Thanks for the offer but I like the flag what i have now.
So no thanks goodbye~
Change your flag to Ukraine to show solidarity!
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Mar 6, 2022
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Mar 6, 2022
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BrokenBowHookArrow wrote:
Changing your flag to Ukraine does nothing for the people of Ukraine. It shows you are virtue signalling and nothing else. I am quite certain when Ukrainians are being surrounded by invading forces, they won't be thinking, "Oh but at least bedroom dwelling chess players have changed their flags. What can you do? Sign up for the militia, actively protest Russian embassies, help by organizing a relief fund. Please, stop doing completely pointless signalling. The world doesn't care, they don't care and your triviality makes me sick."
No one thinks it actually helps physically... But if the entire Instagram, Facebook, Media, and yes, also a small social community like chess.com will unite in support of Ukraine it can help in many ways. If you don't understand how you can educate yourself on the history of revolutions and un-armed protest... or alternatively, "be sick", as you say in respectful quiet. Your need to call it trivial is and meaningless is because of your own issues with society. Maybe you are the bedroom dweller?...
The stuff happening in the Ukraine is devastating. anyone who is willing to give time to help should sign up for charities like the DEC. alternatively you can join your local group(s) which collect up clothes and food to send to war-struck nations.
Even if you don't have any time to spare I encourage people to donate whatever they can. even something as simple as a pair of thermal socks will be greatly appreciated.
i did this but only for one day as a joke cause the flag gesture is just a gesture and like some users stated earlier it doesn't really affect anything but act as a emotional token giving some hope for Ukraine and the people suffering from injustice. i like the idea and find it very honorable that many here want to help but universally i dont see this as something very helpful or beneficial to anyone, still i encourage you to choose what you like as its nice
BISHOP_e3 wrote:
24 Когда Иисус выходил из храма, к Нему подошли ученики, которые хотели показать Ему здания храма.
2 – Видите все это? – спросил их Иисус. – Говорю вам истину: здесь не останется и камня на камне, все будет разрушено.
Начало бедствий3 Когда Иисус сидел на Оливковой горе, ученики подошли к Нему и спросили Его наедине:
– Скажи нам, когда это произойдет, и какое знамение укажет на Твое возвращение и на конец нынешнего мира?
4 Иисус ответил им:
– Смотрите, чтобы никто не обманул вас, 5 потому что многие будут приходить под Моим именем, говоря: «Я Христос», и многих обманут. 6 Вы услышите о войнах, настоящих и грядущих, но пусть вас это не пугает. Все это должно произойти, но это еще не конец. 7 Потому что народ поднимется на народ и царство на царство, в разных местах будет голод и землетрясения. 8 Но все это лишь начало родовых схваток[a].
yo jesus plays chess?
i'll be doing the opposite
Optimissed wrote:
HeroinSheep wrote:
BrokenBowHookArrow wrote:
Changing your flag to Ukraine does nothing for the people of Ukraine. It shows you are virtue signalling and nothing else. I am quite certain when Ukrainians are being surrounded by invading forces, they won't be thinking, "Oh but at least bedroom dwelling chess players have changed their flags. What can you do? Sign up for the militia, actively protest Russian embassies, help by organizing a relief fund. Please, stop doing completely pointless signalling. The world doesn't care, they don't care and your triviality makes me sick."
No one thinks it actually helps physically... But if the entire Instagram, Facebook, Media, and yes, also a small social community like chess.com will unite in support of Ukraine it can help in many ways. If you don't understand how you can educate yourself on the history of revolutions and un-armed protest... or alternatively, "be sick", as you say in respectful quiet. Your need to call it trivial is and meaningless is because of your own issues with society. Maybe you are the bedroom dweller?...
I tend to think that we are too involved and we should be getting less involved and not more. Ultimately, to a Ukrainian person who might die, it doesn't matter who runs the government. By getting involved, we are probably making him/her more likely to die, rather than less. Ukraine has been an independent country for 30 years and aligned with the West only since 2014. They are facts and they are not political comments.
Not just facts, very important facts. And the trend recently is to lock any topic containing important facts. Of course the reason will be the opinion part of your comments.
lfPatriotGames wrote:
Not just facts, very important facts. And the trend recently is to lock any topic containing important facts. Of course the reason will be the opinion part of your comments.
Well, they allowed btickler to moderate. What an evil creep.
They can have him moderate this.
nighteyes1234 wrote:
lfPatriotGames wrote:
Not just facts, very important facts. And the trend recently is to lock any topic containing important facts. Of course the reason will be the opinion part of your comments.
Well, they allowed btickler to moderate. What an evil creep.
They can have him moderate this.
Why does that not surprise me at all. Stalkers are low lifes, and often we are judged by the company we keep.
