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by hydrok9 4y ago
I worked with an Iranian woman (in Canada) and she would look terrified and basically shut down if you mentioned the morality police.
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by hydrok9 4y ago
Yup, the Caucasus are only good for two things to the Russian state. Defense (the mountains are way easier to defend than the plains of southern Russia) and oil.
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by hydrok9 4y ago
Just do something local! Find a group that helps with something you think is important to society, and get involved with that. Find a network. Help people who are being let down by what you think is wrong in society. Don't rely on the
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by hydrok9 4y ago
It is not. Russia would exist without Chechnya just fine. They have 0 legitimate reason to be there. Non-Russian people have lived in the Caucasus since before Russians even existed as an ethnicity. You've lost interest in the conversa
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by hydrok9 4y ago
That wasn't the question. Where did i say Russia has no right to exist? Nowhere. I said Chechnya is not "Russia". None of the Caucasus were Russian before they were conquered by Russia. They then declared independence and we
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by hydrok9 4y ago
I was talking about general and scholarly opinion, not recognition by other states which only matters if there is enough power on their side to make the Us/whoever care. Which is not the case so the US doesnt.
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by hydrok9 4y ago
I do include those. They are all part of the same state-building playbook. Although really, those states were taken from the indigenous people, by Mexico. Chechnyans and their ancestors ARE the indigenous people of the area. No, that doesn&
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by hydrok9 4y ago
SO many people talk endlessly about their politics today though. Maybe this isn't a real big difference than what happened in the past. But my god, I am so sick of people endlessly debating and gotcha-ing without EVER doing anything ab
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by hydrok9 4y ago
Chechnya is not really "part of" Russia. It was conquered by the Empire, then declared independence after the dissolution of said Empire, then was reconquered by the Soviets. Same as happened to Ukraine. Same as happened to Georgi
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by hydrok9 4y ago
To prove that they are both empires?
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by hydrok9 4y ago
Have you read it? It's very comprehensive. I would highly recommend you do so if you are at all interested in the subject. What "non-biased" sources would you recommend? It's also not very wild, from a historical point o
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by hydrok9 4y ago
Political stability and in order to gain their assets without compensation.
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by hydrok9 4y ago
It's pretty clear that Stalin used the famine to help liquidize non-Russian groups who had strong identites and had resisted collectivization. Ukrainians were #1 on this list. It's a textbook play. https://www.amazon.ca
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by hydrok9 4y ago
And many many chiropractors do not subscribe to those kooky theories created over 100 years ago. They just focus on maintaining your spinal and skeletal (and muscular) health and examine the impact on your body. Those are the good ones.
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by hydrok9 4y ago
You had a bad chiropractor, who probably would have made a bad doctor as well by the sounds of it (just assuming a rugby injury is a slipped disk? did he even check? was he even able to check?)
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by hydrok9 4y ago
Chiropractice is not quackery from start to finish. A chiropractor solved my rsi with simple adjustments and some home stretching and joint exercises. A chiropractor fixed my mom's debilitating back pain after pregnancy. But there are
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by hydrok9 4y ago
Its about power.
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by hydrok9 4y ago
Real happiness is realizing that having fun is the only thing that will keep you going in life.
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by hydrok9 4y ago
A lot of people who make money love "making money" most of all. I come from a successful entrepreneurial family and it was the big difference between my parents and most of their peers, my parents did not care about money per se,
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by hydrok9 4y ago
I'm pretty sure the extra humour in the 2023 one is just them trying to copy the Marvel formula.
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by hydrok9 4y ago
I had it multiple times as a daily smoker.
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by hydrok9 4y ago
Being in the EU has nothing to do with the UK, which Ireland has been independent of since 1921.
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by hydrok9 4y ago
Winters have been tending towards warmer and shorter here in Winnipeg as well (also known as "Winterpeg"), over the past 20 years of my life.
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by hydrok9 4y ago
In more recent news: https://abc13.com/pasadena-police-accused-brutality-cavazos-...
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by hydrok9 4y ago
but, BC and NS are of course Canadian provinces, not US states ;)
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by hydrok9 4y ago
Good advice. I've had friends with borderline partners and they were very dangerous and controlling once things went bad. BPD patients tend to have trouble with the self-awareness part of it so treatment is hard as well (afaik).
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by hydrok9 4y ago
Oh god. A bit over-the-top is putting it mildly. If she won't get help I don't know what you can do. Learn how to communicate and defend yourself better could be a start. Sounds like protecting yourself is the only option unless y
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by hydrok9 4y ago
Ahh I didn't know that. I remember being there in high school and our tour guide laughing when we said there were 7 continents. Here it's always "N.A."
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by hydrok9 4y ago
Thank you so very much, I really appreciate that! Have a good one!!!

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