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by valval 2y ago
Could you give me some examples of insane bills that have passed? I don’t really understand the site you linked, since I browsed it for 10 minutes and saw nothing about LGBT people lacking any rights others have. Of course it’s liberals doi
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by valval 2y ago
I bet you had to look it up as well. I bet you had to go out there, and confirm that Ukraine, a country with 15x the population of Botswana, does indeed have a higher GDP. To make your discussions easier and less embarrassing in the future,
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by valval 2y ago
Don't worry about that, he's been doing it since his inauguration. If you think his actions played no part in this war coming to be, you've been informed a bit selectively.
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by valval 2y ago
Would depend on the definition of this term "escalation" that you and many other people use. It sounds to me like a silly thing to say. Isn't it natural to try and win a war as quickly as possible? Joining in on a war that yo
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by valval 2y ago
Just give my party more power and resources and we’ll take care of it.
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by valval 2y ago
It looks like you ignored supply and demand.
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by valval 2y ago
Zelenskyy has stifled opposition and politically persecuted his enemies, actually.
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by valval 2y ago
Try GDP per capita PPP, the measure that matters for average living conditions
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by valval 2y ago
Of course concealing one’s true intent just enough to be able to later play dumb and deny motivations when called out is a decent strategy for online arguments, but it’s not foolproof. Deciphering the commenter’s true meaning wasn’t super h
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by valval 2y ago
Frankly Botswana is beating Ukraine in GDP and Zambia in perceived corruption.
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by valval 2y ago
Well the somewhat obvious thing you’re missing is that Russia is waging a war against Ukraine, not the US or NATO. From that follows the logical conclusion that it’s not the US’ or NATO’s job to “reply to constant attacks”, and instead gett
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by valval 2y ago
A common goal seems to unite people of all nationalities.
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by valval 2y ago
The difference in tone between their former and latter messages is obvious. They went from a passive aggressive “I don’t understand this idiom” straight to an unhinged tirade of “conservatives are morons” without much provocation. Of course
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by valval 2y ago
Unlike what you say, I think the real issue is people who have been studying something for a long time still being wrong about a subject. It’s not uncommon in any human endeavour. You can go to the gym for 20 years and never make any gains.
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by valval 2y ago
It didn’t take much prodding to make you show your entire hand. Might be time to look inwards.
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by valval 2y ago
You're uninformed on the history of Ukraine and Russia. That's fine.
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by valval 2y ago
To you, no. To our adversaries, yes.
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by valval 2y ago
I'd probably let them take the 60%+ Russian speaking parts where I had been persecuting their countrymen and then maybe sue for peace or something along those lines.
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by valval 2y ago
> customary international law If only there was such thing.
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by valval 2y ago
Well, since Russia has nothing to gain from such actions, you might want to assign surveillance on some other parties in case. But yes, I suppose surveillance might act as some form of deterrence.
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by valval 2y ago
I guess it depends on the definition of "forcing" someone. I was generous in my definition and cited placing legal repercussions on people who wouldn't take the shot. Now that didn't happen (to my knowledge), but people
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by valval 2y ago
I'm not sure who aided in constructing this mental representation for you that the number of cops is directly proportional with the scale of conflict that's about to happen. I'd challenge that view by claiming that if the thr
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by valval 2y ago
Well, the number of wars and conflicts that the US, UK, France, Germany, or Italy (de facto NATO) have been part of unnecessarily since 1949 is above 12 (a dozen), but then again dozen isn't a rigorous quantifier, and I was careful not
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by valval 2y ago
I know what I said, and I was careful with my words. We have this thing going on in the west where we are the good guys, and every war we start is an anti-terrorist operation. For Russia, the term just now was “special military operation”.
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by valval 2y ago
Are you seriously telling me that the opposing side would care about what an alliance calls themselves? Hitler could call the axis powers a defensive allience and it wouldn’t make it so. Cmon, this is basic reasoning that most 10 year olds
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by valval 2y ago
If there are guns, there is death. Frankly, if there are no guns, there's still death. You pulling an argumentative sleight of hand here conflating your run of the mill gun violence with terrorist attacks or mass shootings isn't c
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by valval 2y ago
Not at all. It’s good that law enforcement have the tools to deal with serious threats. You’re just throwing around a fear word. The big guns are hidden from sight anyway, and only brought out when need be. We don’t need any Oct 7th type at
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by valval 2y ago
I’m like 94% sure that I could guess a list before lunch that would be closer to the truth than this one.
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by valval 2y ago
It’s also worth noting that sample sizes in this study are low, and without checking I know the results aren’t statistically significant.
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by valval 2y ago
I think this is a silly attribute of our western societies in general. Disallowing physical violence in response to emotional violence is hypocritical. The latter can be way worse, yet the former serves as a straightforward remedy. I believ

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