Mar 6, 2022
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I personally have demonstrated against my own government and got beaten up and injured by the cops for speaking out. Jailed, framed with false charges, the lot. The trauma lives on with me. You know who were my biggest critics? some of my close friends saying "the world dosen't care about your protest, the only way to really help is [this / that]..." This logic of "the more you get involved the more you are helping to divide and actively strengthen the evil you are trying to stop" is just people's way to wash their hands clean and legitimize why they themselves don't want to do anything. Why it's OK to NOT do, to ignore, because "what can I really do to affect it"... Yes, some of my close friends are also "anti everything", and if there is a protest movement, they can not stand that some people are coming together and believing in something, they just have to hate on this "coming together and believing", because they are used to being outsiders and critisizing groups of people. It's very egocentric and childish, the need to be unique and different by calling someone else "naive" or a hippie or something... and all this classic "whatabousim"... "what about Iraq? What about Georgia, what about Chechnia, what about............. Why didn't you cry back then?...". Would that work in a court of law? "Well, what about that other murderer?... Where was your pure conscious then?....." ... Hah... Give me a break.
and all the sophisticated elaborated ways they are trying to point out your "hypocrisy" to make you feel like you have no values and are a puppet in the game fought between forces that benefit from this division within peoples... So their conclusion is always "do nothing"... or "just ignore it"... Which is precisely what the evil people want, and they basically use the same "whataboutism" in their speeches (Putin). So before you go out criticizing people trying to create a conversation on the subject, consider for a seconds that yes, you have been affected by Propaganda, in a sub conscious way, by the very people you believe yourself to be "free" from, those who want you and me alike to shut up and be a defeatist, and just accept that you have no way to help. "everybody mind their own buisness". this urge to tell those who actively oppose evil that they are just wasting their time - I understand it, it's very realist, but it's in no way objective. I get it, someone who cries out "this is evil! I am good" is automatically antagonistic, but you gotta try to see beyond that.
There is not one way to help. If everyone will do something small, yes, even put up a Ukranian flag on your balcony, send donations, think outside the box, invest in green energy to make gas and oil worthless and destroy Putin's source of economic power... find creative ways to help, create conversation, everybody can do a small thing and it will add up and it will help.
Mar 6, 2022
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#58
Optimissed wrote:
HeroinSheep wrote:
I personally have demonstrated against my own government and got beaten up and injured by the cops for speaking out. Jailed, framed with false charges, the lot. The trauma lives on with me. You know who were my biggest critics? some of my close friends saying "the world dosen't care about your protest, the only way to really help is [this / that]..." This logic of "the more you get involved the more you are helping to divide and actively strengthen the evil you are trying to stop" is just people's way to wash their hands clean and legitimize why they themselves don't want to do anything. Why it's OK to NOT do, to ignore, because "what can I really do to affect it"... and all this classic "whatabousim"... "what about Iraq? What about Georgia, what about Chechnia, what about.............". Would that work in a court of law? "Well, what about that other murderer?... Where was your pure conscious then?....." ... Hah... Give me a break.
and all the sophisticated elaborated ways they are trying to point out your "hypocrisy" to make you feel like you have no values and are a puppet in the game fought between forces that benefit from this division within peoples... So their conclusion is always "do nothing"... or "just ignore it"... Which is precisely what the evil people want, and they basically use the same "whataboutism" in their speeches (Putin). So before you go out criticizing people trying to create a conversation on the subject, consider for a seconds that yes, you have been affected by Propaganda, in a sub conscious way, by the very people you believe yourself to be "free" from, those who want you and me alike to shut up and be a defeatist, and just accept that you have no way to help. "everybody mind their own buisness". this urge to tell those who actively oppose evil that they are just wasting their time - I understand it, it's very realist, but it's in no way objective. I get it, someone who cries out "this is evil! I am good" is automatically antagonistic, but you gotta try to see beyond that.
There is not one way to help. If everyone will do something small, yes, even put up a Ukranian flag on your balcony, send donations, think outside the box, invest in green energy to make gas and oil worthless and destroy Putin's source of economic power... find creative ways to help, create conversation, everybody can do a small thing and it will add up and it will help.
My argument is that doing nothing would have been more helpful to the Ukrainian people. NOT having a President who hands out 20,000 machine guns to the civilian population and effectively makes them a legitimate target. It's a reasonable criticism to say that he's using them and even hiding behind them.
I won't comment more because I don't want to be the cause of your thread being locked. I understand that you're being sincere. All the best to you and to Ukrainian people..
Well, a legitimate target in the eyes of a terroristic regime invading a foreign country to conquer it - is not really a truely legitimate target, not in the eyes of god, the international court in Hague, or any sane person, really. You can't ignore the macro.
There are many complicated conflicts in the world, with truths in both sides way of seeing things... in those cases I'd agree that escalation isn't the answer... This one is not complicated though... It's just one man being a murderous psychopath invading a foreign country.
Optimissed wrote:
Unfortunately, it is very complicated but whatever seems right, at this moment, to a people empowered by the feeling of the times, is certainly not a historical and long-term perspective. Why allow your own country to be wrecked and thousands killed, because of a wishful mirage, when personal survival is so much more important? Ukraine is eight years old. It wouldn't have hurt too much, to go under the Russian yoke once more and to be free when Russia breaks up, which it inevitably will. Only one person would have lost out ... the one who wants to be a hero.
Do you personally know any diplomats, or influential politicians?
About time chess.com introduced sanctions so we don't have to read all these fake news stories coming out of Putin, the Kremlin and Russia.
Chess.com should be able to suspend any accounts in Russia, but I'll bet they don't.