Update 7 March 2022: More than 7750 Russian scientists and science journalists have now added their names to the trv-science.ru letter. However, the website notes it has had to remove the letter due to new Russian censorship laws. A copy of the original letter can be found on The European Times website.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3-RwT-Hgu8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWgV0gtUIv0

If you’re a respectable human, you oughtta DM Serge and apologize

Actually I like this video better as it gives more context than the Reuters video, granted Reuters covers the same context in their article

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWgV0gtUIv0

fair enough! I think I’ll be switching over to Lemmy! Thanks for being a fair mod or admin, I know its hard work

I really like his song Город под подошвой: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBleNfmkScA

Also this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufRsgtd2fIA

except that is exactly what the admins are doing…deleting posts that don’t align with their beliefs and banning the users who may have more insight into the situation

https://newseu.cgtn.com/news/2022-03-14/The-Ukrainian-orphans-fleeing-west-from-their-war-torn-homeland-18oQWYWafjq/index.html

It was quite an awful time, most of the protests I attended were very peaceful, but there was one that I attended with tear gas, and my friend is asthmatic and it was just such a terrifying moment. Thankfully he was alright after a bit. Tbh the resistance movement is met poorly everywhere. I do not think I would have the balls to protest in Russia.

This is what you are talking about: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/03/14/video-shows-back-to-back-arrests-of-anti-and-pro-war-activists-in-moscow-a76917

I don’t think your comparison is equivalent. Russian citizens are being fines as high as 30,000 roubles for any anti-war sentiment & the more high-profile protesters are being imprisoned for it with no fair trial. The USA protests were riddled with police brutality, but no one’s phones were searched, no one went to jail for 15 years for protesting, & no one was fined such egregious amounts no matter what the property damage was.

I will say your post is misleading as none of these questions have been answered, so China has no new information

I fully agree. And I can’t wait to hear answers.

We agree completely, I agree with you, that we do not know. However, if you do research on this subject, you can read what independent journalists and scientists have to say and the likelihood of it being any kind of weapons is very low. We agree. You’re just more skeptical and crossing into borderline conspiracy territory by not providing evidence to back up your skepticism. I will happily go into my search history and provide you links of well known scientists discussing this topic if you’d like.

I don’t agree with you here. I just read your linked article and it named most of the TikTokers who were briefed, furthermore some of those in attendance were able to summarize and criticize the meeting. The Russia TikTokers, like you yourself said, may not even have had a choice and were not able to voice their own opinions, instead reading from a script. Perhaps those Russian TikTokers don’t deserve the hate they’re getting because the choice of whether to participate or not wasn’t on the table for them. In the American case we have 30 TikTokers get a brief of the situation on a Zoom call with zero obligation to talk about the situation. Also full transparency is provided with them talking about the situation as well as Washington Post publishing a story. Also, I’ve looked at most of their accounts and instead they all seem to talk about the zoom call and stay out of the geopolitics of it all, instead many are supporting Ukrainian businesses and amplifying the voices of Ukrainians who are actually there.

So the end product is not the same. The Russian TikTokers are reading a script of a narrative that their government wants everyone to believe. The American TikTokers are not forced to post anything at all and are encouraged to ask questions and be transparent, and based on their TikToks the briefing was very elementary with almost no narrative provided leaving it up to them to do their own research and form their own opinions.

Completely different outcomes and situations. Also, I was curious about the Russian TikTokers and went on a search spree and it does appear to be verifiable. The OG poster provided accurate account usernames and hashtags to use to find these TikToks of the script being read.

Seems like a literal script rather than what the White House was doing

This person I was talking to got banned https://lemmygrad.ml/post/148586 are they fake?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_violations_by_the_CIA

Fuck the CIA

Yes exactly they have not been proven. We agree. No weapons. Just labs.

The claims for weapons being developed in these biolabs were proven false by a lot of news outlets and scientists. It seems like this has become a vapid talking point.