It is not unlikely that some Russian soldiers did something they were not supposed to be doing. These things happens during wars. But I skal find it extremely likely that the Ukrainians were inflating the atrocities.

More knowledgeable people than me have pointed out some very suspect circumstances shown in the reporting on the alleged massacre. This includes the bodies were showing signs of having been moved and the Ukrainian mayor of Bucha made several public statements without mentioning any atrocities until one or two days after returning.

My best guess is that the Ukrainians wanted some atrocity propaganda to drum up support. When Russia left Bucha the Ukrainians moved in, dumped some bodies - maybe they came from war crimes done by Russian troops, maybe the Ukrainians used “collaborators” shot during the reentry, maybe it was just random civilians who got caught in the crossfire - and called in gullible western journalists to show them exactly the kind of story they would love to report.

🎶Fuck yes I will do what you told me!🎶

I don’t know if this is a thing in the US but in Denmark I’ve seen prison/slave labour being advertised as something positive, like you would for an organic or “fair trade” product, like prison/slave labour is some kind of charity to be supported by ethics-conscious consumers. When you buy or seell a sun chair emblazoned with “Made by prisoners in Danish prisons” in big bold letters you’re proud of what you’re doing.

In Denmark the low-alcohol light beer has been almost completely replaced by non-alcoholic beer. People who want the beer without the buzz prefers no alcohol at all.

And Chinese workers pay less for housing and healthcare as well. I would reckon that transportation is probably also a lot cheaper since they have access to dirt-cheap public transit and are not expected to own battleship-sized cars. Utilities seems ridiculously cheap as well.

What is the disposable income of ordinary Chinese workers?

Do they also measure the kids’ skulls and check if their humours are imbalanced?

To me, a complete layman, this sounds like a big step backwards towards a time where LGBT was seen as a pathology to be explained away or “cured”.

I will not stand for this slander of our community! Some of it is only half-true!

Libs don’t know what words mean. They think idealism is when you want good things to happen.

“Neutrality” is such a bullshit term. The point of juries is to be representative of the people’s moral sentiment, not to be a collection of morons who knows nothing about the world around them and safe unable to form opinions of their own.

It simply seems like normal people think Luigi took out a very evil man.

Say what you want about IP rights but at least they’re real. You can go to a court and have your trademark or copyright or whatever enforced. NFT’s were hyped to be somehow a superior form of “owning” art but reality it is just in-game poker chips with an URL attached.

Short Danish news stories from Arbejderen:

Source: Omfattende ulighed i sundhed, det økologiske areal skrumper og mange fængselsbetjente er elever, Arbejderen, April 24th 2025

New Report: Denmark Faces Billions in Flooding Damages If Climate Inaction Continues

Denmark is hurtling toward climate disaster, warns a new report from the Danish Technical University (DTU) and the national association of municipalities. Without urgent intervention, over 175,000 Danes will live in flood-prone homes within a century, and storm surge damages could exceed DKK 282 billion (RMB 313 billion)—one of the costliest preventable disasters in the country’s history.

That’s going to be an extremely tough sell to the western Europeans. The welfare state will be completely destroyed.

In Denmark the propaganda still works and the average people, as well as virtually everyone who has opinions for a living, is still in critically supporting the idea of mindless military escalation to defeat the Russian menace. Until now the regime has been able to fund the spending spree with the surplus generated by previously existing this public finances but the party is soon going to be over and the regime will have to find the funding somewhere.

A few years ago they abolished a public holiday to fund the military and even though people were even more Slava Ukraini back then it made the regime extremely unpopular and strained their traditional relations to the unions as well as to other right-wing parties. They have never recovered.

In a televised “debate” on how to defeat the Asiatic hordes, that took place shortly after Trump had his fallout with Zelensky, the regime tried to deflect on the question of funding, knowing very well that while the average westerner loves blood and steel they don’t live paying for it. However the frivolous far-right “Liberal Alliance” party, the most popular party to the right of the regime and likely to gain significant power if the regime falls, were less mealy-mouthed, they wanted to reduce unemployment benefits from two to one years, with no reduction in unemployment fund membership fees for workers, in order to fund the military.

