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PSA: I noticed there's a lot of libs here lately, in c/genzedong@lemmygrad.ml

[–] GivingEuropeASpook@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Tbh I think chain gangs, whether they are public or private, are gulag-like

PSA: I noticed there's a lot of libs here lately, in c/genzedong@lemmygrad.ml

[–] GivingEuropeASpook@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

what's the difference between a Soviet gulag and a Western prison?

The popular depiction of the soviet gulag existed for a relatively short time within the USSR's history whereas at least US prisons haven't changed since the 1800s?

Thanks Google News in c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

[–] GivingEuropeASpook@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

Nothing shows the sorry state of journalism in a capitalist system like Google "News" linking to Yahoo "News".

Those aren't news platforms unless they started paying journalists suddenly

How some of the post-federation Ukraine threads feel like in c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

[–] GivingEuropeASpook@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Because the Ukrainian government in power is aligned with the West politically, and the US/EU wouldn't want to fight Russia directly. While it certainly still functions in many ways like a proxy war, I feel like it was more of a proxy war until 2022 when it was contained to the eastern part of the country and the US was actively training the Ukrainian military in Ukraine (I believe they are now training them outside Ukraine to avoid sparking a direct war between NATO and Russia) concurrently with Russian military support for Luhansk and Donetsk. When Russia widened the theatre of war to the whole country last year, I think the character of the war shifted fundamentally.