Who is this they? The fabled Russian bots and trolls who are destroying US democracy as we know it[1]?

🌳 Now don’t be hasty, Master Meriadoc. I would wait a bit and see how things play out. It could resolve itself in some workable-enough way, or some org may do a hard fork. We don’t really know what’s going to happen.

To be fair, Putin was president when the towers fell.

Of course you can, but I don’t see how that’s relevant.

I’d never even heard of shader compilation. Apparently for the Steam Deck, Valve provides pre-compiled shaders for some games. What Is Shader Compilation and Why Does It Make PC Games Stutter?

Not you, the person I was replying to. Your English I couldn’t distinguish from a native speaker’s.

I can no longer sit back and allow Russian infiltration, Russian indoctrination, Russian subversion, and the international Russian conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

I might upvote this if only I could decipher it.

Knee-jerk jingoism, just how the security state likes it.

They’re just working class people trying to get by in a shitty bourgeois democracy, just like us. They have as much say in what the state does as we do, which is almost none.

That’s beside my point, but since you brought it up, the US is not the world’s largest economy, and China & Russia seem to be doing alright despite US sanctions, including technology sanctions. The US is no longer the indispensable nation; that ship sailed a while ago.

[Citation needed]

Could be. Maybe not a hard fork, if this slap fight can be contained in the driver space. I’d keep an eye on OpenHarmony and OpenKylin.

a peaceful nation

Let’s not go overboard.

• BBC, 2014: Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict
• Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians
• The Hill, 2017: The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda
• The Guardian, 2017: ‘I want to bring up a warrior’: Ukraine’s far-right children’s camp – video
• WaPo, 2018: The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you know
• Reuters, 2018: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem
• The Nation, 2019: Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
• openDemocracy, 2019: Why Ukraine’s new language law will have long-term consequences
• Al Jazeera, 2022: Why did Ukraine suspend 11 ‘pro-Russia’ parties?
• Jacobin, 2022: A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War
• NYT, 2024: U.N. Court to Rule on Whether Ukraine Committed Genocide

The Russian troll tactic of calling someone racist

Oh, are you an expert on Russian troll tactics? No, you are not. What you are is a conspiracy theorist.

Frankly I’m losing my patience with this lazy, bullshit, thought-terminating cliché.

U.S. law requires the government to cut off weapons shipments to countries that prevent the delivery of U.S.-backed humanitarian aid. Israel has been largely dependent on American bombs and other weapons in Gaza since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks.

“Write a stern letter to a foreign government” and “Vote against ‘very probable 101% genocide’ and for ‘proven 100% genocide’” are some weak tea, and beside the point being made.

It would be if Blinken weren’t burying government reports proving that it legally must.

Israel Deliberately Blocked Humanitarian Aid to Gaza, Two Government Bodies Concluded. Antony Blinken Rejected Them.

If you make your points with less belittlement, we mods will have to spend less time fielding reports.