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by gdy 3y ago
"“genocide” has a definition" That's a good starting point. "Attempts to destroy a people as a people, as Russia is fairly overtly doing in Ukraine" Here is the definition [0]. Now what Russian actions fit it? [0]
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by gdy 3y ago
"Because the is more about Russia" So that's why West is ok with rehabilitation of Nazi collaborators in the EU/NATO candidate country. Got it. "the irony isn't lost on me" So your line is that Russia has
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by gdy 3y ago
"annual hollow ritual" What exactly makes it hollow? "to genocide" Now this was hollow. Or do you call war crimes perpetrated in Afghanistan by the US and its allies [0][1] a genocide too? [0] https://en.wikip
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by gdy 3y ago
"50 Nations voted against it this year" If you support with money and weapons a country which renamed dozens of streets to glorify Nazi collaborators, why would you vote for the resolution condemning rehabilitation of Nazism? Ther
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by gdy 3y ago
Speaking of the U.N. votes. Only two countries voted against the Russia-proposed resolution condemning rehabilitation of nazism. Can you guess which countries? Right. The Ukraine and the US.
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by gdy 3y ago
Well, I equally distrust American, Ukrainian and Russian governments. All of them showed themselves as serial liars just like lots of other governments. When two governments give mutually exclusive statements, you can't just pick one c
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by gdy 3y ago
Now that's just pure russophobia.
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by gdy 3y ago
They do, imagine two states that both have high probability of lying and one says "A" and another says "not A". They can't be both lying, can they?
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by gdy 3y ago
"Like, you can write any book you want using the English language, as long as you use Kanji to write it down? You wouldn’t consider that a problem?" Right now Kazakhstan is transitioning from Cyrillic to Latin alphabet. This year
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by gdy 3y ago
It looks like I do care about specifics and you care only about 'important part'.
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by gdy 3y ago
Ok, let me elaborate. 'Banning all books on Lithuanian language' and 'banning books in Lithuanian language written in Latin alphabet and encouraging transition to books in Lithuanian language written in Cyrillic alphabet&#x27
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by gdy 3y ago
It's comical that you called it 'bayesian prior' and now say you'll never update probabilities.
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by gdy 3y ago
I don't think it's me who is twisting history here
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by gdy 3y ago
"when 19th century Russia stated that no book could be written in Lithuanian" That's a lie. Or shall I say "gas lighting at best and a false flag at worst"? "The Lithuanian press ban (Lithuanian: spaudos draudi
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by gdy 3y ago
"no evidence of anything" Including the number of 'intercepted' Kinzhals which is exactly my point. I don't see what you are trying to argue about.
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by gdy 3y ago
"The lack of any scorch marks" Even the US says there was 'minimal damage'. [0] There is no evidence to the number of Kinzhals launched and to the number of Kinzhals intercepted. [0] https://edition.cnn.com&#x
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by gdy 3y ago
As there are no evidence that any Kinzhal was intercepted.
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by gdy 3y ago
"say might be true, or it might be false" So you don't bother to google and check if the Ukraine has a habit of lying too, and prefer to believe anything coming from Kiev only because Russia says the opposite. The word '
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by gdy 3y ago
What "maybe, maybe not"?
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by gdy 3y ago
The Ukraine has its own rich history of dishonesty. The first day of war: Ukraine says that Russian warship killed with missiles all Ukranian border guards on the Zmeiniy island. Everyone is shocked by this senseless cruelty. Russian MoD sa
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by gdy 3y ago
Tell that Reuters and NYT.
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by gdy 3y ago
"It also shot down Russian hypersonic missiles" You forgot "Kiev says".
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by gdy 3y ago
"isn't it convenient to cherry pick one point in history and base all your truth on it?" That's exactly the problem with cherry-picking Molotov-Rippentrop pact. And btw no one of significance has ever called Russian Empi
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by gdy 3y ago
You've made this up. Nothing relevant happened in the years you listed. In fact, for a hundred of years.
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by gdy 3y ago
"its not like after Munich, Britain and France invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia" But Poland and Hungary did [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Czechoslovakia_(...
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by gdy 3y ago
Perhaps he was just being nice. People say a lot of things to get what they want.
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by gdy 3y ago
You are probably confusing with Zhukov's remark cited in another comment.
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by gdy 3y ago
"invaded the rest" The USSR took back what your lovely European hyena bit off from the corpse of the Russian Empire 20 years before that [0][1]. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curzon_Line [1] https:&#x2
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by gdy 3y ago
None at the moment, hopefully. At this moment a single nuke would kill more people than died so far in the war.
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by gdy 3y ago
Fair enough

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