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ArmedZombie
Jun 6, 2004

tokin opposition posted:

D&D is that way dork --->

nice knee jerk reactionariainism

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Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 18 days!)

It's difficult to attribute responsibility for atrocities committed in the Yugoslav wars to any particular leader, because most cases were criminal actions carried out by fascist paramilitaries on their own initiative. The ethnic cleansing and mass murder was done primarily for the purpose of mass banditry, without any orders coming from higher up. This isn't to say that Milosevic or Karadžić didn't deserve to be prosecuted for war crimes, it's just that the situation was way more complex than how it's portrayed as the Serbs being a neonazi genocide state following marching orders from Belgrade.

Milosevic began his turn to national chauvinism because of a wave of murder and banditry in Kosovo waged by returning Albanian fascists, which Milosevic cynically implied were the responsibility of all Kosovars. It was like that all over Yugoslavia. The most toxic elements of Chetnik & Ustase diasporates that feared Tito all started trickling back in to do as much damage as possible, and then try to claim their revenge for being defeated by the communists in the first place.

Because of the complex conditions of the ceasefire, all the worst criminals of the Yugoslav wars got to make off like bandits. Literally.

Pener Kropoopkin has issued a correction as of 23:20 on Feb 20, 2022

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
there was something on RWN about how fascist groups in the balkans during world war II were never as well organized as the nazis. "making the trains run on time" is a meme but the nazis actually were into germany being a big power and they were the best organized when you compare them to the eastern european and balkan imitators for whom settling ethnic scores was their main thing

tokin opposition
Apr 8, 2021

I don't jailbreak the androids, I set them free.

WATCH MARS EXPRESS (2023)

ArmZ posted:

nice knee jerk reactionariainism

buddy i wouldn't jerk you off with my knees for anything less than a country

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018
Probation
Can't post for 11 hours!

ArmZ posted:

the whataboutism is coming from inside the thread

I don't think anyone is excusing the atrocities that happened in the yugoslavian civil wars.

HashtagGirlboss
Jan 4, 2005

tokin opposition posted:

buddy i wouldn't jerk you off with my knees for anything less than a country

I can’t imagine a knee job would be particularly pleasant

ArmZ into some baffling poo poo I guess

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

AnimeIsTrash posted:

I don't think anyone is excusing the atrocities that happened in the yugoslavian civil wars.

well someone was claming the atrocities were fabricated, which is going too far even though its correct to say that the US was bullshitting in general

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018
Probation
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StashAugustine posted:

well someone was claming the atrocities were fabricated, which is going too far even though its correct to say that the US was bullshitting in general

If you're referring to this post, he's quoting Michael Parenti here.

e: Parenti's claim is that the NATO reasons for intervening were completely fabricated while at the same time atrocities were happening on all sides. I don't that is the equivalent of saying all the atrocities were fabricated.

Kindest Forums User posted:

If I remember correctly from Parentis to Kill a Nation, NATOs charges of politically instructed war crimes and genocide were almost entirely fabricated. And any attrocities that the serbs committed were no less extreme than what the croats, Muslims, albanians, and even NATO itself.

But maybe Parenti is wrong. That we can trust NATO and the US. That we shouldn't be just a tad bit cynical when the West is dismantling the last socialist state on their borders. Just a weird coincidence that the former Yugoslavian states which resisted neoliberal reforms also happen to be genocidal maniacs.

AnimeIsTrash has issued a correction as of 00:19 on Feb 21, 2022

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?

StashAugustine posted:

well someone was claming the atrocities were fabricated,

nobody did this

Your Gay Uncle
Feb 16, 2012

by Fluffdaddy

Inceltown posted:

They're out and proud goose-stepping in Denmark now and no one is stopping them

https://twitter.com/joshbythesea/status/1495176913601581057

When I was
A young man
My father
Took me to Denmark
To see the Goose Parade

PKMN Trainer Red
Oct 22, 2007



Your Gay Uncle posted:

When I was
A young man
My father
Took me to Denmark
To see the Goose Parade

And then those Canadian fucks stole the idea of a Honk Parade, drat them.

Dustcat
Jan 26, 2019

love to see "which ethnicity was ACTUALLY responsible for the atrocities of the genocidal civil war" arguments in my pictures thread, that's a great picture

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 18 days!)

Hope you learned something.

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018
Probation
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Dustcat posted:

love to see "which ethnicity was ACTUALLY responsible for the atrocities of the genocidal civil war" arguments in my pictures thread, that's a great picture

that's right, that's exactly what was going on

Dustcat
Jan 26, 2019

Kindest Forums User
Mar 25, 2008

Let me tell you about my opinion about Bernie Sanders and why Donald Trump is his true successor.

You cannot vote Hillary Clinton because she is worse than Trump.
If anything, of course, NATO nations should be tried for war crimes and genocide. Yugoslavia existed in relative ethnic harmony until the west forced its dissolution through economic (neoliberal reforms) and military means (arming and supporting reactionary nationalist/separatist movements (or just straight up thugs)).

When the West starts supporting Ustashe nazi freaks you can be certain that diplomacy and peace is not the goal. You're practically begging for Serbs to commit an atrocity so you can tear their government into pieces with the consent of the International Rules Based Order.

Srebrenica was an atrocity and a war crime. But it was a victory for the west. It was a little inconvenient the paramilitary Serbs trucked out the women, elderly, and children but murdering their men is enough to call the Serbs THE GENOCIDERS, and THE ETHNIC CLEANSERS.

