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The Ukraine thing has shown the only social media mind virus worse than politics is apparently war. People feel the need to blindly support it online like a spo
by dmix 3y ago
The Ukraine thing has shown the only social media mind virus worse than politics is apparently war. People feel the need to blindly support it online like a sports team, with all the lack of nuance and mandatory public cheerleading that comes with it. So anyone not also a superfan is labelled the enemy.
All that really matters is what is actually happening on the ground, and Starlink has and continues to be the most important foreign technology Ukraine has been given. Even more so than HIMARS and Patriot.
- landemva 3y agoAre people blind to not understanding that providing war material and support can be considered as engaging in the war? Germany warned USA about this in 1915. https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4535149/newspaper-warning-notice-lusitania https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4535149/newspaper-warning-not...
- ImPostingOnHN 3y agoanything, from a blog post to simply existing, can be "considered" to be engaging in war by a sufficiently unreasonable considerer, and any such unreasonable considerer can make whatever unreasonable "warnings" they wish neither are a validation of the correctness of such a consideration or the righteousness of such a casus belli