Doubledee

I think people who are motivated by Ukraine are often doing so as an expression of their partisan identity (evil ruzzians colluding in our elections/sleepy joe turning us communist), not as a consistent position you could leverage into a long running project. I might be wrong about that but no conservative I've heard on this topic has a position that makes sense outside of partisan teamsmanship. Except maybe like Mearshimer, but he's not representative of the base or a popular upswell in sensible realpolitik calculation among suburban white people.

If the issue is popular among right wingers because they want to lurch further right I'm not sure how you coopt that. You could coopt genuine antiwar sentiment. Can you do the same for "NATO is (((the globalists))) trying to weaken us so the Chinese can take over"?

I think there was a culture shock when federation first hit. We had a ton of 'engagement' from people who were using ableist, racist, and transphobic slurs, which brought out strong reactions from our community because we believe its important to shut that stuff down on solidarity with our comrades. And as things got heated I think our willingness to believe people wanted good faith debate eroded.

We do love a good dunking though, and I think overall the community has a lower threshold for going full pig poop balls on people than I would prefer.

I think there is more than a little opportunism here though. I think it's easy for republican politicians to be against the war in Ukraine because it's "Biden's War" and anything he does is a commie globalist conspiracy. They were pissed at Biden for cutting our losses in Afghanistan too, because he was the one doing it, doesn't matter that it was also a colossal drain on our resources. I personally know conservatives who consider themselves anti war because they oppose the war in Ukraine but are vehemently opposed to any reluctance to give Israel more weapons.

If it were a war they started or that was being overseen by their candidate I'm not convinced chuds would care at all.

Complete inability to conceive of the idea that people resent us on account of the constant horrific violence we've visited on them for decades on end.

Must be the ruZZians.

Buncha military tech fetishists bewildered that the savages are continuing to fight against our wunderwaffe.

I might come back to it, my biggest problem with it was that there is a bit too much grinding. Last I played parties scaled to the size of yours so you basically never get a quick fight unless you keep your party very small. It ends up being kinda tedious after a while which is why I set it down.

Imagine being the worker who has to lock all the formula in a cage. I rarely go to Walmart but did this weekend and boy howdy it was bleak. They also had a bunch of televisions mounted in different aisles as a visual reminder that you're being monitored while you shop.

They've got that Dnipro river crossing they're pushing pretty hard as a new offensive frontline for things, I'm seeing a ton of not very specific reporting about things going on there. I'm kinda hoping one of these more in depth analysts weighs in soon.

Is this a real piece of media they made and distributed?

Yeah I was asking about it then, kinda expected it to go away by now but it looks like the new angle they're taking if nothing else. Something besides "the offensive isn't working" would be nice for them I would guess.

Ukraine bridgehead story seems to be the big new thing, I know in the last week it was more ephemeral, any new analysis on what this means in the bigger picture? Is it just cope or could they potentially make something of this?

Well it works for us on Hexbear. That's actually what I like about it, it's a nice big tent over there. Some of our greatest posters are anarchists, they were indispensable on the frontline of the posting wars that followed federation.