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Form each of your hands into a circle. Rotate your wrists, maybe even dislocate your shoulder, so your hands rotate like bike tires continuously. Position your head like it’s the handlebars. Never break eye contact. Smile so wide you have to unhinge your jaw, showing your gaping maw.

This tax was removed in 2014, 9 years ago. It was often called the “iPod tax” by those who wanted to remove it. https://macleans.ca/economy/economicanalysis/the-ipod-tax-is-dead-good-riddance/

Seems like you’d do great on the NonCredibleDefense communities ;)

Anyone have any opinions on names? Come up with a few:

• Defense
• WarRoom
• WarStudies
• ConflictAnalysis
• UkraineWar (maybe too limtied in scope)
• CredibleDefense (already a reddit community with same name).

Thoughts?

Thanks for taking the time to answer this. As a techy myself, I totally get what you mean about the audiences that have migrated to Reddit and why pro-Ukrainian discussion would focus on continuity.

Seems like the community would be smaller, but worthwhile setting up and seeing if people take to it. Just gotta think of a proper name, always the hardest bit, as I think mirroring reddit’s separation of communities would lead to over-fragmentation here.

The problem with this take, and all braindead takes like this, is it assumes Ukrainians get no vote in how they are governed. The EU, NATO, and basically all western institutions are voluntary. You can join if you meet these conditions. And guess what, people are clamouring to join. No-one held a gun to Finland or Sweden’s head to make them discard historical neutrality to apply to NATO. They simply saw how Russia was trying to use guns in Ukraine.

Similarly, Ukraine chose the west. Calling the MAIDAN uprising a western coup denies them a voice. Yanukovych was voted in under the promise that he would tighten bonds with the West. Then after he gets voted in, he tears up the pending agreement with the EU. So people protest against this. Yanukovych baited and switched everyone.