Ildsaye [they/them]

I do remember, but I am not your memory retrieval system. You didn’t feel like scrolling up to look, so I don’t feel like talking to you anymore. Farewell.

Go to the library and get a math workbook appropriate for your level. Get all the way through and your attention span might recover enough to carry a conversation.

You haven’t answered my question yet

Do you have anything of your own to say? I don’t understand how making that disappointing comment was worth your time.

You said “nice try”, apparently facetiously

What is it you believe I have ‘tried’ to do?

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I’m glad you think my writing about fascism and antifascism in WW2 should be copied and pasted? But maybe you should also read it. I don’t know what you expect me to do with your non-sequiturs though. It’s not at all clear that you are even rooting those words in premises firm enough to warrant unpacking…

The Soviets were fully aware of the Nazi intent to massacre and enslave all Slavic and Soviet peoples since the publication of Mein Kampf, which describes such a plan, in 1925. The financiers of the Wehrmacht, oligarchs from throughout the western countries, were counting on a successful invasion of the USSR to recoup their investment, and the Soviets knew this as well. The Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, which consists of nothing more than a pledge of non-aggression, is often singled out despite every other power in Europe signing the same type of agreement with Germany, and despite the USSR’s proposals for an antifascist alliance being rejected by those powers beforehand. From these facts we can extrapolate that the Soviets understood the pact to be a means of delay before being invaded, nothing more. As for Poland, it was a failed state at the time and the people had been abandoned and placed at the mercy of foreign powers in any case. The Soviet presence there prior to the outbreak of Barbarossa enabled many Poles, Jews, Roma, other minority nationalities, and leftists to evacuate Poland and escape the Holocaust.

Regurgitating centrist fables spun up by 20th century cold warriors when we’re this deep into the 21st is just embarrassing. You’re indulging way more gods and masters than you realize.

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Slava Ukraine!!

The WW2 slogan used by the Nazi collaborators? Is this instance ok?

You’d hope so. People are at last actually ditching Windows for Linux, so it’s possible.

I’ll add, the manga Witch Hat Atelier is a much better execution than Potter of the premise “a young orphan is abruptly brought over into a secretive world of mages overlapping with the mundane, but for mysterious reasons repeatedly draws the attention of dark forces.”

If only AI was real

The best-funded media have sold the message that college students and politically-active aunties who have seen one too many local children die are the elites. The ‘elite’ label can be stuck on anyone who exerts influence, it implies power pejoratively but not descriptively. That’s why revolutionaries use more precise terms like capital owner instead.