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by aguaviva 2y ago
Indeed - complaints about the "orc" term and "otherization" in general are rather academic, in the context of what's happening there. As if the people writing that paper, were they to wake up one morning and find th
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Russia caused more suffering in a few months of war than the USA in a decade in Vietnam. Absolutely and obviously false, as you will quickly reveal to yourself by spending a few seconds looking up the toll of civilian deaths and maimings
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by aguaviva 2y ago
No one is pushing too hard for any change to the status quo at present, unfortunately. But you're ignoring a 3rd option: a working cease fire with no change in positions of forces on the ground -- but no recognition of Russia's so
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Most Russians criticize Putin for not taking this too seriously. Largely out of the entirely unsupported belief, which you seem to share, that Putin could easily unleash huge reserves of untapped offensive potential any moment he wanted t
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by aguaviva 2y ago
They don't "yell" whataboutism, they kindly point it out in context. And they already know that the US invades places, and have fully "parsed the salient commonality" that you seem to think is so elusive to them. T
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by aguaviva 2y ago
The way I've seen the "orc" term in use ("ziggers" is a new one to me), it's always been applied to individuals carrying out acts of aggression on Ukrainian territory. Or perhaps their active helpers on the ho
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by aguaviva 2y ago
No one is suggesting that these bots will in any way influence ("pollute", per your spin) Google search. Obviously Google won't be incorporating their output, and if anything they'll actively block it the moment they ge
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Except he isn't actually. Explicit that is. He very much prefers to keep his messaging implicit in this regard to speak through actions when the moment presents itself, and let others connect the dots. That's why he's never
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Of course, but I'm not sure how this applies either.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
My takeaway is that learning one of these languages, the CJK languages, Arabic, or similarly weird languages, is just too much effort and I don't think it's worth it. An excellent observation, and one that also applies to pretty
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by aguaviva 2y ago
And which YouTube happily promotes straight to the top, of course -- thanks to the efforts of its rocket-science algorithm team. (Not sure whether the ones I've been seeing were generated by that particular platform, but YT does seem
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Can't agree with you in terms of the conflict's deep origins (pre-1947). However it seems we do strongly agree in terms of shared blame for the conflict's continuance at nearly every stage since then. And that's really
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Oh with "that" you mean something about SpaceX, not the war itself (which some people, not you, do often state). Nevermind.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Precisely none of them do, nor did they ever.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Okay, then. The wording of your post seemed to suggest otherwise. But if it wasn't what you meant to say, then all good, and I appreciate the clarification.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
(kind of like how Russia's interference in Ukraine these days is motivated by a desire to keep Russians safe in future decades) Well, that's the motivation it pretends/claims to have in any case. But you're right in th
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by aguaviva 2y ago
All European nations refused to American resupply planes to land for re-fuel fearing backlash from oil rich Arab nations (the embargo still came). This is simply false. Israel got help from several European countries in this regard. Sala
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by aguaviva 2y ago
For even more context, GDP isn't everything.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Absolutely nothing. Not true at all, as regards the political aspects. There's also the people living there, or who rather had been until they were forcibly deported[0] long so long ago. And their situation also has very consider
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by aguaviva 2y ago
But this is a red herring. Their leaders know all about the issue (which infinitely broader than the matter of those specific islands of course; the supposition that it's just about "a tiny island" being a straw man in itsel
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by aguaviva 2y ago
There's no need, because it's essentially what I said already.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
The irony here is that Gilens and Page specifically do not make the claim that "the US is an oligarchy". The claim they do make is that it exhibits a certain aspect of oligarchy, and even in this, their specific subclaims are q
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Sure it can, as can any other kind of well-designed Q+A bot, even about far less controversial topics. The material benefit as such resides in the fact that (1) they can potentially save users a great deal of time (a very large portion of s
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by aguaviva 2y ago
In other words: The African nations have no agency or legitimate motivations of their own, and are just doing what China and Russia bully them to do. Apparently they don't even appreciate the significance of the military base on thos
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by aguaviva 2y ago
They're not, and are doing the exact opposite in fact. The best way to avoid NATO entanglement is to support Ukraine so it can turn the tide on its own. Meanwhile Russia's regime can stop this thing any time it wants to.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
An act of sabotage is not, per se, "terrorism". Check your definitions, please.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
That's your attribution -- not the article's. Other than Zaluzhny (who does seem to be a bit of a loose canon; that's why Zelenskyy fired him after all) we have no information yet on who else was involved or their politica
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Right, I was talking about kinetic engagements. Which are pretty much all that matter when one makes the mistake of stepping into these silly "who started it?" debates. As for who started the whole "conflict" in Palesti
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Why would they? They're Balts, and quite homogenously so. Their ancestors were likely centered a bit further East, but not that far out. And their language appears to have split off from a common ancestor of the the Slavic language
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Can you provide more examples?

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