racional

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by racional 2y ago
What's being made up here? Those are Putin's stated conditions for ending this thing.
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by racional 2y ago
If you believe that channel's videos - I guess you'll believe anything. The Germans made some lovely newsreels about the places they "liberated" that you'd probably find to be equally inspiring.
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by racional 2y ago
So the fate of the people directly affected is of such negligible concern to you -- that you don't see a need to give a straight answer?
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by racional 2y ago
The point is, your reference to this group (those who don't simply wish to cave into Putin's suite of territorial demands as a price tag for ending the conflict) as a "faction" when in fact they've been not just a m
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by racional 2y ago
So what is your working proposal to end "this shit" -- this evil war propped up by Goebbelsian machinations, per your insinuation -- then? Specifically which of Ukraine's regions are you willing to hand over (in terms of gran
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by racional 2y ago
Reviewed also in the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/books/review/the-secret-l... https://archive.md/VEwpC
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by racional 2y ago
Also the mayors of Ukrainian cities who approve naming streets after "heroes" of OUN. Then try writing letters to them, perhaps? I'm sure they'll be happy to hear from you.
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by racional 2y ago
It’s not condescending it’s reality Sounds more like you're (uncritically) accepting the narratives put out by various sources in regard to events of the time. I think better choices could have been made That's very different
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by racional 2y ago
Certain people in Ukraine valorize and whitewash that history. But "Ukraine" as a country does not. And none of this stupidity is any way relevant to the current (very much Nazi-like) invasion by Russia that you are continually a
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by racional 2y ago
That's not the implication here.
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by racional 2y ago
It's important to note that the "Guy" was not just with the IDF, but with Unit 8200. Otherwise you'd be essentially saying "Hey look out, the guy who ran this op was an Israeli " (because nearly every male Isr
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by racional 2y ago
And they were told then not to negotiate for peace because they didn't have to This is a rather condescending attitude which assumes the Ukrainians have no agency over their situation, and are just doing what their Western puppet mas
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by racional 2y ago
And rightly so -- as far as the current conflict is concerned, it's a red herring.
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by racional 2y ago
I think peace could have been bought at the cost of neutrality, so sovereignty yes. It's possible of course, but it's also speculative, and the window for that option is long since closed -- once Putin grabbed the Crimea and the
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by racional 2y ago
As the set of my irrational russophobia is empty, the intersection of its relevance and the current conflict is also empty.
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by racional 2y ago
He was similarly evil of course. But he was a totally different creature (and came to and held power in ways very different) from that other guy. That said, one can certainly imagine a NS movement that left the Jews alone and concentrated
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by racional 2y ago
Not quite true in regard to border closures. It certainly became much more difficult to move around or out of Occupied Europe, but significant numbers of people managed to do so (via for example Portugal, Turkey and Vichy Africa).
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by racional 2y ago
Instead of using Ukraine to give Russia a bloody nose we should have again fermented divisions between Russia and China. Your reading of what's driving Western support for Ukraine is completely wrong here. They're not simply do
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by racional 2y ago
Perhaps you should consider doing the same, at moments when all you can think of offering in response to an evident Russian war crime (demolishing memorials on territory is illegally occupying ) is to cite the completely non-analogous situ
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by racional 2y ago
I had been talking to the candidate for months This is in itself a huge red flag about not just Figma's hiring process, but its entire decision culture internally. There's absolutely no reason for a "process" to drag o
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by racional 2y ago
Well, of course. It was yet another "Bandera, Bandera" thread. So nothing emerging from it would have relevance to anything. As you knew when you started it.
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by racional 2y ago
I doubt their goal is to be universally reviled, so what's their real objective? Believe it or not -- their initial goal was simply to gain respect. They actually thought the Ukraine invasion would be a walkthrough, and that of cours
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by racional 2y ago
The guy's an idiot, and a loose cannon. It doesn't matter how much he "evolved" or changed his tune once he started facing the natural consequences for whatever he shitposted earlier. What matters here is that you seem
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by racional 2y ago
I don't think you rationally believe that this history has any substantive relevance to the current conflict.
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by racional 2y ago
(to the tg channel of Ukrainian politician, who is in exile in Spain and has survived an assassination attempt). About that "politician", Andrij Shariy whom you are citing as some kind of a credible figure, if not a martyr of so
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by racional 2y ago
Which part are you disputing? The idea that any of these stupid monuments have anything to do with the actual reasons the 2014/2022 invasions were launched. Or that Putin actually cares about Nazis. Or that you actually care. Or tha
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by racional 2y ago
For Russians of Putin's generation, the domination over Central and Eastern Europe was normalcy and they want it back. Until Putin expires, or his lights grow sufficiently dim. At which point they'll be worrying simply about th
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by racional 2y ago
Again, it is not the simple fact of a dominant majority that make a country an ethnostate; it is this plus legally codified structures of dominance. The article on the subject is under 'ethnocracy' not 'ethnostate': ht
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by racional 2y ago
The war is evil and stupid and we all know who is to blame. However, missiles are not raining down "daily" on Kyiv, and certainly not on Lviv (which has seen relatively few missile strikes in fact). Or anywhere else, except places
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by racional 2y ago
That a country having a "dominant group" is something that would form an ethnostate? Of course the fact of one group being dominant is not sufficient; there need to be deeply structural (legal) mechanisms in place for that group

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