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by racional 2y ago
I appreciate the detailed response, and will give it careful consideration. I was hoping you could also respond to the question at the very top ("Can you point to even a single instance ...", up to the "If not, then why ...&q
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by racional 2y ago
When people start talking about other people's countries scornfully or aggressively or snarkily, that's when it becomes flamebait and a moderation issue. Can you point to even a single instance where I have done this, please? Me
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by racional 2y ago
They could stop the war but they didn't. So what's your proposal for how they should do that? In particular: precisely which of Putin's most recently dictated terms do you think they should force Ukraine to agree to -- in o
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by racional 2y ago
The entire impact of AirBnB + all housing built in the last decade does not offset the last half decade of population growth. Your retort here simply isn't logical. 10k doesn't fully offset 100k but it's a significant chu
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by racional 2y ago
I'm honestly not sure how to combat that any more, outside of a ban on the party. Perhaps by getting rid of these haughty, and one simply has to say: typisch-Wessi notions of the new Länder as being "flyover territory".
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by racional 2y ago
True of most armies -- even the worst we can think of. The architects of war know this, of course. That's why most the killing is usually done at a distance, out of sight and out of mind. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org
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by racional 2y ago
A conflict without formal DoWs issued is not a proper war, If it helps clarify things for you: most wars are deeply psychological in nature; and part of how they operate is by telling people (both the perpetrators and victims) that it&#x2
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by racional 2y ago
I have never met someone who doesn't speak Russian. Then you haven't traveled broadly in Ukraine. And more importantly you're missing the point. The vast majority do speak and understand a reasonable amount of Russian (he
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by racional 2y ago
There's nothing political or nationalistic at all in my comment. My posts refer mostly to historical events, and attempt to correct the various (sometime rather bizarre) cognitive distortions that some people like to hold and promote a
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by racional 2y ago
As a foreigner a lot more useful to learn Russian. Given that the state language is Ukrainian, and its overall dominance in media and culture -- there's no way this statement could possibly make sense. Everybody speaks it in Ukraine
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by racional 2y ago
I think Dan's point is that there's never a need to introduce references to a commenter's nationality or other presumed essential traits. No matter how self-evidently full of excrement their droppings here may be.
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Youth activists win 'unprecedented' climate settlement in Hawaii(theguardian.com)
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by racional 2y ago
Putin, at least, says he wanted to join NATO back in 2000 (according to the Stone interview). But he put it, "the U.S. delegation got very nervous." Granted this was well before his total Machtergreifung , and he definitely was
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by racional 2y ago
https://archive.is/DrrtJ
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It's Time to Learn How to Blow Things Up Again(foreignpolicy.com)
2 points by racional 2y ago|2 comments
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The Weatherman Who Tried to Bring Climate Science to a Red State(nytimes.com)
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by racional 2y ago
There is no way one can describe the AfD as center-right. This is obvious fact that emerges from any amount observation of post-WW2 politics in that country, and how the AfD compares to standard center-right parties like the CDU/CDS a
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by racional 2y ago
If Israel wanted to genocide the Palestinians then it would have been a smoking pit with nearly 100% of the citizens killed inside of a month. To the ecstatic delight of a substantial proportion of the Israeli public, no doubt. However it
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by racional 2y ago
Like you aren’t secretly thinking you’re an expert in this in your mind. If you were genuinely confident of your knowledge, you wouldn't feel the need to repeatedly respond in a purely ad hominem manner such as this.
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by racional 2y ago
It’s not a personal attack or anything, But of course that's precisely what is. You're not providing any insight into the subject at hand here. You're simply talking up your vastly superior knowledge, and making weird pro
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by racional 2y ago
It obviously wasn't a high security environment; he knew some risk was involved, and that major governments would have access to the data eventually. If there were other precautions he could have reasonably taken -- that would also hav
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by racional 2y ago
I'm not offering a "theory"; but you did, and a plainly untenable one. If the only response you can think of is to speculate about the background of the person pointing this out to you -- that's a pretty common psycholog
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by racional 2y ago
It's certainly a credible thesis that's being offering here, and yours is probably the best formulation I've heard of it. Still, from my own brushings with folks in "professional circles" -- they tend to be pretty c
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by racional 2y ago
Likewise here, but as I recall from a mix of interviews, articles, and at least one documentary the main steps were: (1) being reasonably picky about the journalists he chose to reach out to; (2) making sure they were savvy enough to work w
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by racional 2y ago
An agenda "to take over the world", no. What they most likely said is that it's an endorsement of Israeli appropriation of Palestinian culture. That's what seems to be their position. You can make of it what you want.
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by racional 2y ago
And about that guy they put in front of the Canadian parliament (even though he has absolutely nothing to do with Azov, and hence nothing one might say about him can have any bearing on the original assertions you were making) -- just to ge
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by racional 2y ago
Didn't mean to ignore your half of your preceding post; just that takes time to unpack and respond to these points, and honestly, it seems a lot of your arguments just aren't well-constructed. But leaving that aside, and to addres
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by racional 2y ago
That he grabbed as much as he could is reasonably clear. But it's objectively false to say that he simply "leaked it" with no precautions or regard to the consequences.
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by racional 2y ago
Sounds like you're the kind of person who likes to build on on hypotheticals. I'm not that kind of person. That said you can go on thinking that people who don't share your appetite for rank speculation are blithering idiots
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by racional 2y ago
Can you explain in your own words what kind of "operation" are we talking about here? The video sounds interesting, but I won't be able to give it a look for quite some time. Plus I'd like to know what your view specifi

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