• lumettaria@sopuli.xyz
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    “-- is not leadership: it’s escalation”

    You know what I hate with a passion? AI speak.

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        I’m pretty sure “it’s not a; it’s b” is not specifically EU speak but it is something ChatGPT loves to overuse and it’s a great litmus test to spot the rot

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      I hate that proper syntax is now somehow AI speak.

      I think Francesca Albanese is just a reader. Readers tend to know how to write.

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        That’s probably exactly why AI speaks like that, since it’s been trained on troves of literature. It’s a common structure so it adopted it to repeat ad nauseum.

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    Did not expect anything else from Frau Genocide or our pathetic European leaders. Glad that Francesca Albanese’s position is more popular. Who exactly do these invertebrates in the EU parliament represent? Because it’s clearly not the people.

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    Yep all European takes when America or Israel do something blatantly power grabbing and illegal (as if that matters) are wishy wishy statements that end up supporting the blatant imperialism.

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    After screeching for 4 years straight about Russia’s unprovoked all out invasion, that’s certainly an interesting position to take.

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      No? They were always more concerned with the races of participants in war, they never gave a shit about the existence of war itself. As soon as Russia invaded they jumped at the chance to say they’re Asiatic orcish barbarians and were more concerned with people potentially mistaking Russians for whites (asserting that Ukraine is unambiguously white and Russia are unambiguously not, remember that “this really makes me sad because we’re seeing blond hair blue eyed people getting attacked for the first time in ages” line some EU representative said?). Of course they would uncriticaly support whites killing brown people. White makes right.

      Look at their response to the US attacks on Venezuela or the unproven drug boats, or starving of Cuba, or Israeli attacks on Palestine.

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        I know Americans love to speak about race all day, but Russian aggression 500km from your home is more concerning than American aggression 5.000km, including an ocean, away. Especially when Russia already was preparing to claim the next land (baltics, even Poland and Finland).

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          Russia already was preparing to claim the next land (baltics, even Poland and Finland)

          Tell me: what are the reasons Russia would want to invade Poland or Finland?

          Russian aggression 500km from your home is more concerning than American aggression 5.000km

          Europe actively joined in bombing Yugoslavia. The problem is never about distance to home, it’s about how to be servile to the Yanks.

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            Europe wasn’t targeting civilians and trying to annex Yugoslavia. Guess what?

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              Yeah yeah every European war is awesome and epic, unlike Russia who purposefully murders civilians all day despite having a much, much, much lower civilian kill rate in Ukraine than NATO in Iraq.

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                Iraq wasn’t nato, it was US and UK. European wars are a mixed bag, like most countries. Russia does murder civilians all day, the thing is Ukraine has much better defenses than Iraq.

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                  Iraq wasn’t NATO, it was just a coalition made entirely of NATO nations :D

                  And Russians are bloodthirsty hordes looking to murder civilians. Your country’s Nazi legacy is poking out when you speak like that

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          That might make sense if the EU just didn’t acknowledge the American aggression. But they did acknowledge it and doubled down on supporting the US, and how “Venezuela/Cuba/Iran deserved it, actually.” Sure seems like they’re only against Russian aggression because it affects them, and they’re completely supportive of white aggression against everyone else.

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    I think we should start a public call for sculptors for the statue that will have to be made of Francesca Albanese.

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    On Saturday, Finnish President Alexander Stubb said the United States is acting outside international law following U.S. and Israeli airstrikes on Iran. He also expressed hope that the situation will calm down so that a negotiated solution to the conflict can be pursued. “Right now, we are seeing that the United States is operating largely outside traditional international law,” Stubb said on Finland’s state television network YLE. According to Stubb, before carrying out attacks of this kind, Washington had typically sought approval from the United Nations or, at the very least, from its NATO allies — something that has not happened this time. “Now there has not been much consultation. There was no consultation in Venezuela, there was no consultation earlier during the 12-day war (between Israel and Iran in June 2025), nor has there been consultation now on this issue,” the Finnish president said. In his view, the attack by U.S. and Israeli forces on Iran demonstrates the transformation taking place in the global political landscape and in the international order. “When international institutions and norms are not respected, a power vacuum is created that makes this kind of attack possible,” Stubb said.