devtesla

devtesla wrote

Reply to comment by Moonside in DSA on the war in Ukraine sucks ass, regrettably by Moonside

Appeals to hypocrisy just can't hold candle to the light of principles.

This is making my eyes roll out of my head, I'm sorry Lol. Sorry their statement isn't exactly how you'd say it?

Anyway we've been so close to nuclear war so many times, and saved by a fluke, that I can't share you confidence that someone won't do something moronic and get everyone killed. I understand that NATO protocol is to avoid and escalation like a no fly zone but stupider shit has happened.

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devtesla wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by Moonside in DSA on the war in Ukraine sucks ass, regrettably by Moonside

Couple things you seem to not understand:

  • Why is someone who opposes war now, when it's difficult, any different from those who opposed war in 2002? It's not like US foreign policy is any different now than it was back then. Equally evil! Come the fuck on.
  • Part of the agreement to reunify Germany was a promise to not move NATO east, this clearly wasn't kept. This is an act of aggression and NATO knows this. Putin is crazy for ignoring the billion reasons to not get into this quagmire but isn't not like there's been no poking the bear.
  • Cutting off a modern state from global markets through sanctions is essentially an act of war, and results in countless preventable deaths. They're also ineffective, the US has had sanction regimes against multiple states for decades without resulting in regime changes.

Here's the core of what I think your problem is:

What sort of means of opposing powerful states trying to annex weaker ones are you for?

And I don't have a good answer because the foreign policy apparatus is so monumentally evil that we can't trust it to suddenly have the right motives. What can we do? Well if you look outside this single thread at what the DSAIC does, which is protest, fund labor unions helping people in Ukraine, and support politicians that aren't fucking crazy.

That's all. If you want to be mad at the DSA it's not really skin off my back but I don't see the usefulness here

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devtesla wrote

Reply to comment by bunnies in DSA on the war in Ukraine sucks ass, regrettably by Moonside

In the specific case of Ukraine, what I'm seeing isn't necessarily that the entire country "needs guns to to defend themselves" and more that Zelenskyy wants more guns to send loads of untrained conscripts into a meat grinder. There's a difference between the government of Ukraine and the working class of the Ukraine, of which the men of the country aren't allowed to leave.

I don't have a solution to this problem but I don't think "let's not funnel weapons into this conflict" is an indefensible position, particularly when you look at everything the US has gotten involved with that go so much worse.

One last thing: NATO membership is something used by western countries to influence domestic policy in countries like Ukraine. Since Zelenskyy came to power, there's been a transformation of Ukraine to low cost labor source for the rest of Europe, causing GDP to crater and lots of people to already leave the country before the war started. This is how NATO has been since its founding. Being anti-NATO is supporting the working class.

I hope this somewhat makes the DSA position more clear? I know that this doesn't truly tackle anything that's horrifying about Russia and is a little bit US main character shit, but it's an American org so it's mostly gonna talk about America.

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devtesla wrote

Reply to DSA on the war in Ukraine sucks ass, regrettably by Moonside

The statement is fine? There's people actively advocating for a no fly zone, not sure why you're acting like it's a distant possibility. There's nothing in that thread that disagrees with that anarchist statement. Not really sure what you're going so hard in here for

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devtesla wrote

Reply to Remember Amazon's videogame, Crucible? They dumped tens of millions into its first real videogame, which was legitimately poised to redefine hero shooters with a lot of interesting features, and then they shut it down a few months later? by twovests

making fun of amazon's gaming failures used to be more fun but they made their first smart strategic decision by publishing Lost Ark, a popular South Korean MMO that's this instant gigantic hit. so rip

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devtesla wrote (edited )

Reply to is gone home still good? by toasthaste

my Gone Home love was largely a result of it being so disappointed with Bioshock Infinite and driven so insane by how much that game was adored, that I was utterly transfixed by a game that had all the immersive sim stuff that seemed to be leaving the genre while also being a story about the gays that I connected to. it's so much less fresh now, and its flaws easier to see. the dimensions of the house are complete nonsense and not in a cool way, the game is kind of devoid of style, lots of what it's about is shallow.

but yeah, these days we're four Arkane games deep, Firewatch happened, NITW and Disco Elysium happened, every game has gays and it's cool to hate Bioshock Infinite. not even getting into the Steve Gaynor stuff, we don't need gone home lol

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