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by gdy 4y ago
Haven't you had an experience when something triggers long forgotten memories? A physical object, a word?
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by gdy 4y ago
"She was paid large sums of money" And therapists specializing on 'recovering' memories aren't?
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by gdy 4y ago
The US sells weapons to Saudi Arabia for many billions of dollars, not gives them.
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by gdy 4y ago
"you're just going to ignore each point of mine every time I give you evidence and switch to something else" Quite the opposite, I keep the conversation on track and ignore your sealioning [0]. You can't possibly be igno
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by gdy 4y ago
'Excited' faces of Russia elites while waiting for Putin's speech: https://t.me/faridailychat/2252
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by gdy 4y ago
Of course, we all stand by our beloved president who is threatening to start a nuclear war. What's not to like.
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by gdy 4y ago
There are still two more pipelines through Ukraine and Belarus with enough capacity.
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by gdy 4y ago
I gave you this link as a source for the statement of the Ukrainian envoy in Germany about Bandera being like Robin Hood. Perhaps, you will like Israeli [0] and German [1] news more. "The statement made by the Ukrainian ambassador is a
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by gdy 4y ago
It 'reeducated' Germans in profound way, but before that it led to a lot of war crimes towards civilian German population. Now, where is collective Ukrainian guilt for the genocide of Poles and Jews during WW2 on part of Ukrainian
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by gdy 4y ago
Again a strawman.
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by gdy 4y ago
Again a strawman.
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by gdy 4y ago
Plenty of languages that have fewer percentage of speakers than Russian in the Ukraine are official languages in the EU. And I'm not aware of any civilized country deliberately targeting particular minority languages for discrimination
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by gdy 4y ago
Which is order of magnitude higher than, for example, in Canada, where less than 1% in total speak indigenous languages. [0] Or look at Poland where only 1.8% in total speak a language other than Polish. [1] [0] https://en.wi
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by gdy 4y ago
Being able to move out is a privilege few Russians have. Do you work with the citizens of the countries that buy oil and gas from Russia? They ensure that they are warm and comfy by giving money to Putin.
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by gdy 4y ago
All the elections in Iraq that happened before 2011 while Iraq was occupied by the US [0]. And all of Afghan elections. But of course referendums in the Ukraine are a joke given that big part of population fled the war. [0] https:/&#x
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by gdy 4y ago
You contradict yourself. You admit that Russians are not homogenous pro-Putin mass (or else who'd use free speech?) and at the same time claim that selling online services to Russians is something immoral.
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by gdy 4y ago
"yet all the language-speakers have vanished" Now that is just false. [0][1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Russia [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_of_R
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by gdy 4y ago
What I've seen look like war crimes, what is the argument for qualifying them as genocide? Stalin's (and bolshevik's in general) crimes are horrible, but ethnic Russians weren't safe from them either. Have you seen break
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by gdy 4y ago
"Treatment of minority cultures (Finland as a counter example, which I give)" If you use the comparison with Finland as indication of Russia being 'fascist', then whole lot of countries including Ukraine are 'fascis
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by gdy 4y ago
Again, you say 'literally' and then leave out essential part of the quote: "Contrary to the minority languages which are EU official languages, Russian, Belarusian and Yiddish are granted no exemption for the purposes of the
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by gdy 4y ago
You mean Putin and his propagandists? 146 millions of Russians can't claim anything with single voice. You are doing exactly what the genocide scholar I quoted warned about.
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by gdy 4y ago
You didn't quote my comment fully and left out "Just curious how you would manage to avoid the words 'collective guilt'." That was dishonest.
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by gdy 4y ago
Care to elaborate?
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by gdy 4y ago
Taliban was at war with the US. Is the EU at war with Russia? Maybe you should stop buying Russian oil and gas right now? Trading with the enemy, you know. Financing Putin's government.
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by gdy 4y ago
Please don't misinterpret my words. You asked what's wrong with 'collective guilt' and I answered that using this justification is the slippery slope towards "collective punishment" that includes "failing
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by gdy 4y ago
"Teaching in Russian is also available in Ukraine." Not according to the law. It simply had 3 years of grace period, starting from 2019. [1] "members of national minorities who do not speak an official EU language — Byeloruss
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by gdy 4y ago
Of course not. Finland has both Swedish and Finnish as state languages and the study of Swedish is mandatory for all citizens [2]. Compare it yourself. Ukraine: "Under the bill, all schools and universities will be required to teach in
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by gdy 4y ago
I agree that Finland is a good example, but you claim somehow that its existence makes Russia "fascist by assimilation". So what about other countries that don't meet Finland's standard for treatment of minority language
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by gdy 4y ago
What exactly should I be concerned about? Disappearing small languages? I am, but what about it is specific to Russia? "This "if Americans are bad, we should be allowed to be bad as well" take is tiresome." Of course it
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by gdy 4y ago
That started with 9/11 with "what is at stake is not just America's freedom", "this struggle for freedom and security for the American people" and so on [0]. Good old times when Putin was first to call Bush and

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