khzw8yyy

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by khzw8yyy 3y ago
Turns out there is more to a good life than having a ton of food.
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by khzw8yyy 3y ago
Only if that moves you into that last 1%.
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by khzw8yyy 3y ago
It's more about frustration with hypocrisy than being evil. When your friends kill in Gaza - "that's different", that's freedom, it's for democracy. It's not like the West shies away from cruelty when ad
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by khzw8yyy 3y ago
And the Yank said that only the US of A gets to have anything to do with geopolitics because "we are just better that's why". Oh, and "because all my life I've been told Russians are evil". Putin is unfortunat
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by khzw8yyy 3y ago
This is relevant how? I asked about a hypothetical scenario: would the USA violently suppress a Pro-Russia Party of Finland. That seems to have caused a crash and you fell back to your default rhetoric.
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by khzw8yyy 3y ago
If a political party came to power in Finland or Sweden outside the normal electoral process and decided to align the country with Russia, would the EU and the USA call them usurpers and terrorists and start military intervention to liberat
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by khzw8yyy 3y ago
But I don't think Putin is self-destructive / suicidal. There is no hope for controlling a hypothetical conquered European country for any length of time given Russia's present capabilities. Realistically the only thing Russ
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by khzw8yyy 3y ago
What in the world would Putin do with a larger Russia?
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by khzw8yyy 3y ago
Come on, you don't actually believe in "and beyond", do you? That's just a scare tactic to feed more of your tax money to the military industrial complex.
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by khzw8yyy 3y ago
That's just being obtuse to be obtuse. You and I both understand the difference between the choices that Finland or Sweden made and the "choices" that Ukraine or Iraq made.
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by khzw8yyy 3y ago
This one was actually heard by a sizable audience? The Western take is: look, Putin is avoiding talking about the current conflict and talks history instead. The Russian take is: look, Crimea changes hands once every 100 or so years, and t
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by khzw8yyy 3y ago
Just to clarify: the "we" who would like to join is a government that was installed by the USA in a coup. What kind of "attacking and oppressing" happened before the coup?
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by khzw8yyy 3y ago
On the other hand, we've already heard all these stories and they are clearly very sticky. Getting a different angle was at least new.
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by khzw8yyy 3y ago
I think it highlights differences in American and Russian communication style very well. Even with the softball questions, Carlson kept trying to steer the conversation towards a series of questions and answers and seemed a bit annoyed by
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by khzw8yyy 3y ago
Then there are some of us for whom this smooth communication is a huge challenge. We spend a lot of time and energy masking, trying to fake the perfect vibe (and failing of course, because the result is predictably unnatural), but this is
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by khzw8yyy 3y ago
A Tesla is not an expensive car anymore, it's the new Toyota Camry.
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by khzw8yyy 3y ago
So, what kind of person writes an article meticulously analyzing imagined flaws of book authors?
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by khzw8yyy 3y ago
Armenia is run by a US-backed stooge, so Russia expected the US to defend Armenia. But whoops, the US chose to win a favor with Turkey by backing Azerbaijan instead :)
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by khzw8yyy 3y ago
All small countries are someone's puppets. The US tried to take a puppet state away from Russia and somewhat succeeded so far. The first move was at the end of the Cold War. The drunken President Yeltsin took the existing administrat
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by khzw8yyy 3y ago
It's interesting that you bring up Iran. They are actually doing pretty well considering that the US stole all their foreign currency reserves (and also precipitated the original conflict in the first place).
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by khzw8yyy 3y ago
Maybe the problem is the shortness of sight rather than the lack of an end? Rest assured, if the powers that be decide that "Russia is good now" they will convince you of the same within 6 months.
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by khzw8yyy 3y ago
All wars have something in common: they end. That thought in your head about lack of hope of normalizing relations is just the current propaganda working. Edit: it's amazing just how short-sighted people can be. Look, we still bring
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by khzw8yyy 3y ago
Is there any other way? Aren't we all supposed to be "passionate" and "team players" and hustle and all that?(without actually being paid anything extra)
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by khzw8yyy 3y ago
The Russian is too broken to be comprehensible, so the burn doesn't work as well as it could. The equivalent broken English would be something like: "SVAX: when you whaaant enough steal genuine best". Yes, it's just as
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by khzw8yyy 3y ago
Golly assumptions, Batman!
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by khzw8yyy 3y ago
Pretty sure that for any company with more than a few people the "CEO" reaching out to you is just a recruiter with the CEO's LinkedIn login.
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by khzw8yyy 3y ago
Doesn't get more "white people problems" than this. Every cliche you can think of is here: - A child of well-connected parents who can putter around doing music until his 30s and then go on to work in public policy - ... but
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by khzw8yyy 3y ago
IKEv2 hasn't worked since last fall (and mine was self-hosted). They keep upgrading the DPI.
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by khzw8yyy 3y ago
"That's different" (tm) We are supposed to go overthrow Putin to get LinkedIn and Spotify back (or something).
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by khzw8yyy 3y ago
It's OK :) This place became a cesspool quite a while ago. I switched to using throwaways so I'm unphased by karma.

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