One thing that came out after Parenti's book was the genetic evidence of the graves, so he never addressed that. I just looked into it, and it's a good example of how we exaggerate the existing claims to further demonize the Serbian people.
https://www.icmp.int/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/ICMP-srebrenica-leaflet-EN-web.pdf

from the first paragraph:

quote:

The Srebrenica Genocide was the
premeditated and organized murder
of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim
men and boys in July 1995, in and
around the town of Srebrenica. The
atrocity was committed in the final
stages of the three-and-a-half-year
conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
It took place after the UN-declared
Safe Areas of Srebrenica and Žepa had
fallen to Bosnian Serb armed forces.

What's the point of this? MURDERED MORE THAN 8,000 men and boys! Look at this framing. It means that every dead Bosnian Muslim was executed by the Serbs. What a conclusion to make. Not a single missing Srebrenica man died in the years of conflict. No, they were murdered. All murdered. Every one of them.

If this is how the massacre is being described 30 years after the fact, think about how this was being portrayed in the midst of it?

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 18 days!)

It sounds like you're losing the plot on this one.

Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018

https://twitter.com/quadsunflower/status/1495266470682636289?t=AsF3iVZk0pqDRZUCE2399A&s=19

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018
Probation
Can't post for 11 hours!

uber_stoat
Jan 21, 2001



Pillbug

PKMN Trainer Red
Oct 22, 2007



https://twitter.com/imisaacp/status/1495255347203764227

Chronicles
Oct 24, 2013

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

lmao that guy looks like he's one road rage incident away from a massive coronary at all times

Jabberlock
Nov 29, 2014



Being Alpha means signaling to people that you might snap and kill them at any given moment.

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

Jabberlock posted:

Being Alpha means signaling to people that you might snap and kill them at any given moment.

That is literally what these people think, yes.

tokin opposition
Apr 8, 2021

I don't jailbreak the androids, I set them free.

WATCH MARS EXPRESS (2023)

Clifford causes many genocidal famines by eating literal tons of food a day. Don't platform mass murders. Smdh

Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018

tokin opposition posted:

Clifford causes many genocidal famines by eating literal tons of food a day. Don't platform mass murders. Smdh

The world produces enough food to feed a hundred Cliffords with surplus left over. The problem is not one of supply, it is of distribution.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
clifford eats homeless people

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

Gripweed posted:

The world produces enough food to feed a hundred Cliffords with surplus left over. The problem is not one of supply, it is of distribution.

clifford also frequently destroys distribution hubs with his antics. he is history's greatest monster

Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018

gimme the GOD drat candy posted:

clifford eats homeless people

Classic whataboutism.

Azathoth posted:

clifford also frequently destroys distribution hubs with his antics. he is history's greatest monster

Oh so when someone shoplifts from a Walmart that's good, but when a giant monstrous dog destroys an entire produce section with his uncontrollable antics that's bad? This is the kind of rank hypocrisy that has become de rigueur with the online left

Bar Ran Dun
Jan 22, 2006
Clifford would be very feedable. I’d imagine a 20’ container of fish meal in supersacks a second 20’ of corn meal or soy bean meal or rice, and then a 20’ reefer of meat processing byproducts frozen in 20 or 40 kg blocks in fiber boards boxes floor stacked.

I mean three containers would get you 90 ish metric tons of pretty good feed. a biologist would have to speak to the beasts daily needs but the logistics is very doable.

PKMN Trainer Red
Oct 22, 2007



Proust Malone
Apr 4, 2008

https://twitter.com/alanrmacleod/status/1495541274048270340?s=21

mrmcd
Feb 22, 2003

Pictured: The only good cop (a fictional one).

Hank the Tank, a 500-Pound Bear, Ransacks a California Community

dads friend steve
Dec 24, 2004


lol if true

Animal Friend
Sep 7, 2011

Kindest Forums User posted:

If anything, of course, NATO nations should be tried for war crimes and genocide. Yugoslavia existed in relative ethnic harmony until the west forced its dissolution through economic (neoliberal reforms) and military means (arming and supporting reactionary nationalist/separatist movements (or just straight up thugs)).

When the West starts supporting Ustashe nazi freaks you can be certain that diplomacy and peace is not the goal. You're practically begging for Serbs to commit an atrocity so you can tear their government into pieces with the consent of the International Rules Based Order.

Srebrenica was an atrocity and a war crime. But it was a victory for the west. It was a little inconvenient the paramilitary Serbs trucked out the women, elderly, and children but murdering their men is enough to call the Serbs THE GENOCIDERS, and THE ETHNIC CLEANSERS.

One thing that came out after Parenti's book was the genetic evidence of the graves, so he never addressed that. I just looked into it, and it's a good example of how we exaggerate the existing claims to further demonize the Serbian people.
https://www.icmp.int/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/ICMP-srebrenica-leaflet-EN-web.pdf

from the first paragraph:

What's the point of this? MURDERED MORE THAN 8,000 men and boys! Look at this framing. It means that every dead Bosnian Muslim was executed by the Serbs. What a conclusion to make. Not a single missing Srebrenica man died in the years of conflict. No, they were murdered. All murdered. Every one of them.

If this is how the massacre is being described 30 years after the fact, think about how this was being portrayed in the midst of it?

I think John Cena is right to hate Serbia

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

gandlethorpe
Aug 16, 2008

:gowron::m10:

Tweet is fake but KFC Trinidad and Tobago actually made that image for Emancipation Day. Holy poo poo lmao

droll
Jan 9, 2020

by Azathoth

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Hank the Tank INNOCENT

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