Denying Russian war crimes and moderator stance.

judolino said:Given how those Ukrainians on Snake Island were supposedly "defeated," and considering it took them FOUR DAMN DAYS to figure out the bodies lying in the streets of Bucha despite having smartphones, internet, and social media at their fingertips, there’s only one logical conclusion: that missile was INTENTIONALLY fired at Poland.
It’s the typical MO of those lowlifes.☕

How long are Russian apologists going to be allowed to clutter up this forum? The massacre in Bucha is documented through forensic evidence, surveillance footage, satellite imagery, and eyewitness accounts. Bucha isn't an outlier; it's part of a consistent pattern of behavior by the Russian military in occupied areas of Ukraine. When you factor in Putin’s statements before and during the invasion, the rhetoric from his media mouthpieces, and a military strategy aimed at destroying the very living conditions of an entire nation, you could argue this aggression shows all the hallmarks of genocide—a fact several countries have already officially recognized. Denying this isn't just a disgusting display of inhumanity; it's an attempt to normalize crimes happening in our own era, right before our eyes. We can categorize the idea of Ukrainians "intentionally targeting Poles" during the largest missile strike since the war began as a cute conspiracy theory, and insulting a people fighting for survival might pass for idiocy, but denying mass atrocities should be where we draw the line.

I know this pro-Russian trash has been around the forum forever and has connections with the moderators, which is why they get more leeway than us mere mortals, but have we really reached a point where mocking evident atrocities goes unchallenged on this board?

Come on, at least hide your location from your profile. I'm embarrassed to call us fellow citizens. 🙂

Jesse Price, come on, give me the real scoop—why was the whole "Russian missile hit Poland" thing such a massive headline, while the "Ukrainian missile hit Poland" story suddenly went totally silent?

So, back this summer, after a multi-day bender, I finally decided to wrap up my rant by moving the whole Ukraine debate over to a more appropriate subforum. Naturally, I got hit with a massive bucket of crap and a ton of patronizing nonsense from the usual crowd:

You guys were looking for the "Chatterbox" as a place to just rot in peace? Well, you got it. None of the mods actually read it or touch it. And honestly, even that isn't good enough.

Since you haven't been around the forum forever, you probably know about the famous "little triangle" icon and what it's for—but clearly, you didn't bother clicking it, just like all those other sensitive little snowflakes out there. Apparently, nobody cares about blatantly denying obvious war crimes against civilians, except for you, who’s clearly had a few too many drinks on all these UA threads and felt the need to lecture me with some pointless word vomit.

Get lost.

It's a real shame that, in your infinite resignation, you didn't think to include a link to the offending post, forcing me to go digging through that dumpster fire myself. Thanks for that.

My protégé and buddy just took a massive hit himself, so I don't doubt for a second how he'll address me with his typical "constructive" buddy-to-buddy criticism; hey, buddy, get lost too.

Since it's been empirically proven that hate speech is basically the standard operating procedure in the "Chatterbox," and since nobody hanging out there seems to have an issue with war crimes against civilians, I’m going to start watching the discussions much more closely and moderate way more aggressively from here on out.

If anyone has a problem with that approach, feel free to fuck off. To clear up any potential confusion, I'm providing a (machine) translation into a more understandable language, French:

Puisqu'il a été empiriquement prouvé que le discours de haine est pratiqué à "Chatterbox" et qu'aucune des personnes présentes n'a de problème avec les crimes de guerre contre les civils, à partir de maintenant, je surveillerai la discussion de plus près et modérerai plus vigoureusement.

Quiconque a un problème avec une telle pratique devrait être libre de se faire foutre en triple sauts

driftingtinker, you’re turning the whole thread about the war in Ukraine into some kind of nonstop rally for the American military-industrial complex👎

Honestly, you're suffocating anyone who actually tries to look at things objectively. Just open up two separate subforums under politics: one for those of us looking at reality, and one for people like you.

Yeah, honestly, I was just wondering why it slipped my mind—but whatever, you can take a hike too. Registered yesterday, but I guess I'm still pretty much a rookie here.

so, what has the Chatterbox been yapping about lately 🤷

Hands off our Chatterbox! 🧐

I'm apologizing to you two, but don't bother apologizing to me.

Chatterbox is such a beautiful little internet Zoo—we've got parrots, peacocks, mud, monkeys, alligators, and maybe a couple of nocturnal creatures lurking in the shadows... come on, Andrew, don't go changing your whole vibe just because of one or two posts.

driftingtinker said:Look, I’m apologizing to you two, so don't even bother apologizing to me.

Right when I was about to start bugging everyone about how to strip those partials😬

Arthur Sanders74 said:The Chatterbox is basically this beautiful little online Zoo, you know? Just a mix of parrots, sludge, monkeys, alligators, and maybe a few nocturnal creeps lurking around... come on, driftingtinker, don't go changing your whole vibe just because of one or two posts.

"Whoever knew you, even hell won't be hard for them to face."
Topalović Quote

Nicholas Watson said:just when I was about to ask how to clear out some subplots😬

so, I guess that means I'm finally getting access to 🙂

It would be quite a lot.