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So you are saying that because we don't live in a perfect world, we should all do business with the scum of the Earth? It is all or nothing? We can never start

So you are saying that because we don't live in a perfect world, we should all do business with the scum of the Earth? It is all or nothing? We can never start with the case at hand and maybe do better on the other ones later? That's pretty sad dude.

mercy_dude 5y ago
No my point is our warmongering regime needs a reason to continue the military spending spree. In an ideal world, we don’t have any business transactions with the Middle East where our values clearly don’t match and democracy is just a mockery for dictators to legitimize. Yet last I checked US is in bed with the Saudis even with after the 9/11 attack.
- indemnity 5y ago
  Here is your 1 rouble payment comrade
- verve_rat 5y ago
  Yes, and that is bad. But so is Russia. We should stop dealing with both, but not trading with one is better than trading with both, right?
zo1 5y ago
The point is for us to figure out how this time it is different. Yes it's arguably more "out there" (though if you ask some, there have been far worse wars/invasions previously that we've ignored), but it's still the same thing. Maybe we'll realize that the big difference this time around is the media going through great lengths to weaponize public sentiment. It's a very bad feedback loop because the media will feed off of it and give the public more of what it wants.