Thank you. These should get fixed.

But again, I can host behind a VPN and have zero risk here. I can work around my own shit, a Plex user can’t protect their data when Plex owns it.

If you could go back in time would you vote for Harris knowing what you know now?

But it’s not difficult to integrate it yourself.

It’s inherently different. Plex liked having your data and didn’t protect it.

For example?

I’m guessing you don’t seed then.

And no regional pricing.

So if I was just repeating Russian “talking points” you’d have no problem with that?

How to be popular:

• Use a loophole to run for a third term of presidency by becoming prime minister.
• Rewrite the constitution during your third term to remove your term limit.
• Jail your political opponents.
• Assassinate critics.
• Only allow approved opposition to run.
• Brutally crush any democratic protests.
• Force government employees to vote for you.
• Start a war to rally support for yourself.
• Take lots of weird, shirtless, old-man photos.

Yeah, fifth term and 88% of the vote.

Totally legitimate. Definitely not dictator for life.

I haven’t expressed any support for the US or NATO.

How can you call yourself a socialist when you support a fascist dictator (Putin) running a failing hyper-capitalist petro-state (Russia) conducting an imperialist war of aggression in Ukraine?

Sounds like you’re a liberal just wearing a tattered old Soviet hat. You’re the same as Americans cheering on their imperialist adventures.

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I don’t think a fascist dictator can legitimately accuse anyone of a coup.

You don’t know what we hope[1][2].

Is word salad still on the menu?

Russian “imperialist aggression” isn’t what this was in the first place[3][4][5][6].

This is what I’m talking about.

When presented with two truths, you’ll accept the pro-Russian one without criticism as it’s what you want to believe.

Your logic is:

West = bad
Russia is anti-west
Russia = good

For example, I bet you believe every dubious claim made about genocide in Donbass from pro-Russian sources, but you probably believe Bucha and Mariupol are false flag attacks made by “Ukrainian Nazis”

Not because it’s the truth, but because it fits your worldview.

Unsourced my ass:

Thank you, why couldn’t the article have actually linked this instead of a reddit thread??

Also how relevant are cold war documents to today’s situation? Ukraine was part of the Soviet union when this document was created. Do you really believe the KGB wasn’t producing similar documents? Look at the “Foundations of Geopolitics” a book that is actually still influencing Putin’s decision-making today.

“A negotiated end to the war” probably doesn’t mean “surrender unconditionally” as many .ml residents hope.

Ending the war without rock solid security guarantees just leaves Ukraine open to further Russian imperialist aggression in the future.

And as a side note, can I also confirm if the bar for evidence is so low in this instance that unsourced grainy scans of documents posted on tankie Reddit subs are considered authoritative?

Russia first invaded Ukraine in 2014 ran a proxy war in the interim and has failed to complete it’s military objectives after nearly four years of total war?

Russia has over a million casualties.

Is this what winning looks like?

I do listen to Ukrainians

Except when they democratically decide on closer ties with the EU?

I want to focus on your belief that NATO started this war and that Russia is somehow defending itself because it’s inherently contradictory. It requires you to believe the following:

1. The Ukrainian Parliament under Yanukovych was not democratic so couldn’t ratify the trade agreement, but Yanukovych was.
2. The Maidan protests were staged by nearly 800,000 NATO drones, but the much smaller Donetsk separatist movement was legitimate and wasn’t a Russian imperialist front.

Can you speak more to those ideas?

The Minsk agreement has nothing to do with the formation of the Donetsk “republic”.

Though Russia respecting the territorial integrity of Ukraine was a big part of it nobody seems to remember.

Yanukovych refused to sign a free trade agreement with the EU that the Ukrainian Parliament had ratified, leading to the largest democratic protests in Europe in decades. When he was ousted from power, Russia realized they were losing their puppet, invaded Crimea and fully backed fringe separatist movements providing money, arms and Russian regulars on “vacation” to generate a pretext for the 2014 full scale invasion.

it’s to keep NATO out of the main path by which Russia has historically been invaded

NATO is a voluntary defensive alliance. The only reason it has expanded is because Russia continually tries to invade the former Soviet republics.

If eastern Europe wasn’t terrified of Russia, they wouldn’t be applying to join.

Putin requested to join NATO 2

Sure Putin at some point allegedly expressed interest in joining NATO. Who the fuck knows what happened but he also allegedly refused to apply for membership.

Russia didn’t want to open their markets up to foreign plunder like in the 90s

Do you have any idea what the market is like in Russia? Have you ever even visited? It’s a state run by robber barons with palaces and yachts all over the world. The west couldn’t plunder what Putin and his cronies have already robbed.

Look at what China managed to build since the 90s and look at the failed state of Russia after decades of Putin’s rule.

The Sahel States, for example, are turning to Russia and the PRC as an alternative to western plunder

You mean the gold mines Wagner was running in Africa to plunder for the Russian war chest?

It fundamentally lacks the ability to export vast amounts of capital and outsource production.

You acknowledge Russia wants to, but you admit the only reason they don’t, is that they can’t? So we’re in some sort of agreement here.

familiarize yourself with the Marxist analysis of imperialism.

Attempting to expand your countries power through military action is the textbook definition of imperialism.

Marx (correctly) views imperialism as an inevitability of a capitalist system due to its drive to expand and accumulate capital, but he didn’t define the word.

What’s most disappointing is how little respect is given to democratic movements by authoritarians posing as socialists. People completely ignore the voices of Ukrainians fighting to defend their homeland.

Russia is literally conducting an imperialist invasion of Ukraine right now…

I can’t stand this shit when fake leftists defend authoritarian, imperialist states because they oppose the west.

Just because Russia “opposes” the west doesn’t make it any better than them.

We shouldn’t absolve people of their sins because someone else might have acted the same.

You’re right, but we should also hate Bezos.