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Don't throw your souls and bodies away. Throw this ugly war away!

Oh look! My stalker has turned up. He seems a bit dishevelled this morning, poor chap. Perhaps he has been sleeping in the bins again. My guess is that he a middle class Ukrainian, heroically defending the fatherland from behind a sofa in western Europe. He keeps trying to get me banned, which erm . . . is the sort of thing a fascist would do really. And yet we are continually told that this is a war to defend democracy, freedom of speech and all that stuff.
I am not publicly taking sides but it churns my stomach how many people are just blindly following what they are told and how to think, whether they are aware of not they are under the influence of propaganda. No I am not naming sides.

But I think we can all agree on that a big failure of our current society is this: that we are not able to show point by point to people where they are wrong and why. Rhetoric and deflecting and ad hominem are accepted in "civil" discourse instead of being able to sort out who is right and who is wrong. Debate becames an almost inane activity.

I mourn the fallen and the hurt by this absurd war.
@stockwellpete said in #33:
> And yet we are continually told that this is a war to defend democracy, freedom of speech and all that stuff.

So what is the alternative according to you? Ukrain morphing into a proxy muppet of Putin's like Belarus? lol
@botliquor4547 said in #38:
> So what is the alternative according to you? Ukrain morphing into a proxy muppet of Putin's like Belarus? lol

Working class unity between Ukrainian and Russian workers directed at their own elites so they cannot continue to prosecute the war. Strikes, occupations and the whole range of civil disobedience, abandoning the front, fragging the officers etc. All been done before in various conflicts. Turn the war between states into a war between social classes.

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