Mikeb85

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by Mikeb85 5y ago
Agreements like the Dublin agreement or the agreement on third party safety between Canada-US would suggest otherwise. And moral obligations don't exist in the real world... See no one actually defending Ukraine...
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
Every home cook should have a digital scale. They cost like $20. And yes, for subgrams, you can always estimate 'a pinch', 1/4 tsp, etc... By weight is more accurate, almost never exceeds the max of a home scale and simply
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
I mean, most cultures will pretend to take this shit seriously then just ignore it and forget it ever happened.
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I mean, according to international laws, only adjacent countries really need to accept Ukrainians as refugees. And they all are. At that point they've reached a "safe" country. And all the Slavic EU countries are going abov
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Touch screens on home appliances are nice sometimes though... I think people like the 'smart' features, they just want more control over the device and not for it to be crippled if it's not connected...
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
I agree with most of this. Ukraine was a shitshow until quite recently. > When Zelensky managed same as the old Boss, to hideaway millions offshore, the Western Media was silent. Except he didn't offshore money collected from corru
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
> You have a long history of doing that (and actually we've cut you a lot of slack over the years because you've often represented minority views) and it's particularly unhelpful right now. Wow, it has been a lot. Thanks
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Not really. Not everyone in Russia wants to go down with a sinking ship.
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> Are you for or against that? What are the reasons for your position? If Putin says its war then it's war, no? The west has justified not intervening to avoid war. If it's war anyway, then we should intervene. If this isn&#
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
Of course they are. It's the Ukrainian Nazi-Jews killing civilians, not the people who invaded their country and are currently levelling it...
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> And that people on the outside are helpful was proven in World War II were many germans fled. Ah yes so effective. Only 40 million killed.
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And people still argue for appeasement...
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
I grew up on potatoes from the farm. Tons had small sprouts on them by the time spring came around, we cut them off, ate them, nothing bad ever happened.
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
Putin is persecuting them. I just said we shouldn't embrace. There's a lot of middle ground. Ask someone like Alexei Navalny or Mikhail Khodorkovsky why they stayed to fight and be jailed instead of fleeing. Fleeing doesn'
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> From both a humanitarian and a strategic perspective, embracing Russian defectors is the very most important thing that we can be doing right now that we aren't already doing. The only reason not to do so is hate. No, the most hum
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
> The Nazis were stopped from outside Yes, after killing 30 million+ people. It would have been much easier if Germans didn't enable them or someone took out Hitler in 1938. And we punished Germany for generations because of it. T
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
Russia declared a cease-fire to evacuate civilians but has already broken it. > And have you stopped the iraq war? Or closed guantanamo? Or stopped the war in yemen? I'm not American. Ask a yank. > But this is the choice of the
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> Wrong question. If Russians have a choice, why not Ukrainians? Ask the Russians who are bombing them and preventing them from leaving. Russia has already broken the cease-fire meant to evacuate civilians. Or ask the Russians who start
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The Soviet Union was ended from within... Thanks for proving my point.
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
>Fleeing the country is a strong peaceful revolt on the other hand No, it just ensures that the only people left in Russia are the ones who support Putin. And like I said, Ukrainians have no choice. Why should Russians? As another po
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
Telegram is owned by Russians and operated out of Dubai... Western countries have literally warned about it for that reason... Twitter has large shareholders in the Middle East. Also I forgot TikTok. Plenty of vids there. Owned by the C
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
Maybe because Ukrainian men don't have the choice to flee. It's not like Russians are moving away during peaceful times. It's a full on war in which one party is bombing the civilians of a democratic country, threatening NA
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
Go on Twitter, Telegram, YouTube, anywhere. You'll see plenty of primary videos and accounts corroborating this. You're right, 1 source alone isn't reliable. But there's a massive body of evidence out there, this whol
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
I mean, there's enough open-source software out there you don't ever 'need' proprietary software. But I know middle income countries always have some weird stigma about open source and would rather pirate shitty commerc
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Whataboutism IS Russian propaganda.
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> of blonde hair and blue eyed fair-skinned Europeans So that's what it's about. Ukrainians are white so fuck em, right? Too privileged, only been invaded and oppresed like every generation for 1000 years..
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
Nice whataboutism. I hear there's recent job openings in Russia (some people with balls resigned rather than spread lies), you can spread propaganda there. Literally straight from RT... The US doing shitty things doesn't mean Ru
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On the flipside the Russian Empire fell as did the USSR.
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If the alternative was my kids living for another 15 years under a dictatorship, yes. Things aren't going to get better under Putin from this point on... The last 20 years might have been not-so-bad for Russia but they have absolutel
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
You know there's only 3 wheels so it'll be classified as a bike and not need to meet car standards, right? And in that video there's shocking amounts of leaning and back tire slippage at low speeds...

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