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Guys, we know what to do, we have a name and internet: Arsen Ostrovsky, Lindsay Graham... OSINT and speak out
Fuck all these warmonger assholes.
It is their right to play. They like to play with discourse using ridiculous reasons to discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in bad faith as it is their goal to intimidate and disconcert.
...Or something along those lines.
It's pretty funny that everyone's response to this is apathy and meming. We're so cooked
I was asked why I got radicalised. This would've been another event to radicalise me if I wasn't already
I gotta say I've gotten scared a few times these past couple of days with so many posts about Greta reaching the front page. Hearing about the boat that she decided to not be on getting attacked, her going there with another boat and them threatening her. And then opening Lemmy and seeing several different posts with her face as the thumbnail just thinking "please, no, don't be bad news" and then being relieved she's not dead, been taken hostage, or anything else bad. We need her.
She was on a boat that got bombed, survived, and went back out. She has balls of steel, but I fear that she's setting herself up to be a martyr. There has to be some reasonable way for her to headline and lead resistance that doesn't end in her likely overlooked death. The people who her passing would activate are already mostly active.
Pretty on-brand for a bunch of fucking fascists