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kravietz šŸ¦‡
@kravietz šŸ¦‡

Information security consultant in UK and EU, entrepreneur. Education in chemical engineering, supporter of #nuclear and #renewables. Born in #Poland, interest in #Russia #Ukraine (spent 20+ years in both). Actively supporting Ukraine's sovereignty. I almost always follow back. I prefer to discuss any views as long as they are supported by arguments and evidence, I do ban for insults and hate speech. Started #networking on #Fidonet in 1990s.

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You can’t get it any more wrong than ABC News who posted a story about #Ukraine attacks on ā€œholiday campsā€ on the occupied territories illustrated by a photo from Ukrainian DSNS rescue operation after #Russia attack on Kyiv 🤮 The story is also bullshit, sources by local collaborationist Balitsky, while in reality all these camps were long taken over for residences by FSB and military.

https://akkoma-media.obj.krvtz.net/akkoma-media/dd32f1667291db0e348ba3bbf69baeae8d795830d8dc40bee0d9f3361c06fee2.file?name=XHuiamp37hEJtQ.file
≠ hippies->chipper ≠ · 1w
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@≠ hippies->chipper ≠

The closest science comes to defining concept of ā€œraceā€ is very broad and vague clusters of haplogroups, and that’s pretty much it. Two random people from ā€œdifferent racesā€ can have much more common in genetic sense than two random people from ā€œone raceā€, regardless of their phenotype.

The example you give on Jews is very interesting, but irrelevant - ā€œJewsā€ aren’t a race, it’s an ethnic group 🤷

Poles, French and Irish are also ethnic groups and pretty well defined by haplogroups, but in the racial pseudoscience they’re both ā€œwhite raceā€ which is equivalent to ā€œhow little Joe named them because he liked how similar they are lookingā€.
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≠ hippies->chipper ≠ · 1w
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A popular argument among Western tankies and ā€œpolitical realistsā€ raised since 2000’s and even more now:

The West humiliated #Russia in the 1990s. This war is the consequence

In reality, what most humiliated Russia in 1991 - and all nations part of USSR - was the diehard ideological persistence of the CPSU who ruined all economic reforms proposed since 1960’s when economic failure of Marxism-Leninism was becoming obvious.

These morons did what they always did - made it secret to even talk about 30% of resources wasted by the central planning system and blocked reforms such as Kosygin plan.

They prolonged agony by forcing satellite Eastern European countries to take secret (ofc) loans from the ā€œimperialistā€ Paris Club, which were funneled out for equally moronic megaprojects like reversal of Siberian rivers.

#Poland defaulted on the secret (ofc) foreign loans in 1980 (!) so Moscow blocked economic reforms in Poland with threat of armed invasion.

Then in 1989 they finally led Poland go, and then collapsed their own USSR in 1991, only to blame CIA, USA and everyone in the world, but not their own moronity. Post-Soviet Russia never faced occupation like post-war Germany, never had Nuremberg tribunal or anything remotely similar.

But that was not the end - in 1998, facing another financial crisis, they begged IMF for a loan, which they got ($5b, now $20b) and… immediately stolen, in literal sense (it simply disappeared after arrival to Russia), blaming… Russophobia on anyone who asked what happened.

That’s literally how the ā€œRussia’s humiliationā€ looked like.
≠ hippies->chipper ≠ · 1w
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@≠ hippies->chipper ≠

Sorry but that is bullshit on many levels.

The very idea of ā€œraceā€ is pseudo-scientific and the whole history of biological evolution on the Earth is based on recombination of genes.

It’s inbreeding that provably leads to degeneration.
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≠ hippies->chipper ≠ · 1w
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Another discussion where someone cites the rise of alt-right in Europe…

AfD: 30% FPƖ: 30% LePen: 30% Reform UK: 25-30%

…only to summarise it with a convenient argument that ā€œat least 30-40 percent of any given population is fucked in the headā€.

It’s extremely simplistic and ignorant excuse.

There are specific social reasons why AfD etc rise in polls. Merkel’s ā€œWir schaffen dasā€ was one of them, the European left abandoning their usual voter base - local working people - for niche minority groups was nother. Voters see that and choose those who resonate to their problems. I highlight the word ā€œresonateā€, because they are not solving them, that’s the essence of populism.

What response I get? Another both arrogant and ignorant excuse:

So concentration camps for nonwhites solve everything? No more fascism?

I’m explaining why voters move to these parties, not endorsing their methods.

If anyone is to blame, it’s the morons from mainstream parties who for decades chose to ignore these reasons.

And no, please don’t try to create a false choice between ā€œzero immigration checkā€ and ā€œconcentration campsā€ as the only alternatives.

