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The use of depleted uranium munitions has been fiercely debated, with opponents like the International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons saying there are dangerous health risks from ingesting or inhaling depleted uranium dust, including cancers and birth defects.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

OP is known tankie just fyi. Doesn't justify US or Ukrainian actions but make sure you understand that the reason for posting this isn't out of any actual concern for human beings. They're also peddling covid conspiracies

[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They posted a Reuters article

Is that an evil tankie propaganda website now?

[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago

Ah but they posted the Reuters article maliciously. In a scheming, tankie sort of way.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

How about you go contribute a bullet to your face tankie

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago (2 children)

peddling covid conspiracies

like what?

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago

Probably the conspiracy that the virus is still a pandemic and people are still dying and we should all wear masks, you know the truth

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah that's a silly article. Strange that a supposed "tankie" would post something that pushes the Chinese lab leak conspiracy though, especially from an outlet run by an NYT liberal like Bari Weiss.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

tankies don't have coherent ideologies, or they wouldn't be tankies

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Define tankie, or do you just go off of vibes and guesses without any coherent thoughts about your opponents yourself?

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OP is known tankie just fyi.

Hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Fuck off tankie

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

So let me get this straight, according to you:

The people that don't support either side of the war and want to end it as fast as possible through peace talks are evil tankies.

And the bloodthirsty monsters that want to prolong a pointless war, arm Azov Nazis and kill as many people as possible with illegal inhumane weapons that scar generations are freedom-loving liberals.

Seems like the tankies are the more reasonable ones in this situation.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago

That's an interesting point, but have you considered Harry Potter?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So you neither support the rapist nor the victim. How enlightened centrist of you.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lmao what a misogynistic pig to compare sexual assault to war.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What an imperialistic swine to not do it.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn, imagine hating women to own the Russians.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine comparing condoning self-defence to hating victims.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn, imagine hating women to own the Russians.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine thinking that retort makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn, imagine hating women to own the Russians then whining when you get called out for being a misogynistic pig

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not sure that made sense even in your mind.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Mald harder, pig.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

want to end it as fast as possible through peace talks are evil tankies.

Surrender == the end of Ukraine. There's 0% chance of Russia honouring it for any meaningful length of time. They'll see it as a weakness of Ukraine and they'll just build up their forces again and attack. Any legitimate peace deal HAS to have the condition of Russia pulling out of all Ukrainian territory otherwise it'll completely legitimise nations to start wars to take land for themselves. Russia loses nothing by withdrawing. And you 100% know this, which is why tankies keep peddling it - they can claim to be on the moral high ground by saying "we want peace! everyone else are bloodthirsty monsters!" but in reality they know it'll just lead to more violence and genocide. Imagine calling the Allies blood thirsty monsters in WWII because they didn't accept a peace deal with Nazi Germany because they wanted it to end as fast as possible.

Nobody wants bloodshed. Ukraine didn't ask for this war. But they're not going to give up and let Russia get away with a land grab.

Seems like the tankies are the more reasonable ones in this situation.

If by reasonable that you want Russia to win this war then yeah, sure.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

otherwise it’ll completely legitimise nations to start wars to take land for themselves

Have you been sleeping for the last decades? There were plenty of wars. The US didn't stop them, in fact, the US started a bunch of them, and more were started by US allies, or waged with US help. The US supports illegal occupation ("taking land") all over, too.

So is there actually any norm anyone adheres to? Seems to me the actual norm is "don't do anything the US doesn't like". It's got nothing to do with starting wars or taking land.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

otherwise it’ll completely legitimise nations to start wars to take land for themselves

no one tell this guy what a nation is it'll break his heart

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This isn't a children's movie, there is no good guy in this war.

No one fucking wins, if Azov 'wins' then Ukraine will become even more of a Nazi shithole and a husk of an economy as the US calls in all its debts. If Russia 'wins' then it won't be much better off either.

Nobody wants bloodshed. Ukraine didn't ask for this war.

Than advocate for peace talks instead of grinding more Ukrainians and Russians into paste, you bloodthirsty ghoul.

But they're not going to give up and let Russia get away with a land grab.

See? You do want bloodshed. You care more about dirt than human life.

There are only two outcomes of this war: A bloody long battle where innocent people get thrown in the meatgrinder regardless of which side comes out on top, or we get both sides to stop fighting and do peace talks so they can compromise and stop the killing as soon as possible. Nothing good will ever come out of this war. It needs to end as soon as possible to stop the bloodshed. The concern here should be stopping the loss of life as soon as possible, not caring about lines on a fucking map. For supposedly being pro-Ukraine, NATO sure loves killing Ukrainians.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fuck off fascist warmonger

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The people that don't support either side of the war

They (and you) are clearly supporting Russia.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

If we're supporting capitalist Russia the same way NATO tools are supporting Nazi Ukraine then where are our comments saying we should send money and weapons to Russia to defeat the Ukrainian 'orcs', then? Show me where these pro-Russia comments are, I'll wait.

Get real, none of us have said anything in support of modern capitalist Russia. We're communists ffs, would we really support the thing that killed the Soviet Union? Use your head.

Next, you'll tell me that people against the war on terror in the Middle East were on the side of the Taliban.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Imagine being over the age of 15 and using the word tankie. It's like telling the whole world that your brain is as smooth as a bowling ball.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Info is reuters. Are you on a crusade against tankie? Because it looks like you are.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a pretty bad faith take, they're just pointing out that op has an agenda as to why they are linking this specific article.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

op has an agenda as to why they are linking this specific article

everyone has a fucking perspective, that's a normal human behavior. do you expect people to just randomly select articles to post?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"normal human behavior" Great rationale, normal human behavior excuses everything

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

excuses what, going on a link aggregation site and posting an article that you find relevant to your perspective on the world?