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by yks 3y ago
It doesn't matter who erected the barrier, the end result is that the USSR was not able to run successful influence campaigns or inject money into the US politics on the scale Russia is doing today.
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by yks 3y ago
Iron Curtain is what saved the US from being corrupted by Soviets. Now there is no barrier and Putin can freely use his unlimited funds to "create outcomes" via corrupt US politicians. I'm surprised China didn't get to d
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by yks 3y ago
If Russians don't see that their ways ultimately lead to nowhere, it does not mean that others should accept Russian logic as rational. It is logical, but axioms the system is built upon are garbage.
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by yks 3y ago
Ultimately neither will imperial expansion. They are not solving their problems, they just loot weaker neighbors and blame everyone but themselves. In reality Russia got maybe the best hand on this planet, so they definitely as a society co
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by yks 3y ago
The largest, most resource-rich, nuclear-protected country in the world with the decent education cannot advance without raping its neighbors, because checks notes neighbors wanted to trade fossils with it?
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by yks 3y ago
It is not existential for Russia, it's just yet another barely consistent concept Russian apologists are throwing around in hope it sticks. I vividly remember how there were dozens of comments on this website defending the lunatic cons
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by yks 3y ago
> And so long as men die, liberty will never perish > Over the past ten years, the [longevity research] industry has grown in financing from $500 million in 2013 to a peak of $6.2 billion in 2021.
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by yks 3y ago
The single most important amenity missing from the American apartments is the proper sound proofing.
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by yks 3y ago
1. As already mentioned, it's hardly a nuanced point. 2. If you actually want to hear my opinion, then the realm of geopolitics + good old-fashioned hate of the US government does a number on people's logic, so we get what I can o
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by yks 3y ago
I’ll rephrase your argument for you: “Why don’t you listen to the rapist’s opinion? The victim is surely not blameless. Besides, your cousin is a shoplifter”.
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by yks 3y ago
In all fairness, homeless on Haight (and GG Park to a lesser extent) is a pretty specific category of people and I’d not extrapolate any statistics just from them.
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by yks 3y ago
Your comment is a masterful exhibit of an imperial thought, deciding for the conquered people that their independence is "untenable", because after all those people are just "criminals". Might have as well thrown in some
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by yks 3y ago
> The population doesn't want to be under Russia's boot More importantly, the population doesn't enjoy genocide and torture that comes with "being under Russia's boot". The specific goals and ways with which
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by yks 3y ago
> The soviets were not discriminatory in who they killed, and very often included their own Well, Ukrainians don't think so, and then Russians of today have even more unambiguous genocidal intentions towards them. Paraphrasing a (Ru
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by yks 4y ago
People in power in Russia are gopnicks with prison values and behavior, and so is their diplomacy, when looking crazy tough and dangerous is a primal objective. Alas it works on the more civilized folks who take it at face value and try to
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by yks 4y ago
Technicalities don't mean much, Russia will make its move not based on technicalities but on the perceptions of other countries' response. Currently the front runners for the next US admin from the GOP side are openly from the &qu
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by yks 4y ago
GPT-4 is barely 3 weeks old but have already created a business opportunity to run a paid newsletter about GPT-4!
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by yks 4y ago
Difference is those weapons are not Belgian to deploy against e.g. Austria whenever anti-Austrian fascist party is in power in Belgium. Example sounds absurd today, but you can use Hungary for example, another country bitter of its lands lo
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by yks 4y ago
The collective West had way more resolve to respond to the further Russian expansion westward during the Cold War, you can say they were fools risking the end of humanity and maybe so, but it worked better for the stability in Europe than c
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by yks 4y ago
So the small countries exist and if they cannot rely on big countries for protection against nuclear states, then the only way forward for them is to have their own nuclear weapons. Do you like that world better? Does it lower or heighten t
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by yks 4y ago
Presumably cause they could use Russia to stir trouble elsewhere and it’s not like Russia will ever be strong anyway.
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by yks 4y ago
on the other hand your work is going to be done by AI soon, so here’s that
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by yks 4y ago
> Most civilians Most civilians that remained, which is a very different number and group of people from civilians before invasion. This is almost trivially true, if you don't have a reason or desire to leave a town bombed to bits f
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by yks 4y ago
If you’re upset that the war crimes of a country A against country B are left unpunished, it is still immoral to condone war crimes perpetrated by a country C against country D.
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by yks 4y ago
This false equivalence of things is another Russian propaganda method. The US bombed Iraq? Therefore Russia has a right to genocide peoples and annex territories. Someone said “not my president” in 2017? Therefore Republicans are entitled t
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by yks 4y ago
Westerners deciding in droves that their governments are the worst and Russia is never at fault is suspicious though. I guess if those Westerners equally despised Russia, that would show some integrity, but what we see is people “deciding”
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by yks 4y ago
This trope unfolds in an even more absurd way in the Russian-speaking media space, where participants are trained in genocidal thinking. Every bombing of a Ukrainian city is met with a cheering applause and reveling in how those Ukrainians
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by yks 4y ago
> Do you think that matters for companies making decisions on where they will locate? You bet it does. The following link is heavy on "will", sure, maybe lowering the rate is finally something that will make economy strong as o
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by yks 4y ago
Alright, I’ll take the bait, what good did Reps do for the US economy this century? They borrowed from the future just as much as the other guys, jacked up the deficits, juiced the economy with low rates and now it's Dems problem to fi
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by yks 4y ago
JSON is also a tree structure. Granted one rarely inverts it, but “no trees in the real world” is not true.

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