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by aguaviva 2y ago
No, because you made a strawman argument. It seems you're also unclear as to what "evidence-based" actually means.
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Of course they are threats, but ... Meaning: "Of course he is threatening, but ..." after you just said "He isn't capable of even threatening". Can't you just acknowledge that it wasn't the best choice o
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It doesn't matter that the threats have the additional qualifier of being mostly exaggerated. They're still plainly threats, by every accepted definition of the term. And he absolutely does have the capacity to use his nukes. It
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Our company went through piles of candidates who were not qualified and it took us months to find a good fit after going through hundreds of resumes and scores of interviews. Except you don't always simply know they weren't qual
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Live coding session? Biased against people who don't perform well under pressure. No, it's biased against people who perform perfectly well (sometimes exceptionally well) under real, actual pressure. But who do not take kindl
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Most of that 'batshit crazy conspiracy stuff' turned out to be true. I'd ask you to quantify -- but no one is saying, or even insinuating, that it's "batshit crazy conspiracy stuff". Only that they don'
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Why do people [maintain] that Russia is capable of even threatening the EU? Because its regime has verbally done just that, and has conducted sabotage and assassinations on EU soil on multiple recent occasions. The fact that is attacking
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by aguaviva 2y ago
So, merely noticing that Russia is winning and has been for a long time No, it wasn't that. The AfD boss's remarks were not having a certain take as to which way the war is currently going. He was calling for German goverment
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by aguaviva 2y ago
The most you can get with that kind of "extrapolation" is some grounds for suspicion that something similar might be happening in the current day. Meanwhile, my concern is with what is actually happening, you know, in current ph
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by aguaviva 2y ago
That's not how it works. Whatever you think is "really" happening in Syria -- you'll need to point to actual evidence in the current moment. Otherwise, it's just speculation.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
I gave a link to an article about Ukrainian ambassador in Germany defending glorification of Bandera in Ukraine and comparing him with Robin Hood. And he was promptly dismissed from that position for making those comments. As you "fo
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by aguaviva 2y ago
And how many children did you count in that video - out of a country of 40 million? The infinitely bigger point you're leaving out is that those camps were run by a private association, not the government of Ukraine . To the extent th
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by aguaviva 2y ago
And who is building monuments[0] honoring Bandera[1] and names streets[2] after him all over Ukraine? Local governments and various advocacy groups, with no support at the federal level. Meanwhile, a solid component of mainstream Russian
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Actually I conveniently linked to the section within the article so you could find it.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
https://archive.ph/OSKPT
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A New Frontier in Paleontology for Profit: Selling Shares in a Stegosaurus(nytimes.com)
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Actually, to the extent that it was about Ukraine, the entry point was that day's version of the "because NATO" thread. When that hit a wall (as it always does), someone flipped it over the "Nazi puppet regime" nar
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TikTok's annual carbon footprint is likely bigger than Greece's, study finds(theguardian.com)
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by aguaviva 2y ago
The NPD is a fringe party without any substantial numbers of voters As is Svoboda, these days.
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5 years after Russia invaded in 2014. Which made any objections its regime might have had about Ukraine's potential NATO membership plainly and irrevocably moot. That's why the only years that matter (in terms of the "Ukrain
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by aguaviva 2y ago
It just seemed weird that you thought nothing of pointing to a 48 minute video about mostly unrelated topics, as if anyone would actually fish through all that to get to the nuggets of pertinent information that you're suggesting are b
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by aguaviva 2y ago
If you consider how specific you are about word choices over actions, you are repeating the western narrative verbatim. And this take showcases the fundamental problem with giving a fuck about major narratives, and our perceived overlap w
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by aguaviva 2y ago
No, I'm Victoria Nuland's and Jens Stoltenberg's secret lovechild.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
So NATO destroyed USSR Well, we can see this conversation is going at least. In any case there's evidently no meaningful relationship to the actual word "destroy" in play here. Seems they meant "irritates" or &quo
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'To cough was to risk death': the artist who mapped Syria's Sednaya prison(theguardian.com)
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Predicted a conflict if the US expanded the NATO alliance further east after the USSR fell. Except Russia formally greenlighted at least partial NATO expansion (to CZ, HU, and PL) via a formal treaty it signed with NATO in 1997. Which ri
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by aguaviva 2y ago
There's tons more You need to understand that not everyone shares your addiction to YT's dopamine-jerking content feeds. In any case, no one has time to dig through that video to find whatever "evidence" you think is
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by aguaviva 2y ago
You seem to think that only a concrete and signed membership plan is a red line, It's the only one that the commenter was referring to. Whereas even CNBC cites Putin's red lines. Except you're shifting goal posts. The &q
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Maybe somebody overthrew the government and installed a puppet And when you're completely cornered on one line of disinformation, not just maybe but sure enough -- somebody will chime in with another. The coup/puppet narrative i
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by aguaviva 2y ago
A handful of very high ranking Nazis were tried and hanged. This is a misconception. As a result of the "Nuremberg Trials" which concluded in 1946 and focused specifically on high-level defendants, 11 people were hanged. But t

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