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by random_upvoter 5y ago
> The current destruction is a result of the incompetence, not an alternative to it. Does "Fallujah" ring a bell? The mirage of the clean, surgical war was created by the Clinton administration for the first war in Iraq. Such a
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
Same complaint here. Touch screen that stops working when it gets only slightly wet. I'm forever wiping down that stupid touch screen.
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
I never understood how this "it's an action by a private company, hence... we should ask no questions about it?" thing works. If there is a good rationale why a government should not install censorship, don't you think t
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
So at what point does the level of censorship become comparable to that of the dictatorships that we busily decry? If anything we are doing a better job at it. It's scary how commonly this has become accepted, all for the greater good
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
For decades of my adult life I skipped breakfast, going against all conventional dietary wisdom. Having 3 meals a day just felt like turning my body into a conveyor belt that produces faeces. Now I feel kinda vindicated. A few times I trave
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
> I'm only speaking for myself but there isn't a thing in the world I wouldn't do if I'd have to defend my own family even that means wiping out half of humanity. If I'd think very hard about I'd even wipe o
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
> why for the love of god would the West support Russia and not the wishes of the Ukrainian people? First, the people of Ukraine are free to decide to do what they think is best and "we", as in the West, are free to decide to d
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
The current situation is already a catastrophe as it is. The best possible outcome at this time is that this war is ended as soon as possible even when this means handing a few victory points to Russia. It is the only way at lot less Ukrain
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
I think that piling on top of an already volatile situation is a distinctly unwise move.
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
> uncalled invasion by Russia To be clear, in no way the bloodshed that Russia is causing in Ukraine can be justified. But to claim that this invasion has got nothing to do with the policy of the West to expand NATO in the direction of R
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
So if you are a young man in Ukraine and you have no stomach to get sacrificed in a geopolitical game between the West and Russia you should be given no way to opt out?
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
> It is precisely because of the tactics they used in places like Chechnya that the people are fighting back. Some people are fighting back, mostly young men of somewhat courageous disposition. Also 1,2 million Ukrainians have already fl
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
Can you tell me about the last time that the city you live in was shelled by artillery? What did it feel like? Were you tempted to consider surrender in return for cessation of hostilities?
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
It's disconcerting how the Western reaction to the invasion is a combination of 1. total overreaction and 2. total refusal to take it seriously. The present outcome is already a catastrophe as it is. Could the Western leaders please st
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
Russia's neighbors can ask all they want, it's up to NATO to decide whether this expansion is desirable and will increase stability. It will not. NATO expanding right to Russia's border is not going to be experienced as some
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
> Come on. Ukraine is a sovereign country. If they want to join NATO (a purely defense alliance, by the way), then that's their business. No, it's NATO's business and they get to decide whether Ukraine joining will make be
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
Of course we all condemn Russia's aggression. I condemn Russia's aggression. Condemning costs nothing. But those other countries are not resorting to extremely harsh economic measures against Russia, nor are they sending weapons t
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
> a[i] = i++ And I would never excrete such a line of code without automatically thinking "hmmm.. does this really do what I think it does?"
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
> It was Nazi Germany, not “the West”, that invaded the USSR. Ok and if you look at the last 30 years, which "side" has been to most aggressive in attacking and subjugating foreign nations? "Oh but when we do it, it's
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
> If they want to join NATO (a purely defense alliance, by the way), then that's their business. It's a purely defensive alliance that, somehow, keeps expanding to the East.
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
Sure. How long do you imagine that list to be?
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
Imperialist cravings? Not seventy years ago Russia was almost destroyed by the West, with the lost of forty million lives. For Russia the danger comes from the West and the fact that we the West think ourselves to be all enlightened doesn
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
C is simple in the sense that it is very possible to have the whole language "in your head" and at one point in my career I did. Something I would never claim about C++. Yes, you can write atrociously bad C code that is hard to
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
One million Ukrainians have already fled the country. They are now in a foreign country, they know nobody and everything they own is in one backpack. If this war goes on the odds are that they will never see their home again. Does their vot
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
Everyone seems to be assuming that Putin intends to annex Ukraine in the short term. But as events have unfolded, this will likely be impossible without incurring huge costs on Russia. However that doesn't mean that Putin can't se
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
You think that if you only close enough TV stations these people are going to start watching Rachel Maddow?
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
Something makes me suspect that you never ever watched RT for even 5 minutes. Am I right?
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
It's depressing how utterly normal this level of censorship has become in Western society. Ten years ago there would have been at least a modicum of ho-hum about decisions to ban foreign media. I've watched RT on a few occasions a
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
In the 19th century Russia was invaded by Napoleon, most of Moscow was burnt to the ground on that occasion. In the 20th century Nazi Germany invaded Russia with an obvious program to exterminate the Slavic people. Forty million Russians di
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
The equation changes if you are invaded by a nation with a clear agenda of genocide. I don't think this is the case now.

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