Kyiv subway at the start of an air raid at night – likely to be a serious one as Russia is attacking with drones, which often get used against apartment buildings. Disproportionately mothers and grandmothers with small children, though there are people of all ages. This station was pretty full of people already, as it was near a bunch of apartment buildings.

I didn't get a photo of it. But all the staff were wearing ballistic vests. A very good idea as Russia has repeatedly attacked the entrances of subway stations.

They put out cheap little chairs for anyone who needs them:

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Finally a post not directly endorsing genocide. Thank you, Mr. Todd. You're learning. I pray for the victims of state violence.

Making this stop requires killing Russians, and lots of them.

Ah, there it is! Lol thank you, needed that. Wait, no, which Russians?? Dammit that's not technically an advocacy for genocide if it's only the murderous Russians you're talking about.

With war at this scale if you're paying Russian taxes, you're meaningfully contributing to the invasion. About half the entire Russian tax budget goes to war right now.

All working Russians are valid military targets.

Same goes for Americans then huh...

😂

Nothing America has done in our lifetimes compares to what Russia is doing right now. Not even close.

I highly doubt that.

So it's all vibes and whoever is relatively worse should get killed to you? That's your system of ethics? Pathetic.

As is everybody in a country with conscription. Because there is no 'civilian' when gov can force anybody to the frontier.

And we all know, every damn single politican will rather put the last 12 year old between themself and the enemy rather than 'surrender'.

Because it's not themselves dying 'for their country'.

End forced service or stop talking about 'civilian casualities'.

You can't have both.

Russia is the aggressor here. Not Ukraine.

Ukraine is agressing it's own people by sending (part of them) into the meat grinder against their will.

When service is not voluntary, the government is murdering it's own population. The 1yo baby was a soldier just some years into its first assignment.

To make distinction between civilian casualities and servimen, service has to be voluntary.

That's why you area- and firebombed German cities in ww2, that's why you nuked Japan.

It all sounds nice and moral, but no country would survive with just voluntary conscription, especially when your enemy is a few times more powerful than you

And you're qualified to make that economic and strategic assessment?

Explain why it's infeasible.

Are you actually this deranged? You were just arguing about how taxes are aggression with me. You have 0 consistency.

Lemme guess, it's a group ownership thing

That argument is flawed. People who pay taxes and have no viable alternative to prevent the state from aggressing against them may be engaged in mere self defense, as opposed to active aggression. The payment of a ransom to stay alive is not evidence of consent to be stolen from.

they wanted war 🤷🏻

You moron

Relax

western proxy wars suck. may there be peace through non agression