This is one of the manipulative eristic tricks that muted all rational debate one these real social challenges for years. That’s the very hysterical attitude that resulted in mainstream parties hiding their head in the sand… and allowing the problem to grow.

Another response:

You know, those ā€˜problems’ have existed for decades. Centuries even. There was never one pure blooded population with 0 exchange.

Firstly, it has nothing to with race purity. Manipulative projecting someone’s racist ideas on everyone talking of immigration is another classic trick that muted that debate.

Want a simple solution? Request that all migrants, legal or illegal, from US or Asia, simply sign declaration they recognise the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.[^1]

Can you see anything racist or discriminatory in it? Most likely you’ve never read it yourself, because being born in Europe you’ve been for years socialised in the spirit of the Charter - equality, rule of law, freedom of speech, non-discrimination.

And the argument that the challenge existed for centuries is true, but only in XX century Europe switched to a delusional policy where ancient religious or tribal habits are expected to be treated as equal with all the European values we built this successful civilisation on.

Misinterpreted extreme ā€œmulticulturalismā€ created an absurd situation where everyone is expected to follow the Charter by default… except for those who don’t know of it or reject it. More absurdly this rejection should be protected by the very Charter.

I’m not talking about forcing people’s religion or culture… except for parts dramatically incompatible with European human rights.

Things like precedence of religious or tribal laws over civil law, blood revenge, female genital mutilation - you move to EU, you must reject them or stay away.

[^1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_of_Fundamental_Rights_of_the_European_Union
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≠ hippies->chipper ≠ · 1w
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Speaking of salmonella, measles, cyclospora and other stuff returning to the US on #MAGA policies, we should keep in mind their ideology is at core Darwinian. For them it’s not policy mistake return to ā€œnormalā€ - ā€œsurvival of the fittestā€, ā€œdog eat dogā€, ā€œgreed is goodā€ etc

There’s an obvious contradiction here - ā€œsurvival of the fittest, but not for my precious kidsā€. In these circles this has been solved by simple hypocrisy - say one, then secretly vaccinate them. Condemn abortion, but ā€œit’s my daughter, it’s a special situationā€ etc

I think what really pisses them off is when these simple achievements become available for the general public as a simple civilisation baseline, just like available accommodation or food.That completely breaks the whole elitist sentiment their ideology is based on.
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For those who have doubts about #Ukraine hits on #Russia logistical hubs like #Wildberries, here’s a proud summary posted by Russian media where they boast about how ā€œsince start of 2026 we hit over 20 hubs of Nova Poshtaā€. Now Ukraine joined the game and they whine.

Formally, both are commercial companies shipping civilian goods but since vast amount of military equipment goes through volunteer channels, they obviously ship that too - for example drones. And that’s precisely how Russian MOD justified *their* hits.

One difference is that Wildberries is a sales agent (like Amazon) so their hubs actually *store* goods, including unarmed FPV drones, parts etc, while NP only ships them and stores them in transit.

https://akkoma-media.obj.krvtz.net/akkoma-media/11f74b77b6375082fa2d64310739e61ebe92ea7278aca53309c80ac7605c03e6.file?name=QEwpvT9qtx1qlA.file
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#Ukraine former head of UPA support NGO and then head of Institute of National Remembrance Vyatrovych is doing rounds in media telling every how ā€œPoland became like Russia to usā€.

The dumb nationalist fucker says that right in the middle of the war where Polish state and society relentlessly supports Ukraine’s defence effort. How do you think, what he’s counting on? Because if Poland is ā€œlike Russiaā€, he should call for closure of the border on their side, right?

And he says that a day before Ukraine MFA Sybiha meets with Polish MFA Sikorski, which Sybiha then summarised:

ā€œI thanked Radosław for Poland’s support in opening the first and sixth negotiation clusters. (…) I expressed my gratitude to Poland for its support of Ukraine from the very first days of the full-scale Russian invasionā€

Now, can you see who’s actually pushing the interest of Ukrainian state of 2026 at war, and who’s pushing his delusional fantasies and phobias from 1930’s, effectively playing into the hands of Russia?
Mullvad VPN · 2w
We would like to address the recent controversy about one of the owners of Mullvad making a donation to a Swedish political party. https://mullvad.net/blog/donation-controversy
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@nprofile1q...

I like this fragment:

ā€œSometimes it is the most persecuted ideas who win out and become self-evident truths of later history.ā€

Have you heard about Popper’s tolerance paradox? There’s a trivial and very relevant example for why your own rationale is dramatically flawed: in Europe, you could say Putinism is ā€œpersecutedā€ and for good reason. If, thanks to your stance, Putinism takes over Europe YOU will be the first to be banned and prosecuted, and it will be not debatable. And then what?

#vpn #fascism #mullvad #censorship
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Radomir Darmiła · 1w
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