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by aguaviva 2y ago
I'm sorry you got triggered, but that was absolutely in no way what I was getting at. That line had nothing whatsoever to do with this "people"/"men" nonsense. I was referring simply to the quantifier.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Right - because this was a completely different era, and information moved infinitely more slowly back then (and up until Vietnam unravelled, people are way more reluctant to call out of the government on its shenanigans compared today). Ev
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Ukraine can't retake what it's lost they have no men left. You're extremifying. You could have said "they don't have enough people". But instead you had to dial it up to "they have no men left". No
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by aguaviva 2y ago
I think I said enough to demonstrate that Nietsche's influence on fascism and nazim is quite concerning. I don't think you have actually, but let's give that a rest for now. But if even if you did -- what would that "c
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Then they publish video with strikes on civilians in Russian Telegram channels and have fun. Any specific posts you can point to?
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by aguaviva 2y ago
There's obviously no comparison between the two situations.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
And while I cannot read Romanian, If you can use a mouse, and you know how to cut-and-paste -- you can read Romanian. If you can't be bothered to do that, then I doubt anyone will be interested in your complaints about content of rep
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Their economy is overheating and the unemployment rate is way too low . In the same way your brain thinks it's "benefiting" when that 3rd or 4th IPA starts to hit.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
You'll have to ask the aggressor. I'd imagine they'd tell you it's the same benefit they hoped to derive in targeting a theatre in the middle of town that was known to be in use as a bomb shelter, and had the world &quo
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by aguaviva 2y ago
They very clearly aren't suggesting that there have been no intentional strikes on residential targets. Only that most residential hits are not in that category. The majority do seem to be misses / redirects. Language is tricky
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by aguaviva 2y ago
There's estimated 47k to 100k civilians who have perished in a couple of months in siege of Mariupol, The outside estimates I've seen from Ukrainian sources say 25k total. Your estimate is 2x-4x higher. How is that?
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by aguaviva 2y ago
A lot of misinformation in that article. Too many instances to unpack. But here's just a particularly tasty one: Instead, the new government loudly sought full membership of Nato and the EU — measures that could only undermine Ukr
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by aguaviva 2y ago
There is: Because the US said so. This is simply naive, and completely out of touch with how the world actually works.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Just check out how the Ukrainian TCC grabs people from the street and send them to the meatgrinders. No, it's just very bad policy. Taken by a government in a very desperate situation. The fact that you cite this as your primary exa
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by aguaviva 2y ago
And that's the "evidence", is what you're saying? The world has changed a lot in the last 50 years, you know. Especially in terms of the ability of countries/agencies to keep pretty much anything of this nature secr
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Indeed. It seems we're just not meant to know the truth.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
According to Wikipedia, kyivinsider.com ... Funny, the string "kyivinsider.com" does not appear in Wikipedia at all.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Not surprising at all, actually.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
1(a) - Why does this distinction matter? 1(b) - I don't know. 2 - The current medical consensus is that not only has it not been eradicated -- it likely never will be. Definitely mass hysteria. To a partial extent it was. But it def
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Care you elaborate as to why?
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by aguaviva 2y ago
It's not that his country was short on resources. But it seems likely that he simply calculated that the cost of the invasion would be more than offset by the gain in resources. No doubt the manpower (and financial) costs have been mu
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by aguaviva 2y ago
No, it was just a simple mistake. What's genuinely dishonest is your (obviously intentional) insinuation that a single anecdote about how some local yahoos used the slogan is reflective of how the broader society uses and interprets th
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by aguaviva 2y ago
5 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42327162
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Actually it can be more profitable than you might think. It turns out the resources that Putin's forces are sitting on are both quite valuable and strategically significant: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/n
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by aguaviva 2y ago
But does include bicyclists, apparently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50sQd5duZ48
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by aguaviva 2y ago
What the commenter means is that when Russian/Soviet forces hold defensive positions in large cities, they're valiantly protecting them from "genocidal sieges".[0] But when Ukrainian forces do the same, they're call
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by aguaviva 2y ago
"Since the mid-1960s, some Palestinian resistance groups have also engaged in terrorism" -- yes or no?
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Okay, let's call it "Zionists terrorism against the British Empire". In fact, we can even top with: "And against the indigineous population of Palestine, of course." Are you now ready to agree that, since the mid-1
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by aguaviva 2y ago
That's why I stressed the "being housed" part, which the commenter to whom I responded asserted was being provided for all illegals residents (or at least multiple millions of them anyway). And in France would cost (at the v
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Under the heading "In art". Corresponding to that community's decidedly marginal status in Ukrainian society.

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