kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

@yogthos It's not the best metric but sometimes it's the only we have. Propose a better one if you don't like it.

The problem with US and USSR is that both had pretty aggressive and imperialist international policy. Both staged coups, created puppet states, staged political assassinations and used criminals.

@yogthos Saur revolution president Babrak Kamal later said:

> It was the greatest crime against the people of Afghanistan. Parcham's leaders were against armed actions because the country was not ready for a revolution... I knew that people would not support us if we decided to keep power without such support.

@yogthos Under US Afghanistan got Taliban?! You got your calendar quite wrong.

1973 coup d'etat, overthrow of king Shah, president Daoud takes over, famous US embassy evacuation photos; Daoud resists alignment to both US and USSR policy.

1978 Saur Revolution - assassination of president Daoud - political repressions on unprecedented scale, partial alignment to Soviet policies.

1979 Soviet occupation, rise of anti-Soviet guerilla who later gave birth to Al Quaeda and Taliban

@yogthos My Mastodon instance crashes on picture uploads so you can find the chart here https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=gdp+per+capita+afghanistan

@yogthos And just looking at the economic side - this is Afghanistan GDP per capita, where you can see the beginning of Soviet invasion and the beginning of Western

@yogthos And also USSR created other socialist regimes, such as those in Poland, Romania and other Warsaw pact countries, then Afghanistan (1978-90), East Turkestan Republic, Mongolia - all of which were authoritarian and ceased to exist.

@1w4kvra Но при том только что в РФ ввели закон согласно которому обучение родных языков республик РФ является необязательным, что вызвало точно такие же протесты в республиках РФ - я лично их наблюдал на Кавказе например. То есть Кремль в отношении к собственным народам делает точно то же, за что обвиняет власти Украины и Литвы в "русофобии". Ну и российские СМИ конечно же ни слова про это не сказали - всё только по соцсетям проходило.

@1w4kvra Что касается законов и гражданства то все страны в основном требуют знание государственного языка. В РФ - русского, в Польше - польского, в Германии - немецкого. И в этих странах это не вызывает никаких скандалов. А вот в Украине и Литве - вызывает, поскольку чиство русскоязычное насаелени считает что русский тоже должен быть государственным, а российские СМИ их в этим утверждают.

@1w4kvra Было такое. Но это типичные мелкие инцидентны между странами каких много.

Вот например год назад литовский (!) суд решил что двухязычные (литовско-полькие) названия улиц в Вилнюсе не нарушают литовский закон, против чего выступали литовские националисты. То есть эти игры идут постоянно. Дело в том что поляков в Литве видят как бывшых оккупантов как и в Лвове или на Волыни. Это всё очень деликатные темы и надо их решать осторожно, с чувством емпатии.

@yogthos So at best, USSR involvement into state terrorism matched that of CIA. In reality, it was much more aggressive, since CIA never organised outright terrorist acts on USSR territory as KGB did with RAF in Germany.

@yogthos Soviet "military advisors" were all around Asia, Europe and America these times, including Vietnam, Korea, Yemen etc while KGB managed many of the terrorist organisations like PLO, RAF etc. People like Abu Nidal (Fatah) and Brigitte Monhaupt (RAF) were supplied arms through Eastern Germany and Poland, and frequently went into hiding in Warsaw and East Berlin.

Conveniently skips CA and other shenanigans but still interesting PoV:

"Why would Facebook or Google owe you anything? (...) You willfully used a service and generated data that wouldn’t otherwise exist. What you get in return is Facebook itself, for which you’ve not paid a nickel. (...) You’re an infinitesimally small part of a data cooperative whose benefits accrue to the very users that generated it." https://www.wired.com/story/no-data-is-not-the-new-oil/ #privacy #facebook #google

Herd immunity animated https://invidio.us/watch?v=XJFoOCmJsdg

"Neutralizing misinformation through inoculation: Exposing misleading argumentation techniques reduces their influence"
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0175799

Here https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=afghanistan+gdp+per+capita

@yogthos I compared :) And it likely looks like this for every country that was under USSR control I'm afraid

@1w4kvra А вот такой руссофобии нету ни в Польше ни в Украине ни в Прибалтике.

@1w4kvra Я не поддерживаю никакого раздела стран. Это имперское мышление а империи долго не продерживаются поскольку они сосредоточены на защищении своих внешних интересов, пока внутри царствует бардак

@yogthos I wouldn't say so. The poster was printed in 1956 - so just after Soviet invasion on Hungary, or in 1986 - so during invasion on Afghanistan. Half of Europe was practically occupied by USSR with Soviet military bases guarding its interests.

@aral New DoH servers can be added easily, possibly even through Windows GPO