Wait, people have to censor the word Nazi now? How far down the drain of fuckedness has the US swirled? Has anyone read 1984? This is as close to newspeak as you could possibly get.
Its Twitter.
Its run by a Nazi.
And no, performative semi-censorship is not the closest thing to NewSpeak.
That would be probably be corpospeak, the art of using a lot of vague yet fancy terms to say basically nothing of any precise meaning.
Either that or what TikTok has done to psychology terminology, warping and misunderstanding so many phrases that we now have ‘therapyspeak’ as a similar set of vocabulary terms that have vague and undefined meanings, because so many people use them so innapropriately, so often, that they basically mean nothing in a general, non specialized context.
As an example: Trauma bond.
People seem to think this means that people who suffer together, grow a bond between each other, based in overcoming shared struggles due to / caused by external stressors.
That’s not a trauma bond.
A trauma bond is more like when someone is consistently mistreated and abused by another person, that first person cannot really imagine life without that second person, without being oriented around them, so the idea of totally disconnecting from their abuser is itself existentially terrifying, and they thus paradoxically begin to defend the relationship with abuser.
Every day nazis and religious fascists make their opponents seem cooler than they really are. Nato is nowhere near this based.
The message is good but NATO is not a good thing just because Russia sucks stop lionizing it.
Why do you think NATO was created? Would the Russians have stopped in Berlin if they were free to advance further? Of course not. Where other nations measure their success in GDP per capita or in providing social services and job security to their citizens, Russia has from its conception measured success in only one way: territorial expansion. The human cost of this expansion on either side is irrelevant. When Moscow was looking to expand their influence in every direction imaginable, the only course of action for Europe and the US was to band together to have a strong enough opposition to keep the Russians at bay. The past decade has shown that NATO is still relevant and needed by all member states.
NATO itself is imperialist tho
Oh, I’m looking forward to hearing the mental gymnastics behind this one
Search up what they were doing in libya and how many innocent people did they kill
You mean the 2011 no-fly zone and enforcement of the UN security council resolution? That does not fit in any way with the term imperialism. Do you even know what imperialism means?
I don’t think you understand what imperialist means.
NATO is a pact you optionally join.
There is no option when multiple superpowers are involved We saw what NATO did in libya and yugoslavia
NATO does exactly what it is designed to do.
Go compare the number of non-NATO neighbors Russia has invaded versus NATO members they have invaded.
It makes everyone who joins it safer from invading barbarians like Russia, how is that not a good thing?
Well, you see, it doesn’t let Russia invade Poland, which is next on his list. Or would be.
its literally an imperialist alliance. We saw what they did in iraq, libya, yugoslavia etc. killed thousands of innocent people
fuck it.
NATO wasn’t in Iraq.
Ah yes, post-breakup Yugoslavia and Libya, famously places where everything was great there was no violence until the West showed up.
Iraq is a more legit example, since that was under false pretences, but like the other user noted most of NATO refused.
even if something were wrong who tf is NATO to intervene
Okay, but they definitely didn’t come into a place that was fine and make a mess.
(And if something is wrong, and you can intervene, you should. It doesn’t matter who you are; that’s just morality)
NATO is an extremely good thing, it’s a cooperative defence pact amongst members who don’t wish to be invaded. It’s been very successful.
There’s a reason more countries are seeking to join it.
I’m assuming that the original intent was that it’s “non-negotiable” in the sense that it will never be allowed, but the term “non-negotiable” usually means the opposite, that it must happen…
So they’re stupid?
So they’re stupid?
Yes.
It’s Putin fans, so they’re probably saying NATO = homogay, and that’s bad.