I reckon that we will see significant austerity to pay for militarism but I also don’t think it will be a walk in the park for the ruling class to do. Propaganda can’t make people forget about their material conditions forever.

But I’ve been told that it is just a club of smol bean democratic countries who have voluntarily banded together to stand up to mean bullies

It really grates me how corporate censorship is making people talk some weird sort of baby language. You can’t talk about how Israel is following in the footsteps of the Nazis led by Adolf Hitler in killing the innocent, you have to say that the blue state is following in the footsteps of the the yatzees led by Moustache Man in unaliving the innocent which kind of removes the gravity of the message. It is ridiculous.

This is different from slang, AAVE and other kinds of -lect. Those are cool and awesome. If people would say it if the algorithm wasn’t listening in on them it is fine.

I don’t even know how much of this self-censorship is really substantiated. On one hand you have creators who seems to be afraid that bad things will happen if they talk about cutting up a carrot, on the other hand you have creators who say shit and fuck and c*nt in every sentence and they’re doing fine.

Most euros don’t give a fuck what the western left says either. Most of the time you really can’t blame them.

Bullying works

Brain Draining the Swamp: European Countries Welcome Purged American Scientists

European nations are launching initiatives to attract scientists persecuted under the American Trump regime. In response to budget cuts, ideological purges, and political interference in research across the United States, these countries are positioning themselves as sanctuaries for exiled intellectuals and displaced expertise.

Norway has announced a NOK 100 million (RMB 70 million) initiative aimed at recruiting up to 50 foreign researchers into its universities and research institutions. Although the program is nominally global, officials acknowledge it was fast-tracked due to what they describe as the “acute situation in the U.S.” Mari Sundli Tveit, Director of the Norwegian Research Council, pointed to “academic freedom under pressure” and the emergence of “forbidden word lists” in U.S. grant applications—including banned terms like “climate change,” “black,” and “woman”—as signs of deeper systemic rot. “There is great concern about irreplaceable data on health and climate stored in the U.S.,” Tveit warned.

Norwegian Education Minister Sigrun Aasland underscored the country’s urgent need for top-tier scientific expertise, even as she acknowledged the complex but vital partnership with American researchers. “We have an extensive collaboration with American researchers, and we want that to continue,” she noted.

Across the Skagerrak, Danish academic institutions report an unprecedented influx of interest from U.S. scientists, many from elite institutions such as Harvard, Yale, MIT, and Princeton. “We are seeing an interest from U.S. researchers I have never experienced in my 12 years in this field,” said Nikolaj Lubanski, deputy director of Copenhagen Capacity, the agency behind Science Hub Denmark, an organisation recruiting international talent for Danish universities. This initiative, backed by major Danish research foundations, is now explicitly targeting American talent.

Lubanski describes a “special window” created by the collapse of stability in U.S. science policy. Danish universities are particularly eager to recruit experts in green technology, neuroscience, and sustainable biosolutions. A recent recruitment event by Science Hub Denmark at MIT attracted three times more applicants than it could accommodate and half of the unique visitors to the organisation’s home page are Americans.

This pan-European effort also includes France’s “Safe Place for Science” program. President Emmanuel Macron proclaimed via social media: “Science is a boundless horizon. Researchers of the world, choose France, choose Europe.” Éric Berton, rector of Aix-Marseille University, framed the effort as “a form of scientific asylum” for embattled colleagues.

Though European leaders stop short of directly denouncing their imperial overlord’s crackdown on scientific inquiry, the quiet exfiltration of intellectual capital from the United States points to an unraveling of the hegemon’s soft power. As universities across Europe mobilize to absorb the human capital purged by the Trump regime, the long-term consequences for global scientific collaboration—and for American imperialism’s ability to project power through research—remain to be seen.

Countries don’t just let random people in unless they can demonstrate that their stay is going to be a good business proposition. If you’re not independently wealthy or possessing skills in high demand then you’re going to find a hard time finding somewhere nice that will let you in.

And then there’s all the expenses with moving to another country as well as the fact that most people don’t want to leave their friends and family.