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Go ahead, plan my Christmas Eve. What time I wake up, what time I leave the house, which routes I take, what things I buy. Assign the kWhs of electricity and liters of water and fuel that I'll use up, plan ingredients for my meals of t
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> I'd argue that communism is the only system of government that guarantees property for all. That's somewhat a core tenant that every member in a communist society collectively owns everything. This year, I knit a scar
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> Meanwhile, the EU just unpersoned a Swiss citizen, a writer, Jacques Baud*, for not taking the European side in the US-Russia conflict. Not for lying about it, but simply for not taking the European side. He was not "unper
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> The maidan revolution, that put selenski in office was supported by the US. The Maidan ended with Petro Poroshenko being elected president in the 2014 election. His term ended in 2019, and Zelenskyy won the 2019 election. The r
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Yes it is, and Russia is increasingly being recognized by scholars as such. This is especially visible in the war against Ukraine, which is colonial in nature. Russia has invaded another country on imperialistic justifications ("reunif
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... says the Russian war propaganda. In the real world, NATO is a highly exclusive club, which is very reluctant to accept new members and extend its mutual defence clause to them. Ukraine and Georgia sought to join NATO after Russia had al
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He is not an EU citizen and, as a foreigner, acts as a mouthpiece for a hostile dictatorship. The US has sanctioned similar people too, most notably Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of Russia Today: https://home.treasury.g
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> There are a lot of things you can't say or will get shut down for. Such as? I honestly can't think of anything. > It is unacceptable to ban homeschooling. Some children need to be homeschooled, because of disa
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> NATO itself said they would join the alliance back in 2008. No. That was merely a polite statement without any timetable or actionable steps, made after the allies had decided at the 2008 summit not to invite Ukraine and Georgi
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> They are scientists and conservators doing their best Perhaps they're simply the wrong people for this problem? I'd very much prefer to see how artists would approach painting the figures, instead of scientists and co
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That's what I said: the present-day totalitarian dictatorship in Russia was born out of foreign disregard for the deteriorating human rights situation in Russia, willful ignorance of the usurpation of all formal and informal power stru
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> Or they could integrate it within a wider framework of allyship, or at least let it be, as both of which it has been asking for several decades, instead of advancing towards, ramping up the rhetoric, fueling millitarism, and cross
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Ukraine was not joining NATO. Nor do foreign policy professionals, both in Russia and abroad, consider NATO a threat to Russia. Nor does the war have anything to do with Barbarossa or many other historical comparisons; Russian propaganda ge
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What's your beef with Nazis? Don't you enjoy foreign invasions and genocide, bombs falling from the sky as the master race marches forward?
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Spreading this expansion narrative is intellectually dishonest. For decades, the power balance has been such that Eastern Europe has sought to join Western cooperation platforms like the EU, against lukewarm reception from existing members.
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> Our homeland is unassailable by conventional means (especially if we keep our Navy well-funded) and we can also sit behind our nuclear arsenal. Unless you intend to nuke the White House, the nuclear arsenal remains entirely use
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> Expecting Russia to ever become a "normal European state" is the main mistake. My entire point is to accept that Russia is authoritarian. This is exactly the mistake that the US and the EU made: treating Russia not as
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> We had a narrow window circa 1999-2007 where we could have integrated an Authoritarian Russia into a security and economic framework that would put China in a vulnerable strategic position. Says who? Top Russian diplomats, star
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Yes, but nukes were removed from Cuba and that was the end of the military confrontation. Conventional weapons like fighter jets, air defense missiles, tanks, etc still remained and were upgraded over time. Meanwhile, Central and Eastern Eu
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> To be fair, in 90s-10s the West invaded multiple Soviet and Russian allies (Yugoslavia, Iraq, Syria, as an example) using weakness of Russian economy an inability to help the allies at the time. The NATO intervention in the Yug
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... cared only about the nukes. Conventional weapons remained in Cuba, and the USSR continued supplying them until the end in 1991. In 1978, for example, the USSR gave Cuba the newest MIG-27 fighter jets, and the United States did nothing a
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> Ukrainian soldiers wouldn’t serve Russia Nobody's going to ask them. Since 2022, Russia has forcibly conscripted 300 000 men from the occupied parts of Ukraine. https://www.euronews.com/2025/11/07/mo
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> Whatever social niceties you have are thanks to somebody else protecting you and subsidizing your protection. Now more than ever, seems like it was just smoke and mirrors all along.
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Same. Most people identify a blob of color far earlier than they distinguish one monochrome shape from another.
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Why don't they just ask AI to implement it?
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Speaking of things people pretend not to exist, Russian historiography frames WWII as lasting from 1941 to 1945. The USSR conspired with the Nazis to divide Europe[1], invaded Poland from the east in cooperation with Germany[2], held a join
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The USSR was also exporting grains as their own people were starving. Churchill said that the Indian famines were the fault of Indians for "breeding like rabbits" and Stalin said that the Holodomor was the fault of Ukrainians for
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... until the extended-range version is ordered and no one remembers to fix the leak. :]
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The USSR had starved millions of Ukrainians to death before the Nazis even rose to power. Mirrors the British hunger games in India. If you want to excuse and trivialize the suffering caused by Russians in Eastern Europe, then by the same t
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In Eastern Europe, the USSR acted like the British in India, and Russia continues that tradition.

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