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This is stupid. Clearly, someone decided to call it "appeasement" just to be snarky and it just sticked. What is the purpose of playing dumb and arguing semanti

• luckylion 4y ago
  > Clearly, someone decided to call it "appeasement" just to be snarky and it just sticked. What? Nobody, besides this sockpuppet, called the Winter War "appeasement" because it would be fundamentally wrong to do so. If someone calls a fire a flood and demands you build better drainage solutions to stop the fire, you don't argue the merit of drainage solutions for water, you tell them that a fire isn't a flood. What's with the "let's just make up random bullshit and pretend it makes sense" approach?
  • klqplkl 4y ago
    Unfortunately you cannot read and seem enamored with your own comments. See the WaPo link above, which uses "appeasement" in exactly this sense. I would agree that technically the use is wrong, but that's the climate we live in.
    • luckylion 4y ago
      Why are you creating a new account every hour instead of using your main? And please read the headline, it talks about Musk wanting to go for appeasement. Musk isn't Ukraine, he isn't even in Ukraine. That's exactly what appeasement is: Musk wants Ukraine to give up lands so Russia is satisfied. It's exactly what they thought when the Third Reich was invading its neighbors: "they haven't attacked us, so maybe we can stay out of the conflict if we just accept that they invade their neighbors". Russia 2022 and Germany in the 1930s even use the same language to argue for their claims. That's something completely different than suggesting that negotiating with an invading army, and giving them what they want, is appeasement. Which is nonsense.