to protect someone from getting shot because the person had actually been shot yet

      • SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml
        4·
        19 days ago

        True, there’s a lot at play here but many people don’t know this or just do not care.

        It’s like saying I shouldn’t intervene to protect someone from getting shot because the person had actually been shot yet

        This actually reminded me of The Responsibility to Protect, does this not apply to the Donbas?

  • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    13·
    20 days ago

    His takes aside, in his videos on his second channel he seems so irony poisoned, thinking about his “community”, meaning the people who watch his streams, donate, hang out in his discord channel (assuming he has one) terrifies me a little